Rada Lab Works 2025: Fringe Preview

A series of Fringe previews from RADA’s graduate community. Shows included in this evening: Am I Losing My Mind or Just My Figure?, Stampin’ in the Graveyard and The Raven.

Part of The Coronet Theatre and RADA’s partnership to present RADA’s MA Theatre Lab’s Lab Works.

The week-long project combines workshops and scratch nights, and culminates in a series of original ‘theatre-shorts’, enabling artistic development, public visibility, and new networking opportunities for these emerging artists.

Am I Losing My Mind or Just My Figure?

Performed by Genevieve Labuschagne; Written by Sam Holland-Bunyan & Genevieve Labuschagne; Directed by Sam Holland-Bunyan

Am I Losing My Mind or Just My Figure? comically explores life, pregnancy & parenthood. It shines a light on how not only so much of who we are and what we do is shaped by those who raise us but also how so much of what we experience changes us.

Running Time: approx 20 mins

Stampin’ in the Graveyard

Written & Performed by Elisabeth Gunawan; Co-created by Elisabeth Gunawan & Matej Matejka; Music Composed & Arranged by Jack Parris & Orest Sharak; Movement Direction by Matej Matejka; Sound Design & Engineering by Orest Sharak; Stage & Production Management by Hui Tse Liu; Lighting Design by Natalia Chan; Scenography by Mona Camille; Video Design by Elisabeth Gunawan; Costume Design by Elisabeth Gunawan

ROSE is an AI chatbot that gives advice for the end of the world, powered by a black box of memories from people whose worlds have already ended. Tonight, ROSE unboxes her training data of human memories (and fabricates some in true AI fashion), to learn about the woman who created her. Stampin’ in the Graveyard is an immersive headphone experience fusing physical theatre and live music to draw audiences into an ephemeral, apocalyptic world.

Running Time: approx 10 mins

The Raven

Written and Created by Charles Sandford; Direction and Somatic Dramaturgy Mary Pearson

The Raven is a solo multimedia performance that reimagines Edgar Allan Poe’s gothic poem for the contemporary moment. Blending physical theatre, poetic text, and live video, the work explores the haunted spaces of modern life, asking ‘What is it that cannot be put to rest, that has not fully lived and therefore cannot die?’

Running Time: approx 40 mins