SCRIPTOGRAPHY Productions is back with Crash Test at Aberystwyth Arts Centre on Thursday, 21 January.

Crash Test is a scratch night which offers writers and performers the chance to share work in development with a supportive audience.

It includes work from Aberystwyth Arts Centre’s Writing for Performance Group along with several other writing groups and individuals from Aberystwyth. Previous scratch nights have included comedy sketches, cabaret, plays, short film scripts, storytelling, poetry, performance art and stand-up comedy. The evening has an open slot in which individuals are welcome to present any form of text based work.

Scriptography Productions is delighted to be back supporting writing and writers in Ceredigion, following their successful Edinburgh Fringe Festival run with Catrin Fflur Huw’s play To Kill a Machine which explores the story of Alan Turing’s treatment by the government and society for his sexuality. The company performed to sell-out shows, received a string of 5* reviews and were nominated for the Amnesty International Freedom of Expression Award. To Kill a Machine will be heading to London for a three week at Kings Head Theatre from 6th – 23rd April.

Crash Test was also invited to participate in the Blue Sky season at The Other Room Cardiff and presented an evening of short plays, comedy and an excerpt from Joanna Bond’s movement piece from Singing the Line into Existence.

Crash Test is hosted by performance artist, writer and stand-up comedian James Baker who recently performed his own one man show, You have to be mad to work here and it doesn’t even help, at Aberystwyth Arts Centre.

Producer Sandra Bendelow said, “It’s great to be back at the beginning. To Kill a Machine has been an incredible success but groups like Aberystwyth Arts Centre’s Writing for Performance Group and nights like Crash Test are how we get to the end product of amazing plays like To Kill a Machine.

This is what the company is about, nurturing writers and helping them get the confidence as beginners to get those first few pages performed and then helping them work through and test work until they get better. I would definitely recommend audiences come along to Crash Test, we have some great local performers who get to really show their skills.

"We never really know what is going to be included but we can promise a wide range of themes and styles and a mass of characters. It is always very informal and lots of fun – and there is always moments of brilliance when we see the sparks of great new ideas beginning. We can also guarantee a very special surprise that everyone will love.”

Anyone interested in participating in this or future Crash Test nights as either writers or performers should contact [email protected]