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Please join us for MA/MFA Contemporary Directing Practice Directors’ Lab Showcase 2025 to see an array of the cohort’s independent directing research projects.

You are invited to the Rose and the Barn Theatres on campus to see performances of 3 contemporary plays and 2 devised adaptations.

Each piece is 45 to 60 minutes long, followed by a 20-minute Q&A with the Director and the Cast. Our graduating directors are Christian Cheevers, Neha Hemachandra, Niko Krieger, Hannah Lund and Christina Peña.

All events are free but must be booked in advance via the links below each show.

 

WOYZECK by Georg Büchner, Directed by Scarlett Spicer MA Contemporary Directing Practice 2024

Programme 

 

 

Tuesday 16 Sept

Barn Theatre, 6pm + Q&A

Happy Meal by Tabby Lamb

Rights with thanks to Nick Hern

Directed by Hannah Lund

Please book via Eventbrite here.

 

Rose Theatre, 7.30pm + Q&A

The Apparatus

Based on In the Penal Colony by Franz Kafka

Devised & Directed by Neha Hemachandra

Please book via Eventbrite here.

 

Wednesday 17 Sept

Rose Theatre, 2.30pm + Q&A

The Apparatus

Based on In the Penal Colony by Franz Kafka

Devised & Directed by Neha Hemachandra

Please book via Eventbrite here.

 

Barn Theatre, 6pm + Q&A

Hungry by Chris Bush

Rights with thanks to Nick Hern

Directed by Christina Peña

Please book via Eventbrite here.

 

Thursday 18 Sept

Barn Theatre, 6pm + Q&A

Saudade Minus One (S-1=) by Irenosen Okojie

Devised & Directed by Christian Cheevers

Please book via Eventbrite here.

 

Rose Theatre, 7.30pm + Q&A

The Hungry Bowl by Edward Bond

Rights with thanks to Casarotto Ramsay & Associates

Directed by Niko Krieger

Please book via Eventbrite here.

 

Friday 19 Sept

Rose Theatre, 2.30pm + Q&A

The Hungry Bowl, by Edward Bond

Rights with thanks to Casarotto Ramsay & Associates

Directed by Nikolas Krieger

Please book via Eventbrite here.

 

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