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 29 Jul @ 1.30pm – Theo In Between

Composer, Co-Lyricist & Pianist/MD: Jordan Li-Smith
Bookwriter & Co-Lyricist: Gareth Mattey 
Director & Dramaturg: Dean Johnson 

It’s 1999, and as Dulberry prepares for the annual Harvest Festival, Theo is stuck thinking: if I find my Dad, will I understand what it means to be a ‘man’? With a good push from Mum, Theo agrees to be the Harvest Festival’s (first ever) Fall King, hurling their gender journey into the spotlight between the Chief of Police, the Festival Committee, and on-again-off-again couple Rachel and Simon. But when Dad doesn’t show, Theo abandons the festival for London.

After a surreal single night, Theo discovers their Dad cannot help – the answers they needed were at home. Recounting their story, the Chief of Police refuses to believe them. Rachel, Simon and (most importantly) Mum rally to support them. Theo finally finds confidence in their in-between-ness, inspiring the town of Dulberry on the brink of the year 2000 to ask: “What do you wanna see? Who do you wanna be?”