THE TRIALS BY DAWN KING | SOUTHWARK YOUNG ENSEMBLE COMPANY 2025 | 28 - 30 Aug 2025 “Everyone lived like we did! Well…maybe not everyone. But…I wasn’t any worse than anyone else” The near future. A jury of young people sit in judgement of the older generation for failing to deal with the catastrophe of climate change, deciding who should ...
Andrew Borden and his wife Abby are found dead in Fall River, Massachusetts, August 1892. Their daughter Lizzie is the main suspect. Tried but acquitted of the crime, the story goes that she wielded the axe that killed them. Overnight, she becomes America's original 'mad, bad and dangerous to know' icon. Set to bluegrass music and murder ballads, this irreverently ...
It’s club night and the tracks are spinning. Two headliners crossfade between stories of love, sex, and the power of music – set against a backdrop of precarious lives in urban London. Featuring original tracks inspired by early noughties and present-day R&B and Garage, Bangers follows the highs and lows of two strangers struggling with their own pasts, while hurtling ...
The Kiln Theatre's Listen Local Young Writers project works with 10 first-time writers aged 18-30 who live, learn, or earn in Brent. The group are paid at London Living Wage and attend weekly workshops, receive dramaturgical support, and attend 1:1 tutorials with Kiln’s New Work Associate. Each writer developed their first short play exploring themes of heritage, using stimuli from the Brent Museum and Archives. The ...
What does it mean to truly belong? Stuck On Replay was devised and created by a group of NEET 17-25 year olds as part of The Lyric's flagship programme START. We spent 6 weeks devising a theatre-piece in response to the main stage show, Metamorphosis by Frantic Assembly. Stuck on Replay is a piece about the pressures of living in ...
A beautiful and hilarious coming of age story, £1 Thursdays captures and celebrates the trials and tribulations of what it means to be young, Northern and working class, when for one Vodka-blurred second, you’re allowed to forget everything else. And just DANCE… ★★★★★ Five Stars, The Arts Desk ★★★★½ Four and a Half Stars, A Young(ish) Perspective ★★★★ Four Stars, The Reviews ...
“Sometimes you surprise people into being better than they are.” Laura and Anna, half-sisters, plan a grand net stretching across the skyline of North London as a way to unite their community. But not everyone’s convinced. Meanwhile Hala, a Syrian refugee staying with the family, finds herself caught in a tangle of immigration red tape. With time running out, drought ...
KHOJALYActors Church & Union Theatre KHOJALY is the story of the people whose lives were changed forever by the massacre that took place in February 1992 of the Azerbaijani inhabitants of Khojaly, a town in Nagorno-Karabakh, riven by the war there that lasted from 1988 to 1994. Created by Debunk Theatre from the words and testimony of the survivors via ...
Nomad by Neil HardyTramshed/Greenwich Theatre, 2020 A show about homelessness, trauma, and the fear of contaminating those we love. This new one-woman play, NoMad, exposes the challenges faced by writer and actor, Nell Hardy, as she experienced homelessness and psychiatric hospitalisation. ‘Hardy’s heartbreakingly honest portrayal radiates truth and desperation … Go and listen to the story she speaks - it ...
Arlington HouseCardboard Citizens, 2019 A devised music-theatre piece about Universal Credit, performed at Cardboard Citizens, London. Director: Vicky Moran Associate/Co-Director: Terry O’Leary Movement Director: Sean Graham Musical Director: Pete Wollard
