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by David Storey
directed by Elizabeth Elstub
presented by UNCOMMON THEATRE
8 - 26 April
Out there is the magic I glimpsed as a child. You made me a dreamer and here I am accusing you.
When Adrianne arrives unexpectedly at her sister Carol’s marital home, she realises nothing is quite what it seems or what she expected. She is forced to question who these people are, and what goes on upstairs?
Carol has questions too. What has happened to Adrianne’s successful career in London, and why has she decided to visit after eighteen years? The sisters’ search for the truth has shocking consequences for both.
Sisters is set in a large council estate in the industrial North of England. It is a remarkable, unsettling play about unrealised ambition, love, morals and madness. It was first presented at the Royal Exchange Theatre, Manchester, in 1978.
David Storey (1933 – 2017) was an award-winning working-class Writer and Artist. Known as the Chekhov of the North, his work at the Royal Court includes In Celebration, Home, The Contractor and The Farm. As a novelist his work includes This Sporting Life, made into a film starring Richard Harris (1963), Pasmore, G Faber Memorial Prize (1973) and Saville, Booker Prize (1976).
Sisters is the launch production for UNCOMMON THEATRE, a theatre company created to support working-class actors, writers and creatives. This production is also a continuation of North meets South, an exploration of Northern Working-Class writers, past, present and in the future.
by Nick Payne
directed by George Derry
14 - 17 May
A summer barbeque is always where Marianne and Roland first meet.
Almost every time an undeniable, unlikely connection between the quantum physicist and beekeeper begins. However, in the multiverse, every single choice could start or end their story, but which decision makes all the difference? How much of love, loss, grief and joy is truly inevitable?
From award-winning writer Nick Payne, Constellations follows the affair of occasional star-crossed lovers, Marianne and Roland. The play premiered at the Royal Court in 2012 to great critical acclaim and went on to win the Evening Standard Award for Best Play.
Nick Payne is a screenwriter and playwright. His film We Live in Time, starring Andrew Garfield and Florence Pugh, was released in early 2025 and has been hugely successful. He is currently developing a new project with See-Saw and has various features in development. Nick’s play Constellations transferred to the West End and Broadway in 2015, starring Jake Gyllenhaal and Ruth Wilson. Nick adapted Julian Barnes’s The Sense Of An Ending for BBC Films which was released in 2017 starring Jim Broadbent, and his BBC one show Wanderlust starred Toni Colette – an adaptation of his own play. In 2021, he wrote a feature film for Blueprint – The Last Letter From Your Lover starring Callum Turner and Shailene Woodley.
by David Hendon
directed by Paula Chitty
presented by Irrational Theatre
22 & 23 May
Jennifer is waiting for her son to return home from school. But as she reflects on life as a mother, it becomes clear there is something she hasn’t told us. As the story unfolds, we learn the shattering truth.
A meditation on motherhood, Hendon’s writing is first class in this surprising, shocking and heart wrenching monologue, brought to life theatrically by director Paula Chitty and actress, Elizabeth George.
A finalist at The Kenneth Branagh Award in 2017 where it was hailed a triumph.
‘A Triumph, someone sat behind me and said we should have stood to applaud and I agree. It’s impossible to untangle the roles of writer, director and actor in achieving the outcome but that’s what great theatre is all about, the structure is overlaid with beautiful dialogue.’ Sardines Magazine
Press for this production:
‘A compelling and gripping tale- well executed… comes with an almighty emotional punch’ ★★★★ The Reviews Hub
‘Played with effecting depth…this little play is a powerful one. A tale of love and loss and all that comes with it.’ ★★★★ A Younger Theatre
‘about Motherhood, shock, grief, mundane joys and celebrations that motherhood entails’ ★★★★ Theatre Box
Room – A Journey into the Creative Mind of Virginia Woolf
written and performed by Heather Alexander
directed by Dominique Gerrard
presented by Emul8 Theatre
29 - 30 May
“Lock up your libraries if you like. There is no lock, no gate, no bolt you can set upon the freedom of my mind!”
Cambridge University, 1928. Virginia Woolf is abruptly ordered off the grass and refused entry to the library. Her crime? Being a woman.
Following this, Woolf interrogates the crushing injustice of women living in 1920’s Britain. With an incisive mix of integrity and visceral charm, Woolf forms her ideas about Shakespeare’s Sister, Jane Austen, Charlotte Bronte and Aphra Behn among others.
In this witty, poignant and provocative adaptation, Alexander reminds us that the issues at the heart of A Room of One’s Own remain as relevant today as they were a hundred years ago.
Emul8 Theatre Company challenges boundaries, seeking to engage the audience in a dialogue around themes of justice, female empowerment, and freedom of expression. They develop fresh ideas and perspectives, offering new writing around current issues, concerns and controversies. They also dramatise and adapt existing iconic texts, making them accessible and relevant to a contemporary audience. Emul8 seeks to interrogate prejudices and stereotypical representations through thought-provoking and innovative text and staging.
Press for this production
‘An exquisite performance… as a condensation and enactment of Woolf’s seminal text, this can’t be improved’ Outstanding FringeReview
by R.K. Chui
directed by Aoife Scott
produced by Kitchen Revolt Productions
3 - 7 June
You wanna watch me suffer? Got all day.
Then I’ll take my sweet time.
With the first date spice’o’meter off the charts, Dom’s trying to write the rules on love. But when Izzy flips the script, Dom tightens his grip in a game of pop music and power.
This young couple can’t stop rolling the dice. What have you got left to lose when you gamble with your heart? Strap in as we find out who can handle the most heat. ‘Cus who knew heaven was also full of burning, eh?
Kitchen Revolt Productions
Kitchen Revolt create bold, playful and innovative productions that ignite meaningful conversations. We aim to uplift underrepresented artists by colouring out the margins, scribbling through the lines and building a playground for working-class joy to become an act of resistance.
Press from past productions:
Desmond’s Scared of the Smoking Sea ★★★★ & Standing Ovation Nomination from London Pub Theatres
There is a Light and a Whistle for Attracting Attention
by Henri Merriam
produced by Play Nicely Theatre
11 - 14 June
“You’ve never seen Grease? Are you kidding? Ok. So there’s this guy and this girl…”
In the beginning there were stories. Stories of girls and women and men and Love. So when she meets him, she knows the script and she’s ready. But things are starting to go wrong and the stories she’s been told don’t serve her anymore.
She doesn’t fit the role.
She needs to rewrite her part. So she can be seen.
Be brave. Take a breath.
There is a Light and a Whistle for Attracting Attention is brought to you by award-nominated Play Nicely Theatre (Splinter, The Mechanicals Present).
Play Nicely Theatre was founded to tell stories old and new. They return to the Jack Studio following their hit 2023 tour of Bruntwood Judge’s Prize winner Martha Loader’s play Splinter, which was a Finalist in the London Pub Theatre Standing Ovation Awards and awarded an Offcomm.
Press for previous production Splinter at the Jack
Press for this production
‘this is a hauntingly heartbreaking ode to love and memory, and it will certainly stick in mine for a very long time.’ ★★★★★ London Pub Theatres
by Nathaniel Brimmer-Beller
presented by Black Bat Productions
17 June - 5 July
It’s the big day. The announcement is in a few hours’ time, and film producers David and Kate anticipate their prestigious Civil War epic Catch Me Some Freedom will be nominated for plenty of Goldies. Until, however, they learn that the film’s heroic lead role, played by a white actor, was in real life actually Black.
Fearing an intense and career-jeopardizing backlash, David and Kate frantically try to avoid public scrutiny, and keep the film from getting any attention whatsoever.
Featuring award-winning writer and performer Nathaniel Brimmer-Beller as David, and the acclaimed Rosie Hart as Kate, this “comedic yet poignant” Hollywood satire returns, acclaimed as “genius” (★★★★★ Broadway Baby) with “a wonderful set-up” that “delivers in every manner” (★★★★★ Violet Curtain).
Black Bat Productions has been creating theatre since 2017, and has been behind a broad range of sharp, stylish pieces of theatre. The company has a curious, incisive, and acclaimed approach to original storytelling. Previous productions include: 1950s jazz noir Mack The Knife, Twilight-Zone-inspired mystery Technicolor, razor-sharp political satire Chagos 1971, heist thriller Fear of Roses, 1960s fashion-industry caper Nines and contemporary comedy-drama The Kindness of Strangers. Black Bat Productions has seen two of its pieces published in 2024 by Methuen Drama: 1970s set play-with-songs In Everglade Studio and Hitchcock-esque noir thriller Port City Signature.
Press for this production
‘The setup is genius… exemplary writing…with a masterclass of a twist… The punchlines hit their targets with a topicality and humour which completely justifies such enjoyment. It is a joy to spend an hour watching Press.’ ★★★★★ Broadway Baby
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