Launch Festival 2025

The Department of Literature, Film and Theatre Studies present their annual Launch Festival!

Undergraduate Drama students present their final degree pieces in a four day festival across both Lakeside Theatre stages.

Tickets to this event are free to all! Day tickets will allow you access to all performances that day, please book in advance if possible. Please book tickets for multiple days if you plan to attend more than one day! 

Day 1 (Tuesday 13 May):

• 12pm to 1.15pm: Working Title TBC, by Melinda Hett, Tayi Mavunga-Akinti, and Sharon Adebayo
  ''A Macbeth inspired show about revenge and murder”
  
  
• 1.15pm to 2pm: Amy Dunne and Lady Macbeth, by Chloe Bareham
  
  
• 2pm to 2.45pm: Taylor: An actor’s journey playing Hamlet – suicide and mental health, by Tyler Woodhouse
  
  
• 2.45pm to 3.30pm: Working Title TBC, by Lolly Taylor
  A daughter confronts her father about the sexual abuse he subjected her to as a child (monologue – experimenting with various theatrical genres including Shakespearean tragedy/early modern, Brechtian etc.)”
  
  
• 3.30pm to 4.15pm: Lost/Found/Lost/Found, by Nathan Burke
  A man looks back to his younger, freer, vibrant self”
  
  
• 4.15pm to 5pm: Working Title TBC, by Katie Spelman (Studio)
  “A play about a breakup”
  
  
• 5pm to 5.30pm: Young Carers, by Jess Brooks
  “A Young carer struggles with caring for her disabled father”