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The Base proudly present the return of the most exciting writing competition in town, The Agon 2. We have selected six finalists. A team of fantastic actors will bring extracts from their texts to life. Then YOU, the audience, will vote to decide who will be crowned the 2025…

Civil War The Agon 2 24/07/25 Cast - M - Oliver Bennett W - Thea Mayeux Director - Morgan Watkins Assistant Director - Ashley Miller & Iraina Han 📸 by Morgan Watkins




Divide The Agon 2 24/07/25 Cast - Leah - Lily Hardy James - Sam Frenchum Directors - Oliver Bennett & Morgan Watkins Assistant Director - Ashley Miller & Iraina Han 📸 by Morgan Watkins




Cosmic Healing The Agon 2 24/07/25 Cast - Titch - Sam Frenchum Cindy - Thea Mayeux Paul John - Morgan Watkins Gruffyd - Ashley Miller Krystal - Lily Hardy Duke - Nate Cadman Directors - Oliver Bennett & Morgan Watkins Assistant Director - Ashley Miller 📸 by Morgan…




The Fatherless Sons 🏆 The Agon 2 24/07/25 Cast - DS McKenna - Ambreen Razia Nathan Murphy - Morgan Watkins Rupert Brody - Tim Faulkner Director - Oliver Bennett Assistant Director - Ashley Miller 📸 by Iraina Han and Ashley Miller




The Puppeteers The Agon 2 24/07/25 Cast - Sergeant Bell - Nate Cadman Darwin - Tim Faulkner Crowley - Ashley Miller Fairweather - Sam Frenchum Sergeant Greene - Morgan Watkins Directors - Oliver Bennett & Morgan Watkins Assistant Director - Iraina Han 📸 by Iraina Han,…




113 The Agon 2 24/07/25 Cast - 64 - Tim Faulkner 49- Iraina Han Director - Oliver Bennett




Thank you to all the brilliant writers, brave actors and our fantastic audience. The scene is building, the energy is bubbling and we are just beginning. #TheAgon2 #Theatre #Culture #Freedom
Enormously proud that an extract from my play "Civil War" came third in the marvellous @thebasecreates competition, Agon II, in Hackney last night! Truly an honour to see my words performed by such excellent actors to a vibrant and packed room.
‘Fill your souls with Plutarch, and dare to believe in yourselves when you have faith in his heroes. With a hundred people raised in such an unmodern way, that is, people who have become mature and familiar with the heroic, one could permanently silence the entire noisy…
Have you heard of Pericles? He is perhaps the greatest statesman of all time. Very exciting podcast coming later…

We are excited to see you all on Thursday. We look forward to your consideration of our finalists… The Puppeteers A dark Victorian farce. Four disgraced policemen are looking to redeem themselves by catching Jack the Ripper. But in their investigations soon discover that Jack…

We are excited to see you all on Thursday. We look forward to your consideration of our finalists… Cosmic Healing A tragi-comic tale of dopamine withdrawal and compost lavatories. At his Cosmic Energy Healing Retreat, Paul John – fallen bad boy of British comedy turned…

We are excited to see you all on Thursday. We look forward to your consideration of our finalists… The Fatherless Sons Nathan Murphy lives in Elephant & Castle with his mother who has dementia. Nathan is still doing graffiti and fencing stolen goods like he did when he was a…

We are excited to see you all on Thursday. We look forward to your consideration of our finalists… Divide In a luxury hotel room, sex worker Leah awaits the arrival her client. But James is not only inexperienced with sex workers, he is inexperienced with women and it…
