Reading Time: 2 minutesMeteatra’s debut, BORDERS: Digital, Political, Emotional at the Arcola Theatre, is an ambitious and promising first outing, aiming to bridge London and Istanbul through six short plays by competition winners Aine King, Andrew Lawston, Banu Şenel, Salman Siddiqi, Erdoğan Soytürk, and Tamara von Werthern.
Reading Time: 2 minutesKing’s Place continues their “Memory Unwrapped” series with the Neave Trio providing an evening that spans across the Americas. The three composers of the evening paint a theme of home and belonging.
Reading Time: 2 minutesWhether attending alone or on a date, Be MY Cabaret offered something for everyone. The show was, as expected, a variety piece, with many different acts all centred around the same theme: love.
Reading Time: 2 minutesDirected by Rachel Kavanaugh and transferred from its Chichester origins to the Aldwych Theatre, this production explores the late-in-life romance between writer C. S. Lewis and poet Joy Davidman with delicacy and emotional precision.
Reading Time: 2 minutesWritten by Zoe Hunter Gordon and directed by Sarah Stacey, 1.17am or until the words run out is an intimate depiction of grief and friendship that eventually packs a punch.
Reading Time: 3 minutesPatrick Merber’s After Miss Julie reimagines August Strindberg's classic tragedy on the eve of Britain’s 1945 election. With mass welfare reforms on the horizon, including the founding of the NHS, the story looks to interrogate the class structures of its time in light of this.
Reading Time: 2 minutesTargeted at children ages 7-11, Who Let The God’s Out? takes one of the beloved books from Max Evans’ series about young boy Elliot who needs to save the world and save his mum, and turns it into a welcoming theatre production.
Reading Time: 2 minutesDreamscape arrives with the weight of real history and the urgency of lived experience. Blending hip-hop aesthetics with documentary truth, the production refuses the comfort of distance, instead pulling the audience into an intimate, unsettling reckoning with a life cut short and the systems that enabled it.
Reading Time: 2 minutesWhat was life like in 50,000 BC? This is what Jack Nicholls imagines in his debut play The Shitheads. Discovered through the Royal Court’s Open Submissions scheme, this play honours the 70-year history of the Royal Court Theatre in supporting new writing.
Reading Time: 2 minutesAs a product of Thatcher Britain, Yes Minister / Yes Prime Minister, although set at No. 10 Downing Street, remains relatively apolitical in its aesthetics and taste: intellectually refined, subtle, restrained and slightly cynical.