Productions
Glow in the Dark (reading)
Performed as part of the Criterion New Writing Showcase 2024. Glow in the Dark is a provocative new play that examines the dangers of genetic engineering and human ambition.
Knife on the Table
An explosive new production from award-winning company Something Underground. Jagged spoken dialogue is infused with live music to shine a light on the rippling effects of gang culture and knife crime.
The Brown Ranger (R&D)
A new solo show that explores mixed-race identity through the lens of 90s and 2000s pop culture.
Coram Boy
Angels and abandoned children, glorious music and foul murder whirl through this enthralling, moving and richly colourful tale of 18th century England.
Spark (R&D)
A new play about a young woman’s experience of epilepsy and its shattering impact on her life and those closest to her.
anthropology
The world premiere of Lauren Gunderson's new play about a grieving software engineer who brings her missing sister back to life through AI. A Hampstead Theatre main stage production.
Good Day
A darkly comic exploration of immortality and a poignant tribute to impermanence. A new Double Telling production.
Mary
A new historical drama by Rona Munro that follows Scottish diplomat James Melville in his quest to uncover the truth about what really happened to Mary, Queen of Scots on one fateful night in Edinburgh in 1567. A Hampstead Theatre main stage production.
Vengeance
Featured as part of Dear Black People, a festival of new work at Pleasance Theatre, Vengeance fuses spoken word, movement, and live singing to explore the troubling intersection of violence, trauma, and racism.
Proud
Set in contemporary London, Proud tackles themes of race, religion, and sexuality through the lens of three men attempting to make sense of their place in the world. This is a story of how the desire for connection can overcome the debilitating effects of our past and stir us to uncover hidden parts of the other. A Double Telling production.
Lovesick
Sarah needed a heart transplant. Maggie performed the operation. There were no complications – but things have become complicated.
Weaving together dialogue, movement and poetry, Lovesick looks at the extent to which our organs hold memory, and explores the strong connections we forge with those that save our lives, and those that leave us behind after death.
Words Without Consent
Drawn from the speeches of prominent figures and the interviews collected by Ellen Patterson and Katie Rice, Words Without Consent is a verbatim piece that juxtaposes absurd political rhetoric with the complex experience of being female in today’s world. Exposing a series of uncomfortable parallels, the play offers a new take on how the personal is the political.
Blue Bottles
Blue Bottles is an absurd tragicomedy that shows us two apparently dissimilar characters who are in fact mirror images of one another. Combining an immersive soundscape with seemingly banal conversation, the play explores the creative strategies we adopt to combat our profound fear of being alone.
I, Minnie Lansbury
A new play by Bren Gosling, commissioned by The George Lansbury Memorial Trust about The Poplar Councillor’s Revolt of 1921.
Chinese Boxing
Chinese Boxing is a one-man show with a powerful message about China and ‘The West’, inspired by the Siege of the Legations in Peking, during the Boxer Uprising of 1900.
Follow My Fingers
Hannah West’s debut play explores the fallout from a traumatic incident on the lives of four women as they travel across South America. Moving between past and present, Follow my Fingers blends naturalistic dialogue, movement and music to capture the physical and psychological effects of one fateful accident.
Far From the Madding Crowd
Jessica Swale’s adaptation of Far From the Madding Crowd is set against the part-real, part-dream world of Hardy’s Wessex. Bathsheba's choices show us life in all it's unpredictability, the decisions we take, both wise and unwise. And how those choices can cause aftershocks that reverberate through everything that follows.