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30th September - 4th October 2025
Annie and Harry, two voice actors, meet for the first time at a studio to record erotic audio porn. They want to keep it professional. But can two people with such different viewpoints really come together?
From writer / director Cerys Jones ('The Power of Camelot': Exeter Northcott; 'Cynefin': Bread and Roses Theatre) and following its successful 2024 run, 'The Work We Do' explores our relationship to work, sexuality, and the prejudices surrounding both.
Reviews
'Anticipate twists, turns, comedy, and conflict amidst the extended rumpy-pumpy.'
Reviews Hub
'Feisty conflict, believable characters, and gentle comedy'
London Pub Theatres
'Shipler Chico and Tusker have immense chemistry as the incompatible duo'
Reviews Hub
Parrot Productions
A Rose by Any Other Name?
8th - 11th October 2025
When a young journalist probes the truth behind Shakespeare’s plays, she unleashes a storm—online attacks, academic battles, and a rift with her scholar boyfriend. Blending sharp humour, AI investigation, and heated debate, this provocative new play questions who shapes history—and who gets the credit.
Following a successful 2024 UK Southwest tour and a five-star regional review hailing it as ‘comedic battles of wits, wills, and words’, this provocative new play makes its London Fringe debut at the White Bear Theatre.
Written by Lou Beckett (Bletchley Girls, We Can’t Be), whose work explores hidden histories and untold truths, this production invites audiences to cast a vote on the legitimacy of the authorship debate.
Here's what audiences have had to say:
A wonderful performance. It opened up intriguing questions that I’d not previously thought of.
Fascinating, very enjoyable, makes one’s literary education questionable.
...A great performance leaving one with lots of questions.
Terrific and thought-provoking. Loved the mixture of today’s attitudes and opinions of women of the Shakespeare period. Great acting. Well done.
Rosebuddies Presents
Jason Thurston's Acting MasterClass with Jason Thurston
Sunday 12 October
Join PROFESSIONAL actor Jason Thurston for a lesson in learning the act of acting. Jason's had a fabulous career in short film classics, Death Strikes Us All, F*ckless, and Mothers for Justice, and even in the feature films, Massacre 700 and Little Joe starring Ben Whishaw. Now he wants to impart his wisdom onto you (yes, YOU!), through the medium of trailblazing anecdotes, powerful acting exercises, and some good old-fashioned talking at people. He doesn't need validation, but he would like it, so please join him. Spaces are free to book, and Pay What You Want as you leave, so you could technically end up paying nothing. Jason and his super agent will make it very hard for you to leave without giving something, though. Proceeds from the class will go to Woking Foodbank. There's also a fabulous pub downstairs with drinks that you can bring into the class. Proceeds from the drinks will go to the pub. Special guests also join Jason Thurston. Bonanza.
Synchronicity
Written by: Arthur I. Miller
Directed by Anthony Shrubsall
Back by Popular Demand
14th - 18th October 2025
A new play about Jung by Pulitzer Prize nominee Arthur I. Miller
In 1931 the brash and brilliant physicist Wolfgang Pauli approached the world-renowned analyst Carl Jung for help. Pauli’s neurosis had wreaked such havoc with his psyche that when Jung first saw him, he felt as if the “wind had blown over from the lunatic asylum”. In their discussions they struck sparks off each other and in the end not one but both of them were changed.
Synchronicity is about psychology, physics, alchemy and the extraordinary things that can happen when two brilliant minds meet. Thought provoking, sometimes deep, sometimes moving - it is about how a meeting of the minds can change the world.
Features the original cast.
Arthur I. Miller’s 137: Jung, Pauli, and the Pursuit of a Scientific Obsession is the inspiration for Synchronicity. He is the author of Einstein, Picasso, nominated for the Pulitzer Prize; Empire of the Stars, shortlisted for the Aventis Prize; and The Artist in the Machine. www.arthurimiller.com
“Arthur I. Miller is a master at capturing the intersection of creativity and intelligence.” Walter Isaacson
★★★★★
“Synchronicity is an intimate intelligent drama…. The chemistry between Drakes and Riddle was central to the play’s success…”
★★★★
"Heavily reminiscent of Michael Frayn's masterly Copenhagen....The actors are perfectly cast and wholly convincing."
London Theatre
★★★★
"It is heartening to see such intellectual material staged in a fringe theatre…. Director Anthony Shrubsall keeps things moving at pace.”
The Reviews Hub
★★★
"This is above all a play of ideas..."
The Peg
The Beyond Shakespeare Company Presents
Beyond Wyrd Revels 2025
A Week of Devils, Witches, and Horror from Beyond
21st - 25th October
Let the Revels begin! Everyone is invited, even those from beyond the veil. A season devoted to the wyrd worlds of the pre-modern, as Beyond digs into the plays and culture of another time. Before modern Horror, and yet familiar to us as something wyrd and eery.
Live audio recording sessions of Doctor Faustus by Christopher Marlowe and collaborators, as well as dark tales of witchcraft in The Witch of Edmonton, and comic cunning folk of The Wise Woman of Hogston. Plus the full Horror-before-Horror of Thyestes based on the play by Seneca. Dive into our Wyrd Season and go Beyond!
Tuesday 21st October at 7.30pm
The Witch of Edmonton by Dekker, Ford & Rowley
Edmonton is a place of dark urges and suspicion, where under the surface tensions stir resentment and cruelty. When Mother Sawyer is accused of being a witch, she decides that if you can’t beat them… join them.
Wednesday 22nd October at 7.30pm
The Wise-woman of Hogston by Thomas Heywood
There are two things to know of the wise-woman of Hogston… but most of them are untrue. Our comedy for the season is a city comedy, orbiting a character who everyone thinks is one of the cunning folk – but is really just trying to earn a living.
Thursday 23rd October at 7.30pm
Thyestes by Seneca, translated by Jasper Heywood, includes post-show discussion
The original body horror of Seneca was translated into a best seller in the early years of Elizabeth the First. Dark, intense, and not to be faced after a large meal. Followed by a post-show discussion about the play and its moment.
Friday 24th October at 7.30pm
Doctor Faustus (1604 text) by Christopher Marlowe and Thomas Nashe
Doctor Faustus summons a spirit and makes a deal with the devil – and comes to regret it. This is a live recording of the first version of the play to survive, the shorter A text.
Saturday 25th October at 3pm
Doctor Faustus (1616 text) by Christopher Marlowe and Collaborators
With introduction, and followed by post-show discussion and bonus play reading Faustus to Faustus. End time 8pm approximately.
Doctor Faustus summons a spirit and makes a deal with the devil – and comes to regret it. This is a live recording of the second version of the play to survive, the longer B text, followed by a post-show discussion, and a play about how the text was adapted for the stage.
Author, Composer, Soldier-of-a-sort
written & performed by Jan Carey
2nd - 3rd November 2025
A celebration of the enduring friendship between the brilliant and tragic composer and World War I poet, Ivor Gurney, and Marion Scott, writer and trailblazer of women musicians, written and performed by Jan Carey. It was to Scott that Gurney sent his music and poetry from the trenches. The horror of The Great War, contrasted with his deep love for his native Gloucester, coloured his writings. Yet Gurney's slow deterioration into madness after being gassed at Passchendaele showed that, despite their very different backgrounds, their friendship withstood war, illness and despair, as well as triumph, madness and joy.
Directed by Michael McCaffery, the story is brought to life through the rich material of Ivor Gurney and Marion Scott’s memories, poems and letters, interweaved with some of Gurney’s most loved songs from the recordings of Ian Partridge, tenor and Jennifer Partridge, piano.
‘A masterclass’ ★★★★★ broadwaybaby.com
‘a delicate and moving piece of storytelling’ ★★★★ The Stage
19th Street Productions Present
The Problem with the Seventh Year
THE LONDON PREMIERE
28th October - 15th November
"You’ve got to throw every punch with ‘bad intentions.’ If you don’t, you’re better off becoming an educated gentleman and not a boxer. And don’t kid yourself: you can’t be both”
A young man's boxing career conflicts with his life as a medical student.
Working as a cut-man, the consequences of his double-life catch up with him.
THE PROBLEM WITH THE SEVENTH YEAR is a bloody, unflinching drama about the fine line between being clever and being a coward.
WRITTEN BY NICHOLAS PIERPAN
Nicholas Pierpan is an award-winning playwright and screenwriter. THE PROBLEM WITH THE SEVENTH YEAR won the Cameron Mackintosh Award for New Writing. Nick has won a Peggy Ramsay Award, and was shortlisted for the Yale Drama Prize. He won the 2013 Off West End Award for Most Promising Playwright and was nominated for an Evening Standard Award for his play You Can Still Make a Killing, directed by Matthew Dunster. He was selected for the BBC Drama Production Writers’ Scheme and won the Script Factory Serious Screenwriting Award. After a BBC Sparks Radio Residency, Nicholas’ radio plays have been broadcast on BBC3, BBC4 and BBC6. In 2017 he was named to the BBC's New Talent Hotlist, created by BBC Director-General Tony Hall and actor Idris Elba, and in 2020/21 was a member of the Serial Eyes programme for television writers at the DFFB in Berlin.
