Underbelly's 2025 theatrical sensations will take you on an eclectic journey through wearable technology, a chicken farm, an early 2000's working-class Northern town, the inner workings of a romance novel, rural Taiwan and much much more! 

We're delighted to bring you a moo-nificent selection of theatre. There is much to see, so get a-herd of the crowd and book your tickets now! 

EXPLORE: LEGEND-DAIRY THEATRE

 

3 Chickens Confront Existence 

Something is coming to an end.

In this surrealist and hilarious production, three factory farm chickens passionately explore their impossible situation – awaiting their imminent trip to the broiler. Tragedy morphs to comedy and back again as they explore mysticism, power struggles, class inequality, mythology and religion, with plenty of emotionally charged antics and surprises along the way.

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A Small Town Northern Tale 

Growing up Black, British, and completely out of place.

Let’s go back to the 2000s. MSN, Myspace, Big Brother, Nokia Brickphones and lads mags ruling the shelves.

At 13, David finds himself uprooted from the city, navigating life as a Jamaican-English mixed-heritage kid in a small working-class Northern town—trying to carve out his identity while everyone around him thinks they’ve already decided it for him. Hilarious, sharp, and painfully nostalgic, A Small Town Northern Tale is for anyone who ever spent hours perfecting their Myspace bio, knew the exact right time to go “offline and online” for attention, and remembers just how dodgy 2000s fashion really was.

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Alice Fraser: A Passion for Passion

A Comedy Show About Writing A Book About Romance

Alice Fraser has fallen in love... with romance novels. She's written a delirious love letter to the genre and now she has to live with the consequences. If you love romance novels, or if you have no idea how anyone could love romance novels, this is the show for you. A show that will make you laugh, cry and rethink happily ever after.

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Taiwan Season: Dazed and Confused

There must be something you truly love and are pretty good at.

Magic seamlessly meets theatre in Lin Lu-Chieh's engaging autobiographical solo show.

Gently laced with audience participation, this entertaining and universally relatable performance is about finding yourself by doing what you love. Dazed and Confused tells the story of a child growing up in rural Taiwan, discovering their unique talents amidst the trials of life. While it may appear to reflect a typical Asian childhood, the journey unfolds with youthful confusion, experimentation, pain, and failure. These raw experiences resonate unexpectedly with anyone who has ever navigated the path to adulthood.

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I AM – One of many, many of One

A poetic reflection of memory loss unpacked through an Afro-Futuristic lens.

Winner of the Most Memorable Show, Lustrum Award 2023. Part of the modular series I AM.

A first-generation immigrant straddles her Habesha (Eritrean/Ethiopian) heritage and British identity only to realise, when you leave everything behind for the promise of something better, it’s not "better". A poetic reflection on memory loss, displacement, tradition and survival, interwoven with language, customs, music and wearable tech MiMu gloves (as used by Imogen Heap).

Neither a musical, nor drama: a new kind of storytelling.

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I Dream in Colour

She wants this surgery, but doesn't know how to put herself first.

‘You’re fighting for equal rights or some such shit, and that’s the problem: I’m still fighting for the right to exist.’

Sophie has a choice: surgically remove her one remaining eye containing a tumour, or risk eye cancer. Again.

Shortlisted for the Charlie Hartill Award, I Dream in Colour is a semi-autobiographical, one-woman show exploring the intersections between disability, race, gender, and the tumultuous relationship we have with our bodies and ourselves when we straddle the margins of multiple minority groups. Weaving storytelling, stand up comedy and spoken word, it seeks to ask the question: how do we navigate a world that reminds us every day we should not even exist?

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