Saving Myself
“Nothing is easy the first time, Lilly.”
One night. One flat. One unlit candle.
Lilly has always been the girl things go wrong around. Pets go missing. Toys break. Silences settle over the family home. People tell stories about her. In the end, she starts to believe them.
Now she is alone, surrounded by books and half-remembered rituals, trying to find the words. The women in the old stories found another way to say it. Tonight, Lilly will find hers.
Moving between realism, poetry, folklore and ritual, Saving Myself is a bold, haunting solo play about one woman’s fight to take back her own story.
“A heavy, important play.”
-Camden New Journal, Pick of Camden Fringe 2026
“An honest, poetic, challenging and passionate tale sensitively told.”
- @justsawthis.review, Brighton Fringe 2026
After its world premiere at Brighton Fringe and a run at Camden Fringe, Saving Myself comes to Clapham for one night only.
20 South Street in association with Grey Swan
Writer: Tim Stubbs Hughes
Director: Julia Stubbs
Cast: Jessamy James as Lilly
Running time: 45mins
Date & Time: Wednesday 14th October @7.30pm
Content Warnings: Strong language, references to sexual violence, trauma, misogyny, social shaming, and coercive control.
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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