Soph and her best friend Jel love scary stories. They hunt for the best ones on creepypasta sites, hunting the darkest online corners. But then strange and beautiful new girl Ellie turns up at school with a horror story of her own; a mysterious figure in the woods, the shadow of an axe. And when a girl in a nearby town goes missing, it seems their online monster’s come to life.

SOMETHING AWFUL is a new play from Vault Award winning and Off West End Award nominated team Tatty Hennessy and Lucy Jane Atkinson, inspired by the real true crime story of the Slenderman. It’s a play about what we should be scared of, and where the real monsters live.

Winner  – Commendation OFFCOM for Short Run

Nominated for an Origins Award for Outstanding New Work, VAULT 2020

Reviews:

“a fantastic production which is sure to have even the most hardened horror fan on the edge of their seat” ★★★★★ Spy in the Stalls

“Something Awful races its audience along, and this strong ensemble deftly encounters each twist and turn.” The Play’s The Thing

Written by Tatty Hennessy

Starring Melissa Parker, Monica Anne, and Natalya Martin

Produced by Flux Theatre

Lighting Design by Holly Ellis

Sound Design by Sam Glossop

Stage Management by Beth Pratt

Poster Design by Madison Clare… Read More

The rest of his species was declared extinct.
His location is a closely guarded secret.
He is the last of his kind.

Vespertilio is a new play about love, loneliness, lies and bats. The story of one man’s obsession and the charming young runaway he meets in the dark.

Exploring ideas of conservation and isolation, and tackling the issue of loneliness within the LGBTQ+ community, VESPERTILIO ​was inspired by the true story of the real last Greater Mouse-Eared bat living in Britain, created after a piece published by Patrick Barkham in The Guardian caught the eye of our writer. The play was given a feature article in the Guardian the week before we opened. Read it here.

We’re working with the Bat Conservation Trust (BCT) to gain a better understanding of conversation efforts and plights of bats living in Britain. We’re also using information provided by the BCT in our marketing campaign to promote awareness and encourage education and conversation.

Reviews:

“Lucy Jane Atkinson’s nifty production… is such a pleasure, right down to Verity Johnson’s tiny but just-so design touches, and a canny use of light and dark. Both actors are brilliant.” Lyn Gardner, StageDoor

★★★★★ “One of the highlights of VAULT Festival so far… Vespertilio is the real deal, and it could easily transfer.”… Read More

“It’s a bit weird to be sitting in the Arctic Circle chatting to a fit boy with your Dad’s ashes in your backpack”

Rory’s Dad was an explorer. Well, not literally. Literally he was a Geography teacher. But inside, she knows, he was Bear Grylls.

And when he dies suddenly in an accident, Rory knows he needs her help to make one last expedition.

With a plastic compass and Dad’s ashes at her side, Rory sets off in the footsteps of all the dead beardy explorers before her, to get Dad to the North Pole. Before Mum finds out they’ve gone.

A Hundred Words for Snow is about being an explorer in a melting world. It’s a coming of age story. With polar bears.

After its original run at VAULT Festival 2018, the show transferred for a month long run at Trafalgar Studios on the West End, from March 5th-30th 2019. That run garnered us 3 Offie nominations, for Best Director, Most Promising Playwright, and Best Play, and a win for Gemma Barnett as Best Actress.

Winner of the VAULT Festival Origins Award for Outstanding New Work.  

A woman, a man, an air-con caravan. Two strangers on a road trip across the States. One’s heartless, one’s heartbroken. Mismatched fools seeking one last lick of warmth, soaring gracefully from pedestal to ditch.

A story of laughter and alcohol, heartbreak and gasoline, exes and whys. Will they find love or do opposites subtract?

VAULT recidivist Richard Marsh is back for two scratch performances of this world premiere shambling romance. A brand new comic drama starring Olivia Poulet (The Thick of It, Sherlock, In The Loop, Back). Expect drama, poetry, jokes.

Richard previously wrote Skittles aka Love & Sweets (BBC Audio Drama Award: Best Scripted Comedy) and co-wrote the Fringe First-winning Dirty Great Love Story (with Katie Bonna), Wingman and Cardboard Heart (Radio 4).

This is a scratch production. We would welcome your feedback after the show.… Read More

“I’m sorry I did what I did. But I needed to make you see.”

This is a story about change.

For as long as she can remember, Tess has wanted to fight for what’s important, to campaign against the forces pushing our world towards collapse. So she’s come north, further than she’s ever been, to make her voice heard.

But now, aboard an Arctic vessel off the coast of Russia, she is confronted with radical new ideas, of what fighting really means. Because maybe having your voice heard isn’t quite enough. It’s what people hear that matters. Or think they hear. In a modern world people can make the news whatever they want it to be. How can protest cut through this? How can Tess be sure people know what she stands for? And if she can’t, what is she willing to sacrifice to be heard?

Cause is a biting new play from award-winning writer James Huntrods, a twisting, continent-sprawling journey to a place where every belief is held to scrutiny, and one where intention itself is under assault.

Written by James Huntrods

Starring Rebecca Tebbett, Lewis Hart, and Lanna Joffrey

Produced by Adam Line