directed by Nathaniel Brimmer-Beller The Last Black Messiah is a fierce, gripping drama about revolution, identity and justice. Set in early 90s America, Black revolutionary leader and former Howard University professor, Dr.Oko awaits execution when he receives a surprise visit from his former student Asante, now a journalist. As their reunion unfolds, history, past choices, and the weight of the country collide, igniting a confrontation that could change the legacy of Dr.Oko. This intense, thought-provoking story will leave you questioning everything you believe. Tuesday 28 April Saturday 16 May 2026 at 7.30pm No performances: Sundays and Mondays Tickets: 17, 15 conc, suitable for 14+ Terms and conditions apply when booking. Our concessionary price tickets are for: full-time students, over 65s, registered unwaged, under 18s and Equity Members. Please bring proof of status.

Writer and Lyricist Tom Watson Composer Sam Wells Directed by Hannah Lochhead Presented by Planet Sin Productions. Nick and Charlie have procrastinated their 20s away, rotting on the sofa and ghosting everyone else in their lives until the day they receive some shocking news about their old friend, Jamie. Determined to honour Jamies memory, the boys decide to do something radical. Something that terrifies them... exercise. What begins as a reluctant challenge becomes a test of friendship and willpower (or lack thereof). 10k? Jog On! is a buddy comedy musical about the world of fitness and masculinity with a little bit of showbiz pizazz added to really get the blood pumping. After a successful debut at the Camden Fringe in 2025, 10k? Jog On! returns for a limited London run with fresh production and original songs. Tuesday 9 Saturday 13 June 2026 at 7.30pm No performances: Sundays and Mondays Tickets: 17, 15 conc, suitable for 16+ Terms and conditions apply when booking. Our concessionary price tickets are for: full-time students, over 65s, registered unwaged, under 18s and Equity Members. Please bring proof of status.

by Merlin Stevens directed by Arden Fitzroy presented by Achy Bits Productions One of the first things you learn about me is that I do not believe in ghosts. Scrawled in the margins of Shakespeares play, Horatio draws his breath in laughter and pain to tell the story of someone jangled out of tune himself. Horatio has followed his situationship home for Christmas break. The fact that the young man in question is heir to the throne of Denmark, and the son of a murdered warlord, soon proves to be the least of his worries. Horatio loves people deeply and hes starting to suspect that the person he loves most may be more dangerous than plague, Nordic winter, or plot devices. But when it comes to ghostly affairs, Horatio may have a secret or two up his sleeve as well. A blast of fresh air for the world of Shakespeares Hamlet, Horatio, In Thy Heartis a new play about the courage of setting boundaries and the complexity of mourning people who were bad for you. Award-winning production company Achy Bits Productions continues its tradition of revelling in the queer shadow play behind the scrim of classic texts. Tuesday 14 Saturday 18 July 2026 at 7.30pm No performances: Sundays and Mondays Tickets: 17, 15 conc, suitable for 13+ Terms and conditions apply when booking. Our concessionary price tickets are for: full-time students, over 65s, registered unwaged, under 18s and Equity Members. Please bring proof of status.

written and performed by Tom Neenan In 2024, writer, actor and semi professional painter Tom Neenan received an invitation to paint the portrait of an 86 year old man. But what promised to be a simple commission turns into an often hilarious and occasionally excruciating exploration of past failures, artistic missteps and current worries, ranging from body image to AI. A comedy storytelling show about art, people and how people represent themselves through art, but somehow not as pretentious as that sounds. Tom Neenan is a BAFTA and Writers Guild nominated writer, actor and comedian. Oh and painter. He was head writer of BBC Twos hit comedy The Mash Report as well as a writer for Prince Andrew The Musical and Skys Silo. Alex Pearson Productions, in association with Glass Splinters, is thrilled to be bringing a fresh take on this classic tale of love, violence, and what it means to live a life under the spotlight. Thursday 9 Saturday 11 July 2026 at 7.30pm No performances: Sundays and Mondays Tickets: 17, 15 conc, suitable for 14+ Terms and conditions apply when booking. Our concessionary price tickets are for: full-time students, over 65s, registered unwaged, under 18s and Equity Members. Please bring proof of status.

written and performed directed by Tina Pelini presented by Emul8 Theatre Power. Money. Survive The mantra of a woman determined to survive impossible odds. Becoming Mrs Danvers is a dark, electrifying new theatre work that fuses a contemporary interrogation of mental health with the tension of a psychological thriller. Sinister, intimate and relentlessly gripping, the piece draws audiences into a world of locked doors, secret rooms and fractured realities, where money, power and manipulation determine who is heard and who is erased. No handle. No exit. No mercy. At its heart is a young woman trapped within a system that has shown her no mercy. As she bucks against institutions designed to control and silence, she finds increasingly inventive ways to beat the system. Through role play, creative writing & fantasy, she claws back her humanity; but what begins as resistance skews into obsession. Identities fracture. Hidden agendas surface. The boundary between reality and psychosis dissolves. Locked doors, secret rooms they tell their own stories. Award-winning actress Heather Alexander, renowned for her powerful solo performances, delivers a tour-de-force portrayal marked by psychological precision and emotional force. Directed by Tina Pelini, Becoming Mrs Danvers combines sharp writing with striking poetic imagery to create theatre that is dark, dangerous and unforgettable. Tuesday 21 Saturday25 June 2026 at 7.30pm No performances: Sundays and Mondays Tickets: 17, 15 conc, suitable for 14+ Terms and conditions apply when booking. Our concessionary price tickets are for: full-time students, over 65s, registered unwaged, under 18s and Equity Members. Please bring proof of status.

directed by Andy McLeod presented by Open Handed Theatre Do you know what its like to be a meme? The news is in and you are trans. In Youve Gone Quiet, you play Beth. A struggling journalist whose best friend demands that she helps her get pregnant. But when Beth turns that into an article, the breaking news breaks her right back. Writer Cerys Duffy and Director Andy Mcleod bring a fierce, funny, and heartfelt story that tackles the media head-on. Told in second person, youll be put directly in Beths shoes. Youll experience everything as a trans woman in 2026 including being silenced. Created by Open Handed Theatre, a Brighton-based company using stories to transform the suppressed into the spectacular. This production is supported using public funding by the National Lottery through Arts Council England. Tuesday 2 Saturday 6 June 2026 at 7.30pm No performances: Sundays and Mondays Tickets: 17, 15 conc, suitable for 18+ Terms and conditions apply when booking. Content advice: Please note this production contains strong language, sexual content and mature themes, with depictions of transphobia & biphobia, and some references to infertility, sexual abuse, coercive control, and suicide. 18+. Ourconcessionary price ticketsare for: full-time students, over 65s, registered unwaged, under 18s and Equity Members. Please bring proof of status.

Written by Rose Courtney Adapted from the short story by Isak Dinesen Presented by The Dulwich Players It is 1871 and Babette has fled for her life, as a refugee from the violent uprisings in Paris. She arrives, destitute, on the doorstep of two devout sisters in a remote part of Norway. But Babette is more than she seems. And the impact of her arrival on the people who take her in and the local community turns out to be transformative, both for them and for herself. If Scandi Noir has left you bleak, come and be uplifted by a timeless tale of love and loss and laughter and the triumph of the human spirit among the fjords. Produced by special arrangement with the DRAMATIC PUBLISHING COMPANY, INC. of Woodstock Illinois The Dulwich Players is a leading amateur theatre group based in Dulwich, South East London. Performances: Tuesday 16 - Saturday 20 June 2026 Saturday 20 matinee at 3pm Tickets: 17, 15 conc, suitable for 12+ Our concessionary price tickets are for: full-time students, over 65s, registered unwaged, under 18s and Equity Members. Please bring proof of status.

directed by Frances Bodiam presented by Footfalls Theatre Company Woman Business is a bold and intimate one-woman play about identity, belonging, and what it means to be a brown woman. A story of what we inherit, what we outgrow, and what we finally claim as our own. The play follows Diya a woman shaped by inherited rituals and the expectations placed upon her as she moves between cultures, roles and generations of memory. Diya has spent her life carrying the traditions and expectations passed down through the women before her. Through childhood prayers, marriage, migration, grief and myth, she begins to unravel the many versions of herself daughter, wife, widow, believer, rebel goddess. As the stories of her foremothers echo through her own life, Diya confronts the roles she has been taught to play. With humour, tenderness and raw honesty, it asks a simple but urgent question: what happens when a woman finally begins to speak in her own voice? Tuesday 23 Saturday 27 June 2026 at 7.30pm No performances: Sundays and Mondays Tickets: 17, 15 conc, suitable for 16+ Terms and conditions apply when booking. Our concessionary price tickets are for: full-time students, over 65s, registered unwaged, under 18s and Equity Members. Please bring proof of status.

adapted and directed by Liz Love presented by VandL Productions A Tale of Two Cities is set in a time of uncertainty, injustice and violence. Dickens classic tale follows the lives of British and French subjects, whose fates become knitted together by bonds of love and hate, driven by the seismic social changes around them. After being falsely imprisoned in the Bastille for 18 years, Doctor Manette is released to the care of his daughter, Lucie. On their return to London, a fateful encounter with a young Charles Darnay leads to being witnesses in a court case on which his life depends. The case, defended by the enigmatic Sydney Carton, begins a sequence of entanglements of the heart. Meanwhile in Paris, Madame Defarge and her husband battle the oppression from the aristocracy, having suffered unimaginable cruelty at the hands of the wicked Marquis dEvremonde. As the French Revolution culminates, both British and French find themselves dragged to Paris and the fury it has unleashed. All in the shadow of the looming guillotine. Who will survive? Who will be held accountable? How easy is it to forgive? And what will they sacrifice for love? Tuesday 19 Saturday 23 May 2026 at 7.30pm No performances: Sundays and Mondays Tickets: 17, 15 conc, suitable for 13+ Terms and conditions apply when booking. Content advice:please note this productioncontains loud sounds, use of haze and descriptions of violence. Ourconcessionary price ticketsare for: full-time students, over 65s, registered unwaged, under 18s and Equity Members. Please bring proof of status.

with additional material by Mark Stratford directed by Guy Smith presented by Stratford Productions ORWELL: The Road to 1984 tells the fascinating story of one of the greatest writers of the twentieth century and the extraordinary personal experiences that inspired his classic tales Animal Farm and Nineteen Eighty-Four. It is a timely portrait of a writer whose words remain a warning and a hope. George Orwell is perhaps the most influential English writer of the twentieth century. His classic tales Animal Farm and Nineteen Eighty-Four which warn of the dangers of totalitarianism erosion of free speech, abuse of power, increasing control of all aspects of our everyday lives resonate now more than ever. Orwells dystopian concepts such as Big Brother is watching you, Room 101 and thoughtcrime have become everyday phrases. But where did his vision of the future come from? In this powerful and moving play, Mark Stratford takes you on a fascinating journey through the extraordinary experiences that shaped the work of this perceptive and compelling writer. In Orwells words, we travel through many of the remarkable episodes in his life including his time at a grim boarding school, being a police officer in colonial Burma, his adventures tramping through England to live among the poor and underprivileged, and his extraordinarily close shave with death in the Spanish Civil War. When I sit down to write a book, I do not say to myself, I am going to produce a work of art. I write it because there is some lie I want to expose. George Orwell In this age of misinformation, political extremism and digital surveillance, ORWELL: The Road to 1984 is a play for our time. Tuesday 6 Saturday 10 October 2026 at 7.30pm No performances: Sundays and Mondays Tickets: 17, 15 conc, suitable for 13+ Terms and conditions apply when booking. Our concessionary price tickets are for: full-time students, over 65s, registered unwaged, under 18s and Equity Members. Please bring proof of status.

adapted and directed by Jack Jacobs presented by Off By Heart I needed to know that I was not a louse. Rocks piled high. A staircase. A man with a theory and an axe. Raskolnikov is a student living on nothing, in a room barely wider than his arms, in a city that never goes quiet. He has a theory. He believes some people are extraordinary, and the rules do not apply to them. To test his belief, he picks up an axe. Sonya, a girl with her own reasons for shame, refuses to look away from him. Porfiry, an investigator who never raises his voice, begins to circle. The city presses in. The theory begins to crack. What follows is not just a manhunt but a reckoning. Dostoevskys restless novel is reimagined as a thrilling chamber piece in an intimate study of the theories we use to excuse cruelty, and the quiet work of being found out. Crime and Punishment is the debut production of Off By Heart, a new London theatre company committed to telling great stories. Adapted and directed by Jack Jacobs actor, theatre maker and voice artist the production brings Dostoevskys feverish interior world into the intimacy of the Jack Studio. Tuesday 15 Saturday 26 September 2026 at 7.30pm No performances: Sundays and Mondays Tickets: 17, 15 conc, suitable for 14+ Terms and conditions apply when booking. Our concessionary price tickets are for: full-time students, over 65s, registered unwaged, under 18s and Equity Members. Please bring proof of status.

Significant Other follows the parallel journeys of Malika, a teen social media influencer, and Victor, a travelling salesman in his fifties. Malika is being stalked by an obsessive ex, though she is reluctant to face up to it. Victor has been carrying around a dummy for far too long, in place of his wife who left years ago. A weekend of heading for the club is Malikas answer to everything, whilst Victor day dreams of his long service award. But their weekend plans are about to be upended What will it take for each of them to live in the present and leave behind the dynamics of a past relationship? Significant Other is a new intergenerational play about disconnection and confronting lost dreams, with touches of dark comedy and an unexpected denouement. Tuesday 17 Saturday 29 August 2026 at 7.30pm No performances: Sundays and Mondays Tickets: 17, 15 conc, suitable for 16+ Terms and conditions apply when booking. Our concessionary price tickets are for: full-time students, over 65s, registered unwaged, under 18s and Equity Members. Please bring proof of status.