Memories of Mermaids Bernie Grants Arts Centre Don’t let the Mermaid lure you in … Award winning theatre company Rolemop Arts brings to life the ancient mythical character of the Mermaid in this darkly comic contemporary piece of original storytelling. Rosa Lee is part of a homeless community known as The Thames Mudlarks who keep […]
Bashment Housewives by playwright Tennesa Young The hopes, dreams, and every-day problems of young Black women in today’s Britain are shown at their most honest, and most hilarious, in Bashment Housewives on Sunday 5 October, as sensational playwright Tennesa Young brings her latest creation to The Drum. Bashment Housewives is an explosive, ghetto-fabulous rags-to-riches comedy […]
UK Premiere of The House That Will Not Stand By Marcus Gardley Directed by Indhu Rubasingham "You may be the wealthiest colored woman in New Orleans but you built this house on sand, lies and dead bodies." New Orleans, 1836. Following an era of French colonial rule and relative racial acceptance, Louisiana’s ‘free people of […]
Lenny Henry in Rudy’s Rare Records Starring Lenny Henry, and based on the BBC Radio 4 series, this touching, toe-tapping comedy is set in an old reggae record shop in Birmingham, which is owned by the irrepressible Rudy Sharpe with the assistance of his long-suffering son Adam. With Rudy’s chaotic “if it ain’t on the […]
Pandora’s Box returns for national tour this Atumn Following sell-out shows at Arcola Theatre, the acclaimed, award-winning British-African family drama, Pandora’s Box, embarks on its long-awaited UK tour. Nominated for this year’s $100,000 Nigeria Prize for Literature, Africa’s biggest literary award, and nominated for Best New Play, Off West End Theatre Awards, this moving tragicomedy […]