Dress Rehearsal by A J Evans

What really goes on backstage, when the public face is replaced by the private one? Dress Rehearsal follows five performers over one evening as they endeavour to bring opera to a London pub. Onstage and backstage, the arias and ballads parallel the hopes, fears and disappointments of the individual singers.

Alternating between the bar and the intimate setting of the dressing room, the play explores the failures, ambitions and rivalries of the performers over a night when tensions between them come to a head. The group may be dominated by failed Diva, Bella, but the story ultimately belongs to reticent Steph as her past comes back to haunt her and a secret is revealed which means nothing will ever be the same again.