Join us for another Scratch Night to celebrate new writing and the coming together of artists.

Line Up: A moonlit drop of your reflection / (I've got you) under my skin / It’s A Climb!

Tickets: £12

A moonlit drop of your reflection

‘Other’ Box Theatre

A moonlit drop of your reflection is a physical, spatial and sonic exploration of reflection, its iterations and dislocations.

Inspired by three paintings of the surrealist artist Remedios Varo, the project reflects on the moon as the eternal representation of an unachievable desire. Lovers gift each other the moon, witches harness her power, wolves howl at her, and yet no one can possess or capture her. Similarly, we reflect ourselves in others and they mirror back the expectations and desires we've projected onto them. This piece captures a moonlit drop of a reflection which is in opposition, which is perpendicular; the reflection which is out of step, that we recognize, the one that we wish to change or erase, the reflection that becomes disfigured, the one that shows you the truth. In this movement of space and sound, we surrender to the fact that through reflecting ourselves and on to others we try to capture in our hands that which is unattainable.

Performers: Laura Monroy-Garcia and Ariana Sacristán

Music: Daniela Mandoki

Running Time: 15 mins

(I've got you) under my skin

Dubious Co.

I'm addicted to you. Don't you know that you're toxic? A kitchen drama with a twist.

‘(I’ve got you) under my skin’ is Dubious Co.'s second devised piece in development. It is set up as a kitchen drama with which undoes itself via a process of defamiliarization and revelry. We want to explore the correlations between humanities’ normalised consumption of microplastics and codependent relationships. What are the similarities, differences in having microplastics under our skin, or a person that we somehow depend on in an unhealthy way? Can we and do we want to get rid of it/them? How?

The show will explore a toxic relationship between two people but will gradually be revealed as a representation and anthropomorphizing the inseparable relationship between humans and microplastics. To do this, we will intersperse familiar, emotive naturalism with unnatural uncanny motifs which disrupt this naturalistic relationship narrative and reveal it to be about microplastics.
We are still in exploratory phases of creating this show, but we have created a 12 minute fragment of the initial concepts that experiments the concept using physical theatre, clowning, live music, puppetry, object work and projection to tell this story.

AOIFE PALLISTER BEGADON- PERFORMER
JASPER PRICE - PERFORMER
ANNALENA LIPINSKI - (PERFORMER) & ADMIN
EMILY HAWKINS - DIRECTOR
MJ JIMENEZ - SILVA

Running Time: 20 mins

It’s A Climb!

A sharp, tender, and often funny exploration of queerness and the complexities of being seen—or not—by those closest to you.

In It’s A Climb! Morgan and Noah reunite at a local climbing centre for a long-overdue catch-up. Between the jokes, cheeky innuendos, and the ease of their close friendship, Noah begins to feel that something is off. A sharp, tender, and often funny exploration of queerness and the complexities of being seen—or not—by those closest to you.

Sofe Barker - writer, director and actor
Emily Rodríguez - actor

Running Time: 10 mins