PRO.ACT Fest

LOVE AT TIMES a premiere of ProEnglish Theatre, stories of Love At Times of War ????️Story One (Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell): 2 fighters from Territorial Defense of Kyiv discuss about their love relationship at a blockpost ????️Story Two (Katie & Frank): a regular family quarrel of “you never listen to […]

This performance is a conversation that humanity tries to start as long as it lives. The conversation that almost never happens in the end. Violence against women is a topic that is located in silence or revealed in traumas, anger, protests. And so women are kept hostages in this violence, […]

A special act for PRO.ACT Fest 2022. A poetry gig that opens to you the very heart of English songs. “English Songs as Poetry” – pick a song (or several) on English and deliver it as a poetry piece, as a theatre monologue or as a comedy sketch. Performed by […]

This is a story of one night in Rome, as well as one night for Ukraine that lasts for four months now. The show is a multi-disciplinary and multicultural project based on The Rape of Lucrecia by William Shakespeare, Ukrainian folk songs, Taras Shevchenko, Lesia Ukrainka and Christina Bila poetry, […]

The New World Order is a 12 minutes nerve wrecking show, one of the most intense and definitely the shortest play of Harold Pinter. With a foreword by Tanya Shelepko, the director The performance New World Order was born in the bomb shelter and inspired by different political statements regarding […]

“The Book of Sirens” monodrama performance in English A performance of Art Shelter//ProEnglish Theatre from Kyiv, Ukraine THE BOOK OF SIRENS staged in the bomb shelter//theatre of Kyiv during March 2022. It was premiered on Apr 09, 2022 Toured Spain in May (Bilbao, Aranjuez, Madrid, Alicante) and Germany in August […]

The piece is dedicated to the opera singer Vasyl Spivak and a soldier with the code name “Myth”. It was written by Ukrainian playwright Neda Nezhdana after the start of the war conflict in the Donbas region of Ukraine. What to do when you are invited to be a maid […]

Cynthia grew up playing classical piano in a tiny Colorado town, but she was determined to achieve the keys to success by attending a prestigious New York City music school. In this autobiographical solo show, Cynthia shares tuneful tales of battling inner demons and nutty neighbors, hitting wrong notes, enduring […]

Can you imagine discovering that your father is a predator? Hailed by critics as “brilliant”, “masterful” and “unforgettable”, Spitting In The Face Of The Devil is award-winning New York monologist Bob Brader’s gripping true story of discovering that his abusive and charismatic ex-Marine father is a pedophile. Brader’s daring, uplifting, […]

Lady Christina leaves the stage after another performance above another pub. Drag has become a drag and tonight could be her last ever show. But when the make-up comes off, the face in the mirror takes Chris Laneghan back to life before Christina came along. Can he live if living […]

unHOWsed is a multi-disciplinary performance work about older women’s homelessness. The work spotlights real voices – strong and significant. It is a powerful piece that sees these women take centre stage, shining a light on the unexplored territory of lives lived on the edge. It is told through the lens […]

A meteor the size of LA is about to hit LA, ironically, and in London a couple of friends spend their last seven days watching the news, reinventing chess and rewriting the rules of some of the other games in their universe: generally putting things into perspective, at once paralysed […]

Django in Pain is an uplifting Table Top puppet show on film. We use a variety of techniques to tell our story. At the beginning it could seem that we are witnessing a live puppetry show and the camera is just there to record what is going on. Soon it […]

John Webster’s macabre Jacobean revenge tragedy is given an outlandish twist. Set in a superstitious Dust Bowl era circus – this story of the perils of controlling women comes across as a vibrant metaphor for control and restriction – and breaking free.

Part of Pro.Act Festival 2022 Mermaid Arts Centre & Once Off Productions presents LOOKING FOR AMÉRICA written and performed by Federico Julián González directed and co-written by Janet Moran In 2019, Fede and his 74 year old mother, set off on a quest through Havana to look for América. Shared […]

A quirky, short show created specifically for the online Edinburgh Free Fringe Festival. One woman reflects on her day, and occasionally sings, to her dog!

Chickenshed presents an artistic response to the urgent and pressing questions of global migration, and investigates the concepts of national and personal identity. We find ourselves in a world where the building of walls – both in reality and figuratively – places ever more barriers between people who have more […]

Crime of the Century is a hard-hitting, raw piece of theatre which explores the issues surrounding gang violence. Using words and movement alongside a contemporary score of hip-hop and dance music, the performance packs a frightening punch and acts as a positive tool in the fight against the savagery of […]

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Infused with humor and original music, Out of the Blue is a heart-warming and inspiring true story celebrating the resilience of the human spirit – and the power of intuition – in the face of seemingly insurmountable odds. ​After a dire cancer diagnosis, Eli embarks on a memorable healing journey […]

Streaming on Thursday 18th August at 7.30pm. Also available AUDIO DESCRIBED and SIGNED & SUBTITLED Addressing the Shakespearean Elephant in the Room. NAMING THE VIEW is a powerful new contemporary play that does just that. It takes the lead characters of Shakespeare’s The Taming Of The Shrew, places them in […]