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AUB Productions

Providing quality entertainment, reflecting the highest levels of industry practice.

For exciting drama and high-level entertainment, our diverse Spring 2024 programme offers something for everyone. Professionally supported, top-quality productions showing off AUB’s wealth of emerging young talent in theatre performance and design.

Building on decades of developing expertise in performance and design, we're thrilled to host our first season at the University’s Palace Court Theatre in Bournemouth town centre.

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In AUB Productions, students collaborate with industry professionals and students from courses within the Bournemouth Film School, including: BA (Hons) Acting, BA (Hons) Costume, BA (Hons) Performance Design and Film Costume, BA (Hons) Make-Up for Media and Performance, BA (Hons) Creative Writing and BA (Hons) Dance. This is vocational learning in performance and design at the highest level.

This provides students with key insights into the industry, and opportunities to develop professional skills in multiple roles on and off stage. These span all areas, including costume, set, acting, make-up, technical, props, prosthetics, hair, make-up, script, front-of-house, stage management and publicity.

It’s edge-of-your-seat stuff, in a production that pulls its audience into the action and lays bare the human condition – another example of the depth of skills and talent currently attracted to AUB, where the students rise to every challenge thrown at them.

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Thérèse

A powerful and historically significant piece of theatre that is worth going out of your way to see.

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Spring Awakening

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AUB Productions' 'The Ballad of Maria Marten' – two actors in period costume.

A scene from La Casa Nova at Palace Court Theatre featuring BA (Hons) Acting students in period costume.

AUB Productions' 'The Ballad of Maria Marten' – actor in period costume with a green umbrella, wood panel background.

Actors on stage in A Midsummer Night's Dream, two in the woods with trees and a character facing away in a blue eye robe.

A BA (Hons) Acting student wearing an 18th century costume and wig, performing in La Casa Nova at Palace Court Theatre.

Actors on stage in A Midsummer Night's Dream hiding in a tree, dim blue lighting.

Four BA (Hons) Acting students all in contemporary costume, standing and performing a scene from La Casa Nova at Palace Court Theatre.

A performer dressed as a maid approaches two other performers in period costume sitting on chairs with a small table in between.

Three actors in period costume on a stage. One is handing a candle to another.

Portrait of an actor in Victorian costume.

Set designed by students for Mermaid performance

Person standing at the foot of a stage wearing headphones. A line of performers are behind them with their backs to them.

A make-up artist wearing a face mask applies make-up to an actor's face.

Set designed by students for Jane Eyre performance

A make-up artist wearing a face mask applies a false moustache to an actor.

Set designed by students for Gut Girls performance

A performer in a fur-collared coat and hat and goggles gazes up open-mouthed.

A make-up artist wearing a face mask applies make-up to an actor's face. The actor has their eyes closed.

A group of actors in period costume in the middle of a performance. Four of them are seated around a table with a door behind them.

Two make-up artists wearing face masks work on an actor's hair.

Set designed and built by students for the Changing Room performance

A make-up artist wearing a face mask adjusts an actor's hair from behind.

Set designed and built by students for the We Burn Brightly performance

Actors on stage, two serving as the head and body of a lion. An actress in costume as an ice queen is on the ground and cowering before the lion's head.

Man wearing orange make-up with blue hair

Two people with red noses stand opposite one another, each with a foot on a blue box on the floor in front of them.

BA (Hons) Acting students in the middle of a performance of Frankenstein. The actors are gathered around a table in the middle of the stage, on which another actor is lying.

A person sits at a sewing machine and works on a colourful piece of fabric

Two actors in costume - one as a white witch with an ice crown, the other as a school child with a fur shawl wrapped around them - sitting on a bed.

Make-up student painting an Acting student's face for a performance

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Actor in costume with his arms raised, on stage in mid-speech.

A person in costume as the White Witch from the Chronicles of Narnia sits on a bed.

A performer stands with a serious expression on the left-hand side with a group of other performers reaching towards him.

Coming up in 2024/25

A sneak peek at next year's autumn and spring seasons.

	Dates	Venue	Director
I, Joan (by Charlie Josephine)	7-9 November	Studio Theatre, AUB Campus	Elinor Lower
Romeo and Juliet (by William Shakespeare)	6-15 November	Schools' Tour*	Fiona Ross
Romeo and Juliet (by William Shakespeare)	16 November	Palace Court Theatre	Fiona Ross
Emilia (by Morgan Lloyd Malcolm)	5-7 December	Studio Theatre, AUB Campus	Mumba Dodwell

* Schools' tour, fully booked.

	Dates	Venue	Director
The Visit (by Friedrich Dürrenmatt)	20-22 March	Palace Court Theatre	David O'Shea
This Happy Breed (by Noël Coward)	22-24 May	Palace Court Theatre	Sean Aita
AlterNative Narratives (by Pete Machale)	5-7 June	Palace Court Theatre	Steph Kempson