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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
Write Club 9 January - 1 February
WRITE CLUB is an exciting new writing festival coming this January to The Hope Theatre on Islington's Upper Street.
With more than twenty brand new productions playing over the course of one month, there will be two different shows each night at 19:00 and 20:30 ranging from tense drama to comedic interpretive dance. There will be something for everyone at The Hope this January!
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Rosie’s Brain 4 - 8 February
Rosie’s Brain is a delightful and heartwarming one-woman musical comedy about a young woman who battles anxiety and OCD. The story follows Rosie from her initial struggles with anxiety to her first day at college. There, she faces a new challenge: a fear of dating so intense she can’t even hold a guy’s hand.
We follow Rosie as she dives into therapy in an attempt to unlock her fear of intimacy and find love. Throughout the ups and downs, Rosie emerges stronger, learning to trust herself despite her diagnoses. This poignant and humorous musical explores the complexities of mental health and the journey toward self-belief and resilience, offering an uplifting performance filled with laughter and heart.
855-For-Truth 11 Feb – 1 Mar
‘I don’t want it to be true, but look at the weather… It was torrents yesterday and now it’s too hot to think‘
Somewhere in the woods between Hilldale, Utah, and The End of The World, an 18 year old religious cult member and young climate scientist collide. Meredith, raised in a Christian cult, believes the world will end in six days. Isaac, an outsider environmentalist, is racing against time to figure out The Project. In this new play, the boundaries between faith, science, and survival blur on the edge of a forest and a highway. A story of shared humanity and our frustrated desire to fix our world and each other, 855-FOR-TRUTH questions where even the most polarising views become similar, and what can be seen through connection.
Praise for Eva Hudson’s Writing:
“Wonderful, inventive and thought provoking” – John Hodge, writer of Trainspotting on 855-FOR-TRUTH
NOTHING EVER HAPPENS IN A VILLAGE HALL 4 - 15 Mar
“Chaos, comedy, murder, and more. Welcome to our Village Hall. Have an enjoyable time.”
A quiet, rural village hall. Not much happens here other than the Wednesday Chess club, and the late afternoon ‘Knit n Natter’ session. But over the course of a week, four groups of strangers book out a room here, and
their lives become entangled in unforeseen ways. Three assassins fail to pull off a job. Some vicars discover that God has called upon them to invest in cryptocurrency. Ghosthunters hope that they can find their next big discovery. A Planetarium worker tries to convince management that the moon landings were faked.
MODERATION 19 Mar – 5 Apr
“Doxxing. Threats of violence. It’s in the handbook. If you get a school shooting or a beheading, you know what to do. Remove. Suspend. Report.”
In this startling dark comedy, a pair of social media moderators become increasingly “brainsick” at the disturbing content they’re forced to view at work. They struggle to perform well enough to be promoted to a better job at the Company, whose mission is to “Connect the World” but whose platform is rapidly becoming a ubiquitous tool for global discord and a firehose for the worst material the human Id can devise.
Moderation is a new American play about social media content moderators losing their minds at work and our uneasy new world: conspiracy theories, incels, digital rabbit holes, AI anxiety, and corporate slavery. He and She live in a cultural void, clutching to survival through a gallows sense of humour as they search for some kind of human connection and meaning beyond a quarterly trip to the Company Store.
A fast-paced cross between the social surrealism of Pinter and a season premiere of Black Mirror, Moderation is a ripped-from-the-headlines, doom-scroll thriller about the effect social media has on our increasingly fractured society.
Press for Kevin Kautzman’s previous work:
“Palpable echoes of O’Neill.” – The Guardian
“There is a feeling of raw truth about this play that is constantly absorbing.”
– What’s On Stage
“A funny, heartwarming and powerful story of hope and loss – as an elderly couple plan their last days on earth” – Broadway World
“Witty, insightful.” – Time Out
We are very proud to announce that LONDON PUB THEATRES MAGAZINE is now an OFFIE AWARD WINNING publication
A ONEOFF Special Award (February 2024) has been awarded to London Pub Theatres Magazine and Editor Heather Jeffery for providing a vital forum for highlighting the excellent work that happens in rooms in pubs, with sensitive editing, and an acute sense of the importance of tiny fringe venues to the health and development of British Theatre