Reading Time: 2 minutesThe Crumple Zone, a festive tragi-comedy by Buddy Thomas, explores infidelity and friendship within a conflicted household. Despite its humorous script and strong performances, especially by James Grimm, the play's dramatic depth falters, offering clichéd insights into trauma. The ending hints at potential growth, leaving the audience wanting more.
Reading Time: 2 minutesLand of the Free is the latest show performed by award winning theatrical ensemble Simple 8. Written by Sebastian Armesto and Dudley Hinton, and also directed by Armesto, Land of the Free tells the story of John Wilks Booth - the man who assassinated Abraham Lincoln shortly after the end of the American Civil war in 1865.
Reading Time: 2 minutesPlaywright Nathaniel Brimmer-Beller’s latest play is a rather original take on the ‘a stranger comes to town’ motif.
Reading Time: 2 minutesDespite being perhaps more widely known for its subsequent Netflix adaptation of the same name, Kim’s Convenience is a stage show written by Canadian writer and actor Ins Choi.
Reading Time: 2 minutesWritten by Carey Crim and directed by Katharine Farmer, 23.5 Hours explores the fallout on family and friends when a man is convicted of sexual crimes.
Reading Time: 2 minutesBasing itself on stories and characters from Chinese literature, set in the year 168 BC, Red Hare’s Wish is a mostly sung-through period musical written and composed by Jialun Qi and directed by Enrico Liou. Performed at The Space Theatre, This performance is an adapted version of act one of the full production, with the script altered to make the story feel more complete.
Reading Time: 2 minutesThe casual sex question - can it be just that? After Sex is a play written by Siofra Dromgoole and directed by Izzy Pariss, in which we join a newly formed casual sex pairing of a female character (Antonia Saliba) and a male character (Azan Ahmed).
Reading Time: 2 minutesWritten by Martha Watson Allpress, and directed by Emily Aboud, Lady Dealer is a trip inside the head of Charlie (Alexa Davies), an entrepreneur in the line of drug dealing, operating out of a council estate in Peckham. We follow Charlie through the course of a day where life gets on top of her as she processes a recent break up, and deals with a power cut and phones with no battery - in which she muses on her life and the people she brushes shoulders with day to day.
Reading Time: 2 minutesWritten and directed by Chess Hayden, Rock, Paper, Scissors stars Emma Lo and Jimmy Roberts, as housemates Lucy and Dylan. They’re joined by Megan Cooper, as Dylan’s ex-girlfriend.
Reading Time: 3 minutesAfter a run at Edinburgh Fringe in 2023, In Everglade Studio is enjoying a short run at the Hope Theatre in April 2024. Written by Nathaniel Brimmer-Beller, and Co-Directed by Brimmer-Beller and Phoebe Rowell John.