Step into the bold and brilliant world of queer storytelling at our second Queer Fest: Scratch Night!

Opening a week of queer new writing in the Burton Taylor Studio, this electrifying evening is your chance to experience extracts of work by emerging queer voices - live, unfiltered, and on stage for the very first time.

Back after last year's sold-out show, Scratch Night offers a glimpse into the future of queer storytelling, shared in its most experimental and exciting form.

Performances

Spin Cycle

By Zofia Zerphy
Directed by Bethan Rose
Performed by Zofia Zerphy & Rhiannon Bell

Ex-lovers Noel and Kitt enter a launderette, but as their eyes meet, they can’t quite place where they know each other from.

Over the next hour, they air their dirty laundry, chatting sh*t about their exes without realising they're talking to the very same. As their clothes get sudsy, they discover more about each other, and the life they shared, until they start to remember who they were (or are) to each other.

This bittersweet, absurdist piece delves into a complex queer relationship and explores how love can affect someone long after it is forgotten.

Kieran the Estate Agent

Kieran is your typical, sleazy estate agent with his shiny grey suit and smarmy sales talk. He is desperate to let this property. Watch as he dances his way through confidence, frustration and desperation…will he meet his targets?

La Vie En Rose

Presenting…your favourite silly little dyke…Liza Bien!

Liza Bien is a gorgeous, sexy, scarlet physical manifestation of lesbianism herself. Never heard of her? Don’t be mistaken, this is no debut; through the cracks of history, she has always been here. Every ‘close friend’ in the history books, generations of illicit WLW love, she’s responsible.

Notorious seducer of wives and murderer of husbands, you’ll never catch her for long…

The Porter

It’s 1605 and the new Porter of St John’s College, Oxford, is discovering his powers. His teenage partner-in-crime, Christopher Wren, writes a play in which they can be themselves. Meanwhile, Catholics are on the run after the Gunpowder Plot. And a mysterious body part is found in the attic!

Join us for a coming-of-age comedy that pokes fun at modern-day attitudes towards gender, class, and race. In this bold new collaboration with Nomad Dance Collective, we give History a telling off and reveal a queer kind of Oxford you’ve never been shown before.

Jennie and the Cockroach

The world is ending - in fourty-nine minutes and thirty-six seconds to be precise - and Jennie, a young trans woman, has kidnapped a cockroach in the vain attempt at leaving something, anything, of her story behind. This is a one-woman show in the pre-apocalypse.