Theatre highlights this month embody Anansi the Spider written by Justin Audibert and directed by Robin Belfield
You can even catch Swings and Roundabouts by Ayoade Bamgboye, Protected House directed by Roy Alexander Weise and Wretch 32: HOME? at Olivier theatre.
Twelfth Evening Or What You Will
Illyria is within the midst of a wild pageant however amongst the joy, not everybody desires – or is allowed – to indulge within the celebrations. The lovesick duke, mourning heiress and strait-laced steward to call a number of.
Enter shipwrecked, grief-stricken Viola who should be taught the principles 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 means of in a single piece?
Starring Ronkẹ Adékọluẹ́jọ́, Jocelyn Jee, Alison Halstead, Solomon Israel, Joshua John and Kwai Odoon.
Twelfth Evening Or What You Will runs from Thursday 2nd – Saturday twenty fifth October @ Shakespeare’s Globe Theatre
Troilus And Cressida
The legends of Greece and Troy are gripped by an epic warfare, preventing for honour and bravado. As an exhilarating, action-packed battle rages round them, Trojan prince Troilus falls deeply in love with Cressida, and so they swear their everlasting love…
However wait! That’s NOT the play we’re about to see.
Quick ahead seven years, and there’s no finish in sight to the seemingly pointless, exhausting battle. In Troy the manufactured glamour of warfare is shedding its sheen, and never even their famous person Helen can restore its shine. The Greek camp is an apocalyptic wasteland. Achilles, their best warrior, has withdrawn in defiance, leaving the generals livid and Ulysses scheming with contemporary designs. In the meantime, the sharp-tongued cynic Thersites spares nobody from her scorn, railing in opposition to the insanity that surrounds her.
What occurs when the heroes we worship not dwell as much as their mythic narratives?
Starring Oliver Alvin-Wilson, Jonathan Livingstone, Conor Glean and Ibraheem Toure
Troilus And Cressida runs from Thursday 2nd – Sunday twenty sixth October @ Shakespeare’s Globe Theatre
Anansi the Spider written by Justin Audibert and directed by Robin Belfield
Individuals say that in a time lengthy, way back, animals walked on two toes and spoke with phrases, like we do. And again then, everybody knew that the cleverest of all of the animals within the kingdom was a spider – the notorious Anansi – the unique trickster and the grasp spinner of yarns.
However typically Anansi might be slightly too intelligent for his personal good…
Starring Cynthia Emeagi, Elizabeth Peace and Becky Sanneh
Anansi the Spider runs from Friday third October – Sunday sixteenth November at Unicorn Theatre!
Small Lodge
Larry, an acclaimed TV movie star whose life and profession are quickly unravelling. As he’s pressured to unpick his previous and confront his future, the viewers are launched to a set of unforgettable characters, together with his troubled twin brother Richard, his unpredictable former lover Marianne, and his domineering mom Athena performed.
With Rosalnd Eleazar.
Small Lodge runs from Friday third – Saturday 18th October at Theatre Royal Bathtub
Swings and Roundabouts by Ayoade Bamgboye
Burdened by the present of sight, a primeval consciousness that one thing just isn’t fairly proper, and virtually three accents, she’ll ask life’s huge questions and supply completely no solutions.
Born in London, raised in Lagos, sacked in Budapest, the poor girl has been there and performed that – and to what finish?
Swings and Roundabouts runs from Monday sixth Oct 25 – Saturday twenty fourth Jan 26 at Soho Theatre Deans Road
Black Males Strolling by Testomony. Directed by Nathan Gaël York.
We stroll. We communicate. We belong.
Impressed by a real-life strolling group, Black Males Strolling is a poetic and quietly political exploration of Black British identification. As three males hike by means of the snowy Peaks, their steps stir voices from the previous – tales typically unnoticed of historical past books. Once they encounter a younger Black girl, the panorama begins to shift, and so does their understanding of themselves.
This new manufacturing blends spoken phrase, motion and music to highly effective impact. With surreal tinges, this “Strolling for Godot” explores brotherhood, legacy, and the areas Black folks carve out in a rustic that usually overlooks them. A wealthy, layered expertise that strikes between the true and the imagined, the private and the political
Starring Jonathan Ude, Amanda Chinyanganya, Akeem George and Kieron Mieres.
Black Males Strolling runs from Tuesday seventh – Saturday eleventh October at Tower Theatre, Stoke Newington
Julius Caesar with unique music composed by John Pfumojena
“It have to be by his dying”
Julius Caesar has turn into a tyrant.
Cassius sees the menace. Brutus is torn by loyalty. Collectively, they conspire to kill Caesar.
When Cassius and Brutus homicide Caesar in full public view on the Ides of March, they assume they’ve heralded a brand new political age.
As a substitute, chaos erupts, and civil warfare begins.
Who will seize energy? Will this deliver battle or stability? Will the brand new ruler additionally fall to corruption?
Julius Caesar run from Thursday ninth – Saturday eleventh October at Mayflower Studios, Southampton; Omnibus Theatre, London from Wednesday twenty ninth October – Saturday fifteenth November.
Protected House directed by Roy Alexander Weise
What’s in a reputation?
The winds of change are blowing by means of the elite ivy-league halls of one in every of America’s most prestigious universities. For college kids Isaiah, Connor, Annabelle, Omar and Stacy, on the precipice of beginning their grownup lives, life is not about getting by means of a political science lecture with a hangover and auditioning for the college acapella group. Confronting the injustices of the previous is prime of the agenda – beginning with the truth that the school is known as after a infamous defender of slavery.
And on this stress cooker atmosphere, everybody has to choose a aspect.
Beneath the passionate speeches, do previous prejudices die arduous? What occurs to friendship and love amidst frank debate?
Starring Ernest Kingsley JNR, Bola Akeju and Ivan Oyik.
Protected House runs from Saturday eleventh October – Saturday eighth November at Chichester Competition Theatre
LEI-LDN Written by Na-keisha Pebody. Directed by Mya Onwugbonu
London’s calling, however is Chardaye prepared?
Chardaye, a mixed-race 17-year-old with a pointy tongue and so much to say. Uprooted from Leicester to South London, she’s thrown right into a world of aunties, accents, and unstated guidelines. However the place’s the rulebook on belonging?
When a sequence of racist occasions forces her from her house and her metropolis, Chardaye should navigate life with a distant aunt — carrying the burden of proving herself in a world that retains demanding definitions. The play explores the nuances of blended identification whereas shining a lightweight on the often-forgotten historical past of Britain’s “Brown Infants.”
LEI-LDN runs from Friday seventeenth – Saturday 18th October at Theatre503
Wretch 32: HOME?
‘I hope I made you’re feeling at house’
Greater than a gig. Greater than a present.
Rapper, singer and songwriter Wretch 32 headlines a one-off efficiency of his critically acclaimed album HOME?, reimagined by means of the facility of theatre.
See his chronicles of Black British identification, legacy and belonging come to life on the Olivier stage in an unforgettable dwell set, that includes particular company.
That is music and storytelling such as you’ve by no means skilled earlier than.
Wretch 32: HOME? runs at Olivier theatre on Thursday 23 October @9pm.
Othello starring David Harewood
This gripping reimagining of the traditional tragedy dives headfirst right into a world of manipulation, jealousy, and poisonous masculinity. As ambition festers and loyalties crumble, Othello lays naked the devastating price of distrust and the uncooked, harmful energy of unchecked emotion. Daring, intense, and unforgettable
Othello runs from Thursday twenty third October – Saturday seventeenth January 2026 at Theatre Royal Haymarket
Coven directed by MIranda Cromwell
Primarily based on England’s most infamous witch trials
1612. Pendle, Lancashire. A witch hunt is raging and a 9-year-old Jennet accuses her family of witchcraft. 21 years later, she finds herself imprisoned, surrounded by essentially the most feared girls on the town. Because the accuser turns into the accused, Jennet should confront a 250-year legacy of witchcraft and the darkish secrets and techniques of her personal previous. As she listens to the surprising tales of the ladies round her, Jennet’s religion begins to crumble.
With energy of their veins and the earth beneath their toes, 13 girls rise above the forces that search to silence them.
Starring Shiloh Coke, Gabrielle Brooks and Allyson Ava-Brown.
Coven runs from Friday thirty first October – Saturday twentieth December at Kiln Theatre
