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ANGUIS

Saturday 27th July

ANGUIS
Cleopatra's death by asp is a common myth, largely scientifically disproven. Set in a broadcast recording center, Anguis is an imagined conversation between the great pharaoh Cleopatra and a contemporary immunologist.

Join us in the studio as we unpack Cleopatra's story, exploring alternatives to the fetishised popular truth. A story exploring our responsibility to seek the truth in a post-truth era.

This debut piece from Olivier Award winner Sheila Atim will feature original music. Commissioned by Avalon and BBC Arts.
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Baby, What Blessings

Sunday 28th July, 3.00pm

Baby, What Blessings

Bunker Mondays

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SPLINTERED

Sunday 28th July, 4.30pm

SPLINTERED

Bunker Mondays

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Have I Told You I'm Writing A Play About My Vagina?

Sunday 28th July, 6.00pm

Have I Told You I'm Writing A Play About My Vagina?

Bunker Mondays

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Lobster

Sunday 28th July, 7.30pm

Lobster

Bunker Mondays

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The Mannequin

Sunday 28th July, 9.00pm

The Mannequin

Bunker Mondays

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Goodbear

Monday 29th July

Goodbear
Critically acclaimed sketch duo Goodbear are back! Join Henry Perryment and Joe Barnes for their biggest show yet. Featuring Goodbear's trademark combination of hilarious characters, extraordinary physical comedy and an original score, expect a show that is 'very funny' (Telegraph), 'excellent' (Guardian), 'exceptional' (A Younger Theatre), 'hilarious' (EdFestMag.com), 'incredible' (List), 'magnetic' (The Skinny) and 'side-splittingly funny' (Three Weeks). That is, if everything goes to plan...
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Still No Idea

Thurs 1 & Fri 2 August 2019

Still No Idea
Lisa and Rachael want to make a show, but there's a problem: they don’t have any ideas.

So who do they turn to? The Great British Public of course!

They make a pact. They'll go onto the streets, interview people, and whatever story the public come up with - that will be the show. No backing out, no changing what they don’t like. Deal.

STILL NO IDEA is Lisa and Rachael's quest: a mischievous look at two friends searching for drama, action, and a story to tell. Part-verbatim theatre, part-confession, part-comedy sketch show with a bit of singing and dancing thrown in. Turns out getting the public to write your story is quite an adventure.
 
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THIS IS BLACK

5 - 24 August 2019

THIS IS BLACK
This is Black is a festival of world premiere theatre shows by four, new, exciting Black writers. The festival will explore identity, hate crime and family relationships with alternating double bills featuring All the Shit I Can’t Say to My Dad by Abraham Adeyemi, Blue Beneath My Skin by Macadie Amoroso, and Teleportation by Ronkẹ Adékoluẹjo.

With an accompanying visual art exhibition curated by Sophia Tassew featuring artists from different disciplines who will make work in response to the four plays.
 
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JADE CITY

3 - 21 September 2019

JADE CITY
Sas and Monty are trapped in this place, and in their heads. From the working men’s to Monty’s empty flat, their only escape comes from playing The Game; where they can be bin men hiding stolen cash under the mattress, seagulls snatching dogs on the high street, or just themselves, free at last, knocking back breakfast cocktails on a sunny beach in Jamaica.  

But Sas doesn’t want to play anymore. He wants to talk. About girls, his head and that summer they can’t forget.
 
Rich in the language of Belfast, and with an original electronic score, Jade City is a lyrical and powerful exploration of growing up and growing apart, about the choices we make and the only choices we have.
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Different Sand

8 - 16 September 2019

Different Sand
Two English-Algerian sisters stuck under one roof start to question their cultural identities in different ways but, at the end of the day, where is home?
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Willow

8 - 16 September 2019

Willow
Everyone knows the best stories are your own, but Gabi’s realising it’s not always easy to tell them, especially when your ex-girlfriend’s still on stage…
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WE ANCHOR IN HOPE

25 September - 19 October 2019

WE ANCHOR IN HOPE
Tomorrow The Anchor closes for good, but Kenny and the gang are going out with a bang. There’s a blow-up sheep, karaoke and a lot of Campari. There’s secrets and grudges and forgotten dreams. As the front doors are locked and the bar is drunk dry, there’s a lot more to lose than just a pub.
 
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Karaoke Play

29 September - 14 October 2019

Karaoke Play
It’s Saturday night and while Darren and Perri work at Barry’s karaoke bar, Barryoke, Kelly and Linford ready themselves to step onto the stage and into the rest of their lives. Four intertwined monologues about love, British identity, the pursuit of recognition and... Karaoke.
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PINT-SIZED: OCTOBER-FEST

21 - 26 October 2019

PINT-SIZED: OCTOBER-FEST 2
Pint-Sized, 'two of the most exciting producers of new-writing I've met in the last ten years' (Simon Stephens), return to The Bunker with their week-long festival.
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GERM FREE ADOLESCENT

29 October – 9 November 2019

GERM FREE ADOLESCENT
Ashley is 16. She’s lived in Medway for 15 years and 6 months. She has 2,354 leaflets on sexual health. She knows exactly how many she has, because she’s counted them 1,582 times…  Germ Free Adolescent is an OCD love story that asks: what exactly is 'normal' anyway…?
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and so the choir gathers

3 - 18 November 2019

and so the choir gathers
A new live performance by Liv Wynter featuring a group of anarchic and politically enraged untrained performers and musicians, Liv Wynter's new performance explores the importance of subculture as a tool for radical organising.
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i will still be whole (when you rip me in half)

12 - 23 November 2019

i will still be whole
“And the stone which encased her body cracks open.
And she shakes off the vines and the dust.
And she feels the blood under her skin.”
In 1996 a young mother walks out of a small house in Shepherd’s Bush and doesn’t look back. 
In 2019 a daughter lies in a bath and stares at a crack in the ceiling. 

Joy and EJ prepare for their first meeting in 22 years. They run, they bathe, they inhale, they wait. 

i will still be whole... is a lyrical interlinking of monologues devoted to blood ties and what we inherit from our parents.
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BEFORE I WAS A BEAR

12 - 23 November 2019

BEFORE I WAS A BEAR
'Lots of things happened between then and the night where everything changed.'

Before I Was a Bear is a play about sexuality, power, friendship and hot TV detectives.
 
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MY WHITE BEST FRIEND

25 - 30 November 2019

MY WHITE BEST FRIEND 2

 ...And Other Letters Left Unsaid

Two new letters.
Two new performers.
Every night.
Could you put your white best friend on stage and remind them that they’re part of the problem? Even if you love them? Rachel De-Lahay’s provocative act of letter writing engages with racial tensions, microaggressions and emotional labour. She and director Milli Bhatia have commissioned a host of new writers to respond with their own letters that say the unsaid to the people that matter most.
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LITTLE MISS BURDEN

3 - 21 December 2019

LITTLE MISS BURDEN
They are the coolest, fiercest, most super talentedest girl band ever assembled:

Big Sis and Little Sis are waiting for the third member of their trio to arrive. Little Miss is on her way. It just takes her a little bit longer.

At thirteen, Little Miss is given a gift which cannot be returned. It’s a part of her. She has to share her body and life with it. And she needs to find a way for the two of them to get along as they can’t both be Player One.

Matilda Ibini’s coming-of-age tale smashes together 90s nostalgia, Nigerian family, East London and Sailor Moon to tell the sometimes tricky, often funny truth about growing up with a physical impairment.
 
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Leaving

8 - 16 December 2019

Leaving
Love and violence, hopes and dreams and parents and children trickle through this striking provocation of a play, as exciting new company Dead Good Theatre explore how we must often risk everything to disentangle ourselves from what we know, in the hope of something better.
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