AUB Productions presents: Still Here

Dates: 5–7 June 2025

Schools performance (open dress rehearsal): 5 June 2025, 14.00 (age: 11+)

It's 2019 and four teenagers break into the Palace Court Theatre, ready for one last game of ghost-hunt before they leave Bournemouth and childhood behind.

It's 1966 and tempers are rising as the local amateur company put on a play that might save the theatre from closure.

It's 978 and King Edward and his sister Edith look towards Corfe Castle, wondering what the future holds for England. 

AUB graduate, actor and playwright Pete Machale (Let the Right One In, Doctor Who, Dear Young Monster) returns to AUB with a brand-new script about love, resistance and wanting to stay where you are. Or is it wanting to stay who you are? Directed by Stephanie Kempson (Until the Sun Goes Down, Breathless) and with dramaturgy by Stephanie Dale (Salt), this production sheds a new light on the Palace Court Theatre and the land it stands on, in a poignant evocation of Bournemouth, its stories and its people.

Content warning: Contains references to violence transphobia and homophobia. Content information will be displayed at the venue.

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