DOMINUS

26 - 30 May

D, a black dominatrix 6 months into her tenure, is doing fine. She’s doing really great, actually. She wants to share juicy details from her exciting job and look dynamite in a leather catsuit for you, so come and join her for an evening of only that, and no pesky introspection or emotional hallelujahs or white boyfriends or religious parents or constantly ringing phones or psychological terror, because those things are for people with issues, and D is doing fine. Everything’s fine. Honest!

Written and performed by Cat Gannon (The War Between The Land And The Sea, Gilgamesh, Enkidu & Ishtar) in collaboration with Moi Ko (pornsick, Did the Sun want Me (Or did I just Misunderstand?), The Home Project @ Theatre Deli), DOMINUS fuses cabaret with expressionism to explore how unexamined trauma festers in the body and where we draw the line between sex work as therapy or exploitation for black women.

DO NOT ATTEMPT THIS CONVERSATION

2 - 6 June

Nneka is a resident doctor finishing a late shift—another unrelenting and dangerously understaffed work day. Typical. Just as she is about to leave, she is suddenly asked to lead a Do Not Attempt Resuscitation (DNAR) conversation with the relative of a patient she has never met, and about a patient she doesn't know, all under intense time pressure. 

Set entirely within this single encounter, the play exposes the emotional dissonance, absurdity, and dark humour of end-of-life decision-making in a healthcare system stretched to breaking point.

As healthcare services continue to operate under relentless strain, life-altering conversations are increasingly delivered in rushed, imperfect circumstances by exhausted clinicians. This play invites the audience to sit inside one such moment as a fly on the wall, witnessing the collision of grief, bureaucracy, compassion, and detachment—and asking what it really means to remain humane within an inhumane system.

KICKOFF

12 - 14 June

‘I think to myself – yes, we are real – we have been on a pitch for the last two hours – running and sweating and shouting and I am human and alive and there is life in me. I always feel alive on the walk home from practice. And I feel alive on the pitch. I feel alive when I am next to Erin.’

As the football season comes to a close at Bristol University, follow the girls as they gear up for their final few matches as a team. With the pressure of graduation upon their heads, things heat up in the changing room as they navigate competition, ambition, feuds, crushes, best friends, injuries and the thought of life beyond team sports. If you’ve ever been part of a team or know what it’s like to exist in an environment driven by passion and dedication - then this one’s for you! 

Welcome to the unfiltered, unapologetic, crass, kind, confrontational, empathetic, embarrassing world of KICKOFF.