REVIEW: 1776 and Offline

Reading Time: 3 minutesZooNation Youth Company: 1776 and Offline performed on 28th June at the RBO’s Linbury Theatre. Next Generation Festival runs until 4th July 2026.

Reading Time: 3 minutesZooNation Youth Company: 1776 and Offline performed on 28th June at the RBO’s Linbury Theatre. Next Generation Festival runs until 4th July 2026.

Reading Time: 2 minutesWritten by Christine Bacon and inspired by Jason Hickel’s bestselling book ‘The Divide’, A Fine Idea the play sets itself an ambitious goal: to interrogate aid agencies in the battle against global inequality.

Reading Time: 3 minutes. In Response Theatre Co’s new show I Made You a Mixtape, the goal is for the performers to focus on the immediate environment: music, scene partner, audience, mishaps, anything and everything that makes the moment a NOW.

Reading Time: 2 minutesSecond Speaker, a new play by Nathan Chu, gradually opens out into an examination of the prison education system and the value of learning in environments designed for containment rather than growth.

Reading Time: 2 minutesFuelled by spoken word and banter, Lorraine Adeyefa’s lively performance blends the playful and the painful, exposing the open wounds of a young Black woman’s search for love.

Reading Time: 3 minutesAn eclectic evening of bite-sized plays, ranging from delicious pieces to others still finding their flavour.

Reading Time: 3 minutesA high-energy, genre-defying love letter to the 90s celebrating the fleeting intensity of a moment through the unfiltered language of dance.

Reading Time: 2 minutesPresented by Bloodline Theatre Company, Panacea explores what happens when scientific ambition collides with emotional vulnerability.

Reading Time: 2 minutesPart night train confession, part club-night fever dream, F*ckboy navigates dysphoria with sharp humour and sincerity. A performer leans casually against a dark stage wall under purple and blue lighting, wearing a black outfit with fishnet tights and chunky…

Reading Time: 3 minutesWritten by Miriam Battye (Scenes with Girls, Strategic Love Play, Succession), Trip the Light Fantastic makes its London debut at OSO Theatre.