Poached by Alice Malseed and Catherine Rees
Date: 6 March 2026
Venue: The Playhouse, 5-7 Artillery St, Derry / Londonderry, Derry, BT48 6RG
Set in a dystopic 2028, and inspired by our own world, Poached is about how much or how little it can take for normal people to take abnormal action.
Staged Reading.
Set in a dystopic 2028, and inspired by our own world, Poached is about how much or how little it can take for normal people to take abnormal action. Maud, a 30-year old woman is pushed to take extreme action. Her fevered frustration with the changing socio-political landscape reaches a crisis. Poached is a tragicomic sci-fi featuring Colin the Caterpillar, cocktail sausages, genetic conditioning and bodily control.