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HAVISHAM

1825. A young woman, newly liberated from the deep-rooted effects of an abusive childhood, arrives in London. She is full of hope and ready to embrace a fresh start. However, she soon finds herself as ‘the leading lady in drama she can’t comprehend.’ The gaslighting is subtle, the manipulation slick.

Can Miss Havisham discern her fate? Or is she destined to relive the devastation of her trauma?
Havisham offers a fresh perspective of Charles Dickens’ greatest work of Gothic characterisation – Miss Havisham from Great Expectations. Miss Havisham is the embodiment of steady trauma and malignant rage. But how did she arrive at this place and what are the tragic secrets of her calamitous past…?

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ROOM

“A woman must have money and a room of her own if she is to write fiction…”

Room is a brand new stage adaptation of this seminal feminist work, A Room of One’s Own by Virginia Woolf, first presented as a series of lectures at the University of Cambridge in 1928, then published the following year.

Heather Alexander both adapts the piece and plays Virginia Woolf as the author gives an illuminating lecture on the gender disparity in fiction, a literary tradition dominated by men.

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BECOMING
MRS DANVERS

Becoming Mrs Danvers is not just a play—it’s a descent into the fragile brilliance of imagination as survival. It asks: how far will we go to feel safe? To be seen? To matter?

The story pulses with longing and loss, weaving together memory, mimicry, and movie magic. But it is Dani’s journey—both tender and terrifying—that holds us in its grip. A journey shaped by resilience, wrapped in velvet and smoke.
And just when you think you’ve understood her, the final scene rewrites everything.

We promise not to spoil the ending—but know this: it will leave you breathless.

KISS OFF / PROXY

Two plays by Heather Alexander presented as a double-bill

Kiss Off – A dark comedy directed by Tina Pellini.
Two women. A deadly diagnosis. Can humanity triumph? We recognise these women. A black comedy exploring a world where words poison and dreams are disordered echoes of a past that can’t be silenced.

Proxy – a psychological drama directed by Dominique Gerrard
Can a child survive the ultimate betrayal? Mothers nurture and children thrive – that’s what we believe, applaud and expect. An exploration of how abuse can operate in plain sight

BARD’S BITCHES

Who is Shakespeare’s biggest bitch? Thespian pros rub shoulders with desperate amateurs, as an audition for the RAC Theatre Company is being held at a local school hall whilst a special lecture is scheduled for the students. Luvvies, school staff and students bitch and bicker, leaving the audience to decide who is the Bard’s biggest bitch.

Co-directed by Tina Pelini and Heather Alexander with devised input from Jane Brooman.

SHIRLEY VALENTINE

Heather Alexander stars in the classic comedy by Willy Russell, known by many as the hit film starring Pauline Collins.

“Marriage is like the Middle East. There’s no solution!”

Our heroine is an ordinary English housewife.

As she prepares chips and egg for dinner, she ruminates on her life and tells the wall about her husband, her children, her past, and an invitation from a girlfriend to join her on holiday in Greece to search for romance and adventure.

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ANNIE BRASSEY

“Oft in danger, never afraid” This was Anna Brassey’s life motto as she travelled the world on a Victorian steam clipper. Her journal, ‘A Voyage in the Sunbeam’ made her experiences famous and established her as a popular Victorian writer. But who was the very private woman behind the public image? Puppetry, drama, song and film contribute to revealing how Anna and her crew survive as they negotiate prejudice and personal tragedy.

Anna Brassey: mother, explorer, curator, campaigner, pioneer – a woman ahead of her time.

Written and Directed by Heather Alexander