The Initiate

Posted on: February 24th, 2021 by ppEditor

A British couple are seized by Somali pirates. In East London, a Somali taxi-driver decides to rescue them. Meeting disbelief with determination, he dismisses his wife’s fears and flies out to negotiate their release.

Speeding from the banks of the Thames to the now unfamiliar world of his homeland, he confronts the family he left behind and the bravado of the defiant men he once called brothers.

A thrilling tale of altruism, greed, and the search for how to belong from George Devine Award-winning playwright Alexandra Wood.

Our Teacher’s A Troll

Posted on: February 24th, 2021 by ppEditor

Two terrible twins with a talent for turmoil rule their school with terror and tyranny – until the arrival of a new head teacher with green scaly skin, sharp gnarly fangs, and a long spiky tail…

Can the twins save the school from the child-eating Troll? Can they get Brussels sprouts in peanut butter taken off the menu? And most importantly, can naughtiness prevail?

Be outrageously entertained in this colourfully comic show from the writer of award-winning West End hit MATILDA THE MUSICAL. For ages 7+ and their accompanying trolls (or parents).

Every Brilliant Thing

Posted on: February 21st, 2021 by ppEditor

You’re seven years old. Mum’s in hospital. Dad says she’s ‘done something stupid’. She finds it hard to be happy.

You make a list of everything that’s brilliant about the world.

Everything worth living for.

Ice cream
Water fights
Staying up past your bedtime and being allowed to watch TV
The colour yellow
Things with stripes
Rollercoasters
People falling over

A play about depression and the lengths we go to for those we love.

Based on true and untrue stories.

Growth

Posted on: February 21st, 2021 by ppEditor

“It’s a lump in a bag of lumps. It’s fine.”

Tobes is young, free and having a ball. Off.

He’s successfully ignored his lump for two years but it’s starting to get in the way – cramping his style and, worse, affecting his sex life. So now there are pants to be dropped, and decisions to be made… It’s a real ball ache.

A comedy about growing up and manning up from critically acclaimed writer Luke Norris (SO HERE WE ARE, Royal Exchange; GOODBYE TO ALL THAT, Royal Court).

Winner of a prestigious Fringe First Award at the 2016 Edinburgh Festival Fringe.

Mixed Brain

Posted on: February 21st, 2021 by ppEditor

One day we were playing football. One kid shouts ‘let’s do black v white’. My heart starts beating hoping someone dusts this dumb idea off. All the white kids go to one side, all the black kids go to the other, I try slip off. Another kid yells: ‘Nathan what team will you be on? You’re mixed…”

Star of Benidorm, writer for Rastamouse, 50% Jamaican, 50% British, 100% reppin’ Shepherd’s Bush. Nathan Bryon is many things. Mixed.

Welcome to his world. Part story, part stand-up, a show fusing Afro-Caribbean flair and British awkwardness in a searing, searching exploration of what it means to be mixed-race and mixed-experience today.

If you live in the middle does anywhere feel like home? Get in the mix. Learn a little, live a little, laugh a lot.

Black Mountain

Posted on: February 21st, 2021 by ppEditor

Rebecca and Paul are running away. Away from memories and mistakes. 

They’re trying to save their relationship. They need time and space. An isolated house in the country is the perfect place to work things out. 

But you can’t run forever. Especially when you’re being followed.   

Black Mountain is a tense psychological thriller about betrayal and forgiveness by winner of the Harold Pinter Commission Brad Birch.  

Nominated for the Best Production in the English Language at the Wales Theatre Award 2018. 

How to be a Kid

Posted on: February 21st, 2021 by ppEditor

Molly cooks. Molly does the dishes. Molly gets her little brother Joe ready for school. Molly is only 12, but she doesn’t feel much like a kid anymore. 

Now Molly’s Mum is feeling better, maybe things will get back to normal. Can you help Molly learn how to be a kid again? 

Join Molly, Joe and her Nan for a larger than life story of family, friends and fitting in. 

Warning: Contains dancing, chocolate cake and an epic car chase.  

Winner of the Best Play for Young Audiences at the Writers Guild Awards 2018. 

Out of Love

Posted on: February 21st, 2021 by ppEditor

Lorna and Grace do everything together. They share crisps, cigarettes and crushes. That’s what happens when you’re best friends forever. 

But when Lorna gets a place at University, and Grace gets pregnant, they suddenly find themselves in starkly different worlds. Can anything bridge the gap between them?   

A tale of friendship, love and rivalry over thirty years from award-winning playwright Elinor Cook. 

OUT OF LOVE was a finalist for the Susan Smith Blackburn Prize 2018. 

How to Spot an Alien

Posted on: February 21st, 2021 by ppEditor

What do you do if you think your aunt is an alien?

Twelve-year-old Jelly and her brother Jonjo have their suspicions. She won’t let them leave the house. Or ask questions. And she definitely won’t let them in the attic.

Join Jelly and Jonjo on their quest to discover the truth in a rip-roaring adventure through space full of friendship, fun and flying saucers.

Contains: one confused alien, two brave kids and a busted spaceship.

A show for the whole family; space cadets both old and young!

Sticks and Stones

Posted on: February 21st, 2021 by ppEditor

‘So we’re clear. You know, right? You know I’m not that kind of person.’

Sometimes we can’t find the right words. Sometimes the wrong word just slips out. Sometimes the right words become the wrong words. Sometimes that ruins everything.

When a misfiring joke turns their life upside down, B starts to question what being good really means. In an age when technology multiplies every mistake, can we find a way to understand each other?

STICKS AND STONES is a razor-sharp satire about the search for a sure footing in an uncertain world from BAFTA-nominated Vinay Patel.