This summer, Housemates Festival returns inviting artists to take over the House for three weeks from 4 – 23 July 2023. Expect stories from a generation whose perspective and understanding of Britain is formed by 1990s culture and the turn of the millennium. Themes explore the complexities of youth crime and rehabilitation juxtaposed with the Black joy of growing up in South London and millennial nostalgia, intergenerational conversations on radical activism; as well as delving into the complexities of family love and relationships; and probing the big life questions about how we all survive in a capitalistic world.
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Housemates 2023: Is Dat U Yh?
4 July-8 July
Tolu and the “Back Of the Bus Queens” relive and rediscover their love of home, in this joyous and whacky adventure down memory lane. Surreal memories, short stories, and nonsense!
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Housemates 2023: Is The WiFi Good In Hell?
5 July-8 July
It’s 2008. Margate isn’t cool (yet), and Dev – proudly wearing his wolf-hat on a derelict shack – is also far from it. Is the WiFi Good in Hell? follows Dev’s journey from boyhood to adulthood. Margate to London.
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Housemates 2023: REP
6 July-8 July
REP follows nine young offenders from different London boroughs who are thrown together into a Community Theatre project as part of their Youth Rehabilitation Orders.
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Housemates 2023: Same, Same, But Different
11 July-15 July
Cam and Jesse dive headfirst into the whirlwind of life over a mundane yet extraordinary decade, offering a striking display of queer normality, but is living an average life radical or is it part of the problem?
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Housemates 2023: USELESS
13 July-15 July
In a world where autonomy becomes a privilege and where robotic productivity is at the zenith of its powers – who holds the playing cards? Who makes the next move? You decide.
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Housemates 2023: Eating Myself
12 July-15 July
Pepa found herself on a journey, a journey inside herself, to discover that food could be shared with a new family around a new table.
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Housemates 2023: Before I Go
18 July-22 July
Follow Ajani, a young boy who tragically dies and gets stuck in limbo and forced to undergo overcoming and acceptance in order to be revived into the living world.
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Housemates 2023: Everything I Own
19 July-22 July
Errol lost his Dad last year. Listening to his old man’s Spotify playlist, he remembers his Dad’s passion over the 1981 Brixton uprising and his certainty that change coming.
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The Relationship With Your Agent
10 July-10 July
A Q&A between Davina Shah (Agent & Managing Director of TEAM) and her client Shankho Chaudhuri (Production Designer), who recently worked on Kabul Goes Pop and Alice in Wonderland at Brixton House.
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REP: Theatre-Making Workshop
12 July-13 July
Join Writer/Director Toby Clarke to practically explore the Directing, Devising and Acting techniques explored in the making of REP.
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Your Production’s Future Life
17 July-17 July
Award winning independent producer Daisy Hale will be sharing an overview of their career and a case study of a production that’s had future life.
Housemates Festival Team
Misha Mah – Festival Production Manager
Emily Huxley – Festival Assistant Production Manager
Chloe Astleford – Festival Stage Manager
Roni Neal – Festival Stage Manager
Adriana Perucca – Festival Stage Manager