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The Red Prince
24 - 28 February
Craig Kitman, a young MP - elected in 2024 as part of Labour’s “loveless landslide” - sits alone in the middle of the night.
Over the course of an hour, he wonders how an idealistic 18-year-old ended up a burnt out, impotent has-been at 39.
It all seemed so promising. Until it wasn’t. Unloved, unfulfilled and cruising towards unemployment, Craig is at a crossroads. Carry on as he is (achieving nothing)? Ditch it all and start again (time to set up that TikTok account)? Or try to pull something positive from the wreckage?
The Red Prince transcends party politics to explore what happens when public service becomes personal destruction.
Witch Girl Summer
10 - 14 March
An obsessive influencer’s unraveling self esteem leads her to try unconventional methods to achieve “glass skin”. But when she goes from exchanging fingernail clippings for a disturbing multi-step routine to finding human limbs under her bed, she realizes she did not read the fine print - now she must share her body with a murderous blood thirsty witch.
Witch Girl Summer is Mean Girls meets The Blair Witch Project - a fast-paced hilariously horrific catharsis. So get ready with us: exorcism edition.
Arthur & Marilyn
17 - 21 March
Love-match or mis-match?
1956. What happened when America’s most famous celebrity married America’s most celebrated playwright? This thrilling new play delves deep inside the Monroe-Miller marriage, from its harmonious beginnings to its acrimonious end.
A tale of sex and drugs before the Age of Rock ’n’ Roll.
Determined be taken more seriously as an actress and secure more varied roles, Marilyn Monroe moves to New York and enrols at the Actors Studio. Not long after, she begins an affair with Arthur Miller. Suspected of having Communist leanings, Miller is summoned to appear before the House of UnAmerican Activities Committee. Marilyn supports him in public, going against the advice of her Studio and endangering her own career. After Miller divorces his wife, they marry. Nevertheless, even at the start of the marriage, cracks begin to show, A major row almost ends the union before it's barely started. But the couple weather the storm. Marilyn becomes pregnant and Miller begins writing the Misfits specially for her. However, little by little, Marilyn's dependence on drink and drugs starts to take its toll. She miscarries their child. Gradually, Miller withdraws from her emotionally. Marilyn has an affair with the co-star of her latest film - Ives Montand. By the time they make the Misfits together they are hardly speaking to each other. In 1961 they divorce.
Dragonfly Girls
24 - 28 March
Laura has been looking after her grandmother for many years, yet it seems the journey of care is coming to its end. She is now stuck with trying to reconnect with her no-nonsense sister, Jane, and learning how to exist as an individual without the duty of being a carer.
The play takes place over one evening, while the two sisters wait in their grandmother's stuffy living room as she receives palliative care upstairs.
‘Dragonfly Girls’ is the fourth play from The Lighthouse Ensemble, and is a dive into sisterly relationships, the wake of domestic abuse, and living beyond trauma.
Girl Kisser
7 - 11 April
At the start of their adult lives, 5 GIRLKISSER's try love. The result is complex with addictive hookups, innocent discoveries and the lines of friendship being blurred. Backdropped by the East London music scene, and Gen-Z's struggle for employment, this piece of gig theatre is sure to immerse you in clubbing and concert culture with live music and parties and dancing and kissing galore. Oh, and there's femmes playing guitar.
WORKSHOP: Intro to Clowning
12 April
Introduction to Clowning with Alex Bell
Organised by Northern Spirit Theatre Company
No experience needed. No pressure. Just curiosity.
This playful, practical workshop is a chance to let go, have a go, and explore what happens when things do not go to plan. Clowning is about play, honesty, and embracing failure as something joyful and creative.
In this session you will:
- Explore play and failure onstage
- Discover your own unique clown
- Build complicity with the audience and with each other
- Take part in fun, practical exercises that help your clown emerge naturally
Expect laughter, connection, a few surprises, and a supportive space where you can take risks and be boldly yourself. Come ready to play.
NORTHERN SPIRIT THEATRE COMPANY ARE A RESIDENT COMPANY AT THE LION & UNICORN THEATRE
The Side Hustle Scratch
17 - 19 April
Proforca Theatre Company presents "The Side Hustle Scratch" - our regular new writing showcase from The Side Hustle for the Lion & Unicorn Theatre.
Our next new writing showcase brings you a brilliant suite of 18 new pieces of writing at all stages of the development process and is a fantastic opportunity to see writers, performers, directors and creatives of all kinds showcasing brand new work over three incredible nights of theatre.
Our Side Hustles are fun, busy, warm and generous evenings where the best emerging talent in London shares its new work with you, and is the perfect chance to see some incredible brand new work at the genesis of its new adventure.
Join us for a fun, lively, and generous celebration of some of the next generation's best storytellers just as they get going with the good stuff.
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