Produced By: LifeBox Theatre

StageWrite Spring 2026

Genre:
Devised / New Writing
Opens:
29 Mar 2026
Times:
29 Mar, 19:30

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StageWrite is a hothouse for the development of new writing for theatre, designed to help plays grow from page to performance. It supports writers in the process of getting their work up on its feet and in front of an audience for the very first time.

We rehearse over one weekend and then the plays are performed semi-staged, script in hand to allow for a more developed experience than a rehearsed reading (where actors simply read the play out loud). You’ll be amazed at how much we can do in a short space of time!
StageWrite presents two plays of between 30 and 60 minutes over the course of one evening, performed by professional actors, and includes a short Q&A session after each piece to allow audience members the chance to offer feedback and the writers to discover more about how their work is received.  Every time StageWrite happens, it’s different – the nature of profiling brand new work!
The plays for Spring 2026 are:
The Good, The Bad and The Watsons by Jenny Devaux and Phil Butcher 
Entry into Heaven isn’t easy these days, especially for the Watsons. Budgets, equal rights and complex admin present challenges …and that’s just for the staff! Can Sandra and Colin navigate the red tape before passing through the hallowed portals? And in so doing, what will they discover about each other even in the afterlife? This is a heavenly comedy with some hellish revelations…
Suggested age suitability 12+
 The Meltdown by Angela Hunter
The outlook is dire.  Allowing humans to evolve had clearly been a terrible idea.  Mistreated for decades, the habitat is a calamity waiting to happen and to add insult to injury, the humans have introduced their own new species that no one seems to know anything about.  She’ll have to wade in yet again and fend off total annihilation of the natural world, but first she needs to resolve her impossible dilemma.  Does every life form deserve to be saved?  Or is it time for her to remove the species that will forever endanger all others? Please be aware that this play includes strong language.
Suggested age suitability 15+
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