Victoria Melody & Mark Thomas present 'Trouble, Struggle, Bubble and Squeak'
Schedule
Thu Oct 09 2025 at 08:00 pm to 09:00 pm
UTC+01:00Location
21 South Street, RG1 4QU Reading, United Kingdom | Reading, EN
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Award-winning theatre maker Victoria Melody joined a historical re-enactment society... because we all deal with divorce in different ways.! Spending weekends as a Musketeer trying to get her head straight, she uncovered the story of a bunch of 17th century radicals called The Diggers and then everything changed. What started out as a personal search for happiness turned into a quest to find the Diggers of today. What she didn't expect was that they'd be found far from the battlefield, right on her doorstep. Back in modern-day Britain doing her day job, she realised The Diggers never really left. They’re still here, still fighting, making change on their own terms.
By blending storytelling and stand-up, past and present collide in this unexpected tale of high jinks. Alongside a community on the frontline Vic steps from re-enactment into reality, where history isn’t just remembered—it’s made.
Directed by Mark Thomas, 'Trouble, Struggle, Bubble and Squeak' celebrates the ordinary people shaping history - then and now. And, like The Diggers, they might leave behind something that will last…if they don’t get caught.
£17, £15 Members
Age guidance: 14+
Running time: 60 mins (no interval)
Commissioned by Brighton Dome & Brighton Festival with financial support from East Brighton Trust, Creative Crawley as part of Creative Playground, Keep It Fringe and The Spring.
Developed with Crew Club, East Brighton Food Co-op, Friends of Whitehawk Hill, The English Civil War Society and Woolly Umbrella.
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