Nix Nugent | Performer
A showcase at The Mercury Theatre, Colchester.
Join us for an eclectic scratch night of short plays and extracts, platforming disabled and neurodivergent writers and their new work!
Along with your free ticket, there will be chips served as you settle into your seats.
Brought together by a collaboration between Mercury Theatre and Graeae Theatre Company, nine new pieces have been created under the mentorship of the award-winning writer, Nicola Werenowska, and jointly directed with Jenny Sealey, Artistic Director of Graeae, along with a second director to be announced soon. Be prepared to expect the unexpected!
Line-up
A New Start by Catherine Turner
Costs of Living by Sophie Weaver
Head in the Sand by Clare Shaw Burgess
Kim by Mary-Ann Ambrose
Klara by Kate Cavill
Music by Daniel Stephen Turner
The M Word by Penny Benedetti
The PDA Play by Nix Nugent
R-18 by Christian Markham
White-Spider by Benjamin Wilkinson
Written and performed by Nix Nugent, The PDA Play is a one-person, multi-media musical blending movement, parody, dark comedy, poetry, and audience karaoke to explore life with Pathological Demand Avoidance (PDA), an often-misunderstood nervous system disability. Based on lived experience and community stories, it’s an unfiltered journey through burnout, joy, and transformation—raising awareness, demanding change, and celebrating neurodivergent authenticity.
Parody of 'The Little Mermaid' from a neurodiverse perspective. Listen here.