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
The PDA Play - reviews
“Nix Nugent offers a powerful and informative performance, that relentlessly makes you think, and equally entertains. Messages and awareness through theatre at its best.”
Ed
"It was a hard hitting message, i burnt out in teaching too... Delivery was brilliant. It was fun, it was fast, it was energy driven fabulousness. Don't ever stop."
Jacks
"The PDA play got a preview at the "Crips with Chips" showcase at the Mercury on 31/7 - and I want to see the whole thing! The preview was a perfect blend of serious, cheeky, irreverent, but with a serious, important message at its core, Nix has a lot to say and is taking the space to do it with their trademark profound performing style, so watch out world. This is going to be as brilliant as it is honest."
Dawn
"It was both informative and delightful to see Nix Nugent showcasing the PDA play at 'Crips with Chips' on July 31st. Having previously enjoyed parts of the show at The Minories it was a pleasure to watch this exceedingly talented performer dance, sing, recite, and generally pizzazz their way through snippets of the show. Cheeky, charming, challenging, and beautifully quirky."
Amanda
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.
Graeae Performance at Mercury Theatre
Graeae