Musical Bites
The Other Palace and Mercury Musical Developments present MUSICAL BITES, a ‘tasting menu’ of exciting musicals in development. Served at 1.30pm on selected Wednesdays, audiences can spend their lunch hour watching a reading of something brand new!
Each week will feature a 45-minute excerpt with script-in-hand, from The Other Palace bar, and an opportunity to provide feedback to the writers. Do support new musicals in development as ticket revenue goes straight to the writers.
All tickets £5.
A selection of lunch options are also available from £5, for purchase on the day or to pre-order with your ticket.
The Other Palace and Mercury Musical Developments present MUSICAL BITES, a ‘tasting menu’ of exciting musicals in development. Served at 1.30pm on selected Wednesdays, audiences can spend their lunch hour watching a reading of something brand new!
Each week will feature a 45-minute excerpt with script-in-hand, from The Other Palace bar, and an opportunity to provide feedback to the writers. Do support new musicals in development as ticket revenue goes straight to the writers.
All tickets £5.
A selection of lunch options are also available from £5, for purchase on the day or to pre-order with your ticket.
Foyer Bar
17 June - 29 July
Performance time:
Wed – 1.30pm
Ticket prices: £5
None.
The main entrance, both our auditoriums and our bar are wheelchair accessible. We also have 2 accessible toilets. Guide dogs and hearing dogs are welcome in the auditorium. There is a Loop system and a Radio Frequency system fitted in the auditorium and there are also hearing loops available at the Box Office. Please see our Accessibility Guidance and please feel free to contact our access team access@theotherpalace.co.uk should there be anything else we can do to make your visit more comfortable.
Line-up
Wed 17 Jun – Mockingbird 1
Composer, Lyricist, Bookwriter: Jonathan Ip
This project is being developed with and for The Daywalkers Collective, including Naomi Cook, Jonathan Ip, Emily Rogers and Jem Tyler.
The world ended. Humanity, undeterred, jettisoned themselves into the far reaches of space on the promise of a new planet to call home. As was appropriate for the late twenty-first century, the people were carefully organised by their order of utility in society. The musicians went last – aboard Mockingbird 1.
In this gig theatre musical, a sentient spaceship sings the story of the final musicians in the universe. A popstar falls in love with a bartender. The backup band finally gets to work on their own masterpiece. A music teacher saves the world.
Mockingbird 1’s journey takes us all the way from the first utterances of our Palaeolithic ancestors to the final notes of our doomed descendants, and in the face of everything, unapologetically asserts that art was, is, and will always be what makes us human.
Wed 8 Jul – Something In The Water
Composer: Marc Folan
Bookwriter: Paul Mari
In 1854, John Snow, a blunt Yorkshire doctor, defied Victorian society in his battle against the most feared disease of the age: cholera. As cholera ravaged the streets of London, Snow traced death itself to a single water pump in Soho. Dismissed by his peers and fighting a thousand years of deep-rooted medical prejudice, he pushed relentlessly toward a radical new understanding of disease.
Snow anaesthetised Queen Victoria, yet history has for so long barely remembered him. Why? Because he didn’t just question medicine – he threatened power itself. This is more than history – it’s a detective story, a battle between evidence and authority, and a revolutionary who refused to be silenced.
Wed 15 Jul – It’s Christmas, Carol!
Bookwriter, Lyricist: Victoria Chen
Composer: Nian Tong
Director, Dramaturg: Namoo Chae Lee
Drawing from East Asian pop culture, we are proud to present a contemporary adaptation of Dickens’ beloved A Christmas Carol, except Ebenezer Scrooge is a stingy Asian aunty called Carol Ling. Based on a real and actual Aunty, but we won’t say whom – pretty much every Asian family has one anyway!
After all, Asians celebrate Christmas too, and Aladdin doesn’t actually count as rEpReSeNtAtiOn.
Wed 29 Jul – Theo In Between
Composer, Co-Lyricist, Pianist/MD: Jordan Li-Smith
Bookwriter, Co-Lyricist: Gareth Mattey
Director, Dramaturg: Dean Johnson
It’s 1999, and as Dulberry prepares for the annual Harvest Festival, Theo is stuck thinking: if I find my Dad, will I understand what it means to be a ‘man’? With a good push from Mum, Theo agrees to be the Harvest Festival’s (first ever) Fall King, hurling their gender journey into the spotlight between the Chief of Police, the Festival Committee, and on-again-off-again couple Rachel and Simon. But when Dad doesn’t show, Theo abandons the festival for London.
After a surreal single night, Theo discovers their Dad cannot help – the answers they needed were at home. Recounting their story, the Chief of Police refuses to believe them. Rachel, Simon and (most importantly) Mum rally to support them. Theo finally finds confidence in their in-between-ness, inspiring the town of Dulberry on the brink of the year 2000 to ask: “What do you wanna see? Who do you wanna be?”
