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Temper-Mental Theatre After moving from a tiny village and now currently piled up under a mountain of student debt plus the dizzying heights of life in the city, our postgraduate finds himself chatting to Dr Seamore, a counsellor, for guidance on how to make the best use of his very expensive arts degree. But is the…

2 Truths, 1 Lie

Simon Caine / Sweet Productions Funny, but is it true? Three comedians step on stage. Two are telling the truth, one is a big fat liar. Can you tell who…?

All Work, No Play

Awk the Clown / Sweet Productions We all have to work. Awk longs for a better life outside the shackles of mediocrity, but something keeps holding him back. Awk's on the clock, and he doesn’t have long until his time is up. All Awk wants is to impress you and to be loved. He's quite happy if you laugh at him, not with…

Big Wendy

Emily Benita 2018 was going to be Emily's year. Finally starting to do stand-up and on track to being more funny ha-ha than funny peculiar; maybe even become a fully functioning adult human woman. But when her mum’s cancer diagnosis becomes terminal, she finds herself on an awfully big adventure. Featuring grief, boys…

Caliban’s Codex

Fetch Theatre / Sweet Productions In the 12 years since Prospero's departure, Caliban has painstakingly sifted through the ashes of the books of magic, slowly piecing together a way to save his island from mankind's abuse. By turns both magical and disturbing, Caliban’s Codex gives you an insight into one of…

Coming Home With Me

Girl Code Theatre / Sweet Productions A night exploring the grimy underbelly of a girls’ night out. The perils of creepy dudes, lad culture, and general unwanted attention face almost every girl when partying, so why aren’t we talking about it? Using verbatim testimony and drawing from real news stories, we explore how…

Father of Lies

Sweet Productions Making a Murderer meets Rosemary's Baby… Father of Lies tells the chilling true story behind a mysterious, unsolved murder in West Germany, 1973. This is a thrilling horror show about haunted priests, jealous widowers and satanic cults. Sell-out shows at Edinburgh Fringe 2017/18, London Horror…

The Genius of Charles Dickens

Chris Foote-Wood In his one-man show, author/actor Chris Foote-Wood gives animated readings from Dickens novels in the same manner as Dickens himself: reading and acting out the parts to illustrate some of Dickens’ best-known characters. Some of these characters are featured: Scrooge (A Christmas Carol); Barkis (‘is…

Goddess

Jacqueline Haigh A peek behind the velvet curtain! Hilarious comedy storytelling based on Jacqueline Haigh's true experiences working as a receptionist in a tantric massage parlour. Fringe hit 2018! Directed by award-winning Alan Short (co-director Watership Down, Netflix/BBC) 'Well written and conveyed… great…

Gut Buddies

Bacterial Factory Karl is a parasitic worm: he spent a lot of time looking for his ideal habitat; he finally found it in a corner of the intestines where he can survive undisturbed… at least until today. Brian is a white blood cell: it is his first day of work; a faithful servant of the body but also a curious creature…

I’m Just Kidneying

Amanda Nicastro Amanda donated her kidney for her sister. But she wasn’t a match. Yet, she saved two lives. What?! Sounds like an incredibly heroic sacrifice, but Amanda loves attention, so it worked out for everyone. From carrying her urine on the NYC subway to enduring needle-happy nurses to passing resounding farts…

A Long Time Coming

Harry Thompson A mix of comedy, storytelling and even a poem or two. This show has been put together over many years inside the head of Harry Thompson and it's now ready for general release. Don't miss it!

Miles Behind

Lip Theatre Company Glasgow, 1984. A city alive with life in all its many forms. Unfortunately, not all those lives are easy. The police are under pressure from all angles, the force is modernising and growing to try and meet the challenges of 'The Mean City'. However, before they sort out the crime on the streets…

Neighbourhood Watch

Bendy House Improv An unassuming front door gives no clue to what characters and relationships lie behind it. Well, maybe it’s time to find out, and maybe you’ll be surprised… Journey through the keyhole with Bendy House Improv and find out what really goes on behind the closed doors of today’s neighbourhood. Entirely…

Nobody Likes You When You’re 33

Thom Bee and Andrew Marsh Thom Bee and Andrew Marsh don’t know what to do now their 20s are over. They’re getting old, damnit, but they’re not going to worry about it, not now, because one thing keeps them young: the angst-ridden world of pop-punk. This is the show that takes their favourite music, and distorts it…

Our Mums Wouldn't Watch This

Robin Linde Productions These three comedians have caused their mothers endless stress and worry, and you will be in no doubt as to why once you've seen their show. Kirsten was a So You Think You're Funny Finalist 2017 and was described by Steve Bennett as 'neatly off-kilter.' Chris is a regular at both Komedia and…

Perfect

Gritbox Productions Perfect looks into gender identity issues, mostly in those who deem themselves as genderless. David is a young successful man although he has struggled with some past traumas throughout his life. When David meets Anna, he sees her as his only saviour to help him release his skeletons from the…

The Place You Once Forgot

Ladybug and Leviathan Productions An immersive, interactive experience that takes you on a journey full of whimsy and wonder, brought to you by critically-acclaimed veterans of the Los Angeles immersive theatre scene. Each show is created for a single audience member only. Due to the intimate, one-on-one nature of this…

Quintessence

Emily Carding / Sweet Productions A combination of cataclysmic events results in the extinction of the human race, leaving behind an AI being programmed to recreate humanity when the time is right, with the complete works of Shakespeare as a guide to the human spirit. Humanity must thrive… but at what cost? This…

Remind Me Again Why I Need a Man

Two Foolish Productions Maggie Taylor has the ideal life as an ageing dominatrix. Her life runs like clockwork, business is booming and she relies on no one. But when purple-suited Death pops by to summon her to the afterlife, she has to persuade Death that once again, she holds the whip hand. As she is forced to…

Said and Done

Sugarscratch Theatre Two women sit at a wedding. The Prosecco is free-flowing, emotions are running high and everything is dangerously overspilling in this sharply observed comedy about love, hate and all that lies in between. Throughout the night the women explore friendship, family relations, maternal ties, sibling…

Sary

Different Theatre / Sweet Productions 'They call me witch. A teeth-gnasher. A shape-shifter. When a man says a woman turns into a hare, it means she were too quick for him!' Based on a 19th century Sussex tale, this piece of feminist folk-horror explores themes of female sexuality, ageing and loss as kinds of alchemy.

Sugar

Lip Theatre Company Steph and Rhona work part-time in dead-end jobs and rent a flat they can’t afford. Rhona turns to her boyfriend Mark for emotional and financial support whilst Steph goes out every night looking for a connection she can’t find. Feeling overworked and underappreciated, the girls decide to try a new…

Taboo

Karin Schmid A fictitious talk show with a live audience, featuring a guest from the afterlife. Impossible? Maybe exactly as impossible as the image of the ideal woman, a topic that the play seeks to address. The highlight of the evening: Käthe Petersen. A seemingly selfless social worker who was active between the…

Three, Two, One…

Enemies of Reason Narrative subverted for unwholesome purposes. Liz is married to someone – but who is it? Perhaps she's married to Brian – or is it Graham? And why did Brian sneak down to the kitchen in the early hours? And what's butter got to do with it? And why is Graham threatening suicide? Two men and one woman…

Too Young to Stay In, Too Old to Go Out

Nigel Osner 'Too young to stay in, too old to go out!' Nigel Osner casts a quizzical eye over life's challenges for those that little bit older. Going out, love, holidays – even the gym! Original songs and stories by male and female characters. 'Osner's characterisations are well drawn and excellently performed. The…

Westminster Hour

Andy Paterson Westminster Hour: fatal consequences in this fast-paced and darkly comedic drama with unexpected twists. On the evening Home Secretary Archie Cornwall celebrates the passing of new, tougher sentencing for convicted paedophiles, a seemingly random shooting in South London leads a former lover to implicate…

Westminster Hour Part 2

Andy Paterson The second instalment of Andy Paterson's dark and funny Westminster drama finds anti-hero Archie Cornwall installed as a Prime Minister who must derail a Scottish Independence referendum – by any means, and at any cost. Age category: 16+