Thriller Dead Guilty at Tabard Theatre, Chiswick 10 - 27 Jun 2026

From the author and creative team behind the Tabard’s smash hit The Business of Murder comes Dead Guilty. 

Julia, a graphic designer is badly injured in a car crash when her employer John Haddrell suffers a fatal heart attack at the wheel. Housebound and fragile in both mind and body, she cuts herself off from friends and colleagues and instead depends on the two people she has persuaded herself she can trust. But can she? 

Dead Guilty is written by Richard Harris whose thriller/detective television credits include A Touch Of Frost, The Sweeney, The Avengers and The Last Detective. He has written such stage plays as Stepping Out and Outside Edge, both of which earned The Evening Standard Award. He also wrote the West End hit The Business of Murder which enjoyed a successful revival at the Tabard Theatre in 2024. 

‘a gripping and thoroughly entertaining evening’

Chiswick Calendar on The Business of Murder at the Tabard

Drama DO NOT ATTEMPT THIS CONVERSATION at Bread and Roses Theatre, Clapham 25 - 28 June

Nneka is a resident doctor finishing a late shift—another unrelenting and dangerously understaffed work day. Typical. Just as she is about to leave, she is suddenly asked to lead a Do Not Attempt Resuscitation (DNAR) conversation with the relative of a patient she has never met, and about a patient she doesn't know, all under intense time pressure. 

Set entirely within this single encounter, the play exposes the emotional dissonance, absurdity, and dark humour of end-of-life decision-making in a healthcare system stretched to breaking point.

As healthcare services continue to operate under relentless strain, life-altering conversations are increasingly delivered in rushed, imperfect circumstances by exhausted clinicians. This play invites the audience to sit inside one such moment as a fly on the wall, witnessing the collision of grief, bureaucracy, compassion, and detachment—and asking what it really means to remain humane within an inhumane system.

SF Theatre Jamais Vu Productions presents 113 at Golden Goose Theatre, Camberwell 26 and 27 June

No Name, No memory, No Identity.  Where to begin?

49 and 64 are in the room. They cannot see each other but they can talk and pass notes. All they have is questions. Who are they? Where are they? What is going on? And why? And who is J Doe? And why are they watching them?

"A masterful piece of new British Theatre" - The New Current

**** The New Current
**** Broadway World
**** Edfringe Review

Shortlisted: Best Play UONWF
Finalist: The Agon 2
Selected: NSDF 25

Queer dark comedy  SOME MASTERCHEF SH*T at The Glitch, Waterloo 24 - 29 June

In a dark corner of the internet, two men find each other. They meet in a coffee shop and talk coffee, Laverne Cox, and Courtney Act vs Ann Widdicombe in the 2018 series of Celebrity Big Brother. Think you know where this story is going? Think again. 

Read interview with the playwright Liam High here

Intergenerational Epic LOVE YOU LONG TIME (ALREADY)  by Katie Đỗ, Directed by Jennifer Tang, at Theatre503, Battersea 2 - 25 July

‘I’m really trying to be in love with you but I can’t stop remembering…’

Mai didn’t expect her heaven to be reliving an engagement to an unfaithful husband. He’s becoming a Buddhist monk. Mai’s daughter Tâm is desperate to understand her mother. As time slips away and dreams overlap with reality, Mai and Tâm must learn how to love each other before heaven comes for them again.

love you long time (already) by Katie Đỗ is a funny and moving intergenerational epic about mothers and daughters, migration and memory, the ties that bind us and the cost of breaking free from them.

Trilogy That Four Letter Word at Bread & Roses Theatre, Clapham 14 - 18 July

That Four Letter Word – devised and produced by Landé Belo

“Love is an action, never simply a feeling.” — bell hooks

What do we really mean when we talk about love?

The award-winning Ain’t I A Woman? returns with That Four Letter Word, three short plays that explore love in all its forms – tender and fierce, joyful and painful, complicated and hard‑won. Rooted in Black women’s experiences, these stories examine love not as a passive emotion, but as something we choose, practise and labour over. Love, here, is an action - and the consequences of acting (or failing to act) are deeply felt.

From a museum of memories to a tech boardroom to a couple’s bedroom three stories unfold, each exploring the courage, complexity and beauty of loving and being loved.

Queer Comedy GIRLS WHO LIKE BOYS WHO DIG BOYS WHO LIKE GIRLS at The Hope Theatre

14th - 18th July

“I want to be with you. Forever, I guess, or… forever’s a long time, but…” 

On a Friday night, EMMA, her boyfriend SAM, and his best friend ARCHIE come together in a well-known ritual around the kitchen table: pizza, beers, and heated debate. Emma and Archie are at loggerheads, and Sam once again finds himself stuck in the middle.
As new topics are broached, and revelations come to light, Emma makes a decision for what she believes is the greater good. But when things don’t go the way she planned, her newfound resolve starts to waver. A chance reunion months later creates further chaos, and uncovers buried secrets from the past. GIRLS WHO LIKE BOYS WHO DIG BOYS WHO LIKE GIRLS is a sharp, fast-paced comedy which poses questions surrounding queer identity, monogamy, and the pressure we put on ourselves (and each other) to explore in the modern day.



Interactive show THE ROGUE SHAKESPEARE EXPERIENCE - LIVE! With Ryan J-W Smith at Barons Court Theatre 21 - 25 July, 7.30 pm

This brand new solo show, starring OFFIE Award-winning poet-playwright, Ryan J-W Smith (aka ‘Rogue Shakespeare’) is coming to Barons Court Theatre this summer. Based loosely on his new podcast, where Smith writes sonnets on the spot for his guests, the audience-interactive live show, hosted by Smith, will consist of various fun theatre games for the audience, and clever theatrical devices, to demonstrate Smith’s skill at instantly writing perfectly structured rhyming iambic sonnets at lightening speed.