Have you ever wanted to take the red pill? 

For one hour, audiences are invited inside an immersive party that pulls them into the Manosphere: loud music, flashing visuals, audience interaction, and a world that feels part online rabbit hole, part recruitment drive, and part uneasy celebration of a culture that perhaps should not be celebrated.

Who Raised You?: Enter The Manosphere throws audiences into the last sweaty remains of red pill culture, where confidence becomes control, self-improvement starts to feel like performance, and the internet’s strangest ideas about masculinity are treated like gospel.

Fresh from its run at the V&A, Who Raised You?: Enter The Manosphere descends upon Summer in the Ditch with a visceral expansion of the work: louder, larger, and relentlessly immersive. A high-octane, darkly comedic experience, it places audiences inside a party where the atmosphere is intoxicating, but the ideology beneath it slowly reveals itself.

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OPEN MIC

We'll be hosting an Open Mic on Saturday 11 July in our bar to celebrate the opening week of Summer in The Ditch 2026. If you want to try out some quick material, sing a ballad or show us your close up magic skills, then pop by with your tap shoes. MC'd by our very own Helen Highwater. 8.30 - 9pm, booking isn't required, just turn up.

SUMMER IN THE DITCH

Nights of live performance, drag and cabaret. And cheap drinks at the bar!

Following the success of our annual artist takeover, Summer in The Ditch returns for a third year to showcase a dynamic mix of camp, queer, and cult work in our basement space.

With experimental new work, and rough and ready sessions from artists, ventriloquists, singers and performers, anything can happen and the unexpected is always welcome.

For the full Summer in The Ditch 2026 line-up, click here

All performances will be relaxed: audiences are allowed to move around, make noise and leave the room. Latecomers will be admitted.

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