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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.
Something Clean
29 - 30 April
Charlotte has been a mother for nineteen years, a wife for three decades, and a respectable community member her entire life. But when her only child is incarcerated for sexual assault, her once-immaculate world is forever tainted. Tony-Award nominated playwright Selina Fillinger (POTUS: Or, Behind Every Great Dumbass are Seven Women Trying to Keep Him Alive, 2022) soars in this intimate drama following one woman struggling to make sense of her own grief, love, and culpability.
Five
12 - 16 May
A true-crime podcaster walks into a prison to interview a serial killer. He expects a story. He doesn't expect to become part of one.
Five is a psychological thriller about obsession, control, and the seductive pull of darkness. Over a series of recorded interviews, the charming and unsettling Killer draws podcast host Morris deeper into his world - probing his relationship, his insecurities, his hungers. What begins as research curdles into fascination, and fascination into something far more dangerous.
As the interviews continue, the power dynamic shifts. Morris starts to unravel. And the audience, watching from inches away, becomes complicit in what unfolds.
This is a play about the stories we tell ourselves - about monsters, about love, about who we really are when no one's watching. It asks what happens when you stare into the abyss and the abyss offers you a seat.
Five is a taut, darkly funny two-hander that explores the blurred lines between true crime entertainment and voyeurism, between intimacy and control, between fascination and destruction.
The Bread You Throw
30 June - 4 July
Emma is a newly qualified teacher, or at least, she thinks she is. Emma is stuck in an endless loop, reliving the same events over and over, but this isn't time-travel or sci-fi, this is frontotemporal dementia. Join Emma on her journey, a journey that will challenge the narratives around the lived experience of dementia.
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