The Nightcap Quartet
A jazz standards and Japanese fusions experience, Sunday, 9 Mar 2025, 6 pm

The Nightcap Quartet blends tradition and innovation. Featuring Taichi Imanishi, Cam Rossi, Jack Jones, and Chris Davis - exceptional musicians trained at prestigious music colleges delivering captivating jazz performances.

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Ragged Claws
by Agnes Perry-Robinson

11 - 15 March 2025, 7.30 pm

Ragged Claws is an intimate, character-driven drama exploring the psychological workings of obsession.

Henry, an ambitious chef grappling with the impending collapse of his restaurant, becomes consumed by his mounting failure, alienating those he loves and spiraling into despair. His girlfriend Maggie is caught in the crossfire and must decide between his demands for sacrifice and her own musical aspirations. But when ambition clashes with loyalty, is it possible to hold onto both.

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Do You Feel Anger? by Mara Nelson - Greenberg 1 - 5 April

A surreal dark comedy exploring whether you can achieve compromise, without compromising your values

Written during Donald Trump’s first term in office, Do You Feel Anger? is a surreal dark comedy exploring whether you can achieve compromise, without compromising your values.

Sofia is an empathy coach, hired to help a debt collection agency stop screaming at people on the phone. Whilst dealing with her own family difficulties, she is determined to teach the employees emotions beyond anger, hunger and horn. But the longer she struggles to make change happen, the more she finds herself drawn into the dangerous absurdity of what passes for normal.

Cast:
Sofia: Arianna Kozloski
Eva: Rhiannon Lewis
Howie: Simon Berry
Jordan: Sarmed Hyder
Jon: Martin Peacock
Janie / Sofia’s mum: Jenni Wredden

Creative team:
Directors: Anna Markland and Dean Reilly

The Argument
by Spare the Rod Theatre

8 - 12 April 2025, 7 pm

We want you to have an argument with us. We’re working something out and would like you to be there. There’s certainly plenty we can learn from you. The conversations we have at present are so dull, and there are new ways to think. Heated exchanges to be had. We know you want to be part of the conversation. So come down for The Argument. It can be about anything. It can be about art. Or sports. Maybe we’ll even get on to theatre.

Join us in this entirely serious experiment in the potentialities of performer-audience exchange with The Argument, the latest production from theatre company spare the rod. In just 60 minutes and guided entirely by ideas from the audience, we are going to answer some big questions via some serious discussion. Things don’t half feel a bit staid and samey out there, don’t they? Perhaps you can make a contribution to the solution.

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It’s Nothing Personal, It’s Just Business by Kelsey Marlowe Jessup

22 - 26 April 2025, 7.30 pm and 26 April 2025, 2.30 pm

An organic questioning of today’s theatre industry and actor training, It’s Nothing Personal, It’s Just Business explores new and different ways forward for actors and theatre practitioners; with robots, a cat, and the experience of living onstage.

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In an industry and world where creatives are forced to tick boxes and follow the rules, the actor, Kelsey, takes the audience on an interactive and thoughtful journey; inviting them to play alongside her and experience what a world it would be to be allowed to truly live on stage.

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The play is also distinguished by Kelsey’s use of the Demidov Organic Acting Technique, which ensures a new iteration of real life with every performance. While this technique has been used within actor training at the Demidov Studio London (DSL), and within research contexts in the DSL Lab Ensemble, this production– for the first time in our lifetimes – uses the technique throughout the entirety of the creation and performance process of a solo-play.

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The form, content, and creative process of Its Nothing Personal… are all integral to the play's message of new ways forward for actors and the creative community at large. Thus, we are excited to see artists and creatives of all modalities in our audiences and how they respond to the ripples that our piece creates. 

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