Touring History

As part of the Associate programme Lizzie, a student at one of our Associate Universities, joined us for a four-day development workshop for our upcoming play.

Eight young women from Bolton and London worked with professional playwrights Laura Lomas and Rachel Delahay to make their own short plays for a performance at the Royal Court Theatre.

Rhiannon Lucy Cosslett on Andrea Dunbar’s extraordinary portrait of teenage girls Rita, Sue and Bob Too, at the Royal Court Theatre from 9 January, then touring.

Taj Atwal, star in our new production of Andrea Dunbar’s iconic play Rita, Sue and Bob Too, talks about her first encounter with the work of a young woman who would come to be her favourite playwright.

Raised on a Bradford council estate, Andrea Dunbar was just 15 when she wrote her first play, The Arbor.

Consent, our new play by Nina Raine, revolves around a court case: two friends take opposing briefs in a rape trial.

“Keep on writing, even if it’s crap. You can always throw it away later”. Maybe all writing advice boils down this bit of practical wisdom from Alistair Beaton.

In May we opened a show called A View From Islington North*, comprising short political satires. Here we publish three of the scripts in full, with the kind permission of the writers.

The dust had scarcely settled from David Cameron’s successful attempt to blow up Britain, when I started receiving puzzled enquiries from theatre-goers attending my short play THE ACCIDENTAL LEADER.

Is laughing at politics a catalyst for change – or a substitute? With A View From Islington North about to open in the West End, we asked three brilliant satirists about the relationship between comedy and politics. JONATHAN LYNN co-wrote Yes, Minister and Yes, Prime Minister. He wrote and directed Clue and Nuns on the […]