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Trouble, Struggle, Bubble and Squeak

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Overview

Produced by:
Victoria Melody and Mark Thomas
Dates:
April 15 - May 03, 2026
Run Time:
1 Hour, 0 Minute
Intermission:
No
Theater:
Showing in Theater
Tickets:
$32 (incl. a $2 fee) | 59E59 Members: $25
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Show Info

Tickets will go on sale to 59E59 Members on Tuesday, January 27 at 12:00PM. Tickets will go on sale to the general public on Tuesday, February 3 at 12:00PM.

Written and Performed by Victoria Melody
Directed by Mark Thomas

Award-winning theater maker and “Fringe legend” (Time Out), Victoria Melody joined a historical re-enactment society… because we all deal with divorce differently!

Spending weekends as a Musketeer trying to get her head straight, she uncovered the story of 17th-century radicals called The Diggers and everything changed.

What started as a personal search for happiness turned into a quest to find the Diggers of today, but she didn’t expect to find them right on her doorstep. Blending storytelling and stand-up, past and present collide in this tale of hijinks and resistance celebrating the ordinary people still shaping history.

Commissioned by Brighton Dome & Brighton Festival with financial support from East Brighton Trust, Creative Crawley as part of Creative Playground and Keep it Fringe. Supported using public funding by Arts Council England. Developed with Crew Club, East Brighton Food Co-op, Friends of Whitehawk Hill, The English Civil War Society and Woolly Umbrella.

Victoria
Melody
Faith Dodkins,
Producer
Sean Phillips,
Lighting Design
Simon James,
Sound Design
Katharina Radeva,
Design Consultant
Yvette Driver & Alex Hathway,
Prop Makers
Victoria Melody in TROUBLE, STRUGGLE, BUBBLE AND SQUEAK
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Photo: Jonathan Jones
Victoria Melody in TROUBLE, STRUGGLE, BUBBLE AND SQUEAK
Photo Caption: Victoria Melody in TROUBLE, STRUGGLE, BUBBLE AND SQUEAK
Photo: Jonathan Jones
Victoria Melody in TROUBLE, STRUGGLE, BUBBLE AND SQUEAK
Photo Caption: Victoria Melody in TROUBLE, STRUGGLE, BUBBLE AND SQUEAK
Photo: Jonathan Jones
Victoria Melody in TROUBLE, STRUGGLE, BUBBLE AND SQUEAK
Photo Caption: Victoria Melody in TROUBLE, STRUGGLE, BUBBLE AND SQUEAK
Photo: Jonathan Jones
Victoria Melody in TROUBLE, STRUGGLE, BUBBLE AND SQUEAK
Photo Caption: Victoria Melody in TROUBLE, STRUGGLE, BUBBLE AND SQUEAK
Photo: Jonathan Jones
Victoria Melody in TROUBLE, STRUGGLE, BUBBLE AND SQUEAK
Photo Caption: Victoria Melody in TROUBLE, STRUGGLE, BUBBLE AND SQUEAK
Photo: Jonathan Jones
Victoria Melody in TROUBLE, STRUGGLE, BUBBLE AND SQUEAK
Photo Caption: Victoria Melody in TROUBLE, STRUGGLE, BUBBLE AND SQUEAK
Photo: Jonathan Jones
Victoria Melody in TROUBLE, STRUGGLE, BUBBLE AND SQUEAK
Photo Caption: Victoria Melody in TROUBLE, STRUGGLE, BUBBLE AND SQUEAK
Photo: Jonathan Jones
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Producing Company

Victoria Melody and Mark Thomas

Victoria Melody is an award-winning British artist with a passion for other people’s passions. Her work is rooted in playful, human-centred storytelling and combines meticulous research with on-the-ground community engagement, creating pieces that are accessible, witty, and deeply moving. She embeds herself in unique subcultures becoming an active participant in their rituals, then blends documentary techniques with theatrical performance to give a voice to these often-overlooked stories.

She works in theatre, film and stand-up comedy producing work on-stage, on-screen, for audio and in the public realm. In the past she has become a pigeon racer, northern soul dancer, championship dog handler, beauty queen, funeral director, comedian and skipper.

Read more at: www.victoriamelody.com

Reviews

"My favorite work in the look-back-to-look-now vein was Victoria Melody’s Trouble, Struggle, Bubble and Squeak, a delightfully oddball solo account of her participation in two apparently very different associations: an English Civil War-reënactment society and the community center at a social housing estate, where residents are sometimes forbidden from controlling their local green spaces." – Helen Shaw, The New Yorker

★★★★ "A joyful testament to people power, a heartening parable about the possibility of collective action." – The Guardian

★★★★ "A hymn to community and solidarity." – The Stage

★★★★ "A moving and inspirational comic call to arms." – The List

★★★★ "I doubt that there will be many shows that restore your faith in community more." – The Quintessential Review

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