Izzy is trying to run a Twilight book club. She’s sunk a lot of man hours into it. It really has to go well. Only her secret boyfriend, Edward Cullen, keeps interrupting the proceedings with an identity crisis. Ashley Milne’s Untitled Sparkly Vampire Play is a explosive reaction to compulsory heterosexuality, obsessive teenage girldom, and the feeling of being young and entirely alone.
PHAEDRA
31 MAY - 2 JUNE
In a world where everything is allowed and nothing is impossible, what are the limits of our desire? A new, intoxicating re-imagining of the myth of Phaedra exploring our hunger for self-fulfillment in the modern world, and the stories we tell one another to try and make sense of it all.
HAWK
23-24 JUNE
Welcome to Sunnyreach, a beautiful bad-land housing some of the sharpest shooters, outlaws, and one wannabe hero.
Armed with just a chair, Lewis Doherty mimes every prop, makes every sound e ff ect and brings to life over thirty characters in this action packed, gunslingin’, Wild West one man stage show.
EDINBURGH PREVIEWS
16-30 JULY
Get one jump ahead of Edinburgh Festival Fringe this Summer at Omnibus Theatre.
A dynamic mix of emerging and established theatre-makers will preview their work in Clapham before heading to the largest theatre festival in the world, giving Londoners the first chance to experience some of the best of the Fringe before anyone else.
DADDY ISSUES
16-17 JULY
Part of our Edinburgh Previews.
Daddy Issues, created by the Passing Stranger Theatre Company, is a newly written dark comedy about daddy issues, sex work, bedroom fantasies, imperfect feminism and immigration. If you ever thought you may have parental issues or know someone who does, this show if for you!
UTTER MESS!
27-28 JULY
Part of our Edinburgh Previews.
Embrace the chaos with StoneCrabs’ new magical, thought-provoking, funny, and blissful theatrical journey. Enter the Museum of Lost Things where nothing is remembered forever, and frankly, it is a complete and utter mess. Yet, if you surrender to the chaos, it is also magical, funny and blissful too.
OUT OF THE WINGS: A SPRING KINDLING
9 MAY
Out of the Wings invites all theatre translators, their friends and co-conspirators, to a springtime celebration. Gather around a virtual ‘campfire’ to tell stories of theatre-making across borders of language, make and share plans for the future. Join us online or in person at Omnibus Theatre, whatever language or languages you speak!