Showcasing eight new musicals over a two week period, MTFestUK is a unique festival that provides a platform for new and exciting musical theatre. This year the eight productions will be workshopped and presented in ‘sharing’ sessions, allowing audiences to come and support, explore, engage and enjoy new musical theatre in its earliest stages of development.
Following the announcement that MTFestUK 2023 will be held, this year, at both The Other Palace & The Turbine Theatre casting for the eight new musicals is now complete. This year’s pieces include a diverse range of titles and themes, from a wide range of different authors and composers including:
Dark Lord
Music, Lyrics and Book by Laurence O’Keefe and Kevin Murphy,
Based on the books by Jamie Thomson.
Directed by Andy Fickman
Music Direction by Katharine Woolley
A 12-year-old boy claims he’s a monstrous Dark Lord, banished from his…