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Daughter
3 - 7 February
Here is a father who loves his daughter. You can tell from the way he held her when she was born after a difficult delivery; you can tell from the way he dances with her to her favourite songs; you can tell from the way he will do anything to protect her.
He's not going to apologise for every other little thing he's ever done. Who knows, you might have done them too…
Balancing humour and horror, Daughter is a darkly satirical monologue about fatherhood, love, and toxic masculinity. Told with unsettling charm, this story interrogates questions of culpability and complicity in our society. It examines the subtle and not-so-subtle ways we condone and encourage misogyny.
Welcome to Daughter: a show that exposes the hypocrisies and complexities of the human experience.
1984 - My Teenage Diary
8 February
A nostalgic, awkward, and oddly poetic coming-of-age rewind.
It’s 1984. Orwell’s year. You’re 16, going on 17. Life is a mix of mixtapes, homework, first crushes, and existential questions. Inspired by My Teenage Diary (BBC Radio 4), Kentish Town’s Sebastian Merrick cracks open his adolescent journals to reveal the highs - and more often, the hilariously middling lows - of growing up in a green and pleasant town in Kent in Thatcher’s Britain.
Set against a backdrop of Ghostbusters, Billy Joel’s Uptown Girl and famine in Africa, this one-man time capsule reveals a youthful passion for books, music, theatre, and… ballroom dancing (long before Strictly) and blends it with a hefty dose of teenage angst and a wink. What really happened in 1984? Not much. And yet… everything.
A love letter to diaries, doubt, and the drama of being young.
“Erudite and youthful… like a more self-aware and highbrow Adrian Mole.” — Colin Bass (music producer)
“An amazing collection of memories… poignant, funny and insightful.” — Mr Stollery (teacher, 1984)
Everything and Nothing
10 - 14 February
Do you believe in love at first sight? Oscar doesn't. Alex wants to. Then, they meet at a mutual friend's wedding and time stands still, except Oscar has a girlfriend.
When they say goodbye and go back to their lives, Alex and Oscar struggle with the feeling the day left inside them. As time goes on, they begin to wonder if it was all in their heads. Years later, they meet again and the natural order feels like it has been restored. Has time moved them on or will they pick up where they left off?
EXPÖSED
17 - 21 February
Fashion designer extraordinaire "Ze Emperor" is on a ruthless rise to the top of Berlin’s fashion scene, but when his latest collection falls flat, he is in desperate need of something new. Rumours of a cutting-edge fabric, spearheaded by an innovative Parisian duo, may be just what Ze Emperor needs to save his reputation and claw his way back to global fashion domination!
Featuring larger-than-life characters, a feel-good soundtrack and lots of silly jokes, Baby Lamb Productions brings you a tongue-in-cheek adaptation of The Emperor’s New Clothes, transplanted to the dog-eat-dog world of 21st century high fashion.
Following sell-out runs at the Bread & Roses Theatre and The Canal Cafe Theatre, and after becoming OFFIE-finalists in 2023, Baby Lamb Productions is thrilled to bring EXPÖSED to new audiences.
The Red Prince
24 - 28 February
Craig Kitman, a young MP - elected in 2024 as part of Labour’s “loveless landslide” - sits alone in the middle of the night.
Over the course of an hour, he wonders how an idealistic 18-year-old ended up a burnt out, impotent has-been at 39.
It all seemed so promising. Until it wasn’t. Unloved, unfulfilled and cruising towards unemployment, Craig is at a crossroads. Carry on as he is (achieving nothing)? Ditch it all and start again (time to set up that TikTok account)? Or try to pull something positive from the wreckage?
The Red Prince transcends party politics to explore what happens when public service becomes personal destruction.
Witch Girl Summer
10 - 14 March
An obsessive influencer’s unraveling self esteem leads her to try unconventional methods to achieve “glass skin”. But when she goes from exchanging fingernail clippings for a disturbing multi-step routine to finding human limbs under her bed, she realizes she did not read the fine print - now she must share her body with a murderous blood thirsty witch.
Witch Girl Summer is Mean Girls meets The Blair Witch Project - a fast-paced hilariously horrific catharsis. So get ready with us: exorcism edition.
Arthur & Marilyn
17 - 21 March
Love-match or mis-match?
1956. What happened when America’s most famous celebrity married America’s most celebrated playwright? This thrilling new play delves deep inside the Monroe-Miller marriage, from its harmonious beginnings to its acrimonious end.
A tale of sex and drugs before the Age of Rock ’n’ Roll.
Determined be taken more seriously as an actress and secure more varied roles, Marilyn Monroe moves to New York and enrols at the Actors Studio. Not long after, she begins an affair with Arthur Miller. Suspected of having Communist leanings, Miller is summoned to appear before the House of UnAmerican Activities Committee. Marilyn supports him in public, going against the advice of her Studio and endangering her own career. After Miller divorces his wife, they marry. Nevertheless, even at the start of the marriage, cracks begin to show, A major row almost ends the union before it's barely started. But the couple weather the storm. Marilyn becomes pregnant and Miller begins writing the Misfits specially for her. However, little by little, Marilyn's dependence on drink and drugs starts to take its toll. She miscarries their child. Gradually, Miller withdraws from her emotionally. Marilyn has an affair with the co-star of her latest film - Ives Montand. By the time they make the Misfits together they are hardly speaking to each other. In 1961 they divorce.
Girl Kisser
7 - 11 February
At the start of their adult lives, 5 GIRLKISSER's try love. The result is complex with addictive hookups, innocent discoveries and the lines of friendship being blurred. Backdropped by the East London music scene, and Gen-Z's struggle for employment, this piece of gig theatre is sure to immerse you in clubbing and concert culture with live music and parties and dancing and kissing galore. Oh, and there's femmes playing guitar.
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