As part of their 2023 Premieres season this autumn, New Wimbledon Theatre will premiere three new productions in their studio space, including the full version of monodrama Black to the Future and two brand spanking new musicals: Battersea Bardot: A New Musical and Seize The Cheese! A New Musical.

This is the third annual, three-show Premieres season presented by the venue, which aims to provide a starting point for, and to help facilitate companies in, fully staging their work for the first time. Selected from an overwhelming number of submissions, New Wimbledon Theatre are thrilled to present their first musicals as part of the season, as well as their first conceptual monodrama.

Kicking off the season will be Battersea Bardot: A New Musical from 14-28 September, written by South West London based writer and composer, Ewen Moore.

Moore brings to the stage a new one-woman musical that tells the wild, exciting, and tragic true-life story of the forgotten star of Swinging London Carol White, a working-class film star who found herself lost in a Hollywood nightmare.

Next up from 19-28 October, the venue will host Black to the Future written by emerging writer Tristan Waterson.

Produced by Piece of Cake Productions this searing new monodrama, told through the multi-verse explores what it means to be multifaceted as a young black person in London. The four youngest people to take their GCSEs in the UK are all black, but where are all the stories that highlight black academic excellence?

Finishing the line-up and playing from 2-11 November is an exuberant leap into self-discovery and multiple fractures, Seize The Cheese! A New Musical.

Loosely inspired by the world-famous cheese-rolling in Gloucestershire, in which people plummet down a deadly hill in pursuit of a speeding Double Gloucester cheese, Calimani Productions’ uplifting comedy features sumptuous songs by Patrick Steed and Mike Stocks, as well as an unforgettable array of characters, who all have their deeper reasons for risking life and limb for cheese.

Running at the Studio at New Wimbledon Theatre for 10 strictly limited performances each this autumn, New Wimbledon Theatre’s Premieres season is set to be their most exciting season yet! Tickets are on sale now here.