Rada Lab Works 2025: Lab Re-Works
(This is a past event and is no longer running)
A series of original theatre shorts from RADA’s graduate community. Shows included in this evening: 7-7-7, Game-Time and RatKing.
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.
7-7-7
Created and performed by Colin Rayner
The Truth is: humans die, and are unhappy.
They terrorize the just, they slaughter the weak, they see your pain and turn a blind eye.
Who is to blame for all of this? Is it you? Is there blood on your hands?
No? But someone has to be at fault. And they need to be punished. It’s time to summon… something.
Running Time: approx 25 mins
Content Advisory: Strobe lights, haze, loud music
Use of drugs, themes of suicide and mentions of sexual assault
Game-Time
Written and Performed by Oscar Chandler
What happens if you are no longer the hero of your own story? What if you were never a hero to begin with? Game-Time explores the challenges and pressures of living up to your potential and chasing a sporting dream all combined with complex family dynamics that inform our own mentalities and choices.
Running Time: approx 25 mins
Content Advisory: flashing lights, loud music, strong language and themes of grief.
RATKING
Created and performed by The ‘Lab Rats’ Anita Brokmeier, Chloe Shyan, Nathan Gregory (VO), Kate Taylor Hunter, Felipe Jara, Devaki Rajendran and Claudia Shnier; Lighting Designer: Amirul Azmi; Creative Mentors: Ramon Ayres and Eygló Belafonte (Ephemeral Ensemble), Lesley Ewen, Henry McGrath and Dan Sherer
Corporate ambition. Imperial decadence. Survival instinct. What do office workers, Roman emperors and rats have in common? RatKing is a punch-in-the-face response to the question of who we are when we have power… and who we are when we don’t.
Running Time: approx 40 mins
Content Advisory: Depictions of violence, explicit sexual content, childbirth and substance abuse.