Reading Time: 2 minutesBenjamin Britten’s haunting opera Owen Wingrave returns to the stage in a powerful new Guildhall School production. Based on a ghost story by Henry James, it follows a young pacifist who defies his family’s military heritage, with tragic consequences.
Reading Time: 3 minutesFrom the producer-director of the Olivier Award-nominated The Great Game – Afghanistan comes a powerful cycle of short plays about courage, truth and survival in the face of tyranny.
Ukraine Unbroken charts twelve turbulent years of modern Ukrainian history. Performed with live Ukrainian music from Mariia Petrovska.
Reading Time: 3 minutesWith her twenties now wrapped, Melanie takes an inventory of her life so far, as we visit the series of events that led to her getting an ADHD diagnosis. Fittingly given thatdiagnosis, the show covers pretty much…
Reading Time: 2 minutesThis isn't just a performance BY Francis Dunnery, it's a living memoir, celebrating the humour and resilience forged in the shadow of Britain's small towns, cities, tower blocks and council estates.
Reading Time: 2 minutesLaughing Matters plays at The Canal Cafe Theatre until Sunday 1 March 2026
Reading Time: 2 minutesUsing miniature environments, model worlds, camera tricks, and projection, imitating the dog mix the live and the recorded, the animate and the inanimate to create a thrilling, audacious and timely retelling of H.G. Wells’ classic novel.
Following their acclaimed adaptations of literary classics Heart of Darkness (2018), Dracula (2021), Macbeth (2023) and Frankenstein (2024), “multimedia daredevils” imitating the dog push their inventive storytelling to new heights
Reading Time: 2 minutesLove, scars, and thirty years of almost. Rajiv Joseph’s Gruesome Playground Injuries traces the relationship between Doug and Kayleen across three decades, presenting their story through a series of encounters that unfold out of chronological order. Each…
Reading Time: 2 minutes90 minutes of wonderful, historically (in)accurate chaos A rousing applause welcomed an energetic foursome of Sam Trotman, Finn Tickel, Caoimhe de Brún and Harrison Macdonald-Taylor to the Studio stage at New Wimbledon Theatre on Friday night for…
Reading Time: 2 minutesDark political satire: an impressive performance and piercing comedy The scene is set: a tired, messy, red rosette studded office, with a bottle of white wine sitting on the table, shortly to be opened. I hope it…
Reading Time: 3 minutesGarland sets fourth an unwavering theatrical statement in Primal Bog, a show which slices normativity, disembowels commodified self-care and celebrates our inner filth. Writer/performer Rosa Garland walks naked onto a white canvas covered stage. The front row of…