New Space Festival 2026: A platform for original performance work

Join us for an exciting and dynamic performance and film festival, celebrating the work of our MA performing arts students.
About this Event

NEW SPACE FESTIVAL takes place at The Source between 29 June and 10 July, and presents a diverse array of new works created for both stage and screen. Audiences will have the unique opportunity to experience fresh, original performances that span a range of genres, styles, and artistic approaches. The new space created by the students allows for the reflection of different artistic visions on both stage and screen.

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TODAY's PROGRAMME:

Grace Abigail Tasinchana Yalama TRANSFORMACIÓN (Film)

TRANSFORMACIÓN explores the journeys of three women inspired by Latin American telenovelas: Rubí, María la Caprichosa, and Jeimy from La Reina del Flow. Although each woman comes from different circumstances, they all share one desire to transform their lives and become stronger versions of themselves.
Through melodrama, bilingual performance, and emotional storytelling, TRANSFORMACIÓN explores female empowerment, resilience, identity, and survival. Inspired by the emotional intensity of telenovelas, the project highlights how women continue to rebuild themselves despite pain, judgement, and difficult life circumstances.

Created and Performed by:
Grace Abigail Tasinchana Yalama

Collaborating Performer(s):
Ajay Hiragar, Grace Yalama, Juan Rommel , Brendan Croft, Lindsay Rios

Seira Suzuki Hanahaki (Film)

As a blooming romance between 2 college roommates begins, Sophie must come to terms with themselves, before they can except Airi’s love. Sophie’s thorny battles through gender dysphoria pulls them away from the one person who might understand them, leaving Airi to grapple with the unrequited love she feels. Can they meet on new ground and reveal their true selves?

Producer - Clara White

Director - Maddie Whittaker

Sophie/River played by Autumn Sheilds

Airi played by Seira Suzuki

Hyun Chung Jin Driverless Taxi (Performance)

In a future city where AI controls every system, human relationships have become distant, fragile, and almost impossible to sustain. Surrounded by machines yet consumed by loneliness, one man struggles to survive in a society where even emotion feels mechanised. On a rain-soaked evening, he enters an AI taxi and witnesses a catastrophic system failure. Acting on instinct, he attempts to stop the vehicle himself — but the collision cannot be prevented. Moments later, still trapped inside the taxi, he is transported directly into an AI-controlled courtroom where the trial unfolds with chilling efficiency. As the proceedings continue, the boundaries between justice, performance, and corporate control begin to collapse. Witnesses recite prepared narratives. Authority exists only as a disembodied voice. The courtroom itself feels less like a place of truth and more like a machine processing a predetermined outcome. Beneath the cold logic of the system lies a terrifying question: Can humanity survive in a world where empathy has become irrelevant? Driverless Taxi is a dystopian theatre work exploring isolation, surveillance, mechanisation, and the violence of invisible systems. Through immersive sound, fragmented light, darkness, and minimal staging, the production transforms the theatre into a sensory experience where audiences are not simply watching the story, but trapped inside it.

Written and Directed by Hyun Chung Jin.

Cast:

MAN (David Kramer)

PROSECUTOR (Oleksandr Kutniakov)

LAWYER (Ullahelena Wane Ndembo)

ELLIOT PRICE (Joshua Horn)

DOCTOR (Lucy Sayer)

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