That’s shite

Rajesh is a British Asian banker in London who parties hard but feels like he’s missing something. Naresh is a Rajasthani cricket bat maker who’s so awkward around love he’s on the verge of giving up. When Rajesh’s mother suggests he visits India (to find a wife), he encounters Naresh out clubbing and sets off sparks that neither of them can deny.

But when it then becomes time to bring a man back home to his mother, Rajesh wonders if love can ever have a happy ending. Set just after India’s landmark decriminalisation of homosexuality in 2018, Rajesh and Naresh is a Queer romantic comedy for the modern age.

Created by Arjun Singh

Directed by Sophie Cairns

Written by James Ireland & ensemble

Performed by Brahmdeo Shannon Ramana and Madhav Vasantha

It’s a pirate’s life for them as pirate and worm travel the high seas, plundering and fishing and singing. One day their fishing attempts are a little too successful, and they drag a beautiful mermaid on board.

Worm hits it off with the mermaid, whose laisse faire approach to life inspires worm to think beyond the four walls of their boat. Pirate smells mutiny and decides to take action.

Written by Grainne Blumenthal

Directed by Em Ball

Performed by Orla Devlin, Jack Looby and Emily Bradley

A mad scientist invents a time machine to kill her dad before she was born, to get revenge on him abandoning her as a child. Talk about daddy issues! Only when she uses the machine, a rift in time conjures Jesus (the ultimate poster child for daddy issues, think about it), and also an extinct Australian shark that just wants to start a family of his own. And then Jesus and the shark have sex? It only gets more unhinged from there.

Written by James Ireland

Directed by Sophie Cairns

Performed by Orla Devlin, Simon Geaney and Sean Roper-Nolan

Welcome to an underground religion worshipping Capitalism in a climate-crisised tomorrow. We worship Money! We worship Paying water charges!! But then… Giant insects enslave everyone!? 

Show Me Your Wallets is an anticapitalist performance for the climate crisis future. Satirical comedy, plenty of (voluntary) audience participation, and an ending that takes us somewhere completely different. 

Written by James Ireland

Directed by Seán Roper-Nolan

Performed by Orla Devlin and David Roper-Nolan

In this world, the most beautiful woman has the honour of being sacrificed to protect the future of her people. But what if the woman chosen to be sacrificed, is the wrong one?

Three women battle to kill the most beautiful among them, fearing the future of themselves and their community.

Written by Ariella Stoian

Directed by Andrew Hobbs

Performed by Jess Gonzalez, Agustina Dieguez Buccella and Demi Teager

When Shakespeare sat down to write his legendary plays he probably didn’t envision them being taking place in a dank, dirty parking lot in San Francisco. So we re-envisioned them for him.

Hermia and Helena discover there’s more that unites than divides them in this very gay retelling of A Midsummer Night’s Dream.

Written by Josephine Yang

Performed by Josephine Yang and Kate Montgomery

Brooke was on the verge of changing gender balance in society - forever - when wealthy women started getting very sick. Failure looks at the consequences of a commercial drug gone wrong, as Brooke and her two employees grapple with a failure so devastating it puts public health at risk.

Directed by Olivier Vanden Hende

Written by Ariella Stoian

Performed by Fionn Finegan, Lynsey Murrell and Saida Ahmed

When Lumber Jack (the only lumberman in all of history who doesn’t cut down trees because he loves them so darn much) discovers Lumber John (his best friend and secret love of his life) was chainsaw murdered (to death), he goes on a mission to find the culprit.

Who could it be? Lumber Jim? Lumber James? Or maybe the answer lies inside Lumber Jack himself…

Directed by Sophie Cairns

Written by James Ireland

Performed by Sean Roper Nolan and Simon Geaney

TFLB (Transport For London Buses) welcomes us inside their office to uncover the inner workings of the super complex and cleverly designed London bus system. There’s a few bus routes that need to be rerouted for… erm...classified reasons.

Written by Will Jarvis

Performed by Christopher Birks, Rhiannon Hughes and Robert Killaly

Ok won’t lie, this was a bit of a disaster. We asked Michael Caine to reprise his iconic role of Scrooge (and blew our whole budget on him), and he didn’t turn up!

Fortunately we had a back up plan. Sort of. The show happened anyway, it was just a bit chaotic…

And look we did say it was going to be SHITE, so ultimately we delivered what we promised.

Directed by Sophie Cairns

Written by James Ireland

Performed by Kate Bauer, Aoife Meagher, Rory Gradon, Elinor Peregrin, James Ireland and Alex Christle