Tempest Masque: a participatory event Tempest Masque: a participatory event Members of the audience can photograph or video the performances (without flashes) but only with the express written permission from the relevant production teams and performers.

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(Approx.) 2 hours 25 minutes (including a 20 minute interval) As the night unfolds, secrets are revealed and relationships are questioned as the group partakes in a night of heavy drinking.ĬONTENT WARNINGS: Heavy drinking and strong language. Set in a Viennese beer hall in 1996, three friends from secondary school coincidentally run into each other after losing contact nearly a decade before.

It’s a story about growing up in theatre, depending on someone and letting the fear of not being good enough ruin your dreams.ĬONTENT WARNINGS: Strong language, depictions of emotional abuse, and themes of grooming are subtly mentioned throughout. Helena and her friends are telling a story, Helena’s story. Originally the Astronaut was the only passenger, but as time went others joined him, strange beings, not entirely human, he thinks… SpaceEater is a play about home, knowledge, and our desire to see faraway places and existence, inspired by Viktor Vicsek’s Space Eater and Ivó Kovács’s Searchlights.ĬONTENT WARNINGS: Emotionally intense scenes, flashing lights, high-pitched sounds.

The SpaceEater is endlessly drifting in space, swallowing the emptiness humankind hasn’t seen before. It speaks of unimaginable grief, suffering, and loss and explores how the failings of a woefully inept mental health service fails people daily.ĬONTENT WARNINGS: Suicide, War, Death, Miscarriage, Still Birth, Mental Health Issues, Strong Language. The play tells the story of Sam and Becca, a married army couple. This year we’re excited to present the following four plays: The University of Essex Theatre Arts Society return to the Lakeside Theatre for their annual Re:write Festival, an original playwriting competition for Essex students.įour 20-minute plays are performed to an audience, and then a panel of judges decides a winner… On the Door Prices - £8 UoE Students / £12 Concessions / £16 Full Event Price: Advance Prices - £6 UoE Students / £10 Concession / £15 Full.

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