Rada Lab Works 2026: Lab Re-Works 1

A series of original theatre shorts from RADA’s graduate community. Shows included in this evening: Happy Survivalist, As Above, So Below and Vestiges of a Dry Creek.

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.

HAPPY SURVIVALIST

Created and performed by Oleksandra Barstok

The world is full of traps,
sorrow and absurdity.
In which everyday life
is intertwined with surrealism.

Running time: Approx 30min
Content warnings: Loud sounds, Abstract violence

As Above, So Below

Created and Performed by Pat Dynowska and Corinne Soland
Guest Appearance by Oscar Rodriguez
Lighting Design by Theodor Spiridon
Sound Design by Oscar Rodriguez

Bodies, spirits and the in-between: welcome to the alchemical workshop where souls are distilled and spirits transmuted. two are hard at work, aware that the abyss lingers. A meeting: blood, salt and water mix until something new emerges – and then, a longing. Is it possible to distil the human experience?

“True it is, without falsehood, certain and most true. That which is above is like to that which is below, and that which is below is like to that which is above, to accomplish the miracles of one thing.” – Hermes Trismegistus, translation by Steele and Singer

Running time: Approx 40 mins
Content warnings: Explicit language, depiction of mutilated human body parts

Vestiges of a Dry Creek

Created and Performed by Montserrat Cuellar Mestas
Sound Design by Rita Horta and Montserrat Cuellar Mestas
With the Support of the Grodman Legacy Program for the Promotion of Artists from Jalisco.

A phantasmagorical journey towards a place of origin: Jalisco, Mexico. Landscapes of a past unknown are reimagined and intertwined with the present: a girl walking back home.

Running time: Approx 40 mins
Content warnings: Contains references to grief, death and generational trauma

See the full RADA Lab Works 2026 Line-up