AWARDS FOR CURRENT PRODUCTIONS

Underdogs, Brian Mitchell and Joseph Nixon’s award-winning comedy drama based on the hilarious and fascinating true story of Geoff Smith’s bizarre 1998 World Record attempt in the beer garden of an East Midlands pub, plays the splendid Caistor Town Hall on 27th September – the Foundry Group’s second return to that venue. More dates for spring 2025 tba.

‘The Foundry Group’s new play crackles with sharp one-liners… subtly layered with universal themes of love and loss.’ FringeReview

‘Enchanting comedy… the writers captured perfectly the absurdism of the piece… clever and endearing.’ Gscene

More details here.

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“Like someone had put the Woman in Black in a blender with Morecambe and Wise…” Broadway Baby.

Ingoldsby Legends, an adaptation of some of the best-loved classic macabre comic poems by Thomas Ingoldsby, based largely on Kent folk-tales, returns for two performances around this Halloween – at the Ropetackle, Shoreham on 21st October and the White Lion, Settle on 31st . Expect ghost, witches, smugglers, Rhine maidens and walking clocks – all told in brilliant, rumbustious witty verse. Performed by Mitchell and Murray Simon. Clip about the show from BBC South East Today here. More dates tba.

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“Crazy, exciting, funny and rollicking.” Brighton Source

“They have succeeded in bringing classic British comedy up to date – an amazing feat.” Broadway Baby

Valiantly performed by penniless actors Murray Simon (Underdogs, Lord God) and Mitchell himself, Great Britons will swell your bosom with pride and split your sides with laughter. It played Ironworks Studio C to rave reviews and a nomination for this year’s OffFEST Award for Theatre.

More dates tba.

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Mitchell & Nixon‘s brand new comedy Who Is No. 1? – the incredible true story of the making of cult TV masterpiece ‘The Prisoner’ – made its world premiere in Brighton Fringe ’23 to glowing four-and-five star reviews and a 2024 FINALIST for OffWestEnd.com’s coveted OffFEST Award for Theatre. The show sold out and three extra performances were added. With Murray Simon (‘Underdogs’) as Patrick McGoohan, Ross Gurney-Randall (‘An Audience with Henry VIII’) as Lew Grade, and Robert Cohen (‘The Trials of Harvey Matusow’) as Kenneth Griffith and various.

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For Underdogs by Brian Mitchell & Joseph Nxon, winner of the OffFEST Award for Theatre.

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Also nominated for the OffFEST Award at Brighton Fringe, our divine new musical comedy Lord God, by best-selling author Philip Reeve (‘Mortal Engines’) and playwright and composer Brian Mitchell (‘Those Magnificent Men’), writers of acclaimed musical The Ministry of Biscuits, played a short run at the delightful Lionhouse venue, 19th-21st May. The show got rave reviews and was second on revered theatre-blogger Chris Neville-Smith’s ‘Pick of The Fringe’.

See our trailer here.

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Foundry-Group founder member Joseph Nixon, whose play The Shark Is Broken, which he co-wrote with Ian Shaw, enjoyed a successful Broadway Run in 2023. Joseph has co-written many Foundry Group shows, including 2022’s OffFEST winner Underdogs (more news tba), current nominee ‘Who Is No. 1?’ and winner of Chris Neville-Smith’s 2013 award for Best Fringe production, Big Daddy Vs. Giant Haystacks. You can find more details on Joseph here.

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Our acclaimed production of Those Magnificent Men, Mitchell & Nixon’s hit play about the astonishing and often hilarious true story of heroic British aviators Alcock and Brown and their pioneering non-stop flight across the Atlantic, returned in spring 2022 with Murray Simon at Lt. Arthur Whitten Brown. It plays more dates October (tba) and is generally available for 2023/24

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