Directors' Showcase 2025

The Directors’ Showcase is a vibrant theatre festival celebrating the work of this year’s cohort of Mountview MA Theatre Directors. The 2025 showcase features fresh takes on theatrical classics, new writing, contemporary works and more. The Directors’ Showcase generates provocative, engaging and entertaining theatre from Mountview’s up-and-coming directing talent and is a highly anticipated event in the Mountview calendar.

The Directors’ Showcase 2025 will run from the 29 May – 14 June in Mountview’s Backstage Theatre.

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MUMBURGER

Director Ophelia Fellhauer

When Andrea dies suddenly, the arrival of her mysterious final wish forces her grieving daughter and husband to confront their fractured relationship: a 'digestive memorial'. In this darkly comedic, visceral play about family, grief and red meat, Sarah Kosar asks how far we'd go to reconnect with the ones we love most.

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Anemoia

Director Eric Moll

How does one grieve a friend who chooses to vanish without a word? In this surreal journey through the shifting landscape of memory, a young woman confronts unanswerable questions. As nostalgia blurs truth and idealism obscures pain, she must navigate a maze of remembrance to confront what's been lost—and what was never really there.

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Shook

Director Chris Lancaster

Instead of GCSEs, Cain, Riyad and Jonjo got sentences. Locked up together in a young offender institution, they trade sweets, chat shit, kill time - and await fatherhood. Grace's job is to turn these teenagers into parents. But can they grow up quickly enough to escape the system?
 
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Iphigenia

Director Nepheli Velissariou

A gripping Greek tragedy about a young woman ensnared in the ruthless clash between duty, power, and sacrifice. As Agamemnon faces the harrowing command to sacrifice his daughter Iphigenia for the sake of war, the play delves into fate, authority, and the silenced voices that echo through moments of crisis.

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Ness

Director Cece Walker 

After a painful coming-out, Em escapes to Loch Ness - only to discover the legendary monster is a fabulous drag queen! With Nessie as their fairy god-queen, Em must navigate family and identity in this magical, queer coming-of-age story. Who knows what they'll find beneath the surface?
 
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3 Billion Seconds

Director Jessica Harmer-Smith

Population Matters activists Daisy and Michael want to save the world. And all they want you to do is not have a baby. But now they are pregnant. And they don't know what to do. How can you offset 3 billion seconds of life? A hilarious, macabre love story about a pair of expectant activists attempting to offset the carbon footprint of their unborn baby's life.

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Bliss

Director Zhaoyi Ying

Something is wrong with a world-famous icon. Why is she turning her back on her glamorous public life and her adoring fans? And how is her story connected to the story of an unknown woman on the other page of the magazine ? It’s not. Until Caro intervenes.
 
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It Only Takes A Toe

Director Alfie Chesney

Following a harrowing shipwreck and an act of cannibalism that shocked the nation, those left behind in the aftermath must navigate sorrow, silence and shocking truths. How do women endure when the world watches only the men? What happens when grief refuses to follow rules?

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