The Changeling
After recent post-show Q&As for their acclaimed versions of Hamlet and Doctor Faustus, I'm back with Lazarus Theatre at Southwark Playhouse for their brand-new production of Jacobean drama The Changeling.
Dumbledore Is So Gay
After multi-award-winning success at VAULT Festival and The Pleasance, Robert Holtom's "uproariously funny" Dumbledore Is So Gay returns to the London stage with a limited run at Southwark Playhouse Borough.
SHEWOLVES post-show video and photos: Can theatre for young people make real change?
Teens were involved at every stage of the development of coming-of-age comedy SHEWOLVES. That was our jumping-off point for a wider discussion about theatre for, with and about young people.
Under the Kundè Tree post-show video and photos: Why was Cameroon’s war of independence hidden?
If you know next to nothing about the Cameroonian War of Independence, you are not alone. A quick poll of the audience at my post-show Q&A for Under the Kundè Tree proved that ignorance of the 1950s conflict is the norm - and intentional.
Under the Kundè Tree
After One Who Wants to Cross at the Finborough in February, I'm thrilled to chair the post-show talk for another new play care of Clarisse Makundul Productions, Makundul's own Under the Kundè Tree.
The Walworth Farce post-show video and photos: The perfect play to open Southwark Playhouse’s new venue
Southwark Playhouse is my neighbourhood theatre. Over the past decade, I've chaired countless post-show talks at what was meant to be its temporary home on Newington Causeway, a three-minute walk turning left outside my front door.
The Walworth Farce
What a perfect choice to launch Southwark Playhouse's brand-new, purpose-built venue at London's Elephant & Castle: a revival of Enda Walsh's acclaimed 2006 play The Walworth Farce, set in Elephant & Castle.
Hamlet post show-video and photos: What happens when you get rid of the adults?
How central are Gertrude, Claudius and Polonius to the story of Hamlet? If you remove those adult characters and the scenes that revolve around them, what are you left with?
