Dillon Dance Youth Presents

Posted on: May 25th, 2026 by

About the show

Returning for its 5th successive year, Dillon Dance Youth returns for another evening of bold, and powerful contemporary dance, showcasing the next generation of dance talent.

Join us for our world premiere of the companies latest work 'With Each Other, For Each Other' which explores themes of gratitude, passion and love. Audiences will also get a chance to see the epic re-staging of 'The Game', which throws the dancers into a gameshow they cant escape. What motivates them? What keeps them going?

Joining us onstage will be our Foundation and boys dance company, and some incredible invited guests from other industry leading dance companies.

Photographer credit: Tangle Photography

About the company

Dillon Dance Youth is an award winning contemporary dance company. Creating powerful dance theatre that is bold, uncompromising and passionate.

The Basement Door Battle of the Bands 2026

Posted on: May 25th, 2026 by

About the show

Get ready to celebrate the power of youth, community and creativity at the 2026 Battle of the Bands hosted by The Basement Door, a charity dedicated to empowering young people through live music, skills training and performance opportunities.

This exciting annual competition invites emerging young bands from across the region to take the stage, showcase their talent and compete for top honours, all in support of The Basement Door’s mission to nurture confidence, collaboration and real-world experience in a safe, supportive environment. With music as the driving force, the 2026 Battle of the Bands promises unforgettable performances, community spirit and a celebration of the next generation of musicians

About the company

The Basement Door is a charity which advances the education of young people, aged 13 to 22, by providing training and experience through live music events. Young people learn new skills, gain confidence and make connections, through The Basement Door community. The skills they develop whilst working with The Basement Door help them secure employment.

Deep in the Threads – AITA or NTA?

Posted on: May 25th, 2026 by

About the show

There’s a world you can’t touch — a world where everyone has something to say, whether they’re right or spectacularly wrong. That world is the internet. But what happens when those wild opinions, awkward comments, and questionable choices escape the screen and take shape in real life? When your posts, tweets, and rants become living, breathing theatre? When strangers get to decide whether you were simply misunderstood… or just an idiot?

In this sharp, funny, and painfully honest play, real stories from the internet are brought to life on stage. Expect music, laughter, and moments that make you cringe — because let’s face it, we’ve all made some dumb decisions online. So lean back, grab your judgmental hat, and join us as we explore the fine line between genius and stupidity in the age of the internet. Are you ready to judge — or be judged?

About the company

Nya Paraplyteatern is a non-profit organisation from Falkenberg, Sweden. They have participated at IYAF (now FUSE) since 2013 and are delighted to have seen the festival develop and grow throughout the years. In Nya Paraplyteatern everyone is welcome and they have opened both their hearts and minds in different projects,and have created new innovative creativeness together as well as classical pieces. The organisation work with international cultural youth exchange projects and have built many bridges around the world. The theme of their theatre is family, everyone has a place in their organisation.

Led by the wind

Posted on: May 25th, 2026 by

About the show

Led By The Wind is an intimate audio-visual performance that follows a queer woman tracing a river upstream in search of her forgotten hometown. When she encounters another mysterious woman, the journey shifts, unfolding into a quiet exploration of memory, connection, and return.

Blending moving images, sound, movement and drink-making, it invites audiences into a sensory experience where nostalgia and displacement intertwine. At its heart, the work reflects on how East and Southeast Asian queer women in London navigate identity, community, and belonging across geographies.

‘Her work is characterised by memorable visual metaphors, heavy with nostalgia.’ – The Play’s The Thing UK

About the company

Founded in 2022, Ensemble Not Found (ENF) is a London-based theatre collective of five interdisciplinary, first-generation ESEA migrant artists. Our work is ensemble-led, visually driven, and made through a non-hierarchical process of research, improvisation, and iteration. Across our practice, we’re interested in how private feeling becomes public structure, how bodies, language, images, and institutions shape one another—working with movement, text, sound, audiovisuals, and found materials as we search for the right form and voice.

Lord of the Flies

Posted on: May 25th, 2026 by

About the show

Lord of the Flies is a powerful performance that brings a classic of world literature into urgent dialogue with today’s society. Performed by the teenage theatre group Acting Up Bucharest, Romania, this adaptation sheds light on pressing issues such as violence, bullying, and the breakdown of social order, making the story deeply relevant for modern audiences.

By examining the fragile boundary between play and reality, the performance reveals how quickly innocence can give way to cruelty when structure and accountability disappear. What begins as a game gradually transforms into something far more dangerous, exposing the darker impulses that lie beneath the surface of human behavior.

About the company

Drama club, Acting up, guides high school students' artistic expression by creating a constructive space. Their goal is to discover authentic teenagers and provide value to their qualities. Since 2016, the Acting up Drama Club, founded by the Acting up Association, has been promoting the creativity of young artists and diversity in independent theater. But they are not just a drama club. They wish to provide quality content and their mission is to sustain a group of different ethnicities and nationalities, working to get memorable experiences in a space that brings together the spectator and the creator.

Why she left me

Posted on: May 25th, 2026 by

About the show

When William loses his wife to suicide, a mysterious figure appears and offers him a a chance to live with his wife again. But is this offer too good to be true?

‘Why she left me’ is a play about love and loss and how one man must find the courage to confront how he truly feels.

About the artist

Arran is a writer and director based in London. He makes theatre that explores different spaces and the human condition.

Have Your It Way

Posted on: May 25th, 2026 by

About the show

"Our impact is measured in how our creations empower people to express their individuality with strength and purpose!"

No it's not! You can't measure impact that way! That doesn't mean anything at all!

This quote featured in an email exchange Theo had with a watch company named after a nuclear bomb, it was written by a Large Language Model.

Have Your It Way is a silly, serious, unsettling piece concerned with the proliferation of bullsh*t in publicity, exacerbated by LLMs, and the meaningless language of faux-creativity, initiative, and entrepreneurialism that has crept into our daily lives. From never ending LinkedIn posts to 1,000 slide Powerpoint's, from impossible to parse emails to Amazon authors, generative slop is waging a war on meaning.

Have Your It Way is a surreal, spiralling, rapid-fire monologue that blends readings from various brand guidelines with a story of a floating orb and an orgy in a fast-food restaurant.

Suitable for haters of Ai aged 16+!

Previous praise for the writer:

"Theo Moore has written the contradictions of real life into every moment of the show; how the good and the bad, the funny and disastrous, tend to sit together because life goes on even when things go wrong. Fundamentally, that is the feeling that makes this play so impactful" ★★★★ (Theatre & Tonic on Everytime We Touch at Theatre503)

About the company

Brightmouth are producers of critically-acclaimed experimental theatre and comedy. Their work has been seen all across the UK, in theatres such as Soho Theatre, Underbelly Edinburgh, Camden People's Theatre, The Lighthouse Poole, and The ShowRoom Chichester.

if not this then that

Posted on: May 25th, 2026 by

About the show

"We are in a time of paralysis.
And nobody can understand why.
We all know that something is deeply wrong within our society.
But we are unable to act.
We are increasingly interconnected.
Yet power seems further away than ever before."

"Does this sound familiar?
Good.
Because we have been here before."

An entrepreneur pitches for investment.
Someone is a victim of deep-faking.
A debate erupts on the ethics of viral content.

‘if not this then that’ is a play performed entirely by the audience. No performers. Just you, a screen, and a story we all share. It’s about agency, control, and the colonial origins of modern computing technology. A play about us — and how we got here.

It’s up to each individual whether they follow the instructions. But someone must — for the play to progress.

What people are saying:

"Very thought-provoking — lots to talk about after the performance!"

"Super interesting! Never seen a production with that kind of engagement before."

"Loved it! Really great!"

About the company

Wild Guess is a performance collective based in Scotland, which creates bold, experimental, and politically responsive work, founded by Harry Walker whilst taking a Masters course in theatre and performance at the University of Glasgow in 2024.

Harry is an emerging theatre-maker and poet with a record of devising, producing, and presenting politically urgent work across England and Scotland. He creates experimental performances that use participatory mechanics to dismantle the traditional audience-performer hierarchy, turning spectators into co-creators of the event. His practice is grounded in research-led development and seeks to reconfigure theatrical performance as a collective act of dialectical co-authorship, to interrogate systems of power and explore post-capitalist futures.

His work has been presented at Camden People's Theatre’s SPRINTFEST 2025, the Old Hairdressers in Glasgow, and Resolution 2026 at The Place. Wild Guess producer, Enea Orsolini, is a trained dramatist interested in live art, queer theatre and accessibility, originally from Rome. Enea is an experienced producer and has produced shows for Wild Guess, including ‘if not this then that’ at the CPT, as well as performance events in Glasgow, such as ‘What Happens When’ at The Rum Shack.

Artwork by Lily Clay

Manuel: A Journey Through Gender

Posted on: May 25th, 2026 by

About the show

A performance hangout on all things gender, where Manuel will take you through their personal journey. Expect humour, audience interactive storytelling, unscripted conversations, lip-syncs, karaoke, and live costume changes. A shared experience between audience and performer in which everyone can question, play with, and deconstruct gender. See you there!

About the artist

Manuel is a queer, trans non-binary multidisciplinary artist – performer, writer, comedian, and facilitator. Their work is rooted in live performance, delving into the mediums of theatre, drag, cabaret and relational aesthetics. They create inherently queer performances, using personal narrative to speak to queer and trans existence.

They’ve been named one of Paper Magazine’s Paper People, and have performed across Rich Mix Shoreditch, Omnibus Theatre, New Diorama, and the National Theatres of Rome and Sicily. Manuel’s favourite things include: self-adoration, karaoke, lemongrass tea, ‘The Boss’ by Diana Ross, 70s and 80s fashion, costume jewellery and downtown Lisbon.

Pride In Kingston: Afterdark by Unapologetic

Posted on: May 25th, 2026 by

About the show

This year, Unapologetic ignites something long overdue, bringing Pride to Kingston for the very first time. Pride in Kingston: Afterdark opens the weekend with a bold collision of performance, identity, and unapologetic self-expression. Expect a night that leans into the shadows and thrives there – raw talent, fearless voices, and boundary-pushing artistry across dance, cabaret, singing, and powerful duets that refuse to be softened or silenced. This is Pride stripped back and turned up: electric, defiant, and unfiltered. Step into the dark and witness a celebration where queerness is loud, powerful, and impossible to ignore.

About the company

Unapologetic is more than dance, it’s a fearless movement redefining what the industry looks and feels like. Built to amplify underrepresented LGBTQIA+ voices, it creates powerful platforms where artists are not only seen, but celebrated in their full truth. Our work has lit up global stages and collaborations including YouTube HQ, Pride in London, Sony, Cardiff Mardi Gras, Latitude Festival, Comic Con, and BBC Three, MTV, The Brits, Royal Variety Performance, alongside artists such as Madonna, Dua Lipa, Kesha, Years&Years, Kim Petras, Boy George, Billy Porter, and Sara Aalto.

Every project is rooted in bold expression, pushing boundaries and challenging expectations through work that is raw, provocative, and impossible to ignore. With a commitment to community, visibility, and artistic excellence, Unapologetic is shaping a future where individuality leads, diversity thrives, and every artist is empowered to take up space – loudly and without compromise, unapologetically!

Retardant

Posted on: May 25th, 2026 by

About the show

"What's your favourite TV show?"

For one autistic Irish trans man, it's Skivvies, an iconic teen drama entering its fifth season. After moving to Belfast to pursue his own coming of age dreams, he gets caught up in the messy hedonism of Gen Z queers. As his gender and sexuality waver, the TV glows brighter than the city lights and the line between fiction and reality starts to blur…

This is staying up all night refreshing Tumblr. This is that 4am deep conversation you regret the next day. This is a house party mirrorball fever dream about obsession, psychosis and doppelgangers, because what's scarier than a crazy trans person?

About the company

Isaac Quinn (he/him) is a theatremaker from Northern Ireland. His debut play "Retardant" premiered at the Leicester Curve with the National Student Drama Festival in 2026, after a work-in-progress tour across the North of Ireland. He's the co-creator of A Derry Queer Open Mic and a part of Theatre and Dance NI's INVEST Fellowship. His work focuses on the lived and made up experiences of being transgender, queer, disabled, and working class.

Rulebook To Society

Posted on: May 25th, 2026 by

About the show

Rulebook To Society is a raw, autobiographical musical exploring what it means to grow up neurodivergent in a world built on unspoken rules. Blending spoken word, alt-pop and theatre, the piece follows a young woman navigating systems that misread, misunderstand and punish difference – from school to mental health services and beyond.

Both painfully honest and darkly funny, the show unpacks identity, survival and the pressure to conform, while asking: what happens when you stop trying to follow rules that were never made for you?

Developed through platforms including Chickenshed’s RISE Festival and performed at conferences and live events, Rulebook To Society is an urgent, emotionally charged work-in-progress that refuses to stay quiet.

About the company

Hannah Whitfield is a London-based creative activist, writer and performer. Her work combines theatre, spoken word and lived experience to challenge systems, amplify neurodivergent voices and explore themes of identity, trauma and inclusion. She is the founder of Legally Detained, a creative platform using storytelling and performance to advocate for systemic change across arts, education and mental health spaces.

Photographer credit: Caz Dyer