4x4 Four | MishMash Festival

Created by Milly Roberts

“She looks like me, she sounds like me, she is half - me. But I don’t know her at all.”

Two half-sisters meet for the first time in their adult lives, and it blows their world wide open. An interrogation of sisterhood, identity and family history, inspired by real-life events, Small Want explores the interwoven memories of two women linked by blood, attempting to rediscover a sense of whole within half-siblinghood.

Created by Michael Yale

Recently widowed Robert is sent support to care for him. Into Robert’s insular existence bursts Jayce, charismatic young care worker by day, drag queen fabulousness by night. This unwanted intruder causes an explosive upheaval that stirs up dark memories Robert had desperately wanted buried forever. “Sissy” explores identity, belonging and acceptance against a background of repression and intolerance. Inspired by true accounts.

Created by Christian Bevan, Emmanuel Olusanya, Victor Ciri

When she applied for drama school Sophie didn’t realise that getting in would be the easy part. With little experience, and an aggressive pride, she must navigate this landscape, with strange new ideas and people. Simultaneously, her home life becomes more dramatic, and chaotic, throwing her future into doubt. We follow her on this journey where she makes unlikely friends, and challenges the beliefs she held her whole life.

Created by Lucy Havard & Conor Dumbrell

‘Insides’ follows two miners who have narrowly escaped a cataclysmic collapse and have taken shelter in an Emergency Bunker. We sit with them in the aftermath of a traumatic event and watch (and listen) as they unravel, bond, despair, sing silly songs and wait to be saved (hopefully). We comically examine how much we really say and how all of our attempts to hide who we are become considerably harder when trapped inside a metal box 1000 feet underground.