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18 August 2025 - 22 August 2025
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19 August 2025 - 20 August 2025
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21 August 2025 - 24 August 2025
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Theatre
23 August 2025 - 24 August 2025
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THE SWITCHBOARD PROJECT
September 2nd - 13th
£10/£16/£18
7:45PM
“You know, it’s terrible that a woman should have to sit there and say ‘Gay Switchboard’. Why isn’t it ‘Lesbian and Gay Switchboard’?”
It’s 1985. Above a bookshop in King’s Cross, volunteers answer calls from across the country. There's been a vicious queer-bashing in Leeds, a young man in Bristol dreads his HIV test, and a breathless voice really wants to know what they're wearing.
For Lou, Joan, Nana and Jackie, it’s just another shift. Battling phone line outages, understaffing, and vanishing pens, these four lesbians are determined to answer the call to connect their divided community.
‘The Switchboard Project’ is a new dramatic comedy that brings often-ignored stories out of the archive and onto the stage. Inspired by real phone calls and interviews with ex-Switchboard volunteers, this play celebrates the important role lesbians have played in gay liberation, battling the AIDS crisis, and building the queer community as we know it today.
Previous praise for ‘The Switchboard Project’ includes:
"The piece is alive, questioning and resonant [...] a highly polished one-hour production that goes by in an instant" (★ ★ ★ ★ ★, Theatre & Tonic)
You can find out more about Doubletake here.
Running time: Approximately 70 minutes
The Dream Machine (Monthly Sunday/Monday)
Making your dreams come true…
Welcome to The Dream Machine – Make It Beautiful’s unique, long-form improvisation show, based around audience members’ dreams. This isn’t just a show, it’s an experience of the mind. The Dreamers will build a world full of crazy characters, odd challenges, and heart-warming stories. From one audience member’s dream, comes an entire production.
This hit improv show has had successful runs at many UK theatres, including: the White Bear, the Space, Trestle Arts Base, the Cockpit, the Garage Norwich, the Maltings Theatre St Albans, the OSO Arts Centre and the Golden Goose.
“The Hope are proud to have Make It Beautiful as one of our new associate companies and we can’t wait to see what they get up to each month!” – Laurel & Toby, joint Artistic Directors at The Hope
