Kaleidoscope Festival Wednesday 11th

Round 2 Of Kaleidoscope!

This festival is produced entirely by Alumni from Mountview's 2024/25 MA cohort and features 23 artists across 5 days performing everything from early-development scratch pieces, to long-form shows fresh from fringe tours across the UK! We encourage early arrival to enjoy the bar space before-hand and are excited to deliver 4 fantastic shows during the evening.

Tonight's Line-Up features:

'Does My Privilege Look Big In This?' By Sian Lawrence

Does my privilege look big in this? is a magical-realist satire about inequality in the British education system. Jess takes a cleaning job at the infamous Eton College. Arnie hates his life at Eton and plots his escape. The plan they hatch teaches them about the power of what we wear, and forces them to ask the lengths they would go to to keep that power.

'You Will Never Know My Name' By Cecile Taylor

60 AD. A single woman raises a rebellion powerful enough to threaten the Roman occupation of Britain. 

Today, all we know of her comes from the accounts of two men, both part of the very empire she rose up against. 

You Will Never Know My Name asks how stories are shaped by those who tell them, and who Boudicca, the legendary warrior queen, really was when her story is stripped from the hands that claimed it. 

Presented as part of Kaleidoscope Festival, this performance is a ten-minute scratch exploring an early stage of the work.  

'Which Box Do I Tick?' By Tara Flanagan

In this piece, singer-songwriter and actress Tara Flanagan dissects and challenges how autobiographical gig-theatre can be used to navigate mixed race identity and address the complexities of racial categorisation. Creatively using her own experiences as a white passing mixed race performer in the acting and music industry, she hopes to share the space with you in a relaxed gig setting featuring songs she has written to explore where we seek for more authentic representation in the creative industries.

'The Last Day Of Spring' By Nimi Spiff

The Last Day of Spring, is a song cycle that confronts the sensation of Greek mythology by turning its gaze away from the thrones of the gods and toward those broken beneath them. The work gives voice to mortals, nymphs, and lesser beings whose lives are reshaped—or erased—by the whims of gods and goddesses whose divinity grants them absolute power without consequence. Love becomes pursuit, punishment masquerades as justice, and transformation is rarely salvation. This show transports us to different hubs of cruelty in Greek mythology, such as Hera's Island, Troy, and Crete.

 Written at various stages of Spiff's life, each song inhabits the inner world of a person caught in divine orbit, showcasing the human cost behind stories so often framed as heroic or beautiful, and who gets forgotten along the way. The Last Day of Spring questions the moral authority of the divine and asks what it means to worship beings who demand suffering as proof of devotion. The gods are not distant, but forces of appetite, jealousy, and control, and their immortality intensifies the imbalance between the powerful and the vulnerable. By reclaiming the voices of mythology’s victims, the cycle transforms ancient stories into a modern meditation on power, silence, and the fragile cost of beauty among viscous jealousy.

Should you wish to attend more than one evening of the festival, please reach out to our team via kaleidoscopefestival2026@gmail.com to access exclusive multi-date discounts (WITH ZERO BOOKING FEES!) which are as follows:

2 Nights - £29 Standard, £22 Concession

3 Nights - £44 Standard, £32 Concession

4 Nights - £56 Standard, £42 Concession

5 Nights - £65 Standard, £50 Concession

6 Nights - £72 Standard, £59 Concession