Description
After receiving over 200 submissions, we wanted to create space for scripts we loved — stories and voices that stood out to us and deserved further development and audience connection.
With a new script every night, Housemates Readings invites audiences into the creative process, championing bold new writing and offering artists the chance to hear, test and develop their work in front of a live audience.
Part of Brixton House’s ongoing commitment to nurturing artists and supporting new voices, this strand is about making room for exciting work to grow.
Check out the full line-up below.
PEEPHOLE
By Dior Clarke
Kem is da ultimate roadman.
Icon is the ultimate diva.
Can love that came alive between Brixton Prison sheets hope to survive on Brixton streets?
Peephole is a wild romantic dramedy written by Dior Clarke, directed by Rikki Beadle-Blair and produced by Loquaciously Unfiltered.
The Lift
By STIGMAcollective
STIGMAcollective is back with a new surreal tale about learned helplessness and a reminder that there is always a way out!
Dawn lives in the comfort of a self-inflicted purgatory working as a lift operator. Lift is always there, Lift is reliable, Lift never lets her down… But Dawn has to face some difficult truths when her beloved Lift malfunctions, and her well-crafted routine begins to fall apart.
Landlord’s Wet Dream
By Verity Sharpe
Landlord’s Wet Dream dives head first into the UK housing crisis, exposing shady landlords, unstable tenancies and endless repairs.
Expect sharp stand-up, punchy poetry and original songs that turn rental rage into riotous laughter. Drawing on real life experiences, Sharpe revels in the absurdity of a system under strain.
A show with ‘zeitgeist vitality’ (The Reviews Hub) that hits home and hits hard.
TIC-BOOM
By Cal-l Jonel
Inspired by lived experience, TIC-BOOM follows a young Caribbean British boy growing up with vocal and physical tics. Blending sound, movement, vocal composition and spoken word, the show traces one boy’s journey from suppressing the sounds and movements that make him different to transforming them into a powerful creative language.
Set against the backdrop of a Caribbean British upbringing, the work explores masking, belonging, family expectations, self-acceptance and creative expression.
A Perfect Dish
By Chen Xu
An aromatic kitchen. A live cooking show. Two lives, to be measured on the same kitchen counter. A rising chef is moments away from the biggest opportunity of his career. Yet as he crafts the narrative behind the crab dish that made him famous, the dish speaks back. A well-rehearsed story becomes impossible to control.
A Perfect Dish is a sensory, dark comic play about desire, empathy, and the stories we tell to live with ourselves.