Still Here

Play by Pete Machale Directed by Steph Kempson Produced by AUB Productions who facilitate theatre collaborations between industry professionals and students from a range of courses within AUB

"Well get the others, then well try again, together. She wouldnt appear to just me, it needs to be all of us. If its all of us, us together, here, something special happens."

It is 2019 and four teenagers break into the Palace Court Theatre, ready for one last game of ghost-hunt before they leave Bournemouth and childhood behind. It's 1966 and tempers are rising as the local amateur company put on a play which might save the theatre from closure. It's 978 and King Edward and his sister Edith look towards Corfe Castle, wondering what the future holds for England.

AUB Graduate, actor and playwright Pete Machale (Let the Right One In, Doctor Who, Dear Young Monster) returns to AUB with a brand new script about love, resistance and wanting to stay where you are. Or is it wanting to stay who you are? Directed by Stephanie Kempson (Until the Sun Goes Down, Breathless) and with dramaturgy by Stephanie Dale (Salt), this production sheds a new light on the Palace Court Theatre and the land it stands on, in a poignant evocation of Bournemouth, its stories and its people.