The Garden Brides

The Garden Brides premiered as a full draft version in June 2026 at The Divine following shorter version as part of DEATH KARAOKE earlier that year. Despite being an early draft of this show it received a sold out crowd and very positive feedback. It once again starred Charlie Wood as Teresa with Elspeth Day-Collins as Catherine. It was directed by Rebecca Solomon and produced by Yasmin Mehboob-Khan. This extended version delved deeper into the story of the lonely housewives as they embark on a journey of dark self discovery via the mysterious allure of the neighbour’s garden gnome. This heteropessimist horror comedy was a work in progress performance and will be developed in the coming year.

A sample of the script can be found here

DEATH KARAOKE

DEATH KARAOKE was a series of 3 short plays first performed at The Divine in January 2026 and produced by BKRep. They consisted of Leo & Anthony (Dir. Len Gwyn) starring Michelle Pittoni and Nina Bowers, The Garden Brides (Dir. Charles Quittner) and starring Charlie Wood and Elspeth Day-Collins and a restaging of Threshold with the original cast. Each section was interspersed with Andrea Bee as Death performing warped little karaoke numbers. The shows were met with sold out audiences and high praise – one review describing the show as having ‘all the makings of a modern classic’. Photos by Harry Elletson.

The Devil’s Eyelash

The Devil’s Eyelash is a full length play written by Charlie Wood on the Soho Writer’s Lab and was nominated for the Tony Craze Award.

Four cosmic nuns weave an epic poem of an apocalyptic future. A leather Daddy and a Dominatrix travel across the wasteland to have a final drink at the last queer bar in the universe before the end of the world. An anti-Adam and Eve on a hopeless odyssey taken to the mad maximum. The Devil’s Eyelash is a destruction myth of cartoon violence, queer rage, joy, sin, cannibals and the descending hand of doom. A high-octane dreamscape that asks what queerness means at the very end of everything.

The play has undergone two rehearsed readings, one directed by Theresa Buchhiester in Kansas in 2025 and one directed by Charles Quittner at Battersea Arts Centre in London 2023 – a secret recording of which can be found here

Threshold

Threshold is a short play produced as part of Brooklyn Rep‘s international playwriting collaboration event ‘Scritches’ at The Divine in 2023. Threshold – written by Charlie Wood, directed by Pooja Sivaraman and starring Andrea Bee, Ellis Jupiter and Beatrice Su told the story of a young couple in therapy after one of them brings the other back from the dead to avoid the ‘bury your gays’ trope. The piece is a surreal exploration of queer grief and was inspired by Stephen Wright’s House of Dreams in London. A recording of the play can be found here

Icarus and Frankenstein

Icarus and Frankenstein is a piece of writing initially created for Queer’d – a story telling collective for queer myths started in 2022. This piece was a 10 minute prison break action sequence starring Frankestein’s Monster and Icarus as two non binary teenagers escaping a homophobic police state. It is a surrealist high speed monologue combining aspects of Mad Max, Thelma and Louise, Spalding Gray and Greek Tragedy. It has been performed at Wilderness Festival, The Puppet Barge, The Coast is Queer Festival and many other venues and locations, often underscored by Josh Middleton on various instruments.

Lilith and Eve

Lilith and Eve was a work commissioned by Life on Venus Parties to do a piece of writing reimagining the story of Eve from the Bible with a queer/feminist twist. The piece was a short story detailed Eve and Adam’s first wife Lilith ending up on an accidental date the day before God finds out about Adam and Eve consuming the apple. It was performed in 2023 as part of a Life on Venus autumn event.