Theatre highlights this Month embody Brigadoon with Georgina Onuorah and Danielle Flamanya. The Legends Of Them written by Sutara Gayle AKA Lorna Geeg and Fats Ham Written by James Ijames
You can even catch Born with Enamel Starring Ncuti Gatwa.
Each Good Factor with Lenny Henry
You’re seven years outdated. Mum’s in hospital. Dad says she’s ‘executed one thing silly’. She finds it onerous to be glad. You begin an inventory of all the pieces that’s sensible in regards to the world. The whole lot price residing for. You allow it on her pillow. You realize she’s learn it as a result of she’s corrected your spelling.
A toddler makes an attempt to ease their mom’s melancholy by creating an inventory of all the very best issues on this planet. By way of maturity, because the checklist grows, they be taught the deep significance it has on their very own life. Each Good Factor is a comedy in regards to the lengths we are going to go for these we love.
A rotating solid of visitor performers will lead the present throughout the run, together with Lenny Henry from (dates from 1st to thirtieth August) at Soho Place.
The Misplaced Lombi. Written by RB8.
‘Earlier than there have been roots there have been seeds …‘
Tells the story of three ladies related by blood, spanning over three generations. One craving, one operating and one with a calling. Every should go on a journey if they’re to seek out peace and backbone inside themselves. With themes on identification, the recruitment of kid troopers within the DRC, the generational trauma of struggle, the need of belonging and the significance of forgiveness.
Forged contains Paul Kwey, Pearl Dana-Might Smith, Alby Jay, Raychel Addo, Elizabeth Falola, Lanre Danmola, Siobhan David-O’Dean, Charles Ohanwe, Rhema Blanchard, Assia Jalloh, Stephanie Tuitt, Taz Munyaneza, Chenée Taylor, Corey Fraser, Ivy Davies, Megan Madaleine Freeman, Jane Udeh, Linda Mathis, Leah Abraham,Zion River De Costa Belgrave, Measha Haughton and Josephine Juliet De Costa Belgrave.
The Misplaced Lombi runs from Friday 1st August – Sunday third at The Playground Theatre, Camden Fringe 2025
Brigadoon With Georgina Onuorah and Danielle Flamanya
‘Brigadoon, Brigadoon,
There my coronary heart perpetually lies‘
Crash landed within the Highlands of Scotland, WW2 fighter pilots Tommy and Jeff are looking for a means house, while simply past the hills, sisters Fiona and Jean are making ready for a marriage. Over the course of 1 probability day within the dreamlike village of Brigadoon, their tales entwine. However can love endure on this enchanting place the place all the pieces shouldn’t be fairly because it appears?
Forged contains, Georgina Onuorah, Danielle Fiamanya, Jasmine Jules Andrews, Edward Baruwa, Taylor Bradshaw, Tanisha-Mae Brown, Jessie Odeleye, Eva Parsons and Christian Knight.
Brigadoon runs at Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre from Saturday 2nd August- Saturday twentieth September
Saving Mozart With Gloria Onitiri
What if the actual story has by no means been instructed?
Little one prodigy. Musical insurgent. Outcast. Icon.
Impressed by Nannerl, the sister who performed earlier than he did. Pushed by Leopold, the daddy who demanded perfection. Resurrected by Constanze, the spouse who refused to let the world overlook. Forged contains Gloria Onitiri, Ebony Roy-Palmer, Anu Ogunmefun and Gleanne Purcell Brown.
Saving Mozart runs from Monday twenty eighth July – Saturday thirtieth August at The Different Place Theatre
Accessible Pigeon Materials by Touissant Douglas
Howdy pal. Open your thoughts, take out what’s inside and want it properly on its future endeavours. You’re going to want the house for this one.
I’m speaking life, love, loss, discovering your means and pigeons… quite a bit about pigeons truly… it’s fairly pigeon-heavy to be sincere. So please be a part of me, Toussaint Douglass, for an hour of joyfully absurd, charmingly awkward stand-up.
Accessible Pigeon Materials runs from Wednesday thirtieth July – Sunday twenty fourth august at Pleasnt Courtyard-Bunker one, Edinburgh Pageant Fringe
Hamlet & Co. at Camden Fringe
Welcome to Hamlet & Co. — the place Shakespeare’s basic crashes headfirst into London’s ruthless company jungle, and household drama runs wilder than ever. You’re not simply watching this story — you’re a part of it. As members of the workplace, pals, household, and board, you’ve been invited to a really uncommon marriage ceremony.
When Amel’s dad—the large boss—dies below mysterious circumstances, his uncle Claude steps in, shaking up the corporate and stirring outdated loyalties. Now, tensions run excessive as secrets and techniques and energy performs threaten to unravel all the pieces.
With reside music from the in-house band Ophelia, sharp wit, and loads of twists, this interactive expertise dives deep into ambition, love, and messy household legacies.
Hamlet & Co. runs from Wednesday sixth – Sunday tenth August at Camden Fringe, Barons Court docket Theatre
The Legends Of Them Written by Sutara Gayle AKA Lorna Gee
A reminiscence: South London reggae pioneer Sutara Gayle AKA Lorna Gee hears her radio debut from Holloway Jail. One other: She’s engulfed within the Brixton rebellion sparked by the police capturing of her sister. And now she is right here, a silent retreat, in search of non secular steering from her brother Mooji and ancestor Nanny of the Maroons, and a second of transcendence. Powered by high-octane musical numbers and a virtuoso efficiency, the critically acclaimed, award-winning The Legends of Them is a panoramic, roof-raising chronicle of Sutara’s singular, extraordinary life.
The Legends Of Them from Thursday seventh – Sunday tenth August at Brixton Home | Tuesday nineteenth -Sunday twenty fourth August at Edinburgh Pageant Fringe
Romeo & Juliet Tailored by Kwame Owusu
An exciting story of younger love, household and loyalty. Weaving collectively Shakespeare’s timeless phrases with music and dance, set in opposition to the east London skyline, this up to date twist on the basic story guarantees to be an unforgettable summer time’s evening out.
In partnership with Sadler’s Wells, this large-scale manufacturing options younger artists and our local people alongside skilled performers.
Offered by Stratford East and Sadler’s Wells.
Romeo & Juliet runs from Thursday seventh – Saturday ninth August at Stratford East
Twelfth Evening Directed by Robin Belfield. Assistant Director Phillip J Morris.
Illyria is within the midst of a wild pageant however amongst the joy, not everybody needs – or is allowed – to indulge within the celebrations. The lovesick duke, mourning heiress and strait-laced steward to call a couple of.
Enter shipwrecked, grief-stricken Viola who should be taught the foundations of this new world – and the complicated love tangle she’s thrust into. She quickly finds that the strains between self-expression and extra, frivolity and frustration are skinny.
In a world the place feelings may be as changeable because the climate, will all of Illyria’s residents make it by way of in a single piece?
Forged contains, Jocelyn Jee Essien, Ronke Adekoluejo, Solomon Israel, Alison Halstead, Kwami Odoom and Joshua John.
Twelfth Evening runs from Friday eighth August – Saturday twenty fifth October at Shakespeare’s Globe Theatre
Born with Enamel Starring Ncuti Gatwa
“Oh Jesus bless us, he’s born with tooth!”
— Henry VI, Half 3
Christopher Marlowe: rock star of Elizabethan theatre, scandalous spy for the Crown – hazard and seduction mixed.
William Shakespeare: jobbing actor, promising younger playwright – dazzled by Marlowe, with ambitions of his personal.
Based mostly on the thought these two literary icons might have collaborated on the Henry VI historical past performs, Born With Enamel is a playful and daring imagining of their relationship throughout a very harmful time for artists.
Born With Enamel runs from Wednesday thirteenth August – Saturday 1st November at London’s Wyndham’s Theatre
Fats Ham Written by James Ijames
‘It’s superb what fathers suppose they personal of their sons simply trigger we share a reputation‘
Uninvited company are one factor. Uninvited ghosts are fairly one other.
Juicy is a queer, Southern faculty child, already grappling with some critical questions of identification, when the ghost of his father exhibits up of their yard, demanding that Juicy avenge his homicide. The story is acquainted, however what’s completely different is Juicy himself, a delicate and self-aware younger Black man attempting to interrupt the cycles of trauma and violence in service of his personal liberation.
From an uproarious household barbecue emerges a compelling examination of affection and loss, ache and pleasure.
Forged contains; Andi Osho, Sule Rimi, Jasmine Elcock, Sandra Marvin, Corey Montague-Sholay, Denver-Isaac Kwashe, Richard McIver, Olish Odele, Forenece Odumosu and Kieran Taylor-Ford.
Fats Ham rus from Friday fifteenth August – Saturday thirteenth September at Swan Theatre, Stratford-Upon-Avon
As You Like It with Gloria Obianyo
For Rosalind and Orlando, it’s love at first sight, however household feuds are destined to maintain the younger would-be lovers aside. When Rosalind is banished, she and her cousin Celia escape to the Forest of Arden, the place they discover that the probabilities for love and connection are infinite.
Forged contains; Gloria Obianyo, Patrick Robinson, Hannah Azuonye, Amber Grappy and Amber James.
As You Like It runs from Friday fifteenth August – Saturday sixth September at Theatre Royal Bathtub
Scenes with Black Folks Written and Directed by Pleasure Nesbitt
What are the foundations of being Black? Who decides, and who enforces them? What occurs when these questions are requested aloud—with a principally white viewers wanting on?
Scenes with Black Folks is a daring, genre-bending ritual play that blends satire, surrealism, and uncooked vulnerability to discover how Blackness is carried out, policed, and pushed to the sting. 4 “somebodies” take the stage, confronting the absurdity of racism and the load of self-awareness in areas the place being seen is rarely easy.
By way of a collection of fragmented, heightened, and darkly comedian scenes, the performers wrestle with identification, historical past, and the strain to symbolize. They slip between characters, tones, and timelines—exposing how the efficiency of race may be each masks and mirror. The road between actor and viewers is rarely safe. Neither is the road between reality and survival.
Unapologetically intimate, uncomfortably humorous, and intentionally disorienting, Scenes with Black Folks is not only a play—it’s a confrontation. A ritual. A refusal to elucidate. And an invite to witness what occurs when Black individuals cease performing for another person’s profit.
Scenes with Black Folks runs from Tuesday nineteenth – Friday twenty second August at Camden Folks’s Theatre, Camden Fringe