DO NOT ATTEMPT THIS CONVERSATION

2 - 6 June

Nneka is a resident doctor finishing a late shift—another unrelenting and dangerously understaffed work day. Typical. Just as she is about to leave, she is suddenly asked to lead a Do Not Attempt Resuscitation (DNAR) conversation with the relative of a patient she has never met, and about a patient she doesn't know, all under intense time pressure. 

Set entirely within this single encounter, the play exposes the emotional dissonance, absurdity, and dark humour of end-of-life decision-making in a healthcare system stretched to breaking point.

As healthcare services continue to operate under relentless strain, life-altering conversations are increasingly delivered in rushed, imperfect circumstances by exhausted clinicians. This play invites the audience to sit inside one such moment as a fly on the wall, witnessing the collision of grief, bureaucracy, compassion, and detachment—and asking what it really means to remain humane within an inhumane system.

KICKOFF

12 - 14 June

‘I think to myself – yes, we are real – we have been on a pitch for the last two hours – running and sweating and shouting and I am human and alive and there is life in me. I always feel alive on the walk home from practice. And I feel alive on the pitch. I feel alive when I am next to Erin.’

As the football season comes to a close at Bristol University, follow the girls as they gear up for their final few matches as a team. With the pressure of graduation upon their heads, things heat up in the changing room as they navigate competition, ambition, feuds, crushes, best friends, injuries and the thought of life beyond team sports. If you’ve ever been part of a team or know what it’s like to exist in an environment driven by passion and dedication - then this one’s for you! 

Welcome to the unfiltered, unapologetic, crass, kind, confrontational, empathetic, embarrassing world of KICKOFF.

Disappeared/Merged

16 - 20 June

Robin and Nina are two flatmates living in London. On the outside, they seem to be opposite of each other – but both are navigating existential angst: Robin needs a job to pay off her student loans, and Nina is a struggling playwright who's obsessed with the story of a penguin who headed for the mountains. Then Nina receives a cryptic message in a YouTube livestream: GPS coordinates linked to a remote island known for a string of unexplained disappearances.

She goes on an impulsive trip – and vanishes without trace.

Everyone except Robin stops remembering her. Robin begins questioning (sometimes to herself, sometimes to AI) her friend's existence – and eventually, her own.

At the intersection of memory, identity, and digital overload, Disappeared / Merged is a two-hander exploring what it means to exist and to disappear in the age of digital overload and AI.

It Wasn't Like That

24 - 26 June

She has told this story for fifteen years. Tonight, she is not sure she believes herself.

It Wasn’t Like That is a razor-sharp, darkly funny one-woman play about sex, power, memory, and how some stories change in the telling.

Fifteen years after leaving a London marketing office, Alex sits at a cafe table and addresses the audience as if they are an old colleague who was there when it happened. Using the surviving text messages as evidence, defence and confession, she revisits her relationship with Julian: older, married, the CEO, and the kind of man who should never have made a twenty-year-old junior employee feel quite so chosen.

What follows is a forensic journey through work drinks, hotel rooms, blurred boundaries and the dangerous intimacy of being seen by someone with far more power than you.

Alex is determined to prove it was mutual. Consensual. Complicated. Fine. But as she replays the same facts out loud, certainty begins to fracture.

Funny, intimate and quietly devastating, It Wasn’t Like That asks where desire ends, power begins, and what it costs to finally see yourself from the outside.

There's a Pigeon in my bathroom

7 - 11 July

Four university students wake up expecting another uneventful Saturday in their student house — but everything changes when one of them discovers something feathery lurking in the upstairs bathroom.

In a desperate attempt to keep their deposit, Katie, Ben, Emma and Hugo put their heads together to figure out how on earth they can save the pigeon (and themselves) from causing chaos.

A hilariously chaotic slice of student life, There’s a Pigeon in My Bathroom is like nothing you’ve ever seen before. Packed with Inbetweeners-style comedy, awkward flatmate crushes, and the panic of a hungover Sunday morning, it follows four students battling a terrified pigeon with zero common sense. Sharp, fast-paced, and full of sitcom-style laughs, it’s a comedy that will have you picking sides—and never looking at pigeons (or biscuits) the same way again.

After a storming debut at the Old Joint Stock’s Play/Test Scratch Night and a sold-out Midlands premiere, Patrick E. Large and Perro Loco Productions are taking flight to the capital this summer with their full-throttle, unclipped comedy, already hailed as “the next Derry Girls or Inbetweeners.”

Expect feathers, friendship, and full-blown student chaos.

Tabula Rasa

14 - 18 July

Four people. One room. Four chairs. One table.
No doors. No exit. No memory of how they arrived, and no certainty they’ll ever leave. 

An absurd, psychological pressure cooker where identities slip, alliances dissolve, and the familiar turns feral. Panic fizzles into laughter; play becomes ritual; every choice counts. As time ticks on, the four discover that the greatest threat might not be the room at all, but the versions of themselves it drags to the surface. People are hell. There will be blood. A comedy. Kind of. 

TABULA RASA invites you to witness a world wiped clean, where meaning is unstable, reality is negotiable, and starting again is never as simple as it sounds.

A Costume Drama

22 & 23 July

With the 2026 Mascot Grand National rapidly approaching and her shell-suit sporting dad indisposed, reluctant Ella must fill Eddie The Egg's incredibly big boots in this heartwarming, hilarious story about one extraordinary race for glory.

Written and performed by Best Solo Performance nominee (The Stagey Place) Claudia Fielding, with direction and music by Anna Rastelli, the pair resume their professional relationship, beginning with previews at The Lion and Unicorn Theatre then to Zoo Playground at Edinburgh Fringe. They debut this wacky comedy about family tradition, legacy and the love of The Game.

'Fielding is the oddball left field droll hero we all need in our lives' (FringeReview.co.uk). 'A writer-performer to keep tabs on' (Everything-Theatre.co.uk).

REVIEWS FOR PREVIOUS WORK

‘Claudia Fielding’s writing is intelligent, raw, and deeply human’ (LondonTheatre1, ★★★★)

‘fractured story of youthful disconnection… a brilliant new piece of theatre’ (British Theatre Guide, ★★★★)

‘Fielding evokes laughter one moment and brings the audience to the edge of tears the next.’ (Edinburgh Festival Magazine, ★★★★)

‘A show that will not allow you to think about death or escalators the same way again.’ (Fringesider, ★★★★)

‘a writer-performer to keep tabs on’ (Everything Theatre, ★★★★)