Our lunchtime series of new musical readings, Musical Bites, returns this Summer with four new shows!

Presented with The Other Palace, Musical Bites is taking place on selected Wednesday lunchtimes in June and July. Each performance features a 45-minute script-in-hand rehearsed reading from a brand-new British musical.

£5 tickets, £3.50 for MMD members with discount code

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Wed 17 Jun @ 1.30pm – Mockingbird 1

Composer, Lyricist & Bookwriter: Jonathan Ip 
This project is being developed with and for The Daywalkers Collective, including Naomi Cook, Jonathan Ip, Emily Rogers and Jem Tyler.

The world ended. Humanity, undeterred, jettisoned themselves into the far reaches of space on the promise of a new planet to call home. As was appropriate for the late twenty-first century, the people were carefully organised by their order of utility in society. The musicians went last – aboard Mockingbird 1.

In this gig theatre musical, a sentient spaceship sings the story of the final musicians in the universe. A popstar falls in love with a bartender. The backup band finally gets to work on their own masterpiece. A music teacher saves the world.

Mockingbird 1’s journey takes us all the way from the first utterances of our Palaeolithic ancestors to the final notes of our doomed descendants, and in the face of everything, unapologetically asserts that art was, is, and will always be what makes us human.