5min Festival

What can be achieved in just 300 seconds ?

We live in an age when no-one has time. Average viewers spend 3 and 7 minutes on an internet video. Advertisers get whole stories into 30 seconds. Reduced Shakespeare squeezed the bard’s works into 70 minutes. Hamlet thought brevity the soul of wit, the Japanese that haiku was the highest form of art. Can you join the masters and create a piece of theatre – comical, tragical, dialogue-based, musical, physical to bewitch an audience and make five minutes memorable? It’s the ultimate challenge, and if you dare try there’s a world of possibilities. We want you in the Five Minute Festival.

The Festival’s programme incorporates an exciting variety of genres and themes, and will give us a valuable insight into the next generation of playwrights and directors.

On Saturday 18th September you will have the chance to watch 14 brand new 5 minute plays making a varied and different theatrical experience.

Dates: Sat 18th September at 7.30pm

Ticket prices: £10 Full Price / £8 Concs

Box Office: 0844 847 1680 or at click here

Performance Order:

1 Paper People (Anneka Harry)

2 The Crossroads (Natalie Fellowes)

3 The Pearly Gates (Geoff Buckingham)

4 All The Lonely People (Clarke McWilliam)

5 Green and As Old As The Hills (Keith Kennedy)

6 To Be Honest (Julia Bolden)

7 Pass The Parcel (Chris Guy)

8 You (Janey Lawson)

9 Live Life The Jesus Way (Jonathan Brown)

10 A Close Match ( Deborah Espect)

11 Tribulation (Wil Cox)

12 Flying (Fear Of) (Emma Blundell)

13 Adam ( Richard Fitchett)

14 The Watchers (Scott Carpenter)