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Amadeus *Successful*
The production aims to take in all artistic forms, including music, physical theatre, realism, incredible technical design and integration of live and recorded sound elements.
A Streetcar Named Desire *Successful*
A truly timeless drama of sexuality and faded ideals, Tennessee Williams' play is a classic. Fragile, faded southern belle Blanche is in real need of someplace to call her own and for that vision of romance she desperately clings...
Dealer's Choice *Successful*
Dealers's choice is a three act black comedy circling around a restaurant which houses a tight-nit community of colleagues and poker players. Stephen owns and runs the establishment while also managing his three main members of...
Taking Sides
Berlin, 1946. Major Steve Arnold, of the American occupation force, is an official involved in "de-nazification" investigations. He was present at the liberation of Bergen-Belsen concentration camp. Wilhelm...
Pride and Prejudice
Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice is one of the most celebrated novels of all time, and continues to hold the attention and admiration of readers almost 200 years after it was written. The story focuses on Elizabeth Bennet, one...
Fibbing
Since the beginning of time, twas written in the stones that one day a show would come. Well that show has come and now it is here to come again . . . in your drama hole
Noises Off
Michael Frayn's classic farce blurs the lines between the onstage action and the real life relationships between the cast members backstage. It is a fast-paced masterpiece of comic engineering and is both hilarious and extremely...
Macbeth *Successful*
Widely viewed as one of the most impressive works of art in the English literary canon, Macbeth is a horrifying examination of ambition foully played for, and the ensuing consequences to both individual and collective. Macbeth, a...
The Jungle Book *Successful*
Rudyard Kipling's beloved children's classic tells of a boy hunted by a man-eating tiger before being rescued and raised by a wolf pack. From here he encounters a tribe of psychotic monkeys, a jackal infected by madness and a...
What Alfred The Butler Saw
In a world where superheroes are real a year has passed since crime-fighting team The Super Squad disbanded - but former member Brad Ford wants to see the gang reunited. Arranging a meeting at a hotel, the heroes are unaware that...
Lunchtime
Disappear *Successful*
Sara is no longer an adult suffering from depression. She's just died and in this hour immediately after her death she shares with us, and Bryan, her biggest fears, her past and a future you wouldn't expect. An honest attempt to...
Gorilla Radio
‘Gorilla radio’ kicks off after a previously semi-legal DJ airs his first show with a major radio network. This gains him a respectable audience and the praise of his prickly new boss. This is the happiest he will be for the...
The Compleat Works of Wllm Shkspr (abridged) *Successful*
This is a fast paced comedy utilising 3 performers and minimal set. This play encompasses all of the bard's work with frenetic energy. While the play is prop heavy, the tech is basic and almost everything happens on stage! This...
Hamlet vs Macbeth: There can only be or not be one...
Hamlet and Macbeth are regarded as two of the finest tragedies ever written, but haven't you always wondered which is better? Hamlet - with his bid to avenge his murdered father and dethrone his power-hungry uncle? Or Macbeth -...
Someone Who'll Watch Over Me *Successful*
This is an extremely human drama by design. Over the course of nine scenes, all set in a claustrophobic, isolated cell, the focus is the three men – their trials and tribulations under the watchful eye of unseen, unknown but...
The Business of Murder *Successful*
"The Business of Murder" is a great play which played on the West End for 9 years, by a writer whose thrillers have been compared to the work of Agatha Christie. The three very interesting characters come together in an...
Alone in the Crowd
Theo is a young woman without much of a purpose in life, currently content to be supported financially and sexually by popular, successful and totally typecast character actor, Matthew John Curtis, who has based his entire acting...
The Weir *Successful*
The Weir is a play written by the Irish playwright Conor McPherson. It is set in a pub in rural Ireland in late winter, and the story's protagonists meet for a little catch-up and to welcome the new girl who has left Dublin for...
Extraordinary
The Improverts *Successful*
The Improverts would be delighted to continue putting on their weekly Friday night shows and Saturday afternoon workshops at Bedlam. The show is a great opportunity to make a lot of money for the society, and the workshops...
Freshers' Play 2010 *Successful*
Okay, kids, so here's the plan. We're going to go out and get ourselves some freshers. They will be categorised, divided into teams and assigned to appropriate captains. Each team will receive two vital tools: the theme of the...
Candlewasters *Successful*
The Candlewasters project was set up to promote new writing at the Bedlam Theatre. It's a great way for new and budding writers to put on plays- and for skilled writers to hone their talent and experiment with new forms of...
Fringe
Wild Allegations *Successful*
"Wild Allegations" by David K. Barnes and David Leon is a new, fast-paced, deeply cynical drama with lashings of dry, bitter humour, and a dynamic variety of locations achieved via a constantly changing set, with...
The Improverts *Successful*
The Improverts are now entering their third decade of performing improvised comedy at Bedlam Theatre. They play to a packed house every Friday night throughout the year and play every night during the Fringe in August. The show...
Jacob's Ladder
Jacob's ladder is a very dark and slightly twisted comedy about using what you've got to get where you want to be. Does the end justify the means? depends on the means I guess. and the end. It's a play about religious politics,...
A Slacker's Guide to Western Theatre
"Slackers" is what it says on the tin: a guide to the history of Western Theatre from the Greeks to contemporary playwrights. We follow five drama history students whilst they study hard for their exams. There is one...
Festival Proposals
Freshers' Week *Successful*
Freshers’ Week, the first event of the academic year, is a wonderful opportunity to showcase what Bedlam is all about, and tempt new students to join our theatre. As the only society with its own, dedicated venue, we would use...