Past Shows
Presented by: Kaleido Film Collective in collaboration with Feral Foxy Ladies
A work-in-progress which explores the diverse experiences of depression and healing through a series of sensorial multi-media portraits, using first-hand documentary material, audio-visual storytelling and solo performance.
Presented by: by Westking Music and Acting
A piece of interactive performance consisting silent film, audience interaction, music and improvisation.
Presented by: The Centre for Performing Arts, University of Portsmouth
The Centre for Performing Arts is delighted to produce the Companies Showcase and introduce to the professional industry the varied and excellent theatre companies from the 2017 graduating class of BA (Hons) Drama and Performance and BA (Hons) Musical Theatre courses at the University of Portsmouth.
Presented by: Dear Hunter Theatre
The Iconoclasts, a new play by Ben Price with original music by Emily Compton. If the Iconoclasts are going down, they’re going down swinging! Music, magic, poetry, drag and comedy meet in an explosive night of would-be redemption for the Northern Irish celebrity family, but their chequered past just won't stop turning up uninvited.
Presented by: Cloud Dance Festival
Work in the arts and have topics you’d like to discuss or share with others? Then come along to our new monthly open space event which is open to all: raise issues, ask questions, offer advice, share skills, ask for feedback and network with other industry professionals.
Presented by: Matt Abbott Poet
On 23 June 2016, Abbott’s native city voted 66% in favour of Brexit. Either side of the referendum, he volunteered at the Calais Jungle. Exploring the working-class Leave vote, whilst exposing the reality of the refugee crisis, Abbott uses poetic flair and observational storytelling in this vital spoken word show.
Presented by: Paper Whale Theatre
If David Attenborough and Edward Lear went on a pub-crawl and at the end of the night devised a physical theatre show, this would probably be it. Stupid Zoo is a non-verbal, absurd physical comedy and lo-fi DIY puppetry show, made by two idiots with too much cardboard.
Presented by: Night Train Theatre Company
Poland, 1933: thirteen-year-old Maklena fixates on a fairy-tale vision of the Soviet Union. When communist propaganda, magical geese, and her family's bleak reality become blurred in Maklena’s imagination, they lead her down a dangerous path. This production marks the English-language premiere of Mykola Kulish’s classic Ukrainian play.
Presented by: Charlotte Fox
Narcissism. Ego. Superficiality. Overconsumption. Social media. Obsession. Viciously funny and darkly comic. Charlotte portrays a conveyer belt of hyper-functional characters, combining music, dazzling physical theatre, dance and bouffon in a dynamic, confrontational piece that will lead you down a rabbit hole of delicious chaos.
Presented by: Morning People and 7th Function
Maria and Chris are on a journey together, but still looking for the destination. After an augment Chris goes missing and Maria knows that something is wrong. What he experiences is something incomprehensible and as he makes sense of it, his life begins to make more sense.
Presented by: Theatre East N Bull
The Parade is one of the most sophisticated contemporary texts of our time written by the Greek playwright Loula Anagnostaki. It is almost a warning about humanity’s inability to learn from past mistakes of war, fascism and their horror, thus repeating it over and over again. It is an intriguing play which is also very topical and universal.
Presented by: Tiny Room
It’s closing time at the local pub. It has been another day of the same for the barman Chris who needs an escape. The night is far from over though, as he is visited by some of the pub’s regulars. All feeling like disappointments in their own lives, they embark on a lock in of raised glasses and lower expectations.
Presented by: Theatre East N Bull
Two Lost in a Filthy Night is a very topical play by the contemporary Brazilian playwright Plinio Marcos. It is about two immigrants who try to survive in an alien world. They constantly fight and argue with each other while trying to stay alive in a foreign city. We witness their struggle to keep on going as well as their longings and dreams.