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NEW SEASON OF WORK
MOVEMENT THERAPY
1st - 2nd Nov
£16/£18
7pm
“So. Why’re you doing tap?”
“The sex appeal.”
Movement Therapy is the debut stage play from Cold Plunge Productions. Written by Margot Pue, it is a new 60-minute comedy that explores how movement, specifically tap dance, can help people process grief and find community.
Fiona finds herself freshly and unexpectedly single, living in a flat she can’t afford without her ex, Jack, who got full custody of their shared friend group. All she has to do is move on, which is proving challenging since no one in her family wants to uninvite Jack from her brother’s wedding.
Her only solace is her weekly tap dance class - a hobby Jack never liked but now becomes a lifeline. It’s there she meets Ben, a drummer with two left feet and his own baggage to tap his way through.
Directed by Nell Lang and technical design by Isy Platt, Movement Therapy traverses the unsteady landscape of grief with humour, hope, and the absurdity of tap dance.
Praise for previous work:
COVENANT, Edinburgh Fringe, 2024:
“the actors are supremely talented, but together they are a synergistic force of nature”- *****, London Theatre Doc
COMING TO CONCLUSIONS
3 - 7 November
"Sometimes I think I could be fucked into enlightenment."
A cocky and clever uni student is dead set on finding herself through fucking other people and living up to her expectations of modern queerness. But one surprising hookup might bring her modern love montage to an end.
From the comfort of her bedroom, we are with her through sex, situationships and spliff fuelled philosophical discussions. As people come in and out of her life and her bed, will they help her come to conclusions about her identity and her future?
'coming to conclusions. is a coming-of-age play exploring how we find and lose ourselves in other people through the self-inflicted sexual chaos of a queer university student.
After a successful run during The Hope Theatre's 'Write Club' festival, 'coming to conclusions' is returning to the venue for an extended run.
“Some people want to be in relationships, you know?”
“I don’t get it.”
I'M FINE, IT'S JUST THE WINE
9th - 11th November
£16/£18
7pm
He just wants her safe. She just wants her life. Is there a place in the world for both?
Woman and Man are the epitome of the modern couple in love. He likes Eurovision, she likes Shania Twain. He hosts a pub quiz, she takes the piss. On her twenty-third birthday their small London flat hosts vegan pancakes and her dying need to get ready for a big night out. But he doesn’t want her to go. Not after what happened last night. Because what happened last night can never happen again.
‘I’m Fine, It’s Just the Wine’ is a fast paced two-hander driven by feminist themes and witty comedy. It is a fresh showcase on how toxic masculinity can affect the non toxic man and explores what happens when a woman refuses to be labelled a victim.
After a very successful, sold out run at last year’s Camden Fringe, ‘I’m Fine, It’s Just The Wine’ returns to the stage this Autumn.
'I’m Fine, It’s Just the Wine is at the forefront of exceptional fringe theatre’ -
Harry Theatre Life - ★★★★.5
‘A brave, timely and essential piece of theatre’ - Sista Magazine
I PREDICT A RIOT
15th - 16th November
£16/£18
7pm
‘Two girls are going to die in 1996 because you kill that man tomorrow. Time isn’t dominoes, falling one after the other. TIME IS A CHESS BOARD.’
Cutthroat queer revenge is served over three decades in this camp, time-bending dramedy.
2036. Claude is gunning down her local MP.
1996. Brooke and Charlotte are exploding a car.
2016. Arthur and Sidney are leaking nudes.
Claude has been planning this for years, a final act of justice in a failing world. But what if time wasn’t linear?
What if Claude’s actions in 2036 rippled back through time and caused two women to seek violent retribution in the late ‘90s?
And what if two gay teenagers in 2016 threaten to destroy them all?
As revenge plots run simultaneously across three timelines, Claude must race to either save the past or fight for a better future. But vengeance is addictive. As bones break and predators run scared, she is forced to ask: is it morally right to choose peace in a world run by evil men?
"Gritty, Honest & Fast Paced" - The Epigram, on Leo Russell’s last play Thirsty
"Visceral, extravagant queer chaos" - Bristol 24/7, on Leo Russell’s previous play STRAPPED.
I CAN SEE THE SUN
12th - 21st November
£10/£16/£18
7pm
A surreal, darkly humorous drama inspired by Dante's Divine Comedy.
After taking a wrong turn at Goole on the road back from IKEA, a mother and daughter become lost in the 'Dark Wood' on the North York Moors, when they're confronted with a stranger in the dead of night. Is he a hunter out to steal hearts, or a moorland hiker who's seen the light? Will they row across the river into deeper despair, or find the path to the car before sunrise?
Developed with support from ArcolaLAB, I Can See The Sun is a visually compelling new play from emerging inter-disciplinary theatre company Light The Night, that tenderly explores ancestral trauma, hope and recovery.
Audience and critic reviews:
"...real visual beauty... a richness of ideas, a daring vision... excellent directorial and visual dimensions." — Everything Theatre
"Jessica Brauner deserves special mention for her creation of a truly evocative wood with some stunning effects..." — The Reviews Hub
"...searingly honest... poetic and powerful… It had a note of enchantment." — Katya Benjamin, Movement Tutor, RADA
The National Theatre's New Work Department have described Tania Khan's writing as "mysterious, unnerving, lyrically gothic, theatrical and engaging drama.”
AFTER TODAY
24 November - 5 December
“I got fu*ked around, by a bunch of fu*king fu*kers who said “f*ck” live on television. F*cking hell.”
1st December 1976. Early evening. A mean-eyed, bitter drunk with old-school values goads the frontrunners of a new sound into swearing on live television.
It finished him, made stars of them, and outraged the nation. But what happened next?
Meet Bill Grundy, some years after his infamous live interview with the Sex Pistols on the Today Show. Fortunately, he has managed to land a new job with Southern Television presenting CLOSE UP ON CASTLES, a delightful programme which shows close-ups of castles and is directed by Julian. Can Bill survive being this close to castles (and Julian) as he reminisces about that fateful interview and eulogises on youth, middle age, drinking, the decline of society, and those unemployable scrota the Sex Pistols?
To mark the 50th anniversary of THAT interview, multiple London Pub Theatre and Fringe Theatre Awards nominees Stage D’Or present AFTER TODAY.
