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by Finn Lanchester
presented by scorcher theatre company
20 - 31 October
Monkeys, nationalism, dissonance, and the end of the world.
3am. Central London. The streets are empty.
Simon, a primary school teacher, has handcuffed himself to a tree for a climate protest. Hours have passed. His friends have abandoned him.
Benoit, an oil drilling engineer, roams the streets looking for kicks. Drunk, desperate and totally alone, he has nothing left to lose.
What can ensue but a clash of personality, ideology, and culture?
Prepare for a compulsive, high-octane romp through England, France, dating apps, primate psychology and the end of the world. In one hour, in one night, everything falls apart.
Complicité was written and directed by Finn Lanchester for a rehearsed reading at the Bread and Roses Theatre in April 2026. It is produced by Finn’s production company scorcher as their debut production.
by Charles Dickens
adapted and directed by Liz Love
presented by VandL Productions
3 - 14 November
VandL Productions present a new adaptation Charles Dickens’ classic novel Great Expectations.
Here we meet Pip, a pilot in the Second World War, finding himself back at the crumbling Satis House. At a place of deep love and tragedy for him, begins a journey through his memories.
As Pip takes us through his childhood in the marsh country and early adulthood in London, he is unsparing, recognising the mistakes of his past and charting his redemption through love and suffering. Revealing the scars inflicted in early life, he finds an understanding as to why he behaves as he does.
This new adaptation centres on the key relationships in his life – the kindly and dignified Joe and Biddy, the damaged and proud Estella, the rough but caring Magwitch and the tragic Miss Havisham – all themselves also victims of their past.
Great Expectations is a story of how relationships form and define us for good and for ill and of the expectations we have of life, ourselves and each other and ultimately how blind those ambitions can make us.
VandL Productions are a new theatre company producing fringe shows in fantastic venues. The team have a genuine love for intimate theatre and using the space to connect with, challenge and sometimes unhinge the audience. They look for projects which differ from their previous work and create new challenges with each show they perform.
written and directed by Joe Edgar
presented by Sosij Productions
17 - 28 November
France, December 1944. Journalist Ben Gardiner has come to the front lines of Europe to ring in the New Year with the pilots of 415th Squadron — young Americans who live their lives by night, and whose stories of unearthly lights and close encounters soon turn Ben’s visit into an otherworldly vigil…
Based on true events, Round Lights is an account of very strange happenings at a very strange time, and of the ordinary (and extraordinary) people whose job it became to document phenomena that remain unexplained to this day.
Who is best placed to interpret the impossible? Can awe survive war? And most importantly — is anybody really out there?
“Things can go two thousand miles per hour, fly up to altitudes where we can’t tell ‘em from stars in the sky, never come with flak, never open fire, and they can follow a Beaufighter through manoeuvres’d shake off paint. Lord, what I’d give for proof it ain’t Germans.”
Sosij Productions is an award-nominated theatre company founded on a shared desire to make the kind of show you’d want to watch twice.
While we agree that it’s theatre’s responsibility to present informed discussion about the world we live in, we reckon it never hurts to imagine a slightly more exciting, slightly kinder, and slightly wittier world too. If you like quiet surprises, complex ideas, idiosyncratic characters and laughing, we hope you’ll like our plays.
Press for previous productions
‘this is a slick, well-written, well-directed play with strong performances from all four cast members and good staging… and its humour and dramatic flair are more than just a garnish.… the quick cross-cuts and quicker dialogue give the play the propulsive quality of a thriller. Genuinely affecting … a whirlwind of a play.’ ★★★★ Spy in the Stalls on Big Cranberry
