The Turbine Theatre has announced two new musicals for its summer season: Halls and Faking Bad - The Unauthorised Parody Methsical.

Halls is a new musical directed by Andy Fickman (Heathers) and written by Jennifer Harrison and George Stroud, playing from 7-30 July.

Having previously been performed at MTFest 2022 in workshop form, this summer will see the production in the next stage of its development.

Centring around eight first-year university students, from different backgrounds and upbringings, who are brought together when they're all allocated the same flat in Halls of Residence, Flat 15B.

The show follows the characters over the course of the academic year, exploring the relationships they form, as they learn to live together whilst experiencing student life.

Freshers week, exam stress, the cost of student living, and romance, are all key themes in this coming-of age-story. Laugh, and cry, as the flatmates find their feet in a world where their decisions are now entirely their own. The upbeat, contemporary, pop-rock soundtrack mirrors the sense of nostalgia that the show evokes.

Ten years after the award winning TV show Breaking Bad hit our screens comes: Faking Bad - The Unauthorised Parody Methsical, playing from 17 August-23 September.

Written by Rob Gathercole and directed by Andrew Beckett, this very unauthorised tribute to Breaking Bad is (predicted) to be one of the most stupid and best pieces of musical theatre to ever grace a stage!

The production will feature actor-musicians who, against the backdrop of an old industrial tunnel, condense the epic story of a lost chemistry teacher into a one-act musical comedy. 

This all-singing, all-dancing methsical contains a ridiculous array of musical styles and theatrical tropes to speed through 62 hours of television in under 90 minutes, with the promise to keep the audiences laughing, on this joyous ride through the desert! We promise it won’t be dry and there will be Mexican hats…maybe maracas!

Come jump in our RV for this chaotic and zany tribute to one of the best written binges this century. 

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