Grief rewinds like a rented tape.

A girl summons her father through a VHS tape, only to find his ghost waiting on the other side – alive. As home videos distort and childhood memories warp into something sinister, she must confront not only the spirit of her father, but the child-self she buried with him. A haunted reckoning unfolds in the static, where the past won’t stay dead. Anchored by real home videos, SCAPE uses these ethereal, textured recordings not only as a narrative core and aesthetic touchstone, but as a scene partner resurrecting forgotten characters and blurring the line between the living and the lost.

Additional Information: Contains potentially distressing themes, flashing lights, strong language/swearing

CREATIVES

Kyndall Sillanpaa - Co-Creator/Director/Writer
Sophie Vincent - Co-Creator/Performer

The LabRats bring you the newest, rawest drag and cabaret talent!

Escaping from the Soho Theatre Drag and Cabaret labs, the silliest, stupidest and sexiest of all the experimental rodents are back at COLAB Tower after their Camden Fringe debut with an infectiously fabulous lineup including 3 guest performers.

After their sold-out debut BREAKOUT! at The Divine, and two successful SCABARET nights at Camden Fringe, your favourite rats are ready to be INFESTED with more out-of-this-world talents and gorgeous emerging queer artists!

Be prepared for an hour of absolute drag joy, whether you’re in the mood for stand-up, songs, silliness or scandalous debauchery! The newest collective in London’s drag and cabaret scene is delighted to present an exclusive lineup mixing already iconic acts from members of the group and exceptional performances from 3 guest artists to be announced soon!

See you there xx

CREATIVES

Hosted by Helen Highwater

Starring:
Helen Highwater (@helenbloodyhighwater)
Santa MariKa (@haris.ack)
Sunday Rain (@s.u.n.d.a.y.r.a.i.n)
Kissing Gaan (@abhisikta.dasgupta)

Guest performers to be announced.

Sound/Light Technician: Eden Fay (@ee_dee_ee_en)
Production & Communication: The LabRats

In The Flesh explores the body as a shifting archive of memory and sensation through clay and movement.

In The Flesh explores the body as a shifting archive of memory and sensation. Clay, raw and grounding element, covers the skin—transmitting the weight and fragility of emotional energy. Through repetition and cycles of movement, the layers of it accumulate and shed while the performer continues their intimate journey. As the final traces of it erode, the question remains—what do we hold, and what do we let go?

Additional Info: Partial nudity

CREATIVES

Olia Poliakova - Choreographer & Performer
Steffi Fashokun - Costume Design

3 writers, 3 directors, 3 fantastic new pieces of writing.

Side/Step was founded on the principle of celebrating new work and creating a playground for artists to experiment with their craft. Join us for an evening of 3 new and exciting extracts of work making their debut on the Side/Step stage!

WHITE TRUFFLE

Maybe there really are no white truffles in England, or maybe no one’s looked hard enough yet. 50 years apart, two pairs of people shovel the same dirt, hoping to find the answer to their problems. But the thing about digging is, the deeper you go, the darker it gets.

CREATIVES

Seb Flatau - Writer, Mimmi Bauer - Director, Carrie Letelier - Actor, Micheal Hajiantonis - Actor, Tom O'Riely - Actor, Megan Farquhar - Actor

NONE OF THIS IS SIMPLE

Fern lives with Nicky, her (passive aggressive) boyfriend of 13 years, in his tiny flat in London. He still doesn't want to get married, because he's simply got too much to do.

Or maybe it's because he's spent all his money on his bike and doing triathlons and he won't admit it.

Or maybe it's because Fern cheated on him when they were 18 with Skye.

But Skye needs a sofa to sleep on for a while. And the flat is way too cramped for the three of them and their tit for tat relationship gets a little bit...weird.

CREATIVES

Imo Redpath - Writer, Colleen Bowes - Director, Daisy Porter - cast (Fern), Cameron Krogh, Stone - cast (Nicky), Isabella Heaver - cast (Skye)

THE WAR FOR CANADA

Three players tell you a story, but this time, we're doing things a little differently.

CREATIVES

Black Bat Productions

Content Warnings

Strong language, Scenes of a sexual nature

An interactive clown love story! Help Mademoiselle Cafetière find love with her one-of-a-kind beau: a talking dummy controlled by you, the audience!

A totally unique interactive comedy show that has taken Bristol by storm! Clown maid Cafetière runs a lonely little Parisian café and dreams of finding love. When a magic spell brings her face-to-face with Hollywood dreamboat Pierce Brosnan she finally has her shot at happiness. But there's just one obstacle... this man is a talking dummy voiced by you, the audience!

Send secret messages from your phones to place orders to your tables, write her dating profile and become the voice of her high-tech celebrity beau. It's the most ridiculous use of computers ever to reach the stage!

Additional Info: Audience interaction - bring a mobile phone!

CREATIVES

Alistair Aitcheson - Host and Developer

An interactive story about survival in the forests of the Pacific Northwest after a plane crash, All Falls Down is a critically acclaimed theatrical TTRPG

All Falls Down is an interactive storytelling adventure where the audience guides a group of friends after a plane crash in the Pacific Northwest. Based on the Dread RPG system, navigate the wreckage and surrounding wilderness, making choices that determine your fate and survival against a new hidden danger every show. Created by award winning theatre company, Chronic Insanity.

Additional Info: The show begins with an assessment of what the audience doesn't want to see, so no content will be included that people don't want to be included. Even though the show is interactive, you can be as involved or uninvolved as you'd like

CREATIVES

Joe Strickland (they/them) Creator, Producer, Game master

A surreal new audio play, written/performed live by Inge-Vera Lipsius. Taking place in darkness, it asks you to visualise images in two interconnected cities—one made of glass, another of sand.

Taking place in darkness, it asks audiences to visualise poetic images in two interconnected cities—one made of glass, another of sand. Are we, ultimately, less different from one another than we might think? The piece premiered at Assembly during the Edinburgh Fringe 2025:

Lyn Gardner’s Top 20 Picks for the Fringe
“Simultaneously serene and disconcerting” —The Scotsman ★★★★
“Might just linger in your mind long after the lights go down” —Theatre Weekly ★★★★

Inge-Vera Lipsius is an American-Dutch writer-director. Staging sold-out productions in London and Amsterdam, her play ‘Quad Loop’—the first play on the Kamila Valieva doping scandal at the 2022 Winter Olympics—was one of six pieces selected for the Bomb Factory Theatre New Writing Showcase at the Bush Theatre. Lipsius studied at the University of Cambridge and Ecole Philippe Gaulier in France.

Additional info: The text contains (non-graphic) descriptions of violence/crisis situations. The piece takes place in the dark.

CREATIVES

Inge-Vera Lipsius - Writer, director, performer

In an empty boarding school, a group of boys comes to blows. The decision that draws them together may ruin a life.

A secluded boarding school, Christmas. The supposed best and brightest amongst this elite cohort stay back to finish their projects, get their grades, and most importantly, become someone else’s problem for the holidays.

As the weight of their futures and their close proximity weighs down on them, the toxicity of their environment begins to show in full force. When news gets back to golden boy Eddie of an incident occurring under his nose, the boys take matters into their own hands.

Content warnings: References to sexual assault, misogyny, AI pornography

CREATIVES

Karina Aviva Benjamin - Director
Writer - Anonymous

Oceans will rise!
Curtains will fall!
The lady pirates will be here through it all.

A swash-buckling new queer musical comedy.

Follow the valiant voyage of the Jolly Parton helmed by Captain Swash as she and her fellow pirates find themselves and what it means to be a lady buccaneer on an ocean that has only ever told them “all pirates are men”.

When an old fling in the shape of Chef Buckle rocks the boat, the crew must band together to grab all the booty they can…

CREATIVES

Director: Lily Aylward
Devised By: The Ensemble
Writer: Henry Barker
Ensemble: Jolene Venzi, Bethan Rose, Lou Bristow-Bell, Anna Curiel, Annie Donaghy, Demelza Sears, Meeri Aro, Matty Rudd

"Blessed are the forgetful, for they get the better even of their blunders" - Friedrich Nietzsche

Love is significant, yet it hurts. Love is absurd.
I believe there are two ways to forget someone you once loved: turn them into a villain you could never care for again, or let time slowly erase them. And the process is nothing short of painful. Yet, despite the pain, we find ourselves beginning again. And again. What? Why? How? This project explores love, forgetting, and the endless cycle between the two.

CREATIVES

Cast (Current Production)
Mila Prusso
Kyu Sim

Cast (Original Development)
Mila Prusso
Jacob Fisher

Director / Devising Facilitator
Sarah Hyojin Kim

Conglomerus Inc. are hiring. Put the us in Conglomerus and join us now.

“At Conglomerus, our mission is to empower every person and every organization on this planet to achieve complete, democratic, technological autonomy. On our terms.”

Have you ever wanted to be part of something extraordinary? Do you love case files and pitch decks more than your own moral compass? Our Legal and Sales departments are looking for assistance as our company is…restructuring.

Successful applicants must demonstrate a willingness to obey orders without asking why. A keen interest in discreet sabotage is advantageous. Apply now to join our team.

This show is not suitable for children.

CREATIVES

Jet Vellinga & Memphis Grace MacPherson

A new state-of-the-nation comedy of menace set in the back of a cab.

Two men get into a cab.
One wants to get to an interview on time.
The other just wants a chat.

A tense, claustrophobic two-hander in the back of a London cab, where small talk turns into a brutal battle of wits, ideals, and survival.
A staged reading (scripts in hand).

Content Warnings:
Strong Language, Sexual Language, Violence, Misogyny, References to Drug Abuse

CREATIVES

Written by Michael Hajiantonis
Directed by Michael Zwiauer

Starring
Fergus Head and Harry Burton

An interactive story about survival in the forests of the Pacific Northwest after a plane crash, All Falls Down is a critically acclaimed theatrical TTRPG

All Falls Down is an interactive storytelling adventure where the audience guides a group of friends after a plane crash in the Pacific Northwest. Based on the Dread RPG system, navigate the wreckage and surrounding wilderness, making choices that determine your fate and survival against a new hidden danger every show. Created by award winning theatre company, Chronic Insanity.

Additional Info: The show begins with an assessment of what the audience doesn't want to see, so no content will be included that people don't want to be included. Even though the show is interactive, you can be as involved or uninvolved as you'd like

CREATIVES

Joe Strickland (they/them) Creator, Producer, Game master

Uncover the strange worlds of interactive fiction, where stories pulse and flex with infinite possibility, and every choice can matter.

Learn about the narrative possibilities interactive fiction can create, and how to create multidimensional stories of your own.

When you think of interactive fiction, what comes to mind? Choose Your Own Adventure books? Video games without the graphics? Think again.

Interactive fiction is a form that can create incredible possibilities for writers looking to push the bounds of their practice, and readers looking for work that hits hard, in unexpected ways.

In this workshop you will begin to uncover the narrative and affective potential of IF.

We'll explore some classic IF together, including Understudied by Jonathan Laury (which casts you as the last minute understudy to the lead in MACDETH, a new rock musical version of the Scottish play) and You Are Jeff Bezos by Kris Lorischild, (which does what it says on the tin).

You'll then get a chance to put some of these ideas into practice, and have a go at creating some four dimensional, multi-perspective stories of your own.

Go beyond branching narrative, to discover the weird worlds we can create together, with a few simple tools.

Additional Info: No writing or programming experience necessary - this workshop is for anyone who wants to find out more about this underrated genre, and have a go at making something of their own.

Exercises will be kinetic, participatory and collaborative, and all experience levels are welcome.

[Experienced game / narrative designers may find the base concepts - fun with variables and multi perspective storytelling - all too familiar, but you might want to come along and guide our hapless protagonist through MACDETH anyway :) ]

CREATIVES

Facilitator: Katy Naylor

Katy is a writer, creative producer, and dramaturg specialising in interactive work

As well as being Void in Chief of the Voidspace, a platform for interactive writing and performance of all kinds, Katy writes her own interactive fiction.

She thinks this form is incredible, and wants to share the love with YOU.

"Do you think God put it there? The pit that begins us?"

It is right around the turn of the 19th century. Max is a physician and a bit of an odd duck; he lives with his fiancée, Marie, a woman he met on his operating table. When Marie begins experiencing fits of hysteria, Max is determined to figure out whether it is the devil or a disease at play. As he tries to assuage Marie’s suffering by experimenting with a decadent new hysteria treatment, he is pulled into an erotic battle between societal expectation and desire, between shame and sensuality. Bodice Ripper is a darkly funny, anachronistic adventure investigating the complicated paths we take to experience pleasure without the restriction of shame.

Content warnings: discussion of misogyny, religious trauma, and sexuality.

CREATIVES

Abigail Chase - Writer/Marie
Jonah McDonald - Max
Vera Majoor - Stage Directions

One-on-one theatre: the Librarian will gather your fairytale moment in an informal chat.

The Fairytale Library is immediate, immersive, intimate theatre: a librarian and one participant talking about a story that has attached itself to them without them even realising. It is the teasing out of the hook, and what came away attached to it.

This is a guided conversation in which the content comes from the participant.

CREATIVES

Jenifer Toksvig - The Librarian

The Fairytale Library will be situated in The Vault by The Gold Bar. Feed free to drop in at anytime!

Join us for an afternoon (or two!) of writing in The Gold Bar. Whether you’re already working on something, starting something new, or just looking to practice, we will have tea and space available for you.

These sessions will be flexible - either get on with your writing individually and just enjoy the space and company, or join in for facilitated exercises, conversations and feedback.

Writing can be a solitary process, so we aim to create a community where writers can gather, chat and learn from each other.

This is a drop-in session and no ticket is required

After an avalanche hits a Polar Research station, the audience, the researchers on board must keep the station going against peculiar odds. A snippet of a work in progress piece of playable theatre by Hazel Dixon.

While working on a Polar Research station, an avalanche threatens to strand the scientists inside. Unable to leave the station, they need to carry on their daily activities in order to keep the station going lest the frost take them. However, as the days pass, the situations change, the atmosphere skews - something strange is happening in the arctic snow.

This work in progress piece is a snippet of a longer place inspired by arctic horror. The show consists of a 60 minutes of the show with a short debrief and feedback session. It sits somewhere between playable theatre and larp and thus audiences are invited to take on roles within the piece but may also float.

Content warnings - audiences will be invited to eat a small piece of food that will be free of the 14 major allergens. This will not be compulsory.

CREATIVES

Hazel Dixon - Writer/Designer

Is there a difference between like and love? Between angry and annoyed? Of course there is- and it matters which one you pick.

Once when I was visiting a museum, there was a display about Yuriy Gagarin, the first man in space, with one of his quotes. It had both the original Russian and an English translation. However, as a native Russian speaker, I didn't like how they had translated it- they had simplified it and changed the tone. And it got me thinking- why do people ignore the nuances of language? The workshop aims to explore the differences minor changes in language can make to a performance or a peice of text, whilst also talking about the societal implications of these decisions and shortcuts.

The discussions will veer into topics such as colonisation, book banning, censorship, and propaganda, although not the entire session. Participants should be advised to be mindful of the nature of such discussions but to not be deterred from the sessions as there will be practical exploration followed by a more on depth discussion of the themes.

This is a solo run workshop created by me, Nika Kamaeva! I am a multidisciplinary creative that was inspired by my bilingual upbringing to bring up the issues surrounding innacurate translations in performance focused text.

The only homicidal game show that’s making the world a better place.

People really suck these days, don’t they? About 80%, spitballing. Let’s meet some, judge some, see if we’re better off without some. Here at The 80 Percent Plan, we introduce you to the types of people you wonder why no one does anything about. Well here we are, doing something. And we need your help. Come weigh in on character after character as we decide whether the world is better off without them. We reckon that’s the case for 80% of people these days… but let’s find out. Together!

CREATIVES

Clem Shatley - Host and Mastermind

Performers - Peter Overal, Katherine Lea, Jacob Baird and Olivia McLeod

Don't Stop.

PLEASE is a theatrical clubland built from sequins, beats, slow dances, mirrors, and mischief.

Part performance, part party, part plea, PLEASE unpacks the messy joy of wanting more as you roam freely through a world fueled by sweat and desire.

This is a space you enter and move through.
Inside, you may encounter:
- Bright tungsten lights for short bursts and flashing lights (sunglasses encouraged)
- Sexual inferences
- Darkness and thick haze
- Loud music and sudden sounds
- Shifting props, flying objects, moving bodies, and close proximity

Standing room only — You can leave your things near the entrance. There will be a few chairs at the edges of the room for those who need it, though we recommend standing and moving through the space if you are able.

Invitations for interaction and light touch - if you would prefer not to not be touched, an usher provide a specific band to wear upon entering.

Need to step out or breathe? Go for it. This space asks you to take care of yourself as you choose how close to get.

CREATIVES

Morgan Brame - Creator and Performer
Flora Lester - Creator and Performer
Mia Foster - Creator and Performer
Ariana Aragon - Creator and Performer

Romanian-Maroccan clown Halima invites you to an hour of professional silliness.

From the high mountains of Transylvania, dry desert of Sahara and the wet red sea comes... Baba, an hour of professional silliness by solo clown act Halima.
Did you know Baba means wise old woman in Romanian, father in Arabic and baba ghanoush wasn’t always made with mayo?? Baba tells tales of love in the times of communism, trams and of roots. Halima is a trained clown, you have seen her recently at Man Up, Sketch Off, and Brighton Fringe. “Beautiful, strange and memorable. Baba is you, me, or anyone”(Brighton Fringe).

Content warning: nudity, coarse language, migration/war themes

CREATIVES

Halima Habil - performer
Charlie Miller - tech

In The Flesh explores the body as a shifting archive of memory and sensation through clay and movement.

In The Flesh explores the body as a shifting archive of memory and sensation. Clay, raw and grounding element, covers the skin—transmitting the weight and fragility of emotional energy. Through repetition and cycles of movement, the layers of it accumulate and shed while the performer continues their intimate journey. As the final traces of it erode, the question remains—what do we hold, and what do we let go?

Additional Info: Partial nudity

CREATIVES

Olia Poliakova - Choreographer & Performer
Steffi Fashokun - Costume Design

An interactive clown love story! Help Mademoiselle Cafetière find love with her one-of-a-kind beau: a talking dummy controlled by you, the audience!

A totally unique interactive comedy show that has taken Bristol by storm! Clown maid Cafetière runs a lonely little Parisian café and dreams of finding love. When a magic spell brings her face-to-face with Hollywood dreamboat Pierce Brosnan she finally has her shot at happiness. But there's just one obstacle... this man is a talking dummy voiced by you, the audience!

Send secret messages from your phones to place orders to your tables, write her dating profile and become the voice of her high-tech celebrity beau. It's the most ridiculous use of computers ever to reach the stage!

Additional Info: Audience interaction - bring a mobile phone!

CREATIVES

Alistair Aitcheson - Host and Developer

In an empty boarding school, a group of boys comes to blows. The decision that draws them together may ruin a life.

A secluded boarding school, Christmas. The supposed best and brightest amongst this elite cohort stay back to finish their projects, get their grades, and most importantly, become someone else’s problem for the holidays.

As the weight of their futures and their close proximity weighs down on them, the toxicity of their environment begins to show in full force. When news gets back to golden boy Eddie of an incident occurring under his nose, the boys take matters into their own hands.

Content warnings: References to sexual assault, misogyny, AI pornography

CREATIVES

Karina Aviva Benjamin - Director
Writer - Anonymous

Grief rewinds like a rented tape.

A girl summons her father through a VHS tape, only to find his ghost waiting on the other side – alive. As home videos distort and childhood memories warp into something sinister, she must confront not only the spirit of her father, but the child-self she buried with him. A haunted reckoning unfolds in the static, where the past won’t stay dead. Anchored by real home videos, SCAPE uses these ethereal, textured recordings not only as a narrative core and aesthetic touchstone, but as a scene partner resurrecting forgotten characters and blurring the line between the living and the lost.

Additional Information: Contains potentially distressing themes, flashing lights, strong language/swearing

CREATIVES

Kyndall Sillanpaa - Co-Creator/Director/Writer
Sophie Vincent - Co-Creator/Performer

Oceans will rise!
Curtains will fall!
The lady pirates will be here through it all.

A swash-buckling new queer musical comedy.

Follow the valiant voyage of the Jolly Parton helmed by Captain Swash as she and her fellow pirates find themselves and what it means to be a lady buccaneer on an ocean that has only ever told them “all pirates are men”.

When an old fling in the shape of Chef Buckle rocks the boat, the crew must band together to grab all the booty they can…

CREATIVES

Director: Lily Aylward
Devised By: The Ensemble
Writer: Henry Barker
Ensemble: Anna Curiel, Annie Donaghy, Demelza Sears, Meeri Aro

A small town station bears witness to a series of life changing interactions over 80 years.

White Elephants is a piece of new writing that explores how communication and relationships shape our lives and impact our choices. Beginning in 1927, using Ernest Hemingway's 'Hills Like White Elephants' as a starting point, a young couple must contend with a decision that threatens the life that they know. The succeeding scenes, both comic and melancholic, offer a musing on fleeting interactions, life in transit, and our capacity for love without duty.

This production is a reading with live music. Some stage directions will be read aloud where necessary, as this is a work in progress.

Additional Info: White Elephants includes reference to abortion and implications of suicide.

CREATIVES

Fergus Head - Writer, Director
Tom Goddard - Musical Director, Saxophone
William Peppercorn - Actor (Gaspar)
Eleanor Cross - Actor (Jig)
Michael Hajiantonis - Actor (Eugene)
Chiara Lari - Actor (Ada)
Sandy Foster - Actor (Maria)
Paul Graham - Actor (Fez)

One hour. Two demons. A chance to win a shiny rock (and maybe be cursed).

This hilarious and earnest participatory show sees members of the audience meet and converse with a demon confined within a circle.

But it’s not all just giant owls and favourite rocks. While drawing upon 17th century English folklore and biblical mythology to talk about modern day loneliness and isolation, S(t)olas examines connection, companionship, and community (and maybe covens) as the audience learn about the demon and perhaps enable them to escape. Will you help the hapless demon, or seal his fate?

This show was performed as part of VOIDSPACE LIVE in July 2025.

Additional Information: Possible discussion of war and disfigurement.
Participation is voluntary.

CREATIVES

Thomas Jancis (Performer/Creator)
Rachel Sampley (Lighting/ Designer)

A surreal new audio play, written/performed live by Inge-Vera Lipsius. Taking place in darkness, it asks audiences to visualise poetic images in two interconnected cities—one made of glass, another of sand. Are we, ultimately, less different from one another than we might think? 

The piece premiered at Assembly during the Edinburgh Fringe 2025:
Lyn Gardner’s Top 20 Picks for the Fringe
“Simultaneously serene and disconcerting” —The Scotsman ★★★★
“Might just linger in your mind long after the lights go down” —Theatre Weekly ★★★★

Inge-Vera Lipsius is an American-Dutch writer-director. Staging sold-out productions in London and Amsterdam, her play ‘Quad Loop’—the first play on the Kamila Valieva doping scandal at the 2022 Winter Olympics—was one of six pieces selected for the Bomb Factory Theatre New Writing Showcase at the Bush Theatre. Lipsius studied at the University of Cambridge and Ecole Philippe Gaulier in France.

Additional info: The text contains (non-graphic) descriptions of violence/crisis situations. The piece takes place in the dark.

CREATIVES

Inge-Vera Lipsius - Writer, director, performer