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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
An existential cloned sheep. A journey of self discovery.
“Look I’m three years old now, I think I’m old enough to look outside”
One night, Daisy the cloned sheep lays awake next to her mother, not mother, sister clone Dolly, when she hears a voice calling to her. Follow an existential Daisy on her journey of self-discovery as she asks why are we here? What is our purpose?
What’s the point?
Why did Marlon Brando do that voice in the Godfather?
Why did he do that? How do you put cotton wool in your mouth to do the Marlon Brando voice without choking?
After a mind-blowing, radical, sensual, ridiculous, form shattering, non-plagiarised scratch performance for RIFT Theatre Company, Sheepish is baa-ck and now in its fully grown form.
“We’re clones. We don’t need to change, what’s wrong with that?”
BHAIJAAN 11 - 15 March
“Breaks are for Buggatis, not winners bro”
As fifteen year-olds, best friends Khafi and Zain strive to live their professional wrestling dreams and escape the conservative norms of Ilford, their hopes of freedom come to a halt as the consequences of patriarchy, abuse and toxic masculinity within their culture reach a boiling point. While Zain is happy to make a joke in any situation, Khafi leans more towards sensitivity and understanding, regardless both boys know they can lean on each other.
‘Bhaijaan’ explores the impact of toxic masculinity on young South Asian boys clouded by violence, religion and the need to be a man.
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
London pub theatres magazine is published in Rickmansworth by London Pub Theatres Magazine Ltd ISSN 2977-6724