Friday 6 — Friday 20 June 2025

Degree Show 2025: Live Performances and Screenings

BA (Hons) Drama and Contemporary Performance and BA (Hons) Acting

Friday 6 June 2025

Doyo uwan tacu poft ea

Performance installation
Evelyn Pratt and Stella Seki Smith
BA (Hons) Drama and Contemporary Performance

An interactive experience where you can enjoy a cup of tea with us as we discuss our process of making performance. Marking the birth of the Less Than Three Collective, we use interviews with real people to place humanity at the centre of what we do, creating a cacophony of voices, brewing connections and community.

Holden Dark Room, Grosvenor West Building
From 6pm (Note you need to register to attend the Private View)

Saturday 7 June – Friday 20 June 2025

The Rain

Video installation
Dana Potter
BA (Hons) Drama and Contemporary Performance

Drawing on her own experiences as a black woman, Dana offers this metaphor in an attempt to express the feelings that derive from being undervalued in current society, and the struggle to be seen. This video installation is a part of Dana's autobiographical theatre practice, exploring themes of intersectionality, colonialism, migration, capitalism and community. 

Holden Dark Room, Grosvenor West Building

Thursday 12 June 2025

Period Drama

Comedy
Elsa Tuxworth
BA (Hons) Acting

Elsa has spent a large chunk of her life dealing with a variety of gynaecological conditions, and is fed up with the taboo that surrounds them. So, naturally she has decided to create a comedy show about it. ‘Period Drama’ is a joyful romp through the history of women’s health asking when it comes to understanding women’s bodies, have we really come that far?

Grosvenor East Performance Studio (1.04)
5pm

Tuesday 17 June 2025

Fetish Object

Performance installation
Amelia Temple
BA (Hons) Drama and Contemporary Performance

A painting class from a statue-image-maid, chasing tactility and a sense of self, finding flesh where marble once slid over fingertips. Object-form and woman-form are congealed into one, though neither is as real as the other. Learn to paint yourself and others!

Holden Dark Room, Grosvenor West Building
5pm

Wednesday 18 June 2025

ONGUESTONGUESTONGUES

Performance
Yagmur Bayer
BA (Hons) Drama and Contemporary Performance

Delving into themes of memory, identity, human connection and colonialism, this one-woman puppet show crafts the comparison of how speaking English has transformed Yagmur Bayer into something of a puppet herself. ‘I’ve taken a step back from the person I am in Turkish or Portuguese - who am I when I’m just English’?

Holden Dark Room, Grosvenor West Building
5pm

Friday 20 June 2025

This Show Doesn’t Pass The Bechdel Test

Off Peak Theatre
BA (Hons) Drama and Contemporary Performance

How many feminists does it take to change theatre and film history? From the recasting of Marlon Brando to the creation of a new ‘bro podcast’, this tragicomic critique of patriarchy follows five women, with nothing more than a stage, a camera, and a few costumes, as they take on the roles of men in the arts and media, to uncover what keeps going wrong. Selected for the Sibiu International Theatre Festival, Romania (June 2025).

Grosvenor East Theatre
5pm