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!
Full programme and tickets Day 4 (Friday 16 May):
- 12pm to 12.45pm: Sea Poem, by Teah Bernard
“A nurse/midwife in the 1990’s experiences racism from her supervisor and takes action”
- 12.45pm to 1.30pm: The consequences of a technical malfunction in Space, by Matthew Duffield (Studio)
- 1.30pm to 2.15pm: The Commodification of Black Culture, by Natasha Kabagweri
- 2.15pm to 3pm: Political Satire, by Sally Hardy-Jones
- 3pm to 3.45pm: The dancer and their shadow, by Cerys Ferney
A dancer faces the isolation of competition & rejection as she tries to find work as a dancer.
- 3.45pm to 4.30pm: Her Name in the Sky (an adaptation), by Chiedze Maravesa
“A young gay Zimbabwean woman with Shona ancestry is discovering her sexuality and finds a letter from her grandmother introducing her to the various queer sexualities recognised by her pre-colonial ancestors”
- 4.30pm to 5.15pm: The enactment and possible mechanism for the repair of a multiple personality disorder, by Corey Lee
- 5.15pm to 6pm: Working Title TBC, by Emma Kopf
“A pregnant women in a bath hears a voice calling through the bath taps and pursues it in an attempt to find out more about the future of her unborn child in an era of climate change”
