Brave Bold Drama is a not-for-profit
community interest company.
We are working class and LGBTQI+ led.
Company Number: 10708381
Company Address: 46 Overcombe Drive,Preston
Weymouth, Dorset, DT3 6QF
Could you crack a million dollar case?
In Mexico City, a new Frida Kahlo painting has been discovered! Or has it?
Agents Kahlo and Dali of the Company of International Artists, a top secret art detective agency, are summoned by the buyer to prove exactly who painted the portrait. And there’s room in their crew for you!
However, once back in her home town of Mexico City, glimpses of Agent Kahlo's past, and her previous work partner, the mysterious Agent Modotti, start to bubble to the surface, leaving Agent Dali wondering who he can trust.
Bring your sharpest wits and a sense of adventure. Will you crack the agency’s toughest case yet?
Featuring a broad streak of quirky comedy, playful film noir references and inspired by the art of Frida Kahlo, The Mexico Mission! is a highly interactive playable show for families.
This show is best suited to agents aged 7+.
Photographs by Bobby Joynes Designs Lighting by Jen Roxburgh
April 2025 DORSET TOUR
supported by Dorset Council
Tues 15 April
Gillingham Library
Chantry Fields, Gillingham, SP8 4UA
1.30pm-3.15pm
(including 15 minute interval)
Wed 16 April
Swanage Library
High Street Swanage, BH19 2NU
1.30pm-3.15pm
(including 15 minute interval)
Thurs 17 April
Wimborne Library
Crown Mead Wimborne Minster, BH21 1HH
1.30pm-3.15pm
(including 15 minute interval)
Sun 18 May
Memorial Hall
Gouzeaucourt Road, Bovington, BH20 6LB
2pm-3.45pm
(including 15 minute interval)
This show is for families of the UK Military community
The Mexico Mission! is be the third playable family show set in the world of the Company of International Artists, a top-secret detective agency specialising in art investigations.
This show will first tour Dorset community spaces including libraries in April 2025, supported by Dorset Council. The show features the same core characters of Agents Kahlo and Dali, who also appear in our other playable Company of International Artists shows The Munch Mission! and The Midnight Mission!
The kernel of the show was sparked by us discovering that, to date, there have been no known female art forgers (which is interesting) and that female artists are still less forged than male artists, presumably because generally speaking art by women still tends to sell for lower prices (which is enraging).
Read our newsletter from January / February 2025 to find out more how we set about making this show.
The initial research and development week was supported with in-kind rehearsal space from Lighthouse, Poole in August 2023 as part of their Sanctuary programme. Read more about this in an article entitled
"A Mission Forged at Lighthouse Poole."
We are grateful for the support of Stornaway who have given us in-kind support for the development of this show. As the narrative is playable, there are alternative scenes and routes through the show depending on how the audience vote. Their software is a great way for us to digitally map the multi-strand narratives.
Gill Simmons received a Creative Freelancer grant from West of England Combined Authority which supported her to have one-to-one tutoring in advanced features of sound design software Logic Pro, and paid for one week of sound design work on The Mexico Mission!
The pilot tour of The Mexico Mission! is supported by Dorset Council.
This means we can provide free performances of the show in April 2025 in Gillingham, Swanage and Wimborne libraries
in Dorchester for families who are supported by the Artz+ scheme
in Wimborne St Giles for the community group In Jolly Good Company and the local primary school
and finally for military families in Bovington.