Hackney playwright details foster care experience in debut play
Four Paintings combines art and performance to explore the experience of growing up in care
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Human rights play to shed light on 'biggest unreported war story of our time'
The Island Nation, opening this month at the Arcola, revisits the Sri Lankan civil war to address a ‘black hole in history’
Sleepless, Shoreditch Town Hall, preview: exploring Fatal Familial Insomnia
A new play looks at the most rare and horrifying strain of insomnia of all
Barred: prison play asks if art and education can rehabilitate offenders
Writer and ex-offender Dean Stalham bases his plays on searching questions that interrogate the prison experience
Saddled with Shakespeare: The Handlebards ride to Geffrye Museum
An all-bicycling theatre company is giving new meaning to the phrase ‘play cycle’
Grimeborn Festival, Arcola, review: 'excellent programme of rarities and standards'
Opera gets back to its experimental roots at the Arcola’s annual festival
From the Ground Up, Shoreditch Town Hall, review: 'a lo-fi game show experience'
The show, devised by the Almeida young company, saw audiences peppered with provocative yes-or-no questions
Africa Utopia comes to the Southbank Centre 31 August – 4 September
Discover art and ideas from Africa that are changing the world
‘It was love soup’: Britten in Brooklyn with Sadie Frost at Wilton's Music Hall
Sadie Frost ventures to East London to star as stripper Gypsy Rose Lee
The Passion of Lady Vendredi: Rich Mix to stage 'blaxploitation epic'
Voodoo, evangelism and white working class comedians are some of the inspirations for the character of Lady Vendredi
Play set in ‘shipping container’ highlights plight of child refugees
Cargo, a new play opening at the Arcola this month, recreates a border crossing in real time
Play set in 'shipping container' highlights plight of child refugees
Arcola production enacts a border-crossing using a replica of the type of container used to escape conflict in countries such as Syria and Afghanistan
Rosemary Branch theatre founders bow out after 20 years
After two decades of at the helm of theatre pub institution, Cecilia Darker and Cleo Sylvestre have handed over the reins to a new generation
Handle with Care – self-storage lock-up stages play about belongings
Promenade production follows Zoe on a 30-year journey, viewed through the prism of her personal effects
Kenny Morgan review – ‘a worthy tribute’
Mike Poulton’s play about Terence Rattigan’s secret lover does a stellar job of conveying the post-war prejudice and emotional reticence of 1940s Britain
Kenny Morgan, Arcola theatre, review: 'a worthy tribute'
Mike Poulton’s play about Terence Rattigan’s secret lover does a stellar job of conveying the post-war prejudice and emotional reticence of 1940s Britain