The Ruffian on the Stair The Ruffian on the Stair is the first play Joe Orton ever wrote. Rarely performed, this production set in a sordid bedsit has been described as ‘dripping with menace’ and ‘compelling’. Mike and Joyce are a poor London couple living in a bedsit. Mike is an ex-boxer living on the […]
The Burning Gadulka The Burning Gadulka is a contemporary Bulgarian monodrama. Bulgarian actor Miro Kokenov he takes audiences on a tragicomedy journey of doubt, sarcasm and the wonders of nature in his solo performance steeped in Bulgarian folklore. Written by award-winning Bulgarian writer Rayko Baychev, the play which has been translated into English for the […]
Art Pop Up Shop at the Lantern A one day, two floor, multi artist pop up shop. Come and peruse the wares, have a drink, hang out and help us create a hub for creatives! Coffee shop / bar open throughout. Free entry.
The Maydays Performance Showcase – Musical Harold Advanced Performance Course Join the students from our Advanced Musical Harold Performance Course for their improv showcase, after 12 weeks, they’re ready to strut their stuff for friends and family!
Handbag by Mark Ravenhill Twenty-eight years before The Importance of Being Earnest, a young woman gives birth to a baby boy. Is it an accident when Nanny places him in a handbag and her unpublished novel into the pram? In 1998 a new baby is stolen and an academic discovers an unpublished novel of more […]
The Maydays present: Double Bill – Improv Performance Showcases A double-bill of Maydays students performing their end-of-term shows! First up, the Beginners group will perform short sharp and hilarious games a la Whose Line is it Anyway? Then our Story Makers course will weave an entirely improvised tale, inspired by audience suggestions!
An Introduction to Playwriting : Staged Readings Three new playwrights, Annie Sheppard, Richard Marris and Tig Savage, present new writing developed on ACT’s Introduction to Playwriting course. This is a rehearsed reading with professional actors bringing these new scripts to the stage for the first time. SH!TSHOW by Richard Marris‘Fear and loathing in 1970’s Yorkshire. […]
Geneva Convention (A Work in Progress) War. Brutality. Collapse. Ripples of peripheral trauma. Four female voices. In Geneva. Or wherever. Chaotic sense of being a human being in this world. But everything is fine. Everything is fine … and not fine.An experimental drama by Mark C. Hewitt performed by an international cast. With music by […]