The Bunker Shares Additional Details for BREAKING OUT

This June, six fantastic emerging companies come together for Breaking Out - this new festival offers the opportunity to premiere new work, championing the most ambitious and innovative theatre companies who are embarking on their theatrical journey. Featuring plays, interactive theatre, electronic musicals and devised work, Breaking Out is your chance to see the future of theatre.

The brilliant shows are: Poke in the Eye's Libby's Eyes - an experimental production about a young woman navigating a world she can't see; Sleepless' Nine Foot Nine - a fully accessible show that explores a world in which every self-identifying women suddenly grows to nine foot nine inches; This Noise's No One is Coming to Save You which uses the nineties classic children's movie Matilda as a lens into a tragic event of a young woman; Paper Creatures explore the life of a young man who is sectioned in Section 2; Second Circle Theatre will create an interactive date night with a difference in their production Kiss Chase; and leoe&hyde bring an electronic musical presenting an unapologetically moving portrayal of the hook-ups and downs of 21st century dating - this infectious musical will star The X-Factor finalist Seann Miley Moore.

The festival shows how The Bunker is seeking to be a forerunner in presenting some of the boldest work in the capital. The full programme is as follows:

Poke in the Eye - Libby's Eyes

Every Monday and Thursday - 7pm

Press Night: Thursday 14th June, 7pm

The lights are up on Libby - a girl who can't see. Libby is visually impaired, but she wants to function like everyone else. Inspirational. Her life suddenly changes when she takes on a dystopian world of Reasonable Adjustment Robots with no social skills and a government that categorises disabled people as 'functioning" and "non-functioning'. Entirely fictional of course. Written by disabled playwright Amy Bethan Evans, directed by Spencer Charles Noll and starring award-nominated comedian and actor Georgie Morrell, Libby's Eyes examines the human relationships in life as a disabled person and what it truly means to function. This accessible production will be narrated by a highly talented audio describer.

Sleepless - Nine Foot Nine

Every Monday and Thursday - 8:30pm

Press Night: Thursday 14th June, 8:30pm

Cara and Nate are a hard-working young couple looking to start a family. Together they're bumbling through the daunting world of pregnancy tests, maternity clothes and flat pack cot building. That is, until suddenly, inexplicably, agonizingly, a vast proportion of all the women in the world start to grow - centimetre by centimetre, foot by foot, with science powerless to stop them. The awareness that women are now physically more powerful than men sends shockwaves through society, fracturing age-old assumptions and prejudices. How do political regimes react? What will happen to industry, media, families, sex? And, more importantly, what comes next? Brought to life by Sleepless Theatre Company, this innovative new play examines the changing labels of 'masculine' and 'feminine' and a world where the gender balance is forever altered. Sleepless' ethos is to offer an inclusive, accessible environment for all. In this vein, Nine Foot Nine will be fully captioned throughout the run.

This Noise - No One is Coming to Save You

Every Tuesday and Friday - 7pm

Press Night: Friday 15th June, 7pm

An insomniac is watching TV in a language he doesn't understand; a woman is stood in a garden stretching her arms to the sky. The whole world is asleep and something extraordinary is about to happen. No One Is Coming to Save You is the hypnotic story of two young lives lived in social, political and economic fear. Starring Rudolphe Mdlongwa and Agatha Elwes, this exciting production is hopeful new writing for the Matilda generation - it's a strange, funny exploration of what we're waiting for and why we're waiting. Supported by Arts Council England, This Noise makes experimental theatre about the politics of the here and now.

Paper Creatures - Section 2

Every Tuesday and Friday - 8:30pm

Press Night: Friday 15th June, 8:30pm

Following their highly successful debut show Flood, Paper Creatures Theatre return with this hard-hitting drama by emerging playwright Peter Imms. Directed by Georgie Staight (Into The Numbers, Finborough Theatre) and with an original score composed by Benjamin Winter, this part verbatim drama hones in on an aspect of mental health that is rarely addressed in theatre - sectioning. Drawn from Imms' personal experience of his childhood friend being sectioned under the mental health act, Section 2 explores what it means to be sectioned and how we process and aid the recovery of those afflicted. The cast for this bold production are: Alexandra Da Silva, Nathan Coenen, Jon Tozzi and Esmé Patey-Ford. Paper Creatures have worked with mental health charity Mind on the script development of this production to make sure the content of the play is accurate and truthful to the situation.

Second Circle Theatre - Kiss Chase

Every Wednesday and Saturday - 7pm

Press Night: Saturday 16th June, 7pm

Kiss Chase is a part-interactive, part-verbatim speed dating event, exploring the barriers many of us face when forming relationships with family, friends, or partners. Inspired by real stories of overcoming the isolation of infidelity, social anxiety, abandonment or realising your parents are not the superheroes you once thought, Kiss Chase is a chance to look each other in the face in the centre of the loneliness capital of Europe: London. Starring Hannah Samuels, Zoe Gibbons, Scott Barker, Jon McKenna and Peyvand Sadeghian, you should expect to swap chairs, whisper secrets or maybe even find the love of your life! Second Circle Theatre were finalists of the Pleasance Charlie Hartill Special Reserve 2017. The company is made up of three core theatre-makers who create and self-produce the shows, united by the desire to create honest, visceral theatre in intimate and unique spaces. Kiss Chase follows Second Circle Theatre's debut show Meeting at 33 which had a highly successful sell-out run at The Pleasance.

leoe&hyde - GUY: A New Musical

Every Wednesday and Saturday - 8:30pm

Press Night: Saturday 16th June, 8:30pm

Guy, a shy and overweight millennial, is failing in the departments of mates and dates and fun - dating apps can be cruel if you don't look like a model. When he's ghosted by his Romeo, he tries to follow the latest 11-step listicle to get noticed: diets, exercise regimes, and a new wardrobe... but can he resist the temptation of being someone else when the chance is literally at his fingertips?? ? Starring The X-Factor finalist Seann Miley Moore, GUY is a game-changing gay rom-com for the 2010s. The remaining exciting cast are: Adam Braidley, Brendan Matthew and Steve Banks. With nakedly honest characters, Guy is an unapologetically moving portrayal of the hook-ups and downs of 21st-century dating and a thought-provoking glimpse behind the veil of modern masculinity, male beauty standards, and unspoken prejudices within marginal communities. Tied together with a pioneering and infectiously catchy electronic score, GUY channels floor-filling EDM anthems, indie electronica,? ?queer hip-hop, and PC Music with the lyrical charm of Sondheim, and the earworm melodies of Schwartz.

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