Itch that Scratch ticket offer ends Sunday - DFS style
Our line up for April 17th is here!
This actually does end on Sunday though…now that our line up is confirmed, you have until midnight tomorrow (Sunday 7th April) to use your mailing list discount code for Itch that Scratch.
(we have a limited capacity for this event and last time we sold out) so…GO GO GO
Enter code MAILING LIST before selecting a ticket and get everything below for just £8
What’s happening?
Workshop 1:00pm - 2:30pm, Space 3
Radical poetry workshop with scholar and writer Mridula Sharma
Join Mridula as she tests a new idea - using your own quick snap photography as raw material to write radical poetry..
‘I encourage participants to play with source material as an attempt to defy and interrupt what’s considered as ‘normative,’ and write radical poems and pieces around abolition.
By engaging with existing material (in print or digital format) and transforming it creatively; we undercut the authority of the written word, and used our own agency to make new interpretations and collages.’
‘I want to spend the first half of the session walking the audience through clicking photographs and the second half in helping them draw on their photographs to write poems.’
(The last half an hour of this session is reserved for optional feedback and discussion.)
Performances 7:00pm - 8:30pm, Space 4
This is How I Got Arrested After Smuggling Drugs Over the Border but Never Actually Getting Caught With Any Drugs created and performed by Azaelia Slade
This new work has been devised by Azaelia Slade. A look into rants, rambles and growing up a bit rough. This piece is fictional nonsense that obviously never happened. Come take a 20 minute peep into Aza-Sophie's world.
Mycelium, created and performed by Jayran Lear
An epic tale of the mundane that follows one's journey of connection & resilience, navigating between and across cultures and using art as both an escapism and homecoming.
Lyrical storytelling and poetry collaborates with dance and music, where our relationship with the contemporary world is told through the lens of the ancient; celebrating folklore, mythology and mysticism.
Unhinged, written and performed by Stefanie Reynolds, directed by Erinn Dhesi
Hazel is angry, isolated, miserable and quite possibly mad. Or is she just reacting to the circumstances around her?
Broken woman in broken Britain, fresh from a recent breakup, navigates the breakdown of the NHS, and a last-ditch attempt at salvaging her battered relationship with her estranged brother.
Stefanie is a mixed raced, working class, neurodivergent, queer playwright and comedy TV writer from and living in Manchester. She’s been a part of a multitude of prestigious writing companies including Tamasha playwrights in 2017, Royal Court's Intro to Writing in 2019, and Box of Tricks' year-long playbox scheme PlayBox 2021-22. Her play That Time We Got High was shortlisted for Channel 4stories, Kudos and Royal Court fellowship and longlisted for Women's Playwriting award. Stefanie is developing her new play Danesha The ??? (pending title) with Box of Tricks, which was longlisted for Papatango playwriting prize.
Erinn Dhesi is a writer and director based in the West Midlands. She is particularly interested in the stories of women of colour and blending the different sensibilities of art and technology for storytelling purposes. Erinn was an Associate Artist at Chronic Insanity Theatre developing her immersive whatsapp show ‘POST NO EVIL’ (2023).Her award winning one-woman show WIGS SNATCHED PERCEPTIONS DESTROYED premiered at Vaults Festival 2020. Currently, she is a recipient of Arts Council England DYCP funding developing herself as a writer-director exploring storytelling in Extended Reality.
Something funny to finish:
Amy Nic (She/Her) is a comedian, writer and actor hailing from Warrington.
“Her stand-up is an entertaining breath of fresh air... she oozes exuberance with her unabashed comedy”
Amy’s previous shows include ’The Business of Love’ at The Hope Theatre and her sold out Edinburgh Fringe show ‘One Week In Magaluf’. Described as "a goldmine to be exploited in [her] comedic writings” (Broadway Baby), Amy is passionate about raising the platform for women in comedy across stand-up, stage and screen.
8:30-9:00pm optional mingle and feedback extravaganza, Space 4
See you there!