New Works
Festival Director: Richard Walker
16th-18th February 2016 | Websters Theatre
Night One
Bass & Treble by Chris Duffy
Set during the Blitz in London, the play focuses on a young girl who is taught to play the piano by her father. After losing her father, Sheila goes through a crisis of confidence, which leads her to stop playing piano. Bass & Treble explores Sheila’s rediscovery of her confidence
Breakfast at Epiphany’s by Jack Cameron
Six flatmates. One of which creates a tranquilliser that knocks you out for one minute. When you awake you have forgotten the past 5 minutes of your life. Hilarity quickly ensues, what could possibly go wrong?
Night Two
Eggcup by Kirsty McAdam
Egg Cup is a devised physical theatre piece that centres around the beginnings of a new relationship between a young couple. Exploring moments of love and grief Eggcup provides a new direction for the New Works Festival
Emily and John by Albert Ohlin
‘Emily and John’ is about the risk of putting too much faith into another person at a young age, when so much is changing, and people are craving new experiences, relationships can begin to break down
Night Three
Tragedy on Barnaby Lane by Samuel Scott
Neil and Percy, two bumbling thieves, have to try and break into the house of 469 Barnaby Lane in order to locate a safe and hack into a computer in order to retrieve documents to an important patent that they were instructed to keep safe
It's a Dog's Life by Anna Siegel
What’s going on at Boney Maroney’s? Young pup Johnny finds a bad crowd when he lands a job as a piano player in Maroney’s speakeasy. While he navigates the divas, the gangsters and the goons of the joint, the dog catcher still nibbles at his heels. It all goes down in Boney Maroney’s
