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Join us for the premiere of 8 compelling and urgent performance works from final year BA (Hons) Theatre and Social Change.

These brand-new works ask critical questions for the world today with humour, with compassion, with action, and with the most innovative of insights.

Please explore the programme below and make your booking.

 

New Performances by:

  • Meg Gillard
  • Ares Macintosh
  • Manuel Ruiz
  • Maya Seligman
  • Kaiaa Shepnekhi-Boston
  • AJ Thwaites
  • Mayday
  • V

 

Lighting Design by Mimi Browne and Thomas Sleigh

Production Stage Managed by William Moses

 

Programme

 

Wednesday 18 March

 

12pm – 2.49pm*
Furnace, by Maya Seligman

Love, anger, fear and joy can be held in the same vessel. Exploring the term ‘glass child’, Maya Seligman presents an autobiographical installation which challenges us to notice the families that are so often looked through and unsupported. A glimpse inside the transparent, and a chance to engage with the visibility that we crave.

 

11am – 3pm*
Unmasking, by Ares Macintosh

Unmasking is an installation inviting you inside the Artist’s mind and taking you through the hidden rituals of stimming, peeling back one small, but critical, aspect of stimming. By inviting audience members to participate in these rituals together, Unmasking gives audience members a glimpse into this often-hidden experience.

 

3.15pm
A Spirit Within, by V

I’ve got voices in my head and they’re telling me to do… HELP?! In A Spirit Within, Host V and her spiritual guardians take the audience on a solo, visual arts musical that follows us as she steps away from youth and into adult life. Let your spirit sprout, and follow your star.

 

4.45pm
Change(d), by AJ Thwaites

Change(d) is an autobiographical installation and performance exploring the experience of growing up in a gender that you never felt comfortable in, and how hair plays a huge part in the journey towards truly seeing yourself in the mirror.

 

7pm
A Gender Agenda, by Meg Gillard

In A Gender Agenda, your host takes centre stage to throw their own gender reveal party. There’s just one small issue…they’re not sure what it is exactly they’re revealing.

 

 

Thursday 19 March

 

3pm
We Are Gonna Save the World Tonight, Manuel Ruiz

In a fractured world on the brink of collapse, there is just one hour to accomplish the mission of “saving the world”. The show explores activism and the powerlessness of the individual against institutions through spoken word, dance, and (potentially) videos sent to fascist world leaders.

 

4.45pm

Flourishing Distortion, by Kaiaa Shepnekhi-Boston

“I’d rather be told that I look like I give great hugs than I look like a bully”. Flourishing Distortion looks at the perception of others and how they can infiltrate our personalities in both positive and negative ways. An experiment. A test. A choice. Nothing more. Nothing less.

 

7pm

The Banquet of Blood, by Mayday**

Indulge in succulent dishes, stunning drinks and sparkling conversation, while your passionate host talks at you for lord-knows-how-long about her period.

 

* These installations will run simultaneously in rooms adjoining the Theatre Studio

** This event has limited capacity and is by invitation only

 

Venue: Studio Theatre and adjoining Studios, Rose Bruford College

Content and technical warnings: to be confirmed

Run times: due to the changing nature of the devised premiere performances, final running times will be available nearer to the date.

 

How to book

Tickets are available to purchase for each day and you are welcome to stay or move around during the day as you wish. Please make your booking here.