Monday 19 Oct 7.30pm MATADORA Adam Foster and Susan Kempster Inspired by a catalogue of entertainers who have died during performance, Matadora explores what happens when something goes wrong. TAP Andrew Maddock From the Writer of Off-West End Nominated The Me Plays, TAP is a look into a fractured relationship powered by emerging technology FRANK Buddug James Jones Collective Frank Thomas is returning to nature. It s not gonna rhyme and it s gonna get real mess DARKHORSIES DIGEST Poppy Collier Human announcer Poppy Collier and equine newsreader Dolly Darkhorsie present news so new it barely exists. CRACKED NUT Rosie Jones How to crack a coconut with your mind - spoken word, video and sound exploring the experience of psychosis. WE SHALL NOT BE Tanya Singh A collaboration between a theatre maker, a sound artist and a housing activist, exploring the theatricality of activism and the covert politics of participatory theatre. BOY STORY Josh Spear Todd arrives in New York 19:86 and embarks on a Barbie drag dream adventure, making great friends and life choices.
Tuesday 20 Oct 7.30pm RECORDS Eastman Presser RECORDS uses found vinyl as a starting point for humorous performance that pits the body against audio documents. 20B Jane English 20B documents the regeneration of the estate Jane English grew up on and the stories of its displaced community. DEMONS MAKE MY INSIDES TICKLE Johanne Hauge By brave and messy live artist Johanne Hauge, demons make my insides tickle is a show exploring occultism, spirit possession and consent. EAT THE CAKE Roxanne Carney A solo performance that explores the sexualisation of young girls, commenting upon mainstream pornography and celebrity icons. TBC Les Foules theatre Part capitalist political parable, part crass commie country yarn. POLYGON Sadie Spencer What is it we see in our mind s eye when we think? Sadie has a go at showing you what s in hers.
Wednesday 21 Oct 7.30pm BI Mora A story about a girl who tried to cope with despair by creating twins sisters out of sound and plastic. TAPPING HANDS Soundlove An experimental music performance where the physical environment is turned into a musical instrument by using technology. ILFORD, UNITED KINGDOM Olly Hawes and Nick Caseenbaum Olly and Nick went to Ilford to collect stories. The stories gave them an insight into the state of the nation and their own relationship. EL DILUVIOS Tom Fowler and Adam Foster El Diluvio is a collaboratively written, auto-fictional performance text exploring the fragility of memory. THESEUS BEEFCAKE PanicLab Theseus Beefcake journeys into the dark labyrinth of masculinity, colliding mixed martial arts, death metal, American frat culture, rodeos and pornography along the way. LIFE, SENTENCE Laurence Dollander A meditation on immigration viewed through the way languages are passed on from one generation to another. A TIT SHOW MOJO Company Just about tits, and there s more than you can ever dream of
Thursday 22 Oct 7.30pm OLU Letter to Centre Stage When Olu s grades begin to slip, her dad s convinced a Nigerian Boarding school is the solution. She s left frustrated in a land that her parents call home. TBC Zayd Wilson What does it mean to be a British Muslim in today s society? How are Muslims are portrayed in modern British media? And what it feels like to be portrayed in such a way? GIRL FROM IPANEMA Mouths of Lions Five years ago a girl created a play-list for her mother s funeral. He aunt asked her: is this entirely appropriate? MESOPOTAMIA Unfinished Productions Mesopotamia interrogates the fallen state of the Middle-East today, the once reputed Garden of Eden. THIS IS NOT AN EGG Cool Hunting This is not an egg is a darkly comic, un-nerving performance that plays on the control of audience and performer. ICARUS FELL Michelle Madsen A plane crash. A broken heart. A change of heart. Icarus Fell tells the story of a world and a woman in crisis, on a one-way journey to the sun BODIED Raise Dark Delve into the disrespectful world of battle rap. Featuring live rap battles and drawn from interviews with the UK s top battlers.
Friday 23 Oct 7.30pm ATLANTIS Lydia Cottrell One performer wearing an orange NASA jumpsuit will take the audience from ancient Atlantis to modern day consumer society. PLANES Richard Dodwell and Timothy Thomton A 29 year old woman has killed herself. An airliner has been shot down over Ukraine. Richard isn t feeling well. PULL THE TRIGGER Vijay Patel Pull The Trigger is a live art/theatre performance which explores the post-corner shop culture in Britain. MADAM BALŴN Feral Theatre In an exploration of loss, two rival clowns create balloon animals doomed to be gnashed to pieces by psychotic puppets. PARTNER DANCES FOR ONE Tempo Rubato Step. Twist. Turn. Shake. Rinse. Clean. Repeat. Partner Dances For One explores the social and gendered history of partner dances. THE WAY I MAY BE Tref Davies Who was I yesterday and who will I be tomorrow? And will I remember any of this? DANIEL PIPER IS IN FOUR GANGS Daniel Piper People don t tend to find Daniel Piper very cool. Until, that is, they realise he s in four gangs. FOUR bloody gangs!!
Saturday 24 Oct 7.30pm GLAMF*CKERY! Created a Monster & Hot Salt Theatre, Briony O Callaghan GLAMF*CKERY! candidly examines the complex rifts that can occur between women in a professional environment. A bouffon piece with bite. GORGON Claire Willoughby A show about celebrity, vilification of females by the media, and the women that exist behind the myth. MOTHERLAND Yami Rowdy Lofvenberg A lost connection, the need to re-connect, adapt or evolve into a new place where is our real Motherland? SIX WAYS TO BREAK A BIRD Becci Louise Two fingers in the face of a culture that defines women by their bodies, telling us what not to be. MOURNING MILK Rosie Gibbens and Andy Chaplin We present actions that combine objects and bodies. We adapt everyday conventions. We are interested in the divide between Theatre and Live art. DIVE OR FALL Kaleido Film Collective in collaboration with Feral Foxy Ladies Dive or Fall is an immersive multi-media performance about struggle, resistance and healing, charting one woman s journey through depression. PLEASURE GARDENS Freddie Machin A verbatim cabaret exploring how the closure of LGBTQ pubs and clubs is impacting communities in London.