Rada Lab Works 2025: Scratch Night 1
(This is a past event and is no longer running)
A series of original in-progress theatre works from RADA’s graduate community. Shows included in this evening: Hanged, The View, The Other Shore (彼岸), King is Pregnant and APNOEA.
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.
The Other Shore (彼岸)
Collaborators: Sook Kuan Tang and Will Edelson; Sound & Multimedia Designer: Khairul Kamsani
A duet dance theatre work in progress exploring transcendence, sacrifice, and spiritual awakening. Set in a post-apocalyptic world after nuclear devastation, it follows an elder sister and her brother as they journey through the ruins, searching for the other shore – symbolising Nirvana. The sister sacrifices herself to ensure her brother’s survival, only to awaken in another realm. Blending dance and theatre, this evocative work delves into the fragile line between worlds and the profound nature of human connection.
Running Time: approx 20 mins
HANGED
Conceived by Arianna Calgaro and Marco De Rosso
Hanged is a solo dive into isolation, lust, and the strange intimacy of screens. It plays with tech-erotica and body obsession, testing its muscles in front of a live crowd before slipping onto film. Because falling for your online personal trainer was never going to happen offline.
Running Time: approx 15 mins
Content Advisory: sexual content.
The View
Created and performed by Chloe Shyan; Lighting Designer: Amirul Azmi
‘Remind me,’ the bird asks, ‘what did I come here for again?’
‘No time for that right now,’ she answers. ‘We’re late.’
The tree notices, and whispers ‘… There’s always time.’
Running Time: approx 15 mins
Content Advisory: Partial nudity, interaction with the front row.
Strobe lighting
King is Pregnant
Co created by Dylan Aiello and Mara Zigler
There it is.
We’re lost!…between the act of creation and the act of creation.
To have a baby or to make a show.
What’s the difference?
Please come help us figure it out.
Running Time: approx 15 mins
APNOEA
Written by Diego Hernández; Directed & Translated by Felipe Jara; Performed by Barkha Bahar, Montserrat Cuellar, Patrycja Dynowska, Atlin Hofer & Anna Kopacek
APNOEA explores through stage space the psychological unraveling of six people trapped in a failing biodome, echoing the real-life collapse of the Biosphere 2 experiment. Through rhythmic, ensamble-driven movement, the piece interrogates humanity’s obsession with utopian escape amid ecological crisis and how isolation breeds power and paranoia.
Running Time: approx 15 mins
Content Advisory: Graphic and/or verbal depictions of psychological abuse, sexual coercion, suffocation and existential horror.
Themes include ecological despair, cult indoctrination, self-harm, religious extremism, and bodily autonomy violations.