ACT Graduate Showcase 2024 The best and the brightest of Brighton’s new acting talent. Our 2023 graduates have already acquired substantial stage and film experience and are an extremely diverse and highly castable group in terms of age, type and ethnicity. ACT Drama School has always held diversity at the heart of its ethos. This […]
Road ‘Road’ explores the lives of a small, close-knit community living in the eponymous ‘road’ in a working class, Lancashire town during the era of the 1980’s Thatcher government – a time of high unemployment, civil unrest and deprivation. The action takes place over the course of one evening as the residents of the road […]
“Because whatever has happened to humanity, whatever is currently happening, it is happening to us all. No matter how far off the screams of pain and terror, we live in one world.” (Alice Walker) //Premiere of an experimental play that takes for its structure the four parts of the Geneva Convention – Wounded & Sick […]
Hamstrung EDINBURGH FRINGE PREVIEW Alas, poor Yorick! Though he’s not dead… Hamlet’s legendary fellow of infinite jest is back to dig up the bones of his misspent life in this irreverent resurrection of Shakespeare’s greatest tragedy. Join Yorick as he reconnects with his lost love of performance, embarking on a high-spirited journey to discover what […]
The Olive Boy A CRUDE, COMPELLING, COMING OF AGE COMEDY. You’re 15 years old, struggling through school and coming to terms with the early stages of adolescence. Things are tricky when you’re a teenager. You get dealt yet another devastating blow. But this time, it’s worse. Your mum’s passed away suddenly, and you’ve now got […]
Magpie Back by popular demand this 5 Star and Outstanding show is returning to The Lantern for the end of the Fringe. Ireland, 1923.Civil war has split country, friend and family. The story of “Magpie” follows two brothers, Michael and Patrick Murphy, within the confines of Kilmainham Gaol. One an IRA gunman fresh from the […]
Chuck ‘n’ Jeck Chuck ‘n’ Jeck are a sketch comedy duo made up of Charlie Lacy and Jess Render. Everyone is saying they are a triple threat – hot, funny and have tiny waists. Critics are so obsessed it’s creepy, we can’t even quote them.
Seldom Differ: Work in Progress Northern sketch lads Seldom Differ try out new ideas in this hour of multimedia character sketch comedy. Expect paranormal encounters, 1970s sports commentators, indie-landfill musos, festival madheads, Facebook mums and Dynamo the magician. Winners: “Best British Pilot” The Pilot Light Film Festival Shortlisted: BBC Comedy Writersroom. They have written for […]
Kitchen Underwear How far can you push a sex metaphor, a romantic friendship, and questionable interior décor choices? When Ash and Zee move into their tiny Edinburgh apartment, they begin to navigate the emotional rollercoaster of their early twenties. What they don’t expect is confronting the age-old question of, “do I want to date you […]
1,2,3. sh*t. that’s my OCD. In a world full of ugliness, desperation and people touching you with dirty hands, OCD became Tina’s coping mechanism. Not your typical OCD of every day. Instead, it’s the OCD that tangles inside your stomach and shows-up inside your head non-invited. She tries to hide her symptoms, for example touching […]