Rada Lab Works 2026: Lab Re-Works 3

120m · Theatre

A series of original theatre shorts from RADA’s graduate community. Shows included in this evening: Plastic Flowers , LIBERATING: She Dances (in Chains) and Scenes from a Falling World. Part of The Coronet Theatre and RADA’s partnership to present RADA’s MA Theatre Lab’s Lab Works . The week-long project culminates in a series of original ‘theatre-shorts’, enabling artistic development, public visibility, and new networking opportunities for these emerging artists. Plastic Flowers Created and performed by Jack Yearsley In a world demanding “good vibes only,” what is the cost of perfection? Plastic Flowers is a gripping solo show that puts our curated lives under a microscope. We meet LEO, a man who is desperately trying to keep it together in a chic up-scale restaurant. His smile may be practiced, but his charm feels hollow, and much of his life seems like a performance. This play is an unflinching look at the pressure to perform happiness and the agonizing gap between a oneʻs public self and the life we often try to keep hidden. Running time: Approx 20 Minutes Content warnings: Loud Noises Liberating: She Dances (In Chains) Created by Xiaoyao Luo 罗逍瑶 (she/her) Performed by SHE: Xiaoyao Luo; THEM: Kuba Pawełczak, Wenqi Yu Movement Direction by Rebeca Pereira Original Music by Wenshan Yu Sound Design by Lois Qi Lighting Design by Melody Mengyun Liu Visual Design by Chaoying Lin Assistant Produced by Inini Xinyi Yin Marketing and Photography by Ruidi Zhu Film and Videography by Dana Peiyi Wang Special thanks to Ian Morgan, Christopher Sivertsen, Lesley Ewen, Suzanne West, Xiangrong Tang and Zhuosi Zhao LIBERATING: She Dances (in Chains) is a physical theatre performance exploring the female body as a site of memory, discipline and resistance. Through chains, masks, movement and multilingual text, the piece follows a body trained to move within constraint, and asks what it takes to reclaim freedom when constraint has become a language of survival. Running time: Approx 50 mins Content warnings: Contains scenes involving chains, physical restraint, masks, intense movement, suggestive sexual imagery, themes of control, gendered violence and bodily trauma. Scenes from a falling world Created and performed by Emma Yvette Conlon , Will Choy Edelson , Jonah Buksbaum and Tara Kitson The world is falling, the stars are leaving, the leaves are working overtime. Lovers cling to each other, families break apart, and humanity searches for something to hold onto. How do we react when we fall? What do we do on the way down? Running time: TBC Content warnings: TBC See the full RADA Lab Works 2026 Line-up