Performed on Friday 15th of August at the King’s Arms in Salford, just before Manchester Pride. ‘My Gay Best Friend and Other Unspoken Letters’ 2025 was the third year of our annual anthology series in which we commission LGBTQIA+ identifying writers to express their personal and political opinions of something that are often left unspoken. Sometimes comical, sometimes emotional, sometimes political, but always honest and personal to the writer.

Mac’s cosy northern-town life is upturned by a visit from an old flame who’s been absent for twenty years. The revelation to his two daughters of his hidden, gay son blows everything apart.

In this prophetic monologue a woman fights for the person she loves.

Based on the original play by Jean Cocteau, this new version of the text was adapted by our Artistic Director, Adam Cachia. The play explores our need for human connection.

​In the anticipation of Manchester Pride we’re launching a new online series called ‘Raise Your Voice’ where this time around, we have asked actors to record queer focused monologues.

‘Raise Your Voice’ is an online series where we ask writers for monologues that are then recorded and performed by actors. Each ‘burst’ of ‘Raise Your Voice’ focuses on a different theme.

The Grill (Jokes About Ovens) was a fast-paced comedy about two chefs in a death row kitchen

A workers strike leaves two chefs alone in the death row kitchen of a maximum-security prison. Under pressure, and the stern supervision of the prison Guard, Tom and Wally are in a race against time to execute a culinary masterclass that will satisfy the most dangerous man in Britain on his final night on Earth.

Performed on Friday 21st of June at the King’s Arms in Salford, during Pride Month. ‘My Gay Best Friend and Other Unspoken Letters’ 2024 was the second year of our annual anthology series in which we commission LGBTQIA+ identifying writers to express their personal and political opinions of something that are often left unspoken. Sometimes comical, sometimes emotional, sometimes political, but always honest and personal to the writer.

Pandæmonium was our fourth free immersive audio experience. Following on from the successes of past audio productions including Dreams (2020), Mum Can You Hear Me? (2021) and WMN (2021). We were delighted to bring another one to life in this short audio anthology series.

The Departure was a concept created by Artistic Director, Adam Cachia, and Associate Director, Jessica Rose Renshall, to provide a platform to share short plays over the course of a three nights. The plays would range in theme and would also be a platform to connect emerging talent and established ones - this was seen across the board from writers to director to actors!

Performed on Sunday the 25th of June at the King’s Arms in Salford, during Pride Month. ‘My Gay Best Friend and Other Unspoken Letters’ 2023 is the start of an annual anthology series in which we commission LGBTQIA+ identifying writers to express their personal and political opinions of something that are often left unspoken. Sometimes comical, sometimes emotional, sometimes political, but always honest and personal to the writer.

Mirror Mirror was 2022's free and online project. Through the use of extended monologues Mirror Mirror explored the change in relations we have with fairy tales and fables now that we are older, wiser and understand their true meaning. Some of the work flipped the tale completely on its head whilst others will be explored the aftermath of certain events or re-imaging the whole thing altogether.

WMN was our second free immersive audio experience. This project explored what it means to be a woman in the modern world. Split over three nights, each night focused on a specific element such as body image, emotions and motherhood.

Mum Can You Hear Me? Was a four-act audio drama, inspired by the Essex lorry deaths of 2019. The piece itself invited the audience into the subconscious mind of a young dying woman as she struggles to say goodbye to a world and person she can no longer see.

Inspired by the work of both Delia Derbyshire & Barry Bermange, our version of The Dreams incorporated a redesigned soundscape and a newly written text to create an immersive audio experience in which the listener truly imagines what it means to be conscious whilst dreaming.

Monologue Mondays was used as the launch project of our Theatre Company to the world. Launching in 2020 meant that we could not gain access to a theatre space due to the industry being temporary shutdown because of Covid-19 pandemic. This did not stop us. Instead of seeing this as a negative we viewed it as an opportunity to showcase our work to a larger online audience, completely free. In total we created nine monologues which were a mixture of newly written work by our resident writers and classical texts that we staged in a contemporary way.