Rada Lab Works 2026: Lab Re-Works 3

A series of original theatre shorts from RADA’s graduate community. Shows included in this evening: Plastic Flowers, LIBERATING: She Dances (in Chains) and Scenes from a Falling World.

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.

Plastic Flowers

Created and performed by Jack Yearsley

In a world demanding “good vibes only,” what is the cost of perfection?

Plastic Flowers is a gripping solo show that puts our curated lives under a microscope. We meet LEO, a man who is desperately trying to keep it together in a chic up-scale restaurant. His smile may be practiced, but his charm feels hollow, and much of his life seems like a performance. This play is an unflinching look at the pressure to perform happiness and the agonizing gap between a oneʻs public self and the life we often try to keep hidden.

Running time: Approx 20 Minutes
Content warnings: Loud Noises

Liberating: She Dances (In Chains)

Created and performed by Xiaoyao Luo (she/her)
Movement Direction by Rebecca Pereira
Original Music by Wenshan Yu
Sound Design by Lois Qi
Lighting Design by Mengyun Liu
Visual Design by Chaoying Lin
Assistant Produced by Inini Xinyi Yin
Marketing and Photography by Maggie Zhu
Film and Videography by Dana Wang
With the support of Ian Morgan, Christopher Sivertsen, Lesley Ewen, Suzanne West, Xiangrong Tang and Zhuosi Zhao

LIBERATING: She Dances (in Chains) is a physical theatre performance exploring the female body as a site of memory, discipline and resistance.
Through chains, masks, movement and multilingual text, the piece follows a body trained to move within constraint, and asks what it takes to reclaim freedom when constraint has become a language of survival.

Running time: Approx 50 mins
Content warnings: Contains scenes involving chains, physical restraint, masks, intense movement, suggestive sexual imagery, themes of control, gendered violence and bodily trauma.

Scenes from a falling world

Created and performed by Emma Yvette Conlon, Will Choy Edelson, Jonah Buksbaum and Tara Kitson

The world is falling, the stars are leaving, the leaves are working overtime. Lovers cling to each other, families break apart, and humanity searches for something to hold onto. How do we react when we fall? What do we do on the way down?

Running time: TBC
Content warnings: TBC

See the full RADA Lab Works 2026 Line-up