David Lyons is a Nottinghamshire Labour MP and a social democrat. Jean Whittaker is his constituency agent and a democratic socialist.
They are both passionately devoted to their party.
Sparks fly as they battle out their trenchantly different political approaches in this razor sharp political satire. Both hilarious yet tender, this 27 year long odyssey through the ups and downs of the Labour Party casts a fresh look at the internal politics of a partyalways purporting to be on the side of the people.
Maternal love battles with Nigerian high society tradition in this touching and often hilarious new drama.
Excitement and joy usually surround a Nigerian “Owambe” party: the see-and-be-seen power networking opportunity for status climbers. Like Bimpe DaCosta of Lagos high society. But the realities of being a single mum raising an autistic child prove to be discordant dance steps for Bimpe, whose experience of motherhood is at war with tradition.
In turns funny and moving, and always insightful, In Hiding weaves universally relatable themes of social identity and motherhood, exposing a world in love with status – real or imagined.
The Tower Theatre Company is proud to be producing this exuberant new play by Hackney born and raised British Nigerian writer, Adenike Ojo. A heartfelt appeal to the land of her ancestors, this is a plate of “jollof rice” you should certainly not miss out on!
Both deeply disturbing yet achingly moving, green’s distinctive poetic prose is at times almost brutally funny. Twisting & turning down a rabbit hole of institutional bureaucracy, she forces us to laugh – despite ourselves – as the horrific situation unfolds…
In the end this biting satire asks us all: if you had the choice, what would you decide?
Two lovers and the Old Bridge which brought them together…
A young couple meet by chance by Stari Most, the bridge which unifies the multicultural city of Mostar. Just like Romeo and Juliet, they are from very different backgrounds and, although convinced of the strength of their love, they have to battle against the fast moving events of the encroaching war. Brought together by the historic Old Bridge, can their romance – and the bridge itself – survive the siege which engulfs them?
Old Bridge is an epic love story exploring the impact of a war that Europe forgot, and the love and loss of those who lived through it.
Directed by Amanda Waggott
These were your stories. All I did was listen… Igor Memic
Post show Q&As on 9 March with war reporter Charlotte Eager and 16 March with writer Igor Memic
In the ruins of a garden in rural middle England, a woman, and a mother search for seeds of hope. A stunning contemporary play by an award winning writer.
Written by acclaimed writer and producer Mike Bartlett (Dr. Foster, A Woman Scorned, King Charles III) and premiered at The Almeida Theatre a year after the fateful Brexit Referendum in 2017, this state of the nation drama captures that moment in time, after the country had decided and was collectively holding its breath.
‘Plays like plants grow over time. Their meanings shift’. Rupert Goold. Albion Director, 2017 & 2020
Albion was revived at the Almeida in 2020 and retains its powerful resonance as the country navigates its way through the fresh shocks and fault lines of the last five years and moves into the next.
What does it mean to be British? A question that is perhaps even more important today as the nation struggles with a vision of the romantic past whilst watching a creeping contemporary fascism.
