Demo is your chance to see the best new artistic ideas tested out in front of an audience, often for the very first time.

Offering a selection of new work from the most exciting artists both regionally & nationally, this event encourages critical discourse in a relaxed and supportive environment.

Everyone is welcome.

30 January Line Up

Ash Gregory presents Adam & Eve (& Steve)

A divorced loser unwittingly encounters the original couple, jaded by their mortal marriage, and must learn what it means to be a mortal.

Zoyander presents Assigned at Birth

Cass has discovered that they are not an ordinary human – they are a transdimensional being, assigned to earth to carry out anthropological fieldwork. In this play, they have their first meetings via video call with their otherworldly drag king supervisor, Iris. ‘Assigned Earth at Birth’ is a live-digital hybrid, interactive sci-fi comedy about doomerism, neurodiversity / neuroqueerness, and living in a world that works against your survival. Interacting with live actors using a web app, the audience shapes the protagonist’s narrative about society, reflecting how the anthropologist has been shaped by their host society, and giving the audience an opportunity to vent their feelings about our fucked-up world.

John Booker presents Bwoy Dem

Bwoy Dem is a punchy, dark and comedic two-hander that deals with themes of race, black masculinity, police brutality and what happens when one man is pushed to breaking point. Having won the Take Off Commission from In Good Company in 2021, Bwoy Dem has gone on to be shortlisted for the BBC screenwriter’s competition and the Royal Shakespeare Company’s 37 Plays. The script has secured me a place as one of New Perspective’s Associate Artists, and seed funding from The Bush Theatre for a future project, Champing at the Bit. BAME audiences but really all audience members as it’s a subject matter that is very rarely talked about.