Lab Works 1 by MA Theatre Lab
The Lab Works Festival returns with eight theatre works-in-development across two programmes from our MA Theatre Lab students. Come and experience a range of original performance, experimenting with ideas, practices and forms, in a Laboratory theatre environment.
Possibly messy and very theatrical.
Tickets are £10 and £5 concessions.
Lab Works 1
Game-Time
Created and performed by Oscar Chandler
The Mooncake Goddess
Created and performed by Nina Chen
The Selkie and Her Daughter on Land
Created and performed by Sólveig Eva and Anna Kopacek
ABCDEFG Want Need Hate
Created and performed by Seahoon Kim
Kenosis or Sign of the Times
Created and performed by Colin Rayner
Game-Time
Created and performed by Oscar Chandler
Alex has a achieved his dream, but is he able to remain the hero of his own story and be the hero everyone expects him to be? Or has he flown too close to the sun and the pressure forced him back to earth?
Game-Time explores the human relationship with pressure that can be both self-imposed and imposed by others through, the lens of a childhood dream and expectation, and how pressure affects the relationships that drive us forward.
Content warning: loud noise.
The Mooncake Goddess
Created and performed by Nina Chen
A solo piece exploring traditional Chinese myths in a hilarious way. Two versions to be provided for the audience to choose how to taste the story.
The Selkie and Her Daughter on Land
Created and performed by Sólveig Eva and Anna Kopacek
Years after escaping her abusive relationship, a selkie returns to the daughter she was forced to leave behind.
The Selkie And Her Daughter On Land is a modern retelling of the popular Celtic and Norse folklore of the selkie, the seal woman. By exploring its themes of abandonment, entrapment, isolation, motherhood, grief, liminality and freedom, we wonder how love and self-acceptance can be restored, when so much of ourselves has been taken away.
Content warnings: this production contains themes of domestic abuse, violence and parental abandonment.
ABCDEFG Want Need Hate
Created and performed by Seahoon Kim
Korea has had seven revolutions in the past century.
Japan has never had a citizen-led revolution. Not even once.
Koreans say the Japanese are inscrutable, always hiding behind politeness.
The Japanese say Koreans are aggressive and rude.
How the hell did they know?
Content warning: this play depicts death and shares traumatic experiences.
Kenosis or Sign of the Times
Created and performed by Colin Rayner
Based on true events (that are taking place in your mind):
"As I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I take a look at my life and realise there's nothing left."
What do you do when the cosmic joke went just a little too far, you slithered a bit too close to the sun, and accidentally spent an eternity in hell?
Perhaps try a mind altering substance.
This ironically occult one-man show asks questions like "why?" and "why not?"
The Creator never finished his philosophy degree and is making it everyone's problem.
Production freesheet
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