Five characters over 50 years, bereaved, betrayed and befuddled by random acts of cruelty. Five interwoven tragedies cut together, a deeply personal examination of life and love and loss. Five years in the making, Andrew Sharpe’s suite of widely lauded playlets is produced as a whole for the first time.

Former legal practitioner Andrew Sharpe has enjoyed fringe runs around the UK at The Maltings Theatre, Warwick Arts Centre, the Cockpit Theatre, Queen’s Theatre Hornchurch and the Stockwell Playhouse One Act Festival where he was Highly Commended.

Running time 75 minutes including an interval of 15 minutes.

In the modern world how do you find a partner – and would you die trying?

The award winning and cutting edge Best Youth Theatre bring this funny and poignant dark comedy to life this spring.

Commissioned by the National Theatre Connections Festival, Find A Partner is a modern, dark comedy that scrutinises, through a “Black Mirror” style lens, the sometimes catastrophic methods we use to find love.

Miriam Battye’s plays include Scenes With Girls (Royal Court), Trip The Light Fantastic (Bristol Old Vic) and All Your Gold (Theatre Royal, Plymouth). She is the recipient of the 2020 Harold Pinter Commission at the Royal Court.

“One of the best shows I’ve ever seen” Audience review, These Bridges
“I laughed until I cried” Audience review, Around the World in 80 Days
"Demonstrated young talent at its best” Herts Advertiser
“Stunning and surprising” Psyche Stott, National Theatre Director

Running time 60 minutes

In 2005 a gruesome murder was committed in Dublin by two sisters who were quickly dubbed the ‘Scissor Sisters’ by the Irish media because of the nature of their horrific crime. One sister was sentenced to life in prison, the other to 15 years. After serving in separate prisons for the same crime, the sisters are reunited...

Amy Connery is a performer, director and movement director who has worked on a number of OVO productions including, most recently, Peter Pan (Alban Arena, Roman Theatre) and The Winter's Tale (Minack Theatre). Scissor Sisters is her first play, developed from a short first presented at the Lion and Unicorn in 2021.

Presented in a double bill with Under Electric Candlelight

Total double bill running time 2 hours 25 minutes including an interval of 15  minutes.

Dark, funny and featuring the music of the Kinks, Under Electric Candlelight is an existential tragicomedy following an unnamed young nurse who is traumatised after dealing with a particularly gruesome death in A&E. He forms a strong bond with a blunt and brutally logical middle-aged woman called ‘Lola’ who struggles to help him find a reason to stay alive.

Will Pattle is a London-born actor, writer, rapper and graduate of the BRIT school. He has acted in film, TV and theatre and in many OVO productions at The Maltings Theatre and The Roman Theatre.

Alice Briganti is a writer from Florence, Italy. She recently completed her MA in Shakespeare Studies at Goldsmiths. She co-wrote her debut play, The Removal Service, with Will Pattle.

“It proves to be a remarkable piece of writing even for more experienced authors.” LondonTheatre1

“Promising new writing ” The Stage

Contains strong language, adult themes and sensitive content.

Presented in a double bill with Scissor Sisters.

Total double bill running time 2 hours 25 minutes including an interval of 15 minutes.

Some may say rock ‘n’ roll was invented in the 1950s. But what historians don’t tell you is townsfolk from the kingdom of Star Rock were hammering Strats and whacking Toms long before your grandma knew who Elvis was.

Rockstar Prince is a modern satirical musical guaranteed to have you on your feet pondering “why do I love this?”.

Zak Robinson is an actor, writer and songwriter from Devon. He trained at Trinity Laban and writes and records his own material – his new album is scheduled for release this year. Zak most recently performed in OVO’s hugely entertaining production of Peter Pan (Alban Arena, Roman Theatre). Rockstar Prince is Zak’s debut play.

Presented in a double bill with Sniff.

Total double bill running time 2 hours 25 minutes including an interval of 15  minutes.

Two guys meet in a pub toilet in a small town that no one cares about. Both strangers.

Liam, struggling with addiction and money troubles, has never left the claustrophobic town that birthed him. He's lost everything, if he ever had it.

Alex, cloaked in a Hugo Boss suit and the pride of a job in Canary Wharf, comes down to visit this quaint place with his girlfriend. It seems like he has everything.

However, as the door locks, and time clocks, a dark truth begins to unravel.

Gabriel Fogarty-Graveson, from St Albans, is a writer, theatre-maker and actor. He is the co-founder of Make It Beautiful Theatre Company and has written and starred in a number of productions including Out of Time, during a residency at OBRA Theatre Company in the south of France, and Our Little Life at the Black Box Studio in Slovenia. Gabriel recently made his OVO debut as Antipholus of Ephesus in The Comedy of Errors at the Roman Theatre in 2021.

Presented in a double bill with Rockstar Prince.

Total double bill running time 2 hours 25 minutes including an interval of 15  minutes.

A modern man-free adaptation of the Chekhov classic.

In a room tiny back garden in a house outside a terraced house in a provincial town Wigan, three sisters wait for their lives to begin.

Olga, the eldest lonely workaholic. Masha, the middle child depressed womaniser. Irina, the youngest ukulele-playing dreamer.

As the seasons pass and the world shrinks and the garden seems to get smaller and smaller, they pine for Manchester and frustrate and fortify each other like only sisters can. With sarky comments, TikTok dance routines and bitching about other people.

Winner of the Standing Ovation Award for Best Adaptation at the London Pub Theatre Awards 2021.

Knuckledown theatre company reclaims classics by devising around them until they become meaningful and creates new writing by working class storytellers. Knuckledown’s award-winning work includes head/lining (Offie OffComm 2021) and Starved (LPT Standing Ovation Award nominee 2019).

Running time 65 minutes.

A one-woman comedy about growing up. About thinking things for the first time. Thinking that you might get spotted and become the next Beyoncé, while busking in Coventry town centre. Thinking maybe you should kill yourself like your next-door neighbour did. Thinking... why is it called taking a dump when you’re leaving it?

Hannah is finishing school and about to go away to college, so there’s one last summer holiday to seal the deal on childhood. A summer for freedom, falling in love, and then for working out how to love that person when their demons keep telling you to f*** off. Why is it always the kindest people that’re the saddest?

Contains music and singing, talk on sex, self-harm, suicide and mental health issues.

Hannah Baker trained as an Actor Musician at Mountview, graduating in 2018. Credits include: Beauty and the Beast (Leeds City Varieties), Lifeline R&D (Charing Cross Theatre), Aladdin (New Wolsey Ipswich), Hamlet and Twelfth Night (Shakespeare’s Rose Theatre, York), BRASS (The Union Theatre), World in Progress (The Other Palace and Edinburgh Fringe). She is one of OVO’s most popular acting talents, having previously performed in Twelfth Night (Rose Playhouse, online), The 39 Steps (Maltings Theatre) and Peter Pan (Alban Arena, Roman Theatre).

Presented in a double bill with Joshua (and me).

Total double bill running time 2 hours 35 minutes including an interval of 15  minutes.

A one woman show about being a sibling to someone who's autistic.

Through laughter, love, and original music, it explores the writer's own experience of growing up with someone whose world impacts their own, in ways they're only just beginning to understand.

A space for siblings to explore their experiences, too.

Rachel Hammond graduated from Mountview as an actor and musician in 2018. Her recent credits include Swallows and Amazons (York Theatre Royal), Pericles (Riding Lights Theatre Company in York) and Much Ado About Nothing (Northern Broadsides, Halifax). Joshua (and Me) is Rachel’s debut play.

Presented in a double bill with Banter Jar.

Total double bill running time 2 hours 35 minutes including an interval of 15  minutes.

Noah just wants a few things. He wants to finally introduce his girlfriend to his Grandma. He wants his Grandma to finally be proud of him. But some unexpected dinner guests complicate things. As does the fact he's gay.

Laura May Price is an actress and writer who trained at Identity School of Acting in London. She has worked with Telltale Theatre in Warwickshire and Dinner Theatre at Clapham Fringe. Her upcoming work includes The Highwayman by Augusto Iago and The Tempest by William Shakespeare.

Presented in a double bill with Playing Latinx.

Total double bill running time 2 hours 25 minutes including an interval of 15  minutes.

What lengths do we go to fit in? An actor from Latin America tries to find his place in the UK theatre scene, all funny accents and salsa rhythms. At what point does the stereotype start playing him?

Guido Garcia Lueches is a Uruguayan actor, poet and theatre maker with a highly developed knack for comedy. A popular performer with Maltings and Roman Theatre audiences, Guido has recently starred in OVO’s productions of Les Liaisons Dangereuses and The Winter’s Tale. He has also performed in The Importance of Being... Earnest? (Pleasance Theatre, Edinburgh), The Boy Who Cried Wolf (York Theatre Royal) and Ordinary Days (Soho Theatre) among others. He also creates work with his own interactive theatre company Say It Again, Sorry?

Presented in a double bill with Dinner Theatre.

Total double bill running time 2 hours 25 minutes including an interval of 15  minutes.