MA Lab Works 2 by MA Theatre Lab

Created and performed by Joshua Aiu

In a world demanding "good vibes only," what is the cost of perfection?

Plastic Flowers is a gripping solo show that puts our curated lives under a microscope. We meet LEO, a man who appears perfectly put-together in a chic restaurant. His smile may be practiced, but his charm feels hollow, and his entire life seems like a performance. Beneath his flawless exterior, a frantic, silent anxiety is building. This play is an unflinching look at the pressure to perform happiness and the agonizing gap between a flawless public self and the reality hidden underneath.

Content warnings: loud noises

Created and performed by Ethan Bareham, Jack Clark, Georgia Gabrielides and Lucy Laverty

Welcome aboard your luxury cruise – and curated farewell journey!

Adrift in a floating world of pleasure, there is no return – only discovery. Every sunrise invites reflection and every tide carries a memory as passengers confront their fleeting time.

An unforgettable voyage evolves into a meditation on loss, legacy, love, and the quiet grief that lingers long after we’re gone.

Content warnings: references to suicide, miscarriage, terminal illness, death.

Created and performed by Xiaoyao Luo 罗逍瑶

Trained to dance in chains, a body forgets how to move once unshackled. A solo about discipline, masking and the paradox of agency within constraint. It sketches a world of internalised surveillance and self-regulation, where external command slides into voluntary compliance and performance hardens into habit. With chains, masks and the body as its image field, it asks: when conduct is measured from within, what might freedom be?
She dances in chains. She chooses to.
Does she?
Content warnings: simulated restraint with metal chains; repetitive sounds; cultural death imagery

Created and performed by Inge Crafford-Lazarus

With music by George Gershwin and Béla Bartók

Her name is Nelia and she lives in a circle. Bad things have happened here, but she wouldn’t feel safe anywhere else. She is afraid of corners among other things. She doesn’t need much: just a few drops of rain and an apple a day. Apples might be her most favourite thing, despite the fact that they are not yellow. She’s partial to yellow. Her least favourite thing is the sound of the Hadada ibises… no, the dark… no, definitely the ibises, but also the dark, what dreams may come, and the thought of not being enough.

Content warnings: themes of mental illness, images of physical restraint, loud noises, flickering light

Created and performed by Sook Kuan Tang

A glimpse into Yasmin, an early chapter of a solo performance exploring motherhood, critical illness, and the fragile truths between life and loss. Through laughter, tender reflection and moments of luminosity, we follow a woman in an interfaith marriage as she meets her body, her choices and the moral weight of decisions at life’s edge.

Blurring boundaries between performer and character, the piece invites the audience into a delicate space—where presence, courage, and the fleeting beauty of being fully alive quietly unfold...

How do we choose between love and letting go?

Content warning: contains a high pitched sound, themes of critical illness, family conflict, and emotionally intense moments that may be sensitive for some viewers.

Created and performed by Pat Dynowska and Corinne Soland

welcome to the alchemical workshop where souls are distilled and spirits transmuted. two are hard at work blending oil, purifying salt and balancing water – until they begin to remember things left over in between.

Content warnings: explicit language, depiction of mutilated human body parts