Reading Time: 2 minutesTalawa, the UK’s leading Black British theatre company and the historic Liverpool Playhouse have come together to co-commission Syncopated, a brand-new play that brings a little-known piece of Black British history to life through music, memory and storytelling. We sat down with Teddy Oyediran and Joseph Munroe-Robinson to discuss their upcoming performances.
Reading Time: 5 minutesWorld-renowned theatre company Dead Centre make their Royal Court debut, collaborating with Sign Language poet Zoë McWhinney. Told through a mix of spoken English, British Sign Language (BSL), creative captioning and silence, Deaf Republic brings together an ensemble of deaf and hearing actors, aerial performers, puppetry, live cinema and poetry.
Reading Time: 2 minutesAn ambitious exploration of the psychological confusion, chaos, and bile that take root in colonialism’s heart of darkness.
Reading Time: 2 minutes"Every once in a while, a work of art humbly steps onstage, regards its audience with all the grief in the world, and then utterly stretches what anyone thought theatre could be or do."
Reading Time: 2 minutesOn- and offstage collapse into each other for an hour and a half of theatre-(un)making at its finest.
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Reading Time: < 1 minuteA powerful, immersive storytelling experience exploring the lasting impacts of colonialism through indigenous women’s voices.
Reading Time: 2 minutesLaura Benanti: Nobody Cares is a one-woman comedy show from the mind of Tony Award winner Laura Benanti. With her razor-sharp wit, the star of stage and screen blends side-splitting storytelling with original songs co-written with Todd Almond.
Reading Time: 2 minutesPicture this: you’re seventeen. You’re a twink. You’re the hottest 17-year-old twink that’s ever existed. And then bam! You get it. A Grindr notification. From a blank profile. A 26-year-old man... Oh what the universe has in store... Now, four years, copious amounts of weed, a gender transition and several high doses of psychedelics later, Ryann Lynn Murphy tells a story about a girl who got groomed.
Reading Time: 2 minutesAfter 10 years of comedy, Thanyia was finally set to do her long-awaited, anticipated debut hour at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe. Everything was going to plan. Then August happened.
A show about mental strength, the female body and how awesome the NHS is in Scotland.
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