Long Wave explores the desperate attempt of three performers to try to keep the audience smiling by laughing and clowning through gritted teeth to routines piped in by a radio. As the piece develops their desperate attempt to ward off memories and traumas collapses and their past overwhelms them. The comic start gives way to a moving and shattering climax and the characters move from pristine well scrubbed entertainers to blood soaked, dust covered figures.

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In turns moving and hilarious, Red Velvet is a meditation on our need for security and to be tucked up tight when things are most difficult, combining Small Change’s characteristics of comedy, intimate performance and rich visual imagery.

After the dust sheets are removed we are taken back into childhood, back into a world of no pain, a world where jokes are harmless and the dead can be resurrected by a bowl of water. Two children - or are they adults who haven’t grown up? – perform a show for their dead parents. They attempt to lock themselves safely away in a fantasy world of the past, a world of red velvet and faded old clothes. But it’s also a world where you have to see what you thought you’d left behind and remember what you hoped you’d forgotten…

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Lost direction? Need to make sense of the new world order? Sign up to Brigadier John Wahon’s solution: the experience to end all others. A mixture of army recruitment lecture, personal development seminar and a weird kind of party. With balloons.

John’s a trainer, and it’s his last ever training session so he’s made a real effort. He’s prepared special, never seen before treats for his audience. For John, this training is a party. Making the Difference takes the audience on a journey from laughter to an exploration of our responsibility towards the mistreatment of others. It’s delivered by a man with the answers to today’s disturbed world at his fingertips.

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It's that time of year again... Ziggy Quicksleeve and his friends are travelling the country with their mobile radio show, and this time they're doing it for charity. The only trouble is they don't know if they've got any listeners, if they believe in the cause they're promoting or if any of the requests they receive are real.

Is anyone out there listening? Can the listeners be cheered up? What is anyone willing to pledge?

Quicksleeve’s Pledge is a hilarious and thought provoking reflection on our desire to change the world and our anxiety to remain cool. At any cost.

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Small Change appeared at Nabokov’s renowned present:tense events. Some of the UK's most exciting talent convenes to select the most momentous story on the news agenda. They each have one week to create a piece of work that responds to the topic they choose. As the news changes, they will be forced to adapt their work, until it is performed live in the West End on Sunday - exactly seven days after they began.

Stop Press: The artists convened on Sunday 27 May to scour the papers. They decided the search for Madeleine McCann was the most significant story on the news agenda. Each artist now has one week to formulate a response to that story in their own medium.

Our piece was The Girl with the Teardrop Eye. Part verbatim, part new writing, this was a poignant meditation on this harrowing event.

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An interactive backstage journey through a Victorian world of magicians, lost souls and tea leaves reflecting on the nature of reality.

Can we trust our eyes? Can we trust our guide? Who is watching who?

A site-specific promenade performance performed at Cambridge Junction in July 2009, Tasseomancy was performed as part of the Hotbed Festival and featured other artists including the singer-songwriter Essie Jain and the burlesque group the Knickerbocker Glories.

Performed by Dominic Fitch and Kristy McLeod
Written by Dominic Fitch and Nic Fryer
Designed by Zoe Price
Music written and performed by Essie Jain
Directed by Dominic Fitch

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