Ugly Bucket Theatre Archives - North West End UK

An inverted pyramid approach in its true form, where action takes place before crisis analysis and having a creative response to it. The audience is stuffed ahead of the show Stuffed by Ugly Bucket. The ensemble is around you while you chug a free drink and share a meal in the New Diorama Theatre foyer with strangers. By opening with a shared meal before diving into the performance, the show flips the traditional structure placing audience connection and collective action ahead of the crisis analysis itself. The capacity of Stuffed to enter with you and exit with you pushes the boundaries of a devised performance space with curtains, projections, plastic crates, and a live DJ. The testimonies attack you and create an air of tension that makes 60 minutes move faster, leaving one with an ...

It’s already been said, but when is it going to change? This call to action becomes even more frantic, accompanied by pounding heavy synth beats which pulsate with the warning of arson on a national scale. Multi award winning Ugly Bucket Theatre are back with ‘the bad stuff’, and a heavy sprinkling of macabre comic relief. Its feasible that foodbanks could soon set to become one of the biggest industries in the UK as it establishes itself as a permanent fixture in communities. Notably for those people in the bottom 25%. The demand has grown at a phenomenal rate and doesn’t show any signs of slowing down with more people than ever having no choice but to access this support. Ugly Bucket use a range of mime and clowning, playfully creating nightmarish sequences which highlig...

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Stuffed – New Diorama Theatre

Stuffed – Pleasance Courtyard