Lab Works 1 by MA Theatre Lab

Created and performed by Sólveig Eva and Anna Kopacek

Years after escaping her abusive relationship, a selkie returns to the daughter she was forced to leave behind. 

The Selkie and Her Daughter on Land is a modern retelling of the popular Celtic and Norse folklore of the selkie, the seal woman. By exploring its themes of abandonment, entrapment, isolation, motherhood, grief, liminality and freedom, we wonder how love and self-acceptance can be restored, when so much of ourselves has been taken away.

Content warnings: this production contains themes of domestic abuse, violence, parental abandonment and references to suicidal ideation.

Created and performed by Nina Chen

A solo piece exploring traditional Chinese myths in a hilarious way. Two versions to be provided for the audience to choose how to taste the story.

Created and performed by Seahoon Kim

Over the past 100 years, South Korea has experienced six revolutions led by its citizens.

Netflix’s TV show Squid Game and the film Parasite vividly portray the diseased state of Korean society. As a result, neighbouring countries like North Korea, China, and Japan often comment that Korean society is deeply troubled.

Sometimes, Koreans are described as rude, impatient, aggressive, rebellious, blunt, overly honest, and quick-tempered.

Yet, ironically, Korea desires peace and freedom more than anyone else. And yet, ironically, Koreans are always fighting.

Even today, a rude Korean dares to ask you, the kind-hearted audience, a question.

Content warning: may involve loud noises.

Created and performed by Colin Rayner

Based on true events (that are taking place in your mind):

"As I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I take a look at my life and realise there's nothing left."

What do you do when the cosmic joke went just a little too far, you slithered a bit too close to the sun, and accidentally spent an eternity in hell?

Perhaps try a mind altering substance.

This ironically occult one-man show asks questions like "why?" and "why not?"

The Creator never finished his philosophy degree and is making it everyone's problem.

Content warning: contains theological themes and makes strong references to various belief systems in both a negative and positive manner. Also contains strong language, representation of drug use, religious and ritualistic symbolism.

Created and performed by Oscar Chandler

Alex has a achieved his dream, but is he able to remain the hero of his own story and be the hero everyone expects him to be? Or has he flown too close to the sun and the pressure forced him back to earth?

Game-Time explores the human relationship with pressure that can be both self-imposed and imposed by others through, the lens of a childhood dream and expectation, and how pressure affects the relationships that drive us forward.

Content warning: loud noise.