New theatre festival celebrates South-east London’s emerging writers

SE Fest is a new festival based in South-east London to promote and celebrate emerging writers. 

It will be hosted by two neighbouring venues, The Bridge House Theatre in Penge and The Jack Studio Theatre in Crofton Park. Both are award-winning theatres with a reputation for supporting and presenting new works. 

Running from September 3 to 13, the festival’s selected writers cover just about everything from Ancient Greek epics to true crime as well as topical political pieces.

Highlights of the two week programme include Scissor Sisters by Amy Connery.

Based on true events, the play hones in on a murder committed in Dublin in 2005, by two sisters. Due to the nature of the crime the Irish media dubbed them the ‘Scissor Sisters.’

With one now free and the other still serving a life sentence, they meet for the first time in a Dublin prison and begin to see if they can rebuild their fractured relationship. With the hope for freedom feeling hard to reach, the sisters finally try to get to the truth of what really happened.

Elsewhere in the programme, on September 6, Dian Catha takes a deep dive into the mainstream rhetoric surrounding transgender people, with Deadnamed.

To counter the general narrative of loss associated with a person coming out as transgender, Dian decides to throw his own funeral, and you are all invited.

The 45 minute production opens up an important insight into trans rights, with a trans person at its centre.

For more information and the full line up, visit: https://thebridgehousetheatre.co.uk/se-fest/#

Pictured top: SE Fest programme banner (Picture: SE Fest)