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Past programme
Showcases an eclectic range of fresh and interesting contemporary work, largely by emerging artists
Uncle Barry

Barry is unemployed & angry at the goings-on at the Neighbourhood Watch. This time he thinks he has the answer. Barry has decided to set up his own state. In a pathetic attempt at living-room nation-building, Barry enlists the help of his best friend Mickey and his nephew Pecks, who is brought in to oversee matters of national security. With no idea what they're doing, and no future thought beyond the opening ceremony, this three-man attempt at democracy results in flags being made, anthems being sung and life-long friendships being tested…
"We - Michael Jeremy Davis and Barry NoMiddleName Parfitt - I'm not going to tell you what will happen. But what I will say is this: I've hired a heavy"
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Shall I Kill Mama

- I’m dying Bunter. Just a matter of when.
- What makes you think God’s ready for you yet?
- He’s ready. Told Him I’m coming.
- You told God?
- Yep, and He told me to call you.
Mama may be frail but she’s also feisty. Who will win this mother of all battles?
"A Mama wants to die. She needs her son’s help. He should help, plain and simple. It’s his duty. What’s all this about motivation? I wanted a son, I get Hamlet…"
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Tea is Essential at Afternoon Meetings

"The innovative design group Team" The Guardian
A selection of self-initiated projects including:
A proposal to the British Wind Energy Association to establish the image of wind-farms as a quintessential part of the British countryside;
An advertising campaign called 'Boycott Oxfam';
A soundtrack for the east of England;
A series of products that answer needs generated around the cigarette break phenomenon;
The Vending Machine Project: a vending machine that makes you consider whether it should be your responsibility to put the good of society above your own interests.
Writers At Work

Werfel Vs Odets
- Writer: Michaela Ronzini
- Translator: Penny Black
- Director: Christopher Gutmann
- Cast: Saul Reichlin & Tom Sykes
- Writer: Emily Hunka
- Director: Emma Hewitt
- Cast: Sian Breckin, Laura Glover, Gareth Richardson, Simon Ryerson, Alex Watson, Fiona Whitelaw & Ben Wigzell
- Writer: Dorit Makleff
- Director: Ellie Joseph
- Cast: Matthew Delgaram-Nejad , Leanne Hall, Jessica Knight, Sam Lester, Robert Pearce & Julie Sandiford
- Writer: Duncan Gates
- Director: Serena B Robins
- Writer/Director: Serena B Robins
Los Angeles 1943: Franz Werfel has written a play based on his personal experiences in exile from the ever increasing expansion of the Nazis. The United States Theatre Guild brings in former leading New York playwright Clifford Odets to give the play a 'make-over' to appeal to American audiences. In this fictional account of an actual event, who will win this battle for Broadway?
Good Hands
A child is taken away from its family. Better off? Or in some imaginable danger in the hands of people that think they know best?
A look at the intricacies of family relationships, how children are cared for and when things are taken too far.
God Explodes Laughing
Part love story, part dreamlike soul-searching, God Explodes Laughing invites us to consider free will versus predestination through the lives of Udi, an Israeli photographer who lost his legs as a young soldier, and Lora, a British news reporter who travels the world telling other people’s stories instead of living her own.
The Defence
A young man is accused of killing a police officer, but after the dust has settled, who is really on trial? A play about love, evil, innocence and belief, where accusation is easy and defence is the hard part.
Experiments with Chai
A group of friends reunite after ten years and discover how differently their lives have changed. What painful secrets are shared over a cup of 'Chai'? And what courageous choices have to be made?
Not Knowing Who We Are

A man sets out to learn the art of conversation. A girl sets out to find her father. A mother has a box with two keys. Kevin has a spare room and a photograph no-one wants to see…
Preoccupied with books and photographs and talking only to himself and his imaginary wife, a man sets out to learn the art of conversation. He stumbles upon relationships built on lies and deceit where his odd behaviour gives rise to prejudice and accusations. When his brother comes to the rescue, truths emerge and a claustrophobic world is broken apart.
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Everything Is Different

In 1929, Hungarian author Frigyes Karinthy published a volume of short stories entitled Everything is Different. Inspired by the tale Chains or Chain-Links - where the characters believed that any two individuals could be connected through at most five acquaintances - this evening of music, dance & visual art looks at the simple connections we make in everyday life, magnifying these points to find beauty in the details.
35 Cents

It's election time on the romantic Caribbean island of Jamaica. The campaign has, however, been completely overwhelmed by extreme apathy & disillusionment.
Fatigued by the ever increasing levels of poverty, debt & corruption, a new student organization called the 'No Confidence Movement' emerges in an attempt to lead the electorate on a national boycott of the general elections. With various bilateral and multinational interests now at stake, a US-led military invasion is initiated to neutralize growing support for the boycott. It is from within this cauldron that the students of the 'No Confidence Movement' take us on a frenetic journey that will ultimately determine the political future of their island .
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Springheeled Two

Fish in a Bowl/Anthony Kurt:
AB sens 2
Iisa Ilona Jäntti
Ditto (interdisciplinary circus work)
Levantes Dance Theatre/Eleni Edipidi
(Winner of the Oxford Samuel Beckett Theatre Trust Award 2009)
Gin & Satsumas (a dance theatre piece)
Etta Ermini Dance Theatre:
Archetypical Encounter of the Third Kind (physical theatre)
Rosalind Noctor & Martha Moopette:
Hedgehogs & Honeybeads (dance film)
Cathy Seago & Dancers:
How We Know We Are Here: Part 1 Cupp for Three (multimedia work)
The Inhabitants of the Moon are Noses & Diary of a Madman

Do noses really live on the moon?
The Inhabitants of the Moon are Noses/Diary of a Madman explores the thin line between imagination & madness, with a double-bill of Nikolai Gogol’s dark, hilarious masterpiece & Steve Hennessy’s new play about Gogol’s life.
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Weights

An island nobody ever leaves, the Bermuda Triangle, something like that.
Cuban-American writer Jesse Quinones charts a day in the life of a slum estate in Havana .
Cuba: a tropical idyll where the sun never sets, or a stifling prison where the days never end?
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Tales from Mumbai
22 Death Scenes

Jumbled look to harness the power of autobiographical material and direct address, and explore placing this in the context of richer visual and theatrical worlds. Through ongoing collaboration with sound-maker Nick Gill, Jumbled closely links live sound with action, to create a multi-layered experience.
We don't want to die but we know people who have. We'd fight for you, we'd lie for you, you know it's true, everything we do we do it for you. Before your very eyes, Jumbled will die not once, not twice, but 22 times. Watch us as we meet our ends simply, quietly, loudly, gloriously, haltingly, beautifully.
Listen as we tell you about the scenes we wished we had seen, and play you the music we wished we had heard. Sob as we breathe our last breath, scream as we are mercilessly butchered, gasp as we escape unscathed only to be gunned down at the last minute.
Angels Don't Dance

In the psychiatric unit of a large urban hospital, Dr Jones conducts a first interview with Jamie:
"Am I broken?"
"I think you are"
"You see the cracks?"
"Some"
But things are not so straightforward. Unseen to Jones, Jamie is shadowed by Angella, a second personality you wouldn't wish on your worst enemy…
A practising psychiatrist, Brockman’s play is based on true accounts. His work was included in the Samuel French Best Short Plays of 2001 & 2005.
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Hazmat & Me

Just after the end of the world, a lonely survivor clings on to better times with a bicycle-powered reading lamp and a dusty old gramophone. He's fed up, he's had enough and he's ready to die.
So it's a shame that his friend Hazmat, an eight-foot radiation suit with a penchant for mischief, is having none of it. Hazmat has a different take on the man's past and won't let him go before he's made to face the truth…
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Plasmas

Anwesha Ahmed Company’s project to redefine Manipuri dance in the light of the contemporary world began what was to become a radical process. The title of the piece, Plasmas, is inspired by the notion of the stripping of electrons from atoms to create free-flowing Plasmas –the fourth state of matter.
Five dancers present this journey accompanied by a specially commissioned score, which combines live and improvised music. The instrumentation includes the sarangi, the kartal (played by one of the dancers) as well as the violin and congas.
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