Get 'Karaoke at the SU' to Brighton Fringe!

We are Cubicle Theatre: a group of emerging artists who want to create raw, funny and heart-breaking theatre. Our first production is in the works, but we need your support to get us to the finish line!

Top: Ella Jump (Producer) & Bam Sadler (Writer/Director)

Bottom: Rhys Quilley (Benji); Ren Bernabe Plumer (Stage Manager) & Eve Crutchley (Lorna) - Amelia Daisy Jean (Social Media Manager) was being busy and important behind the camera.

About the play:

Lorna and Benji have a one night stand at their first university Halloween party. Nothing could be more awkward than bumping into each other again…right? What about bumping into each other at a sexual health clinic? 

In this sharp dramatic-comedy, the pair keep crossing paths as they try to navigate university culture, relationships and what it means to “be an adult”. Equal parts silly and melancholy, they try to answer the age old question: how much of your student loan could you pay off being on onlyfans?

Not quite a rom-com, not quite a cabaret, ‘Karaoke at the SU’ fuses a story spanning decades with musical numbers and puppetry to create something that speaks to everyone’s inner child.

Be prepared for some tears, bad dancing and too much WKD.

What we will do with funding:

Starting a play from scratch is no easy task. Any support we receive will go towards:

- Hiring rehearsal spaces (we can't keep making a mess of Eve's living room)

- Travel costs for cast and crew (GWR dm us if you want to sponsor us)

- Production costs (you would be surprised how expensive Ferrero Rocher and Pikachu onesies are nowadays...)

- Brighton Fringe accommodation (the puppets need somewhere to sleep)

What we're aiming for in 2024:

Following the festival, we want to tour the play around London pub theatres, then branch out to regional theatres around the UK where the arts may be less accessible than in larger cities. As a working class individual myself, I have seen how younger generations can feel “shut out” of theatre spaces with high ticket prices and travel costs. We would love to bring fresh, gritty, relatable stories to new audiences and encourage engagement from people from all walks of life. 

We have big plans for what Cubicle Theatre can become: we want to provide a network for emerging artists and graduates to collaborate and experiment with innovative new writing and devised work. There are many voices that struggle to be heard in the industry, and I believe our company can be a hub for underrepresented artists to loudly and proudly share their work. We can provide opportunities, not just for actors, but writers, directors, producers, poets and movers to take risks and take up space. 

As of February 2024, we will be setting up shop in The Glitch Cafe in Waterloo! Once a month, 'On The Wall' will open for poets and writers to take that first terrifying step and share their new work.