Stock Exchange

Stock Exchange: the new scratch night

New writing and shared ideas, Stock Exchange is theatre’s newest scratch night for developing work for the stage. A space for artists to experiment and for audiences to discover new shows.

Featuring seven pieces by emerging and established writers and theatre-makers, don’t miss your chance to catch a glimpse of the future of theatre.

Sunday 4 February at the Collective Theatre

Age Advisory 14+ for strong language and adult themes across the scratch night. Each 10 minute piece varies in content, view additional content warnings for specific pieces at the bottom of this page.

What’s On

Helsinki Syndrome

Written by Catherine O’Shea

Two former bandmates, Lauren and Alex, meet for the first time in twenty years. Their memories don’t match up and they are no longer playing in time.

Director: Lilly Driscoll
Actors: Emma James, Monique Helena

Open Source Intelligence (OSINT) and Operational Security (Opsec) for the Jobbing Actor

Written and performed by Gawa Leung

A Chinese actress stalks another Chinese actress because they are the same casting type.

Director: Lucia Rimini

Butterfly Lovebite

Written by Huw Smallwood

A young man on parole takes part in the trial scheme to talk to his future self. But would you talk to your former self if it meant you stop existing?

Director: Melisa Dunne
Actors: Martin Edwards, Henry Brobbey

thick_skin

Written and performed by Connor Rowlett & Ben Borthwick

thick_skin is a live and multimedia performance about the inarticulacy of male friendship and the intolerable pressures of living as a performer

SHOTS SHOTS SHOTS (The Process)

Written by Clare Stenning

Fueled by a sequence of uniquely crafted shots, two strangers embark on an unconventional and revealing first date.

Director: Lilly Driscoll
Actors: Clare Stenning, Emma James

The Unveiling

Written by Robin Du Four

A fine art photographer is visited by his agent after a break-up.

Director: Melisa Dunne
Actors: Martin Edwards, Henry Brobbey

Unsettled

Written by Georgia Crowther

Hannah works in a call centre where she spends her days attempting to collect unpaid energy bills. One night, while alone in the office, she is tasked with securing a large debt from an inaccessible customer in order to keep her job.

Director: Lucia Rimini 
Actor: Lucy Bromilow

About Stock Exchange

Collective Theatre is North London’s newest space for theatre-makers, bridging the gap between the fringe and the mid-scales stage. Stock Exchange is a space for emerging and established theatre artists to experiment, take risks and develop excellent new theatre.  

Stock Exchange is produced by Stockroom, a creative hub dedicated to script creation and home to theatre’s first writers room. Stock Exchange continues our radical new approach to play writing.

Content Warnings

Age Advisory 14+ for strong language and adult themes across the scratch night. Each 10 minute piece varies in content, see additional content warnings for specific pieces below:

Open Source Intelligence (OSINT) and Operational Security (Opsec) for the Jobbing Actor by Gawa Leung
Stalking

Unsettled by Georgia Crowther
Strong language, references to death

thick_skin by Connor Rowlett & Ben Borthwick
Strong language, references to sexual assault