Trouble, Struggle, Bubble & Squeak
Award-winning theatre maker and “Fringe legend” (Time Out), Victoria Melody joined a historical re-enactment society… because we all deal with divorce differently!
Spending weekends as a Musketeer trying to get her head straight, she uncovered the story of a bunch of 17th-century radicals called The Diggers—and everything changed.
What started as a personal search for happiness turned into a quest to find the Diggers of today. She didn’t expect to find them far from the battlefield, right on her doorstep. Blending storytelling and stand-up, past and present collide in this tale of high jinks and resistance.
Directed by Mark Thomas, this celebrates the ordinary people still shaping history.
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Victoria Melody and Mark Thomas present Trouble, Struggle, Bubble and Squeak
Commissioned by Brighton Dome & Brighton Festival with financial support from East Brighton Trust, Creative Crawley as part of Creative Playground, Keep It Fringe and The Spring. Supported using public funding by Arts Council England.
Developed with Crew Club, East Brighton Food Co-op, Friends of Whitehawk Hill, The English Civil War Society and Woolly Umbrella.
Image credit: Matt Stronge
'Together, [Mark Thomas] and Melody have created a heartwarming tribute to the people [...] who give their time and energy to keep a community afloat when societal safety nets fail and the welfare state can no longer be relied upon'The Stage
'Melody’s heartfelt and funny piece of real-life rabble-rousing is part living newspaper and part civic intervention that becomes a moving and inspirational comic call to arms'The List
'Her retelling of the tale, wide-eyed and ever delighted, is a joyful testament to people power and a heartening parable about the possibility of collective action'The Guardian
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