Trouble, Struggle, Bubble and Squeak Tour

Blending storytelling and stand-up, past and present collide in this tale of hijinks and resistance. Directed by Mark Thomas, this celebrates ordinary people still shaping history.

Award-winning theatre maker and “Fringe legend” (Time Out), Victoria Melody joined a historical re-enactment society… because we all deal with divorce differently! Spending weekends as a Musketeer trying to get her head straight, she uncovered the story of a bunch of 17th-century radicals called The Diggers—and everything changed.

What started as a personal search for happiness turned into a quest to find the Diggers of today. She didn’t expect to find them far from the battlefield, right on her doorstep. Blending storytelling and stand-up, past and present collide in this tale of high jinks and resistance. Directed by Mark Thomas, this celebrates the ordinary people still shaping history.

“Victoria Melody should be a national treasure, a household name.”
★★★★ Time Out

“Quirkiness and curiosity that is deeply appealing – and very funny”
★★★★ The Stage

‘Victoria Melody must rank as one of the most charming independent performance-makers in Britain — smart, warm, and unpretentiously funny.’
★★★★ TIMES (Hair Peace)

‘I laughed till I cried’
★★★★ TIMES (Major Tom)