Reading Time: 2 minutesAttic produced James’ shows Piece of Work and Learning to Fly where they both played to sell-out audiences at the 2022 and 2023 Edinburgh Fringe Festivals, and then toured throughout the UK. James’ one man storytelling tour visiting over 65 different venues.
Reading Time: 3 minutesPoetry By Heart, founded in 2012 by former Poet Laureate Andrew Motion and Dr Julie Blake, is a national poetry recitation competition open to all schools and colleges in England. This year, over 128,000 young people chose, memorised, and performed a poem they love.
Finalists compete at the Grand Finale at Shakespeare’s Globe on 7 July, with 40 finalists in the Classic category and 15 schools in Freestyle, celebrating creativity and inclusion. Three schools will receive special awards.
Judges include poets Daljit Nagra, Patience Agbabi, Liz Berry, Valerie Bloom, Glyn Maxwell, and Jean Sprackland. We sat down with judges Daljit Nagra and Liz Berry.
Reading Time: 2 minutesFrom multi award-winning writer James Graham (Sherwood, BBC), Dear England is a ‘gripping’ (The Times) and timely play that delves into the highs and lows of English football through the lens of Gareth Southgate’s transformative leadership. The National Theatre’s Olivier Award-winning smash hit is coming to Salford for four weeks only, following a record-breaking run in the West End.
Reading Time: 3 minutesAs You Like It follows the success of last year’s Much Ado About Nothing and the company’s Offie Award-nominated A Midsummer Night’s Dream and Romeo & Juliet. This joyful, family-friendly outdoor production blends contemporary London culture with the Bard’s wit, romance, and secret identities.
Reading Time: 2 minutesSuperintendent Roy Grace is back in a brand-new Peter James stage adaptation and world premiere of the bestselling Picture You Dead. Fiona Wade who, following 11 years in Emmerdale, took to the stage earlier this year in the hit 2:22 A Ghost Story joins the cast as Freya Kipling. We sat down with her to discuss Picture You Dead.
Reading Time: 3 minutesOnBook Theatre presents “Red Peppers” by Noel Coward and “Aged in Wood” by Cian Griffin.
Set in a theatre dressing room in 1935, “Red Peppers” is one of Noel Coward’s most celebrated comic one act plays.
The play depicts a second-rate music hall double act, a husband and wife team, who perform two musical numbers, in between which they bicker in their dressing room and quarrel with colleagues.
Reading Time: 2 minutesFrom writer and performer Rosie Pepper, Marshmallow Me offers an insightful story of living with and overcoming an eating disorder.
Reading Time: 3 minutesFrom Psychonaut Theatre, The W.I.G. of Life: A Conference is a witty and thought-provoking look into human history and our collective responsibility towards nature and ourselves.
Reading Time: 2 minutesFormer actress, bestselling author and poetry champion Allie Esiri and Regents Park Open Air Theatre present Shakespeare for Every Day of the Year – Live! On Sunday 25th May.
Reading Time: 3 minutesUsing the gestural cutting out of paper dolls as a collective act of healing and resistance, ‘Cutting Out’ is the lyrical, gutsy journey of Viv Gordon’s survival.