The Turbine Theatre have announced the exciting and diverse new musicals selected for this year’s MTFestUK 2022, including No Limits, Halls , Wuthering Heights – The Musical, Train On Fire, RuneSical, Father/Son, Jeanne and Queeroes.

 A celebration of new musical theatre, MTFestUK2022 runs from 31 January – 12 February 2022 at The Turbine Theatre in Battersea and sets out to promote quality artistry with a view to showcasing and elevating projects to full production, giving audiences an insight into the process of creating new work and the art of collaboration. 

No Limits is an exciting new song-cycle by Sam Thomas that shatters the notion of falling behind in life – because there’s really no such thing. It follows characters as they dare to believe in themselves and strive for a better tomorrow. A show with heart, humour and a message we should all take on board… Know no limits.

Halls by Jennifer Harrison and George Stroud centres on a diverse group of eight, first-year uni students from different cultural backgrounds and upbringings who are brought together when they find out they've been allocated the same exact flat in Halls of Residence: Flat 15B. Over the course of the show, audiences can look forward to some rich character development as they witness these eight lovable students blossom and develop over their academic school year.  

Wuthering Heights - The Musical revitalises Brontë’s renowned Gothic romance through a 21st century lens. Wild, whimsical Cathy has grown up on the Yorkshire moors, and when Heathcliff, the young immigrant orphan, is thrust into her life, the pair soon become inseparable. This brutally honest retelling of Heathcliff and Cathy’s death-defying love by Lizzie Lister, Mick Lister and Clare Lonsdale highlights the novel’s most hard-hitting themes, and will harden, break and heal your heart. From the lovelorn Lintons, tyrannical Hindley, to the all-seeing, all-knowing Nelly Dean, this adaptation gives every character the chance to tell their side of the story.  

Annabelle Lee’s Train on Fire is a musical where the feminists of today tell the story of a feminist of yesterday

Runesical by Sam Cochrane and Alex Prescot is based on the hugely popular online game RuneScape. Join Lance_054 (the first fifty-three were taken) on a quest where YOU, the audience, decide where the characters go next! Whether you’re an experienced player or a total noob, Gigglemug Theatre (The Stage Edinburgh Award Winners) bring you a new multi-pathway musical which will have the whole family laughing from start to finish. 

Father/Son is a beautiful exploration of the relationship between Liam, known as 'Godfather of the Blues', and his son Finley, a songwriter chasing the charts, written by Nick Butcher and Fraser Watt.

A through-composed rock opera, Jeanne (by Shirlie Roden) traces the story of the legendary fifteenth-century Joan of Arc, a young peasant girl destined for greatness, who claims to have been chosen by God to liberate her country and to crown the Dauphin as King of France. The dramatic raising of the siege of Orleans finds Jeanne fulfilling her vision, standing beside the Dauphin as he is crowned. 

Finally, Queeroes is a celebration of some of history’s iconic queer heroes. The ones that should have made your history lessons at school…but didn’t. It’s time to shine the spotlight on them and imagine what if. What if Alan Turing ending up in the same room as Frida Carlo. What would they talk about? And… if they could sing…what might they sing. Join us as we celebrate queer history in this irreverent and high-octane party. Queeroes has a book by Victoria Bush and Laura Checkley, with music by Gus Gowland, Leo & Hyde and based on an original idea by Paul Taylor-Mills.

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