Bibi is determined to win the Seaside Ukulele Festival song contest and finally become a successful musician. She’s up against fellow contestants Ben and Cosmic Echo, as well as other obstacles like second-hand camping gear, a love triangle, and her own self-doubt. Not to mention the crushing disappointment of meeting her musical hero while covered in mud.

Ukulele Days is a joyful actor-muso romantic comedy, with a ukulele score spanning genres from folk and comedy songs to blues, jazz, and electro-pop.

DEVELOPMENT

23 November 2023: Musical Bites, a lunchtime series of new musical readings. Presented by Mercury Musical Developments & The Other Palace.

25 & 26 May 2023: BEAM Showcase at Oxford Playhouse. The UK’s biggest showcase of new musical theatre, curated by Mercury Musical Developments & Musical Theatre Network.

4 & 5 February 2023: Into the Works scratch night at VAULT Festival, curated and produced by Music Box Theatre.

GET INVOLVED

Check out our crowdfunding campaign and choose from backers’ rewards including access to early recordings, songwriting workshops, ukulele lessons, and more.

Download a Ukulele Starter Guide and the “Friends in High Places” songbook from Amy’s Ko-Fi shop. The PDFs are available for free, with optional donation.

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CREATIVE TEAM

Writer Amy Clare Tasker is a theatre maker and songwriter. She taught herself to play the ukulele in 2019, and discovered a wonderland of music-lovers, community events, festivals, and creative expression. Amy is a co-director of Pinecone Performance Lab, where she writes, performs, directs, and embraces an all-around “theatre maker” ethos. Amy previously wrote and performed the show HOT (Helen of Troy), which premiered at The Cockpit in February 2020. Since 2022, she has been a member of the Book Music & Lyrics workshop, honing the craft of writing for musical theatre. Amy also works with The Cockpit on the Voila! Europe Theatre Festival and the Theatre Maker artist development programme.

Dramaturg Tricity Vogue, AKA Heather Tyrrell, is a seasoned scriptwriter and lyricist, as well as a celebrated ukulele player and cabaret performer. Her most recent theatrical collaboration was as lyricist on Alma, a new original musical produced by Théatre de Namur, Belgium, created by director Fabrice Murgia and celebrated drag queen Peggy Lee Cooper.

Tricity spent a decade working in television (credits include My Family, Totally Frank, Holby City, Byker Grove and the Teletubbies) before she fell down a rabbit hole into London’s cabaret scene. As an international cabaret performer and musician, Tricity Vogue has staged five hit Edinburgh Fringe shows, and played venues including London’s Royal Festival Hall, Royal Albert Hall and Wiltons Music Hall with her All Girl Swing Band. Her “drag action musical” Heels of Glory, co-written with composer Richard Link, was awarded development funding from the Arts Council of England, and headlined the Pride in London Festival 2016 at Chelsea Theatre.