Coffee Cup Productions’ second piece of new writing is a dark twist on your favourite 90’s rom com. It follows Jenny, a music journalist, and the group of artists she encounters as she explores the alternative music scene in Camden in the mid-1990s. As she goes from concert to concert, a blossoming romance forms with Lark Springfield, an up-and-coming rockstar with the accompanying brooding demeanour and good looks. And they’re not the only ones– alongside Jenny and Lark, we follow Cece, a waitress-turned-singer and Danny, her boss-turned-boyfriend. Cece and Lark seem destined for stardom, but all the pressures of fame and fortune threaten to shake their chances at ‘happily ever after’.

This new play follows three women at Oxford in 1920 (the first year women were allowed to matriculate) as they frequent a queer jazz club. There, they encounter all sorts of subversive characters, forcing them to change their minds about the things they thought to be true. Using real queer jazz standards from the 1920s to move the story along, the audience follows our three young women as they end up in deeper, darker waters than they anticipated