Winter 2020. The nation is in standstill. Two twenty-year-old boys are isolating together, bound by restricted space and an unresolved history. As the outside world shuts down and a pandemic rages, the pair find themselves drawn into an illicit rave scene and back into the nostalgic patterns of their shared past. But at what cost?

This brand-new one-act play is written and directed by Aidan Monks, based on characters devised by Monks, Dylan Swain and Aubrey McCance, and performed by Swain and McCance. It is the sixth show by The St Andrews Art Theatre, an upcoming production company based in Scotland, which focuses on staging character-driven and urgent contemporary drama and brand-new writing. Previous work includes Monks' Playing Love at the Edinburgh Fringe 2025, called a “delicious souffle of a show” by The Recs (4-stars) and cited by Edinburgh Guide as having “something for everyone”. The Student wrote last August, “If this is what Monks and his team are doing now, I can’t wait to see what they bring to the stage next” (4-stars). One/Another is what’s next. 

This two-hander fuses dramatic monologue and physical theatre with searing dialogue to engage themes of queer desire, male loneliness, intimacy during a time where touch was taboo, and the power of music. Expect laughs, emotional rawness and richness, and the big room bangers in abundance. Come see.

PLEASE NOTE: We are developing this play throughout 2026 and these 4x showings at the Etcetera will come with an option to leave feedback for us via paper/pencil or Google Form (QR code).

Winter 2020. The nation is in standstill. Two twenty-year-old boys are isolating together, bound by restricted space and an unresolved history. As the outside world shuts down and a pandemic rages, the pair find themselves drawn into an illicit rave scene and back into the nostalgic patterns of their shared past. But at what cost?

This brand-new one-act play is written and directed by Aidan Monks, based on characters devised by Monks, Dylan Swain and Aubrey McCance, and performed by Swain and McCance. It is the sixth show by The St Andrews Art Theatre, an upcoming production company based in Scotland, which focuses on staging character-driven and urgent contemporary drama and brand-new writing. Previous work includes Monks' Playing Love at the Edinburgh Fringe 2025, called a “delicious souffle of a show” by The Recs (4-stars) and cited by Edinburgh Guide as having “something for everyone”. The Student wrote last August, “If this is what Monks and his team are doing now, I can’t wait to see what they bring to the stage next” (4-stars). One/Another is what’s next. 

This two-hander fuses dramatic monologue and physical theatre with searing dialogue to engage themes of queer desire, male loneliness, intimacy during a time where touch was taboo, and the power of music. Expect laughs, emotional rawness and richness, and the big room bangers in abundance. Come see.

PLEASE NOTE: We are developing this play throughout 2026 and these 4x showings at the Etcetera will come with an option to leave feedback for us via paper/pencil or Google Form (QR code).

Winter 2020. The nation is in standstill. Two twenty-year-old boys are isolating together, bound by restricted space and an unresolved history. As the outside world shuts down and a pandemic rages, the pair find themselves drawn into an illicit rave scene and back into the nostalgic patterns of their shared past. But at what cost?

This brand-new one-act play is written and directed by Aidan Monks, based on characters devised by Monks, Dylan Swain and Aubrey McCance, and performed by Swain and McCance. It is the sixth show by The St Andrews Art Theatre, an upcoming production company based in Scotland, which focuses on staging character-driven and urgent contemporary drama and brand-new writing. Previous work includes Monks' Playing Love at the Edinburgh Fringe 2025, called a “delicious souffle of a show” by The Recs (4-stars) and cited by Edinburgh Guide as having “something for everyone”. The Student wrote last August, “If this is what Monks and his team are doing now, I can’t wait to see what they bring to the stage next” (4-stars). One/Another is what’s next. 

This two-hander fuses dramatic monologue and physical theatre with searing dialogue to engage themes of queer desire, male loneliness, intimacy during a time where touch was taboo, and the power of music. Expect laughs, emotional rawness and richness, and the big room bangers in abundance. Come see.

PLEASE NOTE: We are developing this play throughout 2026 and these 4x showings at the Etcetera will come with an option to leave feedback for us via paper/pencil or Google Form (QR code).

Winter 2020. The nation is in standstill. Two twenty-year-old boys are isolating together, bound by restricted space and an unresolved history. As the outside world shuts down and a pandemic rages, the pair find themselves drawn into an illicit rave scene and back into the nostalgic patterns of their shared past. But at what cost?

This brand-new one-act play is written and directed by Aidan Monks, based on characters devised by Monks, Dylan Swain and Aubrey McCance, and performed by Swain and McCance. It is the sixth show by The St Andrews Art Theatre, an upcoming production company based in Scotland, which focuses on staging character-driven and urgent contemporary drama and brand-new writing. Previous work includes Monks' Playing Love at the Edinburgh Fringe 2025, called a “delicious souffle of a show” by The Recs (4-stars) and cited by Edinburgh Guide as having “something for everyone”. The Student wrote last August, “If this is what Monks and his team are doing now, I can’t wait to see what they bring to the stage next” (4-stars). One/Another is what’s next. 

This two-hander fuses dramatic monologue and physical theatre with searing dialogue to engage themes of queer desire, male loneliness, intimacy during a time where touch was taboo, and the power of music. Expect laughs, emotional rawness and richness, and the big room bangers in abundance. Come see.

PLEASE NOTE: We are developing this play throughout 2026 and these 4x showings at the Etcetera will come with an option to leave feedback for us via paper/pencil or Google Form (QR code).

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After its debut at Grim Fest 2025, Dead Time Stories is back for a second…retelling.

You have been summoned.

Dead Time Stories is a darkly comic horror anthology play, and homage to series such as The Twilight Zone, Inside No. 9and Tales of the Unexpected.

A mysterious ghostly host, together with her silent but ever-watchful skull companion, John, invites you to a night of unsettling storytelling. A series of nasty narratives, foul fables and awful anecdotes, organised as always, by The Powers That Be.

Prepare to be engaged and unsettled, for every terrifying tale from our host’s storybook twists and turns into the unforeseen. You have been warned.

We shall be quite delighted to see you there…

Writer/Performer – Lynsey Balloch

Directed by Alex Bell

Etcetera Theatre (map)

After its debut at Grim Fest 2025, Dead Time Stories is back for a second…retelling.

You have been summoned.

Dead Time Stories is a darkly comic horror anthology play, and homage to series such as The Twilight Zone, Inside No. 9and Tales of the Unexpected.

A mysterious ghostly host, together with her silent but ever-watchful skull companion, John, invites you to a night of unsettling storytelling. A series of nasty narratives, foul fables and awful anecdotes, organised as always, by The Powers That Be.

Prepare to be engaged and unsettled, for every terrifying tale from our host’s storybook twists and turns into the unforeseen. You have been warned.

We shall be quite delighted to see you there…

Writer/Performer – Lynsey Balloch

Directed by Alex Bell

After a sell out run in 2025 'Can I Actually Read Your Mind?' is back. In the 1930s, Mary Davis astounded British audiences with her apparent psychic abilities. Some believed she had a true gift; others were certain she was a clever fraud. But what if she was simply ahead of her time in understanding the human mind?

‘Can I Actually Read Your Mind?’ revisits Mary’s most astonishing demonstrations brought to life through live performance, modern psychology, and a touch of modern magical methods. Blending original techniques with contemporary insight, this show explores whether her methods still hold power today.

Are we more sceptical than our ancestors? or can we see past the facade? Step inside to witness the impossible, and decide for yourself.

Get ready to be shrunk down and taken on a whirlwind adventure inside Jennifer’s brain. It’s weird in there - but probably also familiar. Explore the wonders of our wrinkly grey matter through very real facts, very cute puppets, and a very scientific ball pit.

Sure, you’ll only be in there for 3 minutes, but a lot can happen in 180 seconds.

* Nominated for Outstanding Neurodivergent Performance at Brighton Fringe 2025 *

“A playful, generous, warm-hearted show”  - We Love Brighton

“Fascinating feel-good quirky comedy” - Fringe Review

A lonely night by the icy waters of the Mealt Falls, the Isle of Skye.

Ex-crematorium technician Monty Bulmer lies fifty feet below the corpse of Emily, who hangs frozen in the icy falls. His legs are broken, his energy is spent, and his hopes of exhuming the body from the ice are ever diminishing. It would take a miracle to exhume Emily. Tonight, he will pray for one.

Over the course of this 45 minute monologue, Bulmer grapples with his relationship with God, his father, but hardest of all, finally faces the skeletons in his own closet. Nothing is sacred. Don’t miss Exhuming Emily this February.

Starring James Grimm
Written by Alex Maslin
Directed and Produced by Alex Maslin and Alex Fernandes

A lonely night by the icy waters of the Mealt Falls, the Isle of Skye.

Ex-crematorium technician Monty Bulmer lies fifty feet below the corpse of Emily, who hangs frozen in the icy falls. His legs are broken, his energy is spent, and his hopes of exhuming the body from the ice are ever diminishing. It would take a miracle to exhume Emily. Tonight, he will pray for one.

Over the course of this 45 minute monologue, Bulmer grapples with his relationship with God, his father, but hardest of all, finally faces the skeletons in his own closet. Nothing is sacred. Don’t miss Exhuming Emily this February.

Starring James Grimm
Written by Alex Maslin
Directed and Produced by Alex Maslin and Alex Fernandes

ENTRE NOUS

by Kay Kassanda

What do we owe the people who raised us?

What do we owe the people who broke us?

And what do we owe each other—entre nous—when love and survival collide?

Entre Nous is a searing, intimate new play about two Congolese sisters brought together after years of silence.

Set within the confines of a therapy room and park benches across London, Entre Nous explores sisterhood, displacement, trauma, foster care, and the dangerous comfort of silence. With razor-sharp dialogue, moments of unexpected warmth, and unflinching emotional candour, the play asks whether reconciliation is always the answer—or whether survival sometimes means letting go.

Tender, funny, devastating, and fiercely human, Entre Nous is a story about love in its messiest form, the scars we inherit, and the courage it takes to stay when walking away might be easier.

A lonely night by the icy waters of the Mealt Falls, the Isle of Skye.

Ex-crematorium technician Monty Bulmer lies fifty feet below the corpse of Emily, who hangs frozen in the icy falls. His legs are broken, his energy is spent, and his hopes of exhuming the body from the ice are ever diminishing. It would take a miracle to exhume Emily. Tonight, he will pray for one.

Over the course of this 45 minute monologue, Bulmer grapples with his relationship with God, his father, but hardest of all, finally faces the skeletons in his own closet. Nothing is sacred. Don’t miss Exhuming Emily this February.

Starring James Grimm
Written by Alex Maslin
Directed and Produced by Alex Maslin and Alex Fernandes

A lonely night by the icy waters of the Mealt Falls, the Isle of Skye.

Ex-crematorium technician Monty Bulmer lies fifty feet below the corpse of Emily, who hangs frozen in the icy falls. His legs are broken, his energy is spent, and his hopes of exhuming the body from the ice are ever diminishing. It would take a miracle to exhume Emily. Tonight, he will pray for one.

Over the course of this 45 minute monologue, Bulmer grapples with his relationship with God, his father, but hardest of all, finally faces the skeletons in his own closet. Nothing is sacred. Don’t miss Exhuming Emily this February.

Starring James Grimm
Written by Alex Maslin
Directed and Produced by Alex Maslin and Alex Fernandes

A lonely night by the icy waters of the Mealt Falls, the Isle of Skye.

Ex-crematorium technician Monty Bulmer lies fifty feet below the corpse of Emily, who hangs frozen in the icy falls. His legs are broken, his energy is spent, and his hopes of exhuming the body from the ice are ever diminishing. It would take a miracle to exhume Emily. Tonight, he will pray for one.

Over the course of this 45 minute monologue, Bulmer grapples with his relationship with God, his father, but hardest of all, finally faces the skeletons in his own closet. Nothing is sacred. Don’t miss Exhuming Emily this February.

Starring James Grimm
Written by Alex Maslin
Directed and Produced by Alex Maslin and Alex Fernandes

"The world changes; I don't. The years go by, and I’m still looking perfect. With my golden hair, my golden clothes, with my golden smile."

This is the story of a perfect woman. Her whole life, she just followed the instructions society – and her mum – dictated to help her achieve a happy and successful life. "A perfect life."

But... was it perfect?

Away from her dreams and what she could have become if she'd had the chance to take decisions on her own, she's now recounting her story while she can remember it, alone with the shadows of her past, and listening to a song she listened to on the radio a long time ago, and that helped her to endure her life... because songs are a refuge for lost souls.

Stairway to Heaven is a one-woman show written and directed by Mexican Award-winning playwright Isabel Quiroz and performed by Thelma Osorio Euan.

This play is part of "Songs of Freedom" a series of monologues written by Isabel Quiroz where each story entitled after a song, gives voice to a silenced character. Inspired in real life people.

You/We tells the story of the artist Gluck — sharp-tongued, stylish, and utterly unwilling to behave. Living in open defiance of traditional gender rules, sexual silence, and polite society, Gluck’s life is a whirlwind of love affairs, artistic ambition, heartbreak, and reinvention. 

Witty, intimate, and quietly radical, this solo play explores the fierce joy of self-invention and the cost of insisting on truth in a world that would rather you stayed convenient.

Written and performed by Claire Storey

Irene and Arjyll have the same last name but they’re not related.

Although, with the way Irene’s mother Ignacia is acting, they might as well be sisters. Tita Iggy is, after all, president of the Arjyll’s Angels Loyola Heights Chapter, a local self-organised group made of middle-aged Titas keen on supporting Arjyll's emerging showbiz career after winning the latest season of Pinoy Big Brother.

Irene knows it's not Arjyll's fault that her relationship with her mother is the way it is but it's hard to remember that sometimes especially in the face of the obvious favouritism.

Written by Glerren Bangalan, Mother Ignacia is a heartfelt comedy about learning how to advocate for yourself.

Irene and Arjyll have the same last name but they’re not related.

Although, with the way Irene’s mother Ignacia is acting, they might as well be sisters. Tita Iggy is, after all, president of the Arjyll’s Angels Loyola Heights Chapter, a local self-organised group made of middle-aged Titas keen on supporting Arjyll's emerging showbiz career after winning the latest season of Pinoy Big Brother.

Irene knows it's not Arjyll's fault that her relationship with her mother is the way it is but it's hard to remember that sometimes especially in the face of the obvious favouritism.

Written by Glerren Bangalan, Mother Ignacia is a heartfelt comedy about learning how to advocate for yourself.

You/We tells the story of the artist Gluck — sharp-tongued, stylish, and utterly unwilling to behave. Living in open defiance of traditional gender rules, sexual silence, and polite society, Gluck’s life is a whirlwind of love affairs, artistic ambition, heartbreak, and reinvention. 

Witty, intimate, and quietly radical, this solo play explores the fierce joy of self-invention and the cost of insisting on truth in a world that would rather you stayed convenient.

Written and performed by Claire Storey

Art is pain. Pain is art. Two “definitely not masochistic” artists take on the challenge of a lifetime: to create musical comedy with feeling—while feeling the real pain of electrocution.

In what may be their worst idea yet, veteran musical improvisers Lee Apsey ('CSI: Crime Scene Improvisation,' 'Your Flaws: The Improvised Musical') and Jayda Fogel ('Bird & Tax Collector,' '¡Horario Estelar!') weave hilarious and sincere songs, sketches, and stories with the inspiration of the audience and the threat of being shocked, shackled, dunked, and beaten with a stick.

You’ll be shocked, and so will the players—literally.

From the award-winning co-creator of multiple Edinburgh Fringe sell-out hit 'CSI: Crime Scene Improvisation.'

“Astonishingly funny… brilliant concept.” ★★★★★ GJD REVIEWS

“Apsey and Fogel turn painful displays into some of the funniest improvised comedy you can find. You will be begging for more, and more, and more.” FRINGE REVIEW

 Artist Praise & Accolades:

WINNER - The Comedy Award - Colchester Fringe 2024

WINNER - Best Improv/Musical - Leicester Comedy Festival 2023

NOMINATED - Simply the Best - Gothenburg Fringe 2024

"A truly fantastic show that you will talk about for years to come" ★★★★★ THEATRE AND TONIC

"So funny it would be a crime to miss it!" ★★★★★ CURTAIN CALL REVIEWS

"Improv down to a fine art. A novel idea, executed superbly" ★★★★★ WEE REVIEW 

It's a wild ride. After internationally touring the “cathartic, creative, and healing” performance "Dad, Playboy, & Me...Not Your Average Slideshow" storyteller A.G. Norton is coming back to London with a totally new hour of cosmic transmissions, hilarious insights, and of course the shamanic Pussy Drum. AG's gone from being a social worker in Dagenham, to interviewing Playboy Bunnies, to being called a bubble cult leader. All in loving service to the divine power of the Holy Queerit. The work has been referred to as "deeply blasphemous" by a seminarian Catholic priest on a bench in Times Square, which honestly is a great review and the show isn't even polished yet.

The Circus of Healing has one destination - collective LIBERATION. Join the congregation, bubble blessings. 🫧🫧

You can check out the artists work here @notyouraverageslideshow Instagram or www.vivelapin.com

Ever wonder how a musical is actually born? 🎹 VOICE NOTES invites you into the writer's room for an intimate evening of music and conversation. Our featured composers will guide you through their latest works, sharing the "how" and the "why" behind the notes. It’s a rare chance to hear the evolution of a song directly from the person who wrote it! Join us for An Evening of New Musical Theatre Writing and support up-coming composers as they step, with their music, into the spotlight!

Can you seduce someone, even if they know you sleep with a weighted blanket?

That’s the question we all ask, whilst laying alone under our "Silent Night Washable Weighted Blanket" with removable cover. Now available in grey.

In his latest absurd outing, silly and surreal comedian Ben O’sullivan will try desperately to avoid talking about his intimacy issues, whilst allowing the full burden of his romantic failings to land on the, already heavy, weighted blanket.

Similar to a bed at your nans house, this show consists of many incomprehensible layers. We find out if pigeons are underrated and consider the potential jeopardy of getting a piercing at 31. Could it be a cry for help?

Together, we will finally uncover the truth hidden beneath the tog ratings.

‘Ben reminds me of a young James Acaster and look what he achieved’

Everything theatre

‘Side splittingly brilliant’

welovebrighton

'Amusingly quirky’

Chortle

'Succession' meets 'Saltburn': The Prince follows Miles, a fresher at Oxford, as he is swept up in attempts to climb the ranks of the Oxford Union - the University's famous debating society and the birthplace of many a political career. As noble intentions fall to the allure of power, fewer and fewer holds are barred in this tussle to the top of the greasy pole of politics.

'Succession' meets 'Saltburn': The Prince follows Miles, a fresher at Oxford, as he is swept up in attempts to climb the ranks of the Oxford Union - the University's famous debating society and the birthplace of many a political career. As noble intentions fall to the allure of power, fewer and fewer holds are barred in this tussle to the top of the greasy pole of politics.

The story of a young man who decides to sell his body online.

The story of a young man who decides to sell his body online.

'Glitter, Guilt and Good Intentions' invites you to a frazzled rather than filtered celebration of self-improvement. Blending humour, parodies and musical theatre Susan Grant and Joni de Winter bring you laughter, killer harmonies and a hint of self depreciation. This show proves that perfection is overrated and re-inventing yourself can be just as fun as it is frustrating.
Belle Street Productions are a Dorset based theatre company with previous shows including the award winning 'Hugh: The Musical' and The Rat Pack Gals.

'Glitter, Guilt and Good Intentions' invites you to a frazzled rather than filtered celebration of self-improvement. Blending humour, parodies and musical theatre Susan Grant and Joni de Winter bring you laughter, killer harmonies and a hint of self depreciation. This show proves that perfection is overrated and re-inventing yourself can be just as fun as it is frustrating.
Belle Street Productions are a Dorset based theatre company with previous shows including the award winning 'Hugh: The Musical' and The Rat Pack Gals.

Irene and Arjyll have the same last name but they’re not related.

Although, with the way Irene’s mother Ignacia is acting, they might as well be sisters. Tita Iggy is, after all, president of the Arjyll’s Angels Loyola Heights Chapter, a local self-organised group made of middle-aged Titas keen on supporting Arjyll's emerging showbiz career after winning the latest season of Pinoy Big Brother.

Irene knows it's not Arjyll's fault that her relationship with her mother is the way it is but it's hard to remember that sometimes especially in the face of the obvious favouritism.

Written by Glerren Bangalan, Mother Ignacia is a heartfelt comedy about learning how to advocate for yourself.

Nayma Chamchoun is a British Moroccan writer, poet and performance poet. Her writing is influenced by her cultural duality. She is interested in female voices in the diaspora community, the challenges they face within both communities and the taboos within their ancestral communities.

You/We tells the story of the artist Gluck — sharp-tongued, stylish, and utterly unwilling to behave. Living in open defiance of traditional gender rules, sexual silence, and polite society, Gluck’s life is a whirlwind of love affairs, artistic ambition, heartbreak, and reinvention.

Witty, intimate, and quietly radical, this solo play explores the fierce joy of self-invention and the cost of insisting on truth in a world that would rather you stayed convenient.

Written and performed by Claire Storey

Through a Judas Window

Based on the novel A Mind Prone to Evil by P.S. Lynch

"All things can corrupt when a mind is prone to evil."

Step into Courtroom 600 at Nuremberg, where Hermann Göring faces justice—and himself. Through a Judas Window brings history’s most notorious war criminal vividly to life: brilliant yet brutal, charming yet monstrous, a man who reveals how terrifyingly ordinary evil can be.

Through gripping dialogue, shifting perspectives, and haunting imagery, the play invites its audience to peer through the "Judas window"—a narrow lens into power, vanity, and the fragile veneer of civilisation. At once historical and disturbingly modern, this is theatre that refuses to let us look away.

Based on P.S. Lynch’s acclaimed novel A Mind Prone to Evil—praised as “extraordinary… beautifully written and exceptionally well-researched” (Susan Ronald, Hitler’s Art Thief). This bold new play melds meticulous research with unsettling theatrical flair. Expect haunting imagery, dark humour, and unsettling truths.

This is not safe history. It is a confrontation—between past and present, between spectacle and truth, between what we want to believe about evil and the uncomfortable reality of how ordinary it can be.

Fringe theatre at its boldest: provocative, unflinching, and disturbingly relevant.

Through a Judas Window

Based on the novel A Mind Prone to Evil by P.S. Lynch

"All things can corrupt when a mind is prone to evil."

Step into Courtroom 600 at Nuremberg, where Hermann Göring faces justice—and himself. Through a Judas Window brings history’s most notorious war criminal vividly to life: brilliant yet brutal, charming yet monstrous, a man who reveals how terrifyingly ordinary evil can be.

Through gripping dialogue, shifting perspectives, and haunting imagery, the play invites its audience to peer through the "Judas window"—a narrow lens into power, vanity, and the fragile veneer of civilisation. At once historical and disturbingly modern, this is theatre that refuses to let us look away.

Based on P.S. Lynch’s acclaimed novel A Mind Prone to Evil—praised as “extraordinary… beautifully written and exceptionally well-researched” (Susan Ronald, Hitler’s Art Thief). This bold new play melds meticulous research with unsettling theatrical flair. Expect haunting imagery, dark humour, and unsettling truths.

This is not safe history. It is a confrontation—between past and present, between spectacle and truth, between what we want to believe about evil and the uncomfortable reality of how ordinary it can be.

Fringe theatre at its boldest: provocative, unflinching, and disturbingly relevant.

Through a Judas Window

Based on the novel A Mind Prone to Evil by P.S. Lynch

"All things can corrupt when a mind is prone to evil."

Step into Courtroom 600 at Nuremberg, where Hermann Göring faces justice—and himself. Through a Judas Window brings history’s most notorious war criminal vividly to life: brilliant yet brutal, charming yet monstrous, a man who reveals how terrifyingly ordinary evil can be.

Through gripping dialogue, shifting perspectives, and haunting imagery, the play invites its audience to peer through the "Judas window"—a narrow lens into power, vanity, and the fragile veneer of civilisation. At once historical and disturbingly modern, this is theatre that refuses to let us look away.

Based on P.S. Lynch’s acclaimed novel A Mind Prone to Evil—praised as “extraordinary… beautifully written and exceptionally well-researched” (Susan Ronald, Hitler’s Art Thief). This bold new play melds meticulous research with unsettling theatrical flair. Expect haunting imagery, dark humour, and unsettling truths.

This is not safe history. It is a confrontation—between past and present, between spectacle and truth, between what we want to believe about evil and the uncomfortable reality of how ordinary it can be.

Fringe theatre at its boldest: provocative, unflinching, and disturbingly relevant.

Experience the vocal event of the season. Lovemore, the powerhouse vocalist with unapologetic diva energy, takes you on a soaring journey through pop and soul in this intimate yet explosive one-night-only show. An evening of glamour, vocal prowess, and pure entertainment.

In a hole in the woods, a young woman awakens, having fled a life she can no longer bear. As she becomes a mother, she grapples with the collapse of the world around her and slowly becomes a vessel for Mother Earth, delivering a message to humanity about the consequences of overconsumption, environmental destruction, and societal neglect.

Part psychological odyssey, part poetic reflection, The Hole is a one-woman show that confronts audiences with urgent questions: What legacy are we leaving for future generations? How do we care for the vulnerable in a world saturated by media and consumerism?

Written and performed by Poppy Winter, directed by BAFTA Breakthrough winner Holly Reddaway and produced by Next Minute Productions, this one-woman show is unflinching, innovative, and socially conscious. This immersive performance transforms grief, trauma, and revelation into a call to action—a mirror for our times and a meditation on responsibility, connection, and the fragile beauty of life.

Yasmina Reza's play Art is a witty, award-winning comedy about three friends whose relationships are tested when one buys an expensive, all-white abstract painting, sparking hilarious and profound debates on friendship, modern art, masculinity, and the subjective nature of truth and beauty, forcing them to confront their egos and betrayals.

Yasmina Reza's play Art is a witty, award-winning comedy about three friends whose relationships are tested when one buys an expensive, all-white abstract painting, sparking hilarious and profound debates on friendship, modern art, masculinity, and the subjective nature of truth and beauty, forcing them to confront their egos and betrayals.

East to West is a queer love story told in rhymed spoken word, whose protagonists are based on opposite sides of London. Nell, an aspiring poet and part-time teacher, looks through dating apps for a balm for the isolation induced by chronic illness. Asha sizes up East London’s cool trendiness against her native Mumbai and misses the family she left behind there, from whom her queer identity remains a secret. When Asha and Nell connect on a dating app, mutual excitement and a whirlwind date create a pull to spend more together. Yet the pressures they each face are stacking up in a city whose fabric is becoming increasingly tense, frayed and hostile. As the political climate seeping in via their Instagram feeds triggers despair, can love be a safe space from the world’s bared teeth? And what will love do when those forces are no longer felt merely as soundbites, but come knocking at the door?

Yasmina Reza's play Art is a witty, award-winning comedy about three friends whose relationships are tested when one buys an expensive, all-white abstract painting, sparking hilarious and profound debates on friendship, modern art, masculinity, and the subjective nature of truth and beauty, forcing them to confront their egos and betrayals.

East to West is a queer love story told in rhymed spoken word, whose protagonists are based on opposite sides of London. Nell, an aspiring poet and part-time teacher, looks through dating apps for a balm for the isolation induced by chronic illness. Asha sizes up East London’s cool trendiness against her native Mumbai and misses the family she left behind there, from whom her queer identity remains a secret. When Asha and Nell connect on a dating app, mutual excitement and a whirlwind date create a pull to spend more together. Yet the pressures they each face are stacking up in a city whose fabric is becoming increasingly tense, frayed and hostile. As the political climate seeping in via their Instagram feeds triggers despair, can love be a safe space from the world’s bared teeth? And what will love do when those forces are no longer felt merely as soundbites, but come knocking at the door?

In a hole in the woods, a young woman awakens, having fled a life she can no longer bear. As she becomes a mother, she grapples with the collapse of the world around her and slowly becomes a vessel for Mother Earth, delivering a message to humanity about the consequences of overconsumption, environmental destruction, and societal neglect.

Part psychological odyssey, part poetic reflection, The Hole is a one-woman show that confronts audiences with urgent questions: What legacy are we leaving for future generations? How do we care for the vulnerable in a world saturated by media and consumerism?

Written and performed by Poppy Winter, directed by BAFTA Breakthrough winner Holly Reddaway and produced by Next Minute Productions, this one-woman show is unflinching, innovative, and socially conscious. This immersive performance transforms grief, trauma, and revelation into a call to action—a mirror for our times and a meditation on responsibility, connection, and the fragile beauty of life.

Collect The Hearts is a post punk live music and spoken word performance by Rachel Mayfield Group. It is written and devised by the group’s front person, alt rock singer and literary artist, Rachel Mayfield, who has maintained a cult following since her 90s debut with the band delicious monster. Her uncompromising art documentary style music, film and writing is released as seasons, and her latest, ‘Collect the Hearts’ looks at ways to get lost to ultimately find ourselves, in an age

of technological reliance, economic structures, and land grabs. It explores the scope for freedom for the outsider character who seeks personal autonomy and mental freedom with likeminded travellers. Is the lived experience of the individual, the only way back to truth, peace and pleasure for the whole community?

Yasmina Reza's play Art is a witty, award-winning comedy about three friends whose relationships are tested when one buys an expensive, all-white abstract painting, sparking hilarious and profound debates on friendship, modern art, masculinity, and the subjective nature of truth and beauty, forcing them to confront their egos and betrayals.

LA is burning. When a pair of old Angelenos lose everything, they must navigate overwhelming grief, toxic ash and paperwork purgatory, surrounded by clueless celebs, soulless politicians and insurance vampires.
6000 miles away, their (very) anxious daughter is trying hard not to unravel.

Fringe Theatre Awards 2x nominee Burn Baby Burn: LA Inferno is a stripped-back, sharp-witted mix of storytelling, satire, and songs, exploring the human cost of climate change and the humans fanning the flames. Asking questions that nobody wants to answer like: why was LA’s biggest reservoir empty? What the hell is a ‘firenado’? And how did 80s icon Steve Guttenberg become a low-key hero?

“A retelling of an environmental and social catastrophe, with a dash of Californian whimsy.” - The Reviews Hub

Join Nick Bain and Martina O’Sullivan for a split-bill of sharp, affectionate standup comedy that will enable anyone to claim their very own Irish passport. From the joys of Catholicism to the realities of 90s Ireland this hour of comedy will indulge those born and bred, while gifting anyone else the skills to successfully defect. Expect big laughs as two homesick, and occasionally sick of home, comedians bring the best of Ireland to Camden Town.  

In this dark, fast-paced comedy, an ensemble cast — from kit men and canteen staff to kids and parents chasing Academy dreams — are caught up in the unpredictable, ever-shifting chaos of life in a Premier League Club, where loyalties unravel faster than transfers, sacrifices are made, and giving your best doesn’t always mean success. This eye-opening journey behind the scenes of The Beautiful Game is compelling, heart-breaking and – at times – very funny indeed.

Join Nick Bain and Martina O’Sullivan for a split-bill of sharp, affectionate standup comedy that will enable anyone to claim their very own Irish passport. From the joys of Catholicism to the realities of 90s Ireland this hour of comedy will indulge those born and bred, while gifting anyone else the skills to successfully defect. Expect big laughs as two homesick, and occasionally sick of home, comedians bring the best of Ireland to Camden Town.  

In a hole in the woods, a young woman awakens, having fled a life she can no longer bear. As she becomes a mother, she grapples with the collapse of the world around her and slowly becomes a vessel for Mother Earth, delivering a message to humanity about the consequences of overconsumption, environmental destruction, and societal neglect.

Part psychological odyssey, part poetic reflection, The Hole is a one-woman show that confronts audiences with urgent questions: What legacy are we leaving for future generations? How do we care for the vulnerable in a world saturated by media and consumerism?

Written and performed by Poppy Winter, directed by BAFTA Breakthrough winner Holly Reddaway and produced by Next Minute Productions, this one-woman show is unflinching, innovative, and socially conscious. This immersive performance transforms grief, trauma, and revelation into a call to action—a mirror for our times and a meditation on responsibility, connection, and the fragile beauty of life.

Set inside a high-stakes audition, Natty Takes a Breath follows one actor as direction, expectation, and pressure begin to close in.

As notes shift and comparisons surface, the audition fractures into memory, rivalry, and self-scrutiny. Performance becomes survival, and control starts to slip.

Funny, raw, and emotionally precise, the play explores ambition, identity, and the private cost of staying visible in an industry built on judgement.

What happens when holding yourself together becomes the thing that finally breaks you?

Written by: Sara Amanda

Directed by: Sara Amanda and Jasmine Skeete

Performed by: Veronica Lewis

Set inside a high-stakes audition, Natty Takes a Breath follows one actor as direction, expectation, and pressure begin to close in.

As notes shift and comparisons surface, the audition fractures into memory, rivalry, and self-scrutiny. Performance becomes survival, and control starts to slip.

Funny, raw, and emotionally precise, the play explores ambition, identity, and the private cost of staying visible in an industry built on judgement.

What happens when holding yourself together becomes the thing that finally breaks you?

Written by: Sara Amanda

Directed by: Sara Amanda and Jasmine Skeete

Performed by: Veronica Lewis

Can you seduce someone, even if they know you sleep with a weighted blanket?

That’s the question we all ask, whilst laying alone under our "Silent Night Washable Weighted Blanket" with removable cover. Now available in grey.

In his latest absurd outing, silly and surreal comedian Ben O’sullivan will try desperately to avoid talking about his intimacy issues, whilst allowing the full burden of his romantic failings to land on the, already heavy, weighted blanket.

Similar to a bed at your nans house, this show consists of many incomprehensible layers. We find out if pigeons are underrated and consider the potential jeopardy of getting a piercing at 31. Could it be a cry for help?

Together, we will finally uncover the truth hidden beneath the tog ratings.

‘Ben reminds me of a young James Acaster and look what he achieved’

Everything theatre

‘Side splittingly brilliant’

welovebrighton

'Amusingly quirky’

Chortle

Set inside a high-stakes audition, Natty Takes a Breath follows one actor as direction, expectation, and pressure begin to close in.

As notes shift and comparisons surface, the audition fractures into memory, rivalry, and self-scrutiny. Performance becomes survival, and control starts to slip.

Funny, raw, and emotionally precise, the play explores ambition, identity, and the private cost of staying visible in an industry built on judgement.

What happens when holding yourself together becomes the thing that finally breaks you?

Written by: Sara Amanda

Directed by: Sara Amanda and Jasmine Skeete

Performed by: Veronica Lewis

Set inside a high-stakes audition, Natty Takes a Breath follows one actor as direction, expectation, and pressure begin to close in.

As notes shift and comparisons surface, the audition fractures into memory, rivalry, and self-scrutiny. Performance becomes survival, and control starts to slip.

Funny, raw, and emotionally precise, the play explores ambition, identity, and the private cost of staying visible in an industry built on judgement.

What happens when holding yourself together becomes the thing that finally breaks you?

Written by: Sara Amanda

Directed by: Sara Amanda and Jasmine Skeete

Performed by: Veronica Lewis

Set inside a high-stakes audition, Natty Takes a Breath follows one actor as direction, expectation, and pressure begin to close in.

As notes shift and comparisons surface, the audition fractures into memory, rivalry, and self-scrutiny. Performance becomes survival, and control starts to slip.

Funny, raw, and emotionally precise, the play explores ambition, identity, and the private cost of staying visible in an industry built on judgement.

What happens when holding yourself together becomes the thing that finally breaks you?

Written by: Sara Amanda

Directed by: Sara Amanda and Jasmine Skeete

Performed by: Veronica Lewis

Last year after a series of hospitalisations(likely an extended effect of Leicester’s extended lockdown) Nayonica read Matthew McConaughey's memoir Greenlights,which was marketed as a manual to turn life's "red lights" into "Greenlights". Only it turned out the red lights in Matthew's' life were that he was too handsome, too successful and had too many millions of dollars. So Nayonica, has created this hour of stand up in response for her fellow uglies and undesirables,looking back at all the red lights in her life.

During this comedy show Nayonica revisits all the times in her life when planning and doing the sensible thing ended up going wrong (like when she tried to eat healthily she got food poisoning from vegetables), then eventually turned out really well. Now, she’s left wondering if she should continue being logical and planning things or if she should just surrender to the chaos. This is definitely a far too philosophically and esoterically complex question for a stand up comedian to answer.

Set inside a high-stakes audition, Natty Takes a Breath follows one actor as direction, expectation, and pressure begin to close in.

As notes shift and comparisons surface, the audition fractures into memory, rivalry, and self-scrutiny. Performance becomes survival, and control starts to slip.

Funny, raw, and emotionally precise, the play explores ambition, identity, and the private cost of staying visible in an industry built on judgement.

What happens when holding yourself together becomes the thing that finally breaks you?

Written by: Sara Amanda

Directed by: Sara Amanda and Jasmine Skeete

Performed by: Veronica Lewis

Technology and humanity are the themes of Animal Sense. This immersive poetic performance in video and sound addresses the impact and influence of the acceleration of digital technology and artificial intelligence on daily life, and its personal and political implications. The poems are based on the bilingual chapbook Animal Sense/Tino animal, released in January 2026 by the Brazilian and British poet Rosane Carneiro (via Lunar Sheep). The author experiments with the power of poetry to expose a current moment of transition – the result is a disturbing debate about the relationship between society and digital resources, and subjective and/or collective attitudes that resist and/or incorporate contemporary technological offerings.

Poems: Rosane Carneiro
Music and Graphics: Ian Pakes

Come. Sit close. Sing along.
"Lyric Dragonfly" arrives in London for the first time at the Women Writers Festival.
It's a lyrical and clowning piece with its corset undone: a woman appropriates iconic tenor arias, glides between virtuosity and clown, and turns failure into an act of rebellion.
Raw, intimate, and unapologetic, the play breaks the mold and invites the audience to cross the line: to breathe together and risk emotion with a perspective of equality.
A bold, intimate and poetic piece that challenges the classical canon and celebrates women’s voices on stage.

The tenor arrives, as always, late.
But a crisis can be the perfect moment to discover your own potential and... FLY!
Vulnerability finds unexpected ways to fuel courage.

After 25 years of marriage, Maggie Callahan finds herself newly single and thrown into the chaotic world of modern dating. Armed with nothing but a martini and a sense of humor, she endures 10 wildly different first dates, from a narcissist obsessed with selfies to a spiritual guru who won’t stop trying to balance her chakras. As Maggie faces the absurd realities of dating apps, mismatched personalities, and midlife crises, she begins to realize that love is more complicated—and hilarious—than she ever imagined. 10 First Dates is a comedic exploration of relationships, self-discovery, and the unexpected joys of being single.

Praise for playwright Christine Rose’s previous work:
“Powerful and honest” London Fringe Theatre Reviews (4 stars)
“Gripping and thought-provoking” Theatre and Tonic (4 stars)

Praise for Gooper Dust Productions previous work:
“Bitingly witty” Theatre and Arts Review (4.5 stars)
“Raw and current” My View from the Stalls (4 stars)
“High-quality, the casting is exemplary” The Reviews Hub (4 stars)

After 25 years of marriage, Maggie Callahan finds herself newly single and thrown into the chaotic world of modern dating. Armed with nothing but a martini and a sense of humor, she endures 10 wildly different first dates, from a narcissist obsessed with selfies to a spiritual guru who won’t stop trying to balance her chakras. As Maggie faces the absurd realities of dating apps, mismatched personalities, and midlife crises, she begins to realize that love is more complicated—and hilarious—than she ever imagined. 10 First Dates is a comedic exploration of relationships, self-discovery, and the unexpected joys of being single.

Praise for playwright Christine Rose’s previous work:
“Powerful and honest” London Fringe Theatre Reviews (4 stars)
“Gripping and thought-provoking” Theatre and Tonic (4 stars)

Praise for Gooper Dust Productions previous work:
“Bitingly witty” Theatre and Arts Review (4.5 stars)
“Raw and current” My View from the Stalls (4 stars)
“High-quality, the casting is exemplary” The Reviews Hub (4 stars)

Come. Sit close. Sing along.
"Lyric Dragonfly" arrives in London for the first time at the Women Writers Festival.
It's a lyrical and clowning piece with its corset undone: a woman appropriates iconic tenor arias, glides between virtuosity and clown, and turns failure into an act of rebellion.
Raw, intimate, and unapologetic, the play breaks the mold and invites the audience to cross the line: to breathe together and risk emotion with a perspective of equality.
A bold, intimate and poetic piece that challenges the classical canon and celebrates women’s voices on stage.

The tenor arrives, as always, late.
But a crisis can be the perfect moment to discover your own potential and... FLY!
Vulnerability finds unexpected ways to fuel courage.

Come. Sit close. Sing along.
"Lyric Dragonfly" arrives in London for the first time at the Women Writers Festival.
It's a lyrical and clowning piece with its corset undone: a woman appropriates iconic tenor arias, glides between virtuosity and clown, and turns failure into an act of rebellion.
Raw, intimate, and unapologetic, the play breaks the mold and invites the audience to cross the line: to breathe together and risk emotion with a perspective of equality.
A bold, intimate and poetic piece that challenges the classical canon and celebrates women’s voices on stage.

The tenor arrives, as always, late.
But a crisis can be the perfect moment to discover your own potential and... FLY!
Vulnerability finds unexpected ways to fuel courage.

After 25 years of marriage, Maggie Callahan finds herself newly single and thrown into the chaotic world of modern dating. Armed with nothing but a martini and a sense of humor, she endures 10 wildly different first dates, from a narcissist obsessed with selfies to a spiritual guru who won’t stop trying to balance her chakras. As Maggie faces the absurd realities of dating apps, mismatched personalities, and midlife crises, she begins to realize that love is more complicated—and hilarious—than she ever imagined. 10 First Dates is a comedic exploration of relationships, self-discovery, and the unexpected joys of being single.

Praise for playwright Christine Rose’s previous work:
“Powerful and honest” London Fringe Theatre Reviews (4 stars)
“Gripping and thought-provoking” Theatre and Tonic (4 stars)

Praise for Gooper Dust Productions previous work:
“Bitingly witty” Theatre and Arts Review (4.5 stars)
“Raw and current” My View from the Stalls (4 stars)
“High-quality, the casting is exemplary” The Reviews Hub (4 stars)

Technology and humanity are the themes of Animal Sense. This immersive poetic performance in video and sound addresses the impact and influence of the acceleration of digital technology and artificial intelligence on daily life, and its personal and political implications. The poems are based on the bilingual chapbook Animal Sense/Tino animal, released in January 2026 by the Brazilian and British poet Rosane Carneiro (via Lunar Sheep). The author experiments with the power of poetry to expose a current moment of transition – the result is a disturbing debate about the relationship between society and digital resources, and subjective and/or collective attitudes that resist and/or incorporate contemporary technological offerings.

Poems: Rosane Carneiro
Music and Graphics: Ian Pakes

Pardis, a land stuck girl, longs for freedom of the sea and the alluring song of Ayda, a mused mermaiden. In an attempt for the girl to exchange her skin for scales, the two meet at the shoreline to escape conformed ways and distrusting waves, dealing with rising tensions for a transformation that may break them.

The play TROUBLED LOVE has a serious and timely theme about tyranny and terror played out in the unlikely love affair between the Nazi academic and cult figure, Martin Heidegger, and his later very famous Jewish student, Hannah Arendt, just before and after WWII.  It is a shortened version of a longer large-cast play which won two international open-entry and blind-reviewed play-script competitions, one in Ireland (The Eamon Keane Full Length Play Award) and one in Italy (the Premio Colline di Torino, Testo Teatrale). This production will be its world premiere.

After 25 years of marriage, Maggie Callahan finds herself newly single and thrown into the chaotic world of modern dating. Armed with nothing but a martini and a sense of humor, she endures 10 wildly different first dates, from a narcissist obsessed with selfies to a spiritual guru who won’t stop trying to balance her chakras. As Maggie faces the absurd realities of dating apps, mismatched personalities, and midlife crises, she begins to realize that love is more complicated—and hilarious—than she ever imagined. 10 First Dates is a comedic exploration of relationships, self-discovery, and the unexpected joys of being single.

Praise for playwright Christine Rose’s previous work:
“Powerful and honest” London Fringe Theatre Reviews (4 stars)
“Gripping and thought-provoking” Theatre and Tonic (4 stars)

Praise for Gooper Dust Productions previous work:
“Bitingly witty” Theatre and Arts Review (4.5 stars)
“Raw and current” My View from the Stalls (4 stars)
“High-quality, the casting is exemplary” The Reviews Hub (4 stars)

The play TROUBLED LOVE has a serious and timely theme about tyranny and terror played out in the unlikely love affair between the Nazi academic and cult figure, Martin Heidegger, and his later very famous Jewish student, Hannah Arendt, just before and after WWII.  It is a shortened version of a longer large-cast play which won two international open-entry and blind-reviewed play-script competitions, one in Ireland (The Eamon Keane Full Length Play Award) and one in Italy (the Premio Colline di Torino, Testo Teatrale). This production will be its world premiere.

After 25 years of marriage, Maggie Callahan finds herself newly single and thrown into the chaotic world of modern dating. Armed with nothing but a martini and a sense of humor, she endures 10 wildly different first dates, from a narcissist obsessed with selfies to a spiritual guru who won’t stop trying to balance her chakras. As Maggie faces the absurd realities of dating apps, mismatched personalities, and midlife crises, she begins to realize that love is more complicated—and hilarious—than she ever imagined. 10 First Dates is a comedic exploration of relationships, self-discovery, and the unexpected joys of being single.

Praise for playwright Christine Rose’s previous work:
“Powerful and honest” London Fringe Theatre Reviews (4 stars)
“Gripping and thought-provoking” Theatre and Tonic (4 stars)

Praise for Gooper Dust Productions previous work:
“Bitingly witty” Theatre and Arts Review (4.5 stars)
“Raw and current” My View from the Stalls (4 stars)
“High-quality, the casting is exemplary” The Reviews Hub (4 stars)

The play TROUBLED LOVE has a serious and timely theme about tyranny and terror played out in the unlikely love affair between the Nazi academic and cult figure, Martin Heidegger, and his later very famous Jewish student, Hannah Arendt, just before and after WWII.  It is a shortened version of a longer large-cast play which won two international open-entry and blind-reviewed play-script competitions, one in Ireland (The Eamon Keane Full Length Play Award) and one in Italy (the Premio Colline di Torino, Testo Teatrale). This production will be its world premiere.

The play TROUBLED LOVE has a serious and timely theme about tyranny and terror played out in the unlikely love affair between the Nazi academic and cult figure, Martin Heidegger, and his later very famous Jewish student, Hannah Arendt, just before and after WWII.  It is a shortened version of a longer large-cast play which won two international open-entry and blind-reviewed play-script competitions, one in Ireland (The Eamon Keane Full Length Play Award) and one in Italy (the Premio Colline di Torino, Testo Teatrale). This production will be its world premiere.

'Would you trust AI with your love life? Spiralling over a guy who ghosted her, Em turns to ChatGPT for help. She just wants to feel better (and maybe get a text back). But when none of its suggestions for emotional closure land, the AI launches a Beta version: generating a series of 'Romantic Accountability Avatars'.

Soon, past matches, situationships, and exes begin materialising in her bedroom, forcing Em to confront her own attachment patterns.

So… sort of like A Christmas Carol, Hinge edition?

Exactly.

You Matched With… is a surreal rom-com about online dating in the age of apps and AI, the commodification of emotion, and the messy search for genuine connection.'

The play TROUBLED LOVE has a serious and timely theme about tyranny and terror played out in the unlikely love affair between the Nazi academic and cult figure, Martin Heidegger, and his later very famous Jewish student, Hannah Arendt, just before and after WWII.  It is a shortened version of a longer large-cast play which won two international open-entry and blind-reviewed play-script competitions, one in Ireland (The Eamon Keane Full Length Play Award) and one in Italy (the Premio Colline di Torino, Testo Teatrale). This production will be its world premiere.

'Would you trust AI with your love life? Spiralling over a guy who ghosted her, Em turns to ChatGPT for help. She just wants to feel better (and maybe get a text back). But when none of its suggestions for emotional closure land, the AI launches a Beta version: generating a series of 'Romantic Accountability Avatars'.

Soon, past matches, situationships, and exes begin materialising in her bedroom, forcing Em to confront her own attachment patterns.

So… sort of like A Christmas Carol, Hinge edition?

Exactly.

You Matched With… is a surreal rom-com about online dating in the age of apps and AI, the commodification of emotion, and the messy search for genuine connection.'

Meet the Booming Lovelies! 

Boomers – Sharron Green, Trisha Broomfield and Heather Moulson – are brimming with nostalgic tales and bursting to share their impressions of modern life. All set to poetry, their verses on everything from lost loves, the menopause and gin, to the joys and complexities of life today, will have you nodding in recognition and rippling with laughter.

Since their first performance at the Guildford Fringe Festival in 2023, they’ve graced the stage at the Cranleigh and Farnham Literary Festivals, the Guildford Institute, and also appeared at The Spice of Life Soho, receiving stellar reviews… 

                         “Poignant, charming and laugh out loud funny! A real triumph”

All welcome – there’s something for everyone – so take your seats, relax and enjoy a wonderful performance. 

There will be an opportunity to meet the Booming Lovelies and purchase poetry souvenirs after the show.  https://rhymesnroses.com/the-booming-lovelies/

The play TROUBLED LOVE has a serious and timely theme about tyranny and terror played out in the unlikely love affair between the Nazi academic and cult figure, Martin Heidegger, and his later very famous Jewish student, Hannah Arendt, just before and after WWII.  It is a shortened version of a longer large-cast play which won two international open-entry and blind-reviewed play-script competitions, one in Ireland (The Eamon Keane Full Length Play Award) and one in Italy (the Premio Colline di Torino, Testo Teatrale). This production will be its world premiere.

'Would you trust AI with your love life? Spiralling over a guy who ghosted her, Em turns to ChatGPT for help. She just wants to feel better (and maybe get a text back). But when none of its suggestions for emotional closure land, the AI launches a Beta version: generating a series of 'Romantic Accountability Avatars'.

Soon, past matches, situationships, and exes begin materialising in her bedroom, forcing Em to confront her own attachment patterns.

So… sort of like A Christmas Carol, Hinge edition?

Exactly.

You Matched With… is a surreal rom-com about online dating in the age of apps and AI, the commodification of emotion, and the messy search for genuine connection.'

The play TROUBLED LOVE has a serious and timely theme about tyranny and terror played out in the unlikely love affair between the Nazi academic and cult figure, Martin Heidegger, and his later very famous Jewish student, Hannah Arendt, just before and after WWII.  It is a shortened version of a longer large-cast play which won two international open-entry and blind-reviewed play-script competitions, one in Ireland (The Eamon Keane Full Length Play Award) and one in Italy (the Premio Colline di Torino, Testo Teatrale). This production will be its world premiere.

A show for anyone who has been afraid to dip their toe in or felt all at sea. A true story about feeling exposed and learning to love both people and pond life. A ‘highly relatable’ true story that will leave you feeling ‘seen’. This is a show about the transformative power of chucking yourself in the deep end.
Naomi Wood (Gobbess) is ‘A force of nature’ who will reconnect you with the ferocious and ravenous within. This one woman show is funny, life affirming and many-tentacled and is for anyone who has ever been afraid.

BACK BY POPULAR DEMAND!
After two hugely successful runs in 2024, 'You Won't Help Me' is back.

’You Won‘t Help Me’ truly is a play like no other. This is not just a play about domestic violence. The script was written by Phoenix Benham, who has created the play, based on her own experiences from three separate abusive relationships.

’You Won’t Help Me’ doesn’t just tackle domestic violence, it forces the audience to be completely immersed within the lives of the leading couple, watching their relationship evolve, and all of the very real situations they find themselves in.

This play is not just about the lead couple though, ’You Won’t Help Me’ also focuses on the people closest to the couple - Their best friends and allows them to speak for how society often reacts to domestic violence relationships.

’You Won’t Help Me’ is a captivating, raw, very real look into domestic violence relationships, and how they REALLY happen, aside from what you usually see them depicted as on the TV.

This play will make you reassess how you, and society thinks about, reacts to, and feels about Domestic Violence.

Knowing that you’re watching someone’s real life experiences, in front of your eyes, really hits home just how serious this subject matter is.

Trigger warnings - 

Domestic violence, swearing, manipulation, coercive control, attempted suicide, substance abuse and sexual assault. 

BACK BY POPULAR DEMAND!
After two hugely successful runs in 2024, 'You Won't Help Me' is back.

’You Won‘t Help Me’ truly is a play like no other. This is not just a play about domestic violence. The script was written by Phoenix Benham, who has created the play, based on her own experiences from three separate abusive relationships.

’You Won’t Help Me’ doesn’t just tackle domestic violence, it forces the audience to be completely immersed within the lives of the leading couple, watching their relationship evolve, and all of the very real situations they find themselves in.

This play is not just about the lead couple though, ’You Won’t Help Me’ also focuses on the people closest to the couple - Their best friends and allows them to speak for how society often reacts to domestic violence relationships.

’You Won’t Help Me’ is a captivating, raw, very real look into domestic violence relationships, and how they REALLY happen, aside from what you usually see them depicted as on the TV.

This play will make you reassess how you, and society thinks about, reacts to, and feels about Domestic Violence.

Knowing that you’re watching someone’s real life experiences, in front of your eyes, really hits home just how serious this subject matter is.

BACK BY POPULAR DEMAND!
After two hugely successful runs in 2024, 'You Won't Help Me' is back.

’You Won‘t Help Me’ truly is a play like no other. This is not just a play about domestic violence. The script was written by Phoenix Benham, who has created the play, based on her own experiences from three separate abusive relationships.

’You Won’t Help Me’ doesn’t just tackle domestic violence, it forces the audience to be completely immersed within the lives of the leading couple, watching their relationship evolve, and all of the very real situations they find themselves in.

This play is not just about the lead couple though, ’You Won’t Help Me’ also focuses on the people closest to the couple - Their best friends and allows them to speak for how society often reacts to domestic violence relationships.

’You Won’t Help Me’ is a captivating, raw, very real look into domestic violence relationships, and how they REALLY happen, aside from what you usually see them depicted as on the TV.

This play will make you reassess how you, and society thinks about, reacts to, and feels about Domestic Violence.

Knowing that you’re watching someone’s real life experiences, in front of your eyes, really hits home just how serious this subject matter is.

BACK BY POPULAR DEMAND!
After two hugely successful runs in 2024, 'You Won't Help Me' is back.

’You Won‘t Help Me’ truly is a play like no other. This is not just a play about domestic violence. The script was written by Phoenix Benham, who has created the play, based on her own experiences from three separate abusive relationships.

’You Won’t Help Me’ doesn’t just tackle domestic violence, it forces the audience to be completely immersed within the lives of the leading couple, watching their relationship evolve, and all of the very real situations they find themselves in.

This play is not just about the lead couple though, ’You Won’t Help Me’ also focuses on the people closest to the couple - Their best friends and allows them to speak for how society often reacts to domestic violence relationships.

’You Won’t Help Me’ is a captivating, raw, very real look into domestic violence relationships, and how they REALLY happen, aside from what you usually see them depicted as on the TV.

This play will make you reassess how you, and society thinks about, reacts to, and feels about Domestic Violence.

Knowing that you’re watching someone’s real life experiences, in front of your eyes, really hits home just how serious this subject matter is.

BACK BY POPULAR DEMAND!
After two hugely successful runs in 2024, 'You Won't Help Me' is back.

’You Won‘t Help Me’ truly is a play like no other. This is not just a play about domestic violence. The script was written by Phoenix Benham, who has created the play, based on her own experiences from three separate abusive relationships.

’You Won’t Help Me’ doesn’t just tackle domestic violence, it forces the audience to be completely immersed within the lives of the leading couple, watching their relationship evolve, and all of the very real situations they find themselves in.

This play is not just about the lead couple though, ’You Won’t Help Me’ also focuses on the people closest to the couple - Their best friends and allows them to speak for how society often reacts to domestic violence relationships.

’You Won’t Help Me’ is a captivating, raw, very real look into domestic violence relationships, and how they REALLY happen, aside from what you usually see them depicted as on the TV.

This play will make you reassess how you, and society thinks about, reacts to, and feels about Domestic Violence.

Knowing that you’re watching someone’s real life experiences, in front of your eyes, really hits home just how serious this subject matter is.

BACK BY POPULAR DEMAND!
After two hugely successful runs in 2024, 'You Won't Help Me' is back.

’You Won‘t Help Me’ truly is a play like no other. This is not just a play about domestic violence. The script was written by Phoenix Benham, who has created the play, based on her own experiences from three separate abusive relationships.

’You Won’t Help Me’ doesn’t just tackle domestic violence, it forces the audience to be completely immersed within the lives of the leading couple, watching their relationship evolve, and all of the very real situations they find themselves in.

This play is not just about the lead couple though, ’You Won’t Help Me’ also focuses on the people closest to the couple - Their best friends and allows them to speak for how society often reacts to domestic violence relationships.

’You Won’t Help Me’ is a captivating, raw, very real look into domestic violence relationships, and how they REALLY happen, aside from what you usually see them depicted as on the TV.

This play will make you reassess how you, and society thinks about, reacts to, and feels about Domestic Violence.

Knowing that you’re watching someone’s real life experiences, in front of your eyes, really hits home just how serious this subject matter is.

BACK BY POPULAR DEMAND!
After two hugely successful runs in 2024, 'You Won't Help Me' is back.

’You Won‘t Help Me’ truly is a play like no other. This is not just a play about domestic violence. The script was written by Phoenix Benham, who has created the play, based on her own experiences from three separate abusive relationships.

’You Won’t Help Me’ doesn’t just tackle domestic violence, it forces the audience to be completely immersed within the lives of the leading couple, watching their relationship evolve, and all of the very real situations they find themselves in.

This play is not just about the lead couple though, ’You Won’t Help Me’ also focuses on the people closest to the couple - Their best friends and allows them to speak for how society often reacts to domestic violence relationships.

’You Won’t Help Me’ is a captivating, raw, very real look into domestic violence relationships, and how they REALLY happen, aside from what you usually see them depicted as on the TV.

This play will make you reassess how you, and society thinks about, reacts to, and feels about Domestic Violence.

Knowing that you’re watching someone’s real life experiences, in front of your eyes, really hits home just how serious this subject matter is.

BACK BY POPULAR DEMAND!
After two hugely successful runs in 2024, 'You Won't Help Me' is back.

’You Won‘t Help Me’ truly is a play like no other. This is not just a play about domestic violence. The script was written by Phoenix Benham, who has created the play, based on her own experiences from three separate abusive relationships.

’You Won’t Help Me’ doesn’t just tackle domestic violence, it forces the audience to be completely immersed within the lives of the leading couple, watching their relationship evolve, and all of the very real situations they find themselves in.

This play is not just about the lead couple though, ’You Won’t Help Me’ also focuses on the people closest to the couple - Their best friends and allows them to speak for how society often reacts to domestic violence relationships.

’You Won’t Help Me’ is a captivating, raw, very real look into domestic violence relationships, and how they REALLY happen, aside from what you usually see them depicted as on the TV.

This play will make you reassess how you, and society thinks about, reacts to, and feels about Domestic Violence.

Knowing that you’re watching someone’s real life experiences, in front of your eyes, really hits home just how serious this subject matter is.

Soho, 1977, in the historic underbelly of London. 
The vice trade, punk rock, addiction, obsession, violence, street humour.
This is the World of Stickin’ Boy.
 
A punk rock n’ roll musical, written by Martin Muscatt with additional material by Mick Jones (The Clash).

Eddy is a 20 year old punk rocker with a gambling habit.
Wishing to escape his mundane existence, Eddy quits his day job.
He meets Candy, a sex worker, who invites him to be her ‘Sticking Boy’, advertising her services with cards in telephone boxes.

Eddy is schooled in his new career by vibrant sex workers, Mandy, Tuesday, Wendy and Madame O.
 
Psycho Jack, a rival sticking boy, poses a threat to Eddy.

After a chance meeting with his punk hero, opportunities are in the air for Eddy, but he faces many obstacles, from within and without.

The play has an accompanying double album of songs, performed by London band Taurus Trakker, cast members and Special Guests.

Soho, 1977, in the historic underbelly of London. 
The vice trade, punk rock, addiction, obsession, violence, street humour.
This is the World of Stickin’ Boy.
 
A punk rock n’ roll musical, written by Martin Muscatt with additional material by Mick Jones (The Clash).

Eddy is a 20 year old punk rocker with a gambling habit.
Wishing to escape his mundane existence, Eddy quits his day job.
He meets Candy, a sex worker, who invites him to be her ‘Sticking Boy’, advertising her services with cards in telephone boxes.

Eddy is schooled in his new career by vibrant sex workers, Mandy, Tuesday, Wendy and Madame O.
 
Psycho Jack, a rival sticking boy, poses a threat to Eddy.

After a chance meeting with his punk hero, opportunities are in the air for Eddy, but he faces many obstacles, from within and without.

The play has an accompanying double album of songs, performed by London band Taurus Trakker, cast members and Special Guests.

Soho, 1977, in the historic underbelly of London. 
The vice trade, punk rock, addiction, obsession, violence, street humour.
This is the World of Stickin’ Boy.
 
A punk rock n’ roll musical, written by Martin Muscatt with additional material by Mick Jones (The Clash).

Eddy is a 20 year old punk rocker with a gambling habit.
Wishing to escape his mundane existence, Eddy quits his day job.
He meets Candy, a sex worker, who invites him to be her ‘Sticking Boy’, advertising her services with cards in telephone boxes.

Eddy is schooled in his new career by vibrant sex workers, Mandy, Tuesday, Wendy and Madame O.
 
Psycho Jack, a rival sticking boy, poses a threat to Eddy.

After a chance meeting with his punk hero, opportunities are in the air for Eddy, but he faces many obstacles, from within and without.

The play has an accompanying double album of songs, performed by London band Taurus Trakker, cast members and Special Guests.

Soho, 1977, in the historic underbelly of London. 
The vice trade, punk rock, addiction, obsession, violence, street humour.
This is the World of Stickin’ Boy.
 
A punk rock n’ roll musical, written by Martin Muscatt with additional material by Mick Jones (The Clash).

Eddy is a 20 year old punk rocker with a gambling habit.
Wishing to escape his mundane existence, Eddy quits his day job.
He meets Candy, a sex worker, who invites him to be her ‘Sticking Boy’, advertising her services with cards in telephone boxes.

Eddy is schooled in his new career by vibrant sex workers, Mandy, Tuesday, Wendy and Madame O.
 
Psycho Jack, a rival sticking boy, poses a threat to Eddy.

After a chance meeting with his punk hero, opportunities are in the air for Eddy, but he faces many obstacles, from within and without.

The play has an accompanying double album of songs, performed by London band Taurus Trakker, cast members and Special Guests.

Soho, 1977, in the historic underbelly of London. 
The vice trade, punk rock, addiction, obsession, violence, street humour.
This is the World of Stickin’ Boy.
 
A punk rock n’ roll musical, written by Martin Muscatt with additional material by Mick Jones (The Clash).

Eddy is a 20 year old punk rocker with a gambling habit.
Wishing to escape his mundane existence, Eddy quits his day job.
He meets Candy, a sex worker, who invites him to be her ‘Sticking Boy’, advertising her services with cards in telephone boxes.

Eddy is schooled in his new career by vibrant sex workers, Mandy, Tuesday, Wendy and Madame O.
 
Psycho Jack, a rival sticking boy, poses a threat to Eddy.

After a chance meeting with his punk hero, opportunities are in the air for Eddy, but he faces many obstacles, from within and without.

The play has an accompanying double album of songs, performed by London band Taurus Trakker, cast members and Special Guests.

Soho, 1977, in the historic underbelly of London. 
The vice trade, punk rock, addiction, obsession, violence, street humour.
This is the World of Stickin’ Boy.
 
A punk rock n’ roll musical, written by Martin Muscatt with additional material by Mick Jones (The Clash).

Eddy is a 20 year old punk rocker with a gambling habit.
Wishing to escape his mundane existence, Eddy quits his day job.
He meets Candy, a sex worker, who invites him to be her ‘Sticking Boy’, advertising her services with cards in telephone boxes.

Eddy is schooled in his new career by vibrant sex workers, Mandy, Tuesday, Wendy and Madame O.
 
Psycho Jack, a rival sticking boy, poses a threat to Eddy.

After a chance meeting with his punk hero, opportunities are in the air for Eddy, but he faces many obstacles, from within and without.

The play has an accompanying double album of songs, performed by London band Taurus Trakker, cast members and Special Guests.

Making its fifth appearance, and third at the Etcetera Theatre in Camden, Noli is the festival for short films too experimental, too daring, too ‘amateur’, too cheap or simply too long for the mainstream circuit. We want to establish an independent network of our own that values cinema and creativity, outside of the corporatised events that have come to dominate the scene. With this event, you are buying into cinema culture, which means having an atmosphere to be part of, a place to hang out, your own corner of London that works for you and you work for it (ie. you enjoy it!). Find out more: nolishortfilmfestival.co.uk

Ghosts of West Hollywood is a solo performance exploring the pursuit of an acting career in Hollywood and the personal cost of reinvention. Drawing on experiences of drama school expulsion, immigration, coming out, addiction, and recovery, the show blends confessional storytelling with dark humour and theatrical flair.

Set against the neon-lit mythology of Los Angeles, the piece examines ambition, identity, and survival—asking what we leave behind when chasing a dream, and what continues to haunt us when we finally stop running.

The performer’s work spans theatre and screen, including a cameo as “Banksy” in Ted Lasso.

Ghosts of West Hollywood is a solo performance exploring the pursuit of an acting career in Hollywood and the personal cost of reinvention. Drawing on experiences of drama school expulsion, immigration, coming out, addiction, and recovery, the show blends confessional storytelling with dark humour and theatrical flair.

Set against the neon-lit mythology of Los Angeles, the piece examines ambition, identity, and survival—asking what we leave behind when chasing a dream, and what continues to haunt us when we finally stop running.

The performer’s work spans theatre and screen, including a cameo as “Banksy” in Ted Lasso.

Ghosts of West Hollywood is a solo performance exploring the pursuit of an acting career in Hollywood and the personal cost of reinvention. Drawing on experiences of drama school expulsion, immigration, coming out, addiction, and recovery, the show blends confessional storytelling with dark humour and theatrical flair.

Set against the neon-lit mythology of Los Angeles, the piece examines ambition, identity, and survival—asking what we leave behind when chasing a dream, and what continues to haunt us when we finally stop running.

The performer’s work spans theatre and screen, including a cameo as “Banksy” in Ted Lasso.

Ghosts of West Hollywood is a solo performance exploring the pursuit of an acting career in Hollywood and the personal cost of reinvention. Drawing on experiences of drama school expulsion, immigration, coming out, addiction, and recovery, the show blends confessional storytelling with dark humour and theatrical flair.

Set against the neon-lit mythology of Los Angeles, the piece examines ambition, identity, and survival—asking what we leave behind when chasing a dream, and what continues to haunt us when we finally stop running.

The performer’s work spans theatre and screen, including a cameo as “Banksy” in Ted Lasso.

Ghosts of West Hollywood is a solo performance exploring the pursuit of an acting career in Hollywood and the personal cost of reinvention. Drawing on experiences of drama school expulsion, immigration, coming out, addiction, and recovery, the show blends confessional storytelling with dark humour and theatrical flair.

Set against the neon-lit mythology of Los Angeles, the piece examines ambition, identity, and survival—asking what we leave behind when chasing a dream, and what continues to haunt us when we finally stop running.

The performer’s work spans theatre and screen, including a cameo as “Banksy” in Ted Lasso.

Ghosts of West Hollywood is a solo performance exploring the pursuit of an acting career in Hollywood and the personal cost of reinvention. Drawing on experiences of drama school expulsion, immigration, coming out, addiction, and recovery, the show blends confessional storytelling with dark humour and theatrical flair.

Set against the neon-lit mythology of Los Angeles, the piece examines ambition, identity, and survival—asking what we leave behind when chasing a dream, and what continues to haunt us when we finally stop running.

The performer’s work spans theatre and screen, including a cameo as “Banksy” in Ted Lasso.

Your loved one just came out as a (GASP!) fan fiction writer. How do you respond to that? What will the neighbours think? What is Omega slick, anyway? Don't worry because fan fiction veteran MinaRoseTook is here to answer all your questions. Join us on an eclectic, hilarious, and heartfelt journey where we’ll explore transformative works: how fan fiction came to be, why people like it, why people hate it, and why it's a valid form of art. But this isn't going to be your usual lecture. It's part theatre, part puppet show, part writing exercise, and so much more. Who knows...maybe you'll even write something!

A one-woman show that celebrates storytellers.

“Deanna Strasse…has created a brilliant piece that is not only interesting but educational in a fun way.” — GJD Review, Colchester Fringe Festival
“Truly beautiful...I laughed until I cried.” - The Cockpit Audience Member (June 2025)

“This show SLAPS!” - The Cockpit Audience Member (June 2025)

“I’ve been thinking a lot about this show. It’s stuck with me.” - Lambeth Fringe Audience Member (October 2025)

“A joy to watch!” - Colchester Fringe Audience Member (October 2025)

Your loved one just came out as a (GASP!) fan fiction writer. How do you respond to that? What will the neighbours think? What is Omega slick, anyway? Don't worry because fan fiction veteran MinaRoseTook is here to answer all your questions. Join us on an eclectic, hilarious, and heartfelt journey where we’ll explore transformative works: how fan fiction came to be, why people like it, why people hate it, and why it's a valid form of art. But this isn't going to be your usual lecture. It's part theatre, part puppet show, part writing exercise, and so much more. Who knows...maybe you'll even write something!

A one-woman show that celebrates storytellers.

“Deanna Strasse…has created a brilliant piece that is not only interesting but educational in a fun way.” — GJD Review, Colchester Fringe Festival
“Truly beautiful...I laughed until I cried.” - The Cockpit Audience Member (June 2025)

“This show SLAPS!” - The Cockpit Audience Member (June 2025)

“I’ve been thinking a lot about this show. It’s stuck with me.” - Lambeth Fringe Audience Member (October 2025)

“A joy to watch!” - Colchester Fringe Audience Member (October 2025)

Your loved one just came out as a (GASP!) fan fiction writer. How do you respond to that? What will the neighbours think? What is Omega slick, anyway? Don't worry because fan fiction veteran MinaRoseTook is here to answer all your questions. Join us on an eclectic, hilarious, and heartfelt journey where we’ll explore transformative works: how fan fiction came to be, why people like it, why people hate it, and why it's a valid form of art. But this isn't going to be your usual lecture. It's part theatre, part puppet show, part writing exercise, and so much more. Who knows...maybe you'll even write something!

A one-woman show that celebrates storytellers.

“Deanna Strasse…has created a brilliant piece that is not only interesting but educational in a fun way.” — GJD Review, Colchester Fringe Festival
“Truly beautiful...I laughed until I cried.” - The Cockpit Audience Member (June 2025)

“This show SLAPS!” - The Cockpit Audience Member (June 2025)

“I’ve been thinking a lot about this show. It’s stuck with me.” - Lambeth Fringe Audience Member (October 2025)

“A joy to watch!” - Colchester Fringe Audience Member (October 2025)

Award winning comic Stephen Catling brings you his new WIP featuring some up and coming acts providing support.

When clowns can't breathe water and fish can't breathe air- what's a poor clownfish to do in this cruel world?
In 2025, Catling (Malcolm Hardee Award Nominee 2023 & 2025) lost his slug mask. It was an essential part of his hit show ‘Moving on...really really slowly.’

This time, Stephen explores his life now that Autism has been “unmasked,” as well as his fin flapping rage against an increasingly soulless entertainment industry who knows what is going to be in store? A burlesque performing cabbage/lettuce? A rendition of Robbie Williams musical biopic Betterman but they casted a real chimp? Rage against the machine (Generative AI)?
Disclaimer: The show is not going to be about a literal clownfish or finding nemo. A colleague back in his lab days described him lovingly as psychotic Mighty Boosh and The British comedy guide called him “A bucking bronco of surrealism and scruffiness” if this sounds like your bag welcome aboard the crazy train.

"His delivery is brilliantly playful" Everything Theatre

“This is a very different voice on the comedy circuit and one it is important to hear from.” Brighton and Hove news

"Very unique act in a strange but absolutely hilarious way had audience howling. " The Stand

"Magnificently irreverent...charming and utterly bonkers " The Review Hub
"Everything from silly one-liners, to props, to a surprisingly raw honesty that cuts through the surrealness like a knife" Fringe Fry Up

"He’s an interesting performer....I’d definitely like to see him again" Beyond the Joke (Bruce Dessau)

"I found myself at different times laughing out loud, staring wide-eye’d, gushing with joy & wondering what the damninnit was going on!" Mumble

This Machine Kills Fascists

By David Dunn

Songs by David Dunn 

This Machine Kills Fascists is a stage spectacle inspired by the life and work of Woody Guthrie, the legendary American folk singer and civil rights activists.

In the style of all Nuworks productions, it is Epic and as as one critic wrote: “an electrifying hybrid - a protest-song dressed in a theatrical form.” Its a faithful portrayal of Guthrie’s life and times. Woody was never known to compromise. He was as awkward and as flawed as he was committed to the cause of civil rights and working class people, no matter their ethnicity, colour or religion.

The force of the performance is the dramatic threads from Woody Guthrie's biography. His disdain of self seeking politicians, big corporations, and all those who sought to undermine the American Dream.

It was in this fight, led not by a rifle, but by song that his famous ‘war cry’ was born: ‘This machine kills fascists’, scrawled across Woody’s guitar.

The musical arrangements and choreography ( the songs, all originals by David Dunn in the style of Woody Guthrie ) recreate the sentiment of American protests in the 1940s. and 50. They may be read, at times, as  a commentary on modern politics and the fight for the rights of ordinary people today.

REVIEW: ’The atmosphere of this remarkable performance is perfectly captured in the intensity of emotion, light and energy of the actors. The production creates images that stay in your memory. This Machine Kills Fascists by Nuworks is ‘a spectacle that is not just performed, it's a show that is lived’.

1 hour 15minutes duration

Punk defines the politics and fashion of an era, it was brief, a phenomenon that burst like a storm of protest on an unsympathetic, uncompromisingly brutal political system and leader, devoid of compassion in pursuit of greatness and material gain.

Britain, not so Great….1970 and 80’s Margaret Thatcher…the iron lady….garbage strikes, miner closures, police brutality, unemployment, the IRA, race riots. All in response to what John Lydon aka Jonny Rotten of the Sex Pistols  called the ‘shitsdom’.

Nuworks, A Punk Opera is a reimagining of Bertolt Brecht’s The Threepenny Opera which in itself is a reworking of John Gay’s The Beggars’ Opera 1728.

The basic story and characters belong to John Gay, Elizabeth Hauptmann and Brecht adding their Marxist doctrine. There’s no such overt political agenda in our reimagining. Nuworks is closer to John Gay with some sorry reflections on human foibles and hypocrisy than ideology. It’s not even a criticism of Thatcher, of whom, in fairness, it has been said was the leader Britain needed at the time. Debatable.

We’ve set the scene in Camden because that’s where it all began and we’re thrilled to be performing it in the deep heart of Camden, at Etcetra Theatre, in July 2026 as part of our Fringe tour.

In summary…its a great tale with all of the usual suspects…Macheath ( Mac the Knife ) the thoroughly dysfunctional Peachum family, Copper Green, not one of them with a single redeeming feature!

Duration: 1 hour 15 minutes

Some course contemporary language in dramatic context

This Machine Kills Fascists

By David Dunn

Songs by David Dunn 

This Machine Kills Fascists is a stage spectacle inspired by the life and work of Woody Guthrie, the legendary American folk singer and civil rights activists.

In the style of all Nuworks productions, it is Epic and as as one critic wrote: “an electrifying hybrid - a protest-song dressed in a theatrical form.” Its a faithful portrayal of Guthrie’s life and times. Woody was never known to compromise. He was as awkward and as flawed as he was committed to the cause of civil rights and working class people, no matter their ethnicity, colour or religion.

The force of the performance is the dramatic threads from Woody Guthrie's biography. His disdain of self seeking politicians, big corporations, and all those who sought to undermine the American Dream.

It was in this fight, led not by a rifle, but by song that his famous ‘war cry’ was born: ‘This machine kills fascists’, scrawled across Woody’s guitar.

The musical arrangements and choreography ( the songs, all originals by David Dunn in the style of Woody Guthrie ) recreate the sentiment of American protests in the 1940s. and 50. They may be read, at times, as  a commentary on modern politics and the fight for the rights of ordinary people today.

REVIEW: ’The atmosphere of this remarkable performance is perfectly captured in the intensity of emotion, light and energy of the actors. The production creates images that stay in your memory. This Machine Kills Fascists by Nuworks is ‘a spectacle that is not just performed, it's a show that is lived’.

1 hour 15minutes duration

Punk defines the politics and fashion of an era, it was brief, a phenomenon that burst like a storm of protest on an unsympathetic, uncompromisingly brutal political system and leader, devoid of compassion in pursuit of greatness and material gain.

Britain, not so Great….1970 and 80’s Margaret Thatcher…the iron lady….garbage strikes, miner closures, police brutality, unemployment, the IRA, race riots. All in response to what John Lydon aka Jonny Rotten of the Sex Pistols  called the ‘shitsdom’.

Nuworks, A Punk Opera is a reimagining of Bertolt Brecht’s The Threepenny Opera which in itself is a reworking of John Gay’s The Beggars’ Opera 1728.

The basic story and characters belong to John Gay, Elizabeth Hauptmann and Brecht adding their Marxist doctrine. There’s no such overt political agenda in our reimagining. Nuworks is closer to John Gay with some sorry reflections on human foibles and hypocrisy than ideology. It’s not even a criticism of Thatcher, of whom, in fairness, it has been said was the leader Britain needed at the time. Debatable.

We’ve set the scene in Camden because that’s where it all began and we’re thrilled to be performing it in the deep heart of Camden, at Etcetra Theatre, in July 2026 as part of our Fringe tour.

In summary…its a great tale with all of the usual suspects…Macheath ( Mac the Knife ) the thoroughly dysfunctional Peachum family, Copper Green, not one of them with a single redeeming feature!

Duration: 1 hour 15 minutes

Some course contemporary language in dramatic context

In the stormy summer of 1816, Lord Byron invites famed poet Percy Bysshe Shelley, his lover Mary and her stepsister Claire to holiday with him and his physician, John Polidori. One night, Byron proposes that they each write a ghost story to pass the time. Two years later, “Frankenstein” by Mary Shelley is published. This play imagines what the conversations had on that pivotal night might have sounded like…

In the stormy summer of 1816, Lord Byron invites famed poet Percy Bysshe Shelley, his lover Mary and her stepsister Claire to holiday with him and his physician, John Polidori. One night, Byron proposes that they each write a ghost story to pass the time. Two years later, “Frankenstein” by Mary Shelley is published. This play imagines what the conversations had on that pivotal night might have sounded like…

Experience the vocal event of the season. Lovemore, the powerhouse vocalist with unapologetic diva energy, takes you on a soaring journey through pop and soul in this intimate yet explosive one-night-only show. An evening of glamour, vocal prowess, and pure entertainment.

Experience the vocal event of the season. Lovemore, the powerhouse vocalist with unapologetic diva energy, takes you on a soaring journey through pop and soul in this intimate yet explosive one-night-only show. An evening of glamour, vocal prowess, and pure entertainment.

Experience the vocal event of the season. Lovemore, the powerhouse vocalist with unapologetic diva energy, takes you on a soaring journey through pop and soul in this intimate yet explosive one-night-only show. An evening of glamour, vocal prowess, and pure entertainment.