Reading Time: 3 minutes A showcase for two finely tuned performances and a thoughtful exploration of sisterhood under strain In the intimate upstairs room of the Jack Studio Theatre in Brockley, What I’d Be sets itself a deceptively simple task. Written…
Reading Time: 2 minutesTalking People tells stories through directed improvisation, with lightly prepared characters and narratives built in the moment using audience prompts, a Bag of Pain, relationship cards and the director’s guiding hand.
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 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 minutesLost Atoms is the story of that love and their life together – the best of times and the worst of times. Told with Frantic Assembly’s brilliant inventiveness, this play is a beautifully tender look into a relationship.
Reading Time: 2 minutesThe latest work from award-winning theatre collective Bag of Beard Theatre, The Highgate Vampire is a parody/spoof retelling of the events surrounding a spate of demonic encounters which terrorised Highgate village in 1969.
Reading Time: 2 minutesDeadcrush is an unconventional romantic comedy by James Robertson (they/them). It follows a sweet, bubbly woman named Bron, who has fallen in love with David, a dead man.
Reading Time: 2 minutesDesert Thirsts and Jerusalem Winds is based on the real-life story of Muhammad Asad, born Leopold Weiss, an Austrian Jewish journalist who travelled across the Arab world in the 1920s, who interrogated the early Zionist movement, converted to Islam, and later became one of the most influential Muslim thinkers of the twentieth century.
Reading Time: 3 minutesWritten by Chris Bowers, a former British diplomat, the play has some great insight on the governmental process of diplomacy.