If Uke Ate
A first date should be simple.
For Uke, it begins with flirtation, easy conversation, and the possibility of connection. But when the evening moves to a restaurant, something shifts. Everyday choices become impossible. Time stretches. Language blurs. While the world around her carries on as normal, Uke is pulled into a surreal internal landscape where food, social expectations, and the pressure to appear effortless begin to take on a life of their own.
Blending naturalistic dialogue with physical theatre, dark comedy, and unsettling visual imagery, IF UKE ATE invites audiences inside the invisible extremity of a mind fighting to maintain composure while quietly collapsing. Rather than offering a literal clinical portrait, the production explores perception, control, femininity, and the hidden negotiations that often exist beneath ordinary social encounters.
Visually inventive, emotionally immediate, and deeply human, IF UKE ATE asks what happens when the performance of being “fine” becomes impossible to sustain, and what it might take to finally let someone see what’s really there.
The Wave & Loop. Present
Writer: Jessica Nlabu
Director: Catherine Mieses
Producer: Rebecca Tozzoli Clozza
Running time: 60mins
Date & Time: Wednesday 14th & Thursday 15th October @9pm
Content Warnings: eating disorders
Audience Guidelines
Latecomers will not be admitted. Ticket purchases are non refundable.
Concession prices apply to students; under 18s; pensioners; those on disability and unemployment benefits; Equity, BECTU & SDUK members.
The Bread & Roses Theatre is an unfunded venue that continues to operate on ticket sales only. Donations help support independent arts and theatremakers, an essential step in preserving the future of fringe theatre.
Venue: The Bread and Roses Theatre
Home of The Lambeth Fringe, The Bread & Roses, is an award-winning and innovative fringe pub theatre.
A 50-seat fringe venue above The Bread & Roses Pub, the theatre programs a wide-spread variety of productions for local as well as far-reaching audiences. Equality, diversity and artistic quality are at the forefront of the theatre's programming, which features in-house productions as well as many visiting companies. The theatre regularly hosts touring shows and has worked with award-winning ensembles with decades of experience but also frequently welcomes and supports emerging theatre-makers taking their first steps. The programme includes new writing, contemporary revivals, reinvented classics and occasionally also devised work, improvisational theatre, comedy events, family shows and physical theatre.
Recently renovated, The Bread and Roses Theatre features brand new tiered seating, with 50 new individual seats, and a professional floor.
Theatre: Capacity 50, full rig, lighting desk and sound system. Projector and mics hire-able.
Perfect for: Theatre, new-writing, WIP, solo shows and boundary pushing work.
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