Drama

Donbas at Theatre503 is the world premiere of a powerful and urgent new play by Olga Braga, winner of the 2025 Theatre503 International Playwriting Award. Directed by Anthony Simpson-Pike in this intimate fringe space, the production follows Sashko, newly released from a Russian prison, as he returns to his family in a small Ukrainian town buffeted by war. With a cast of six and creative support from Good Chance and 45North, the piece asks how people keep living, laughing and dreaming even as everything around them unravels.

Dreamscape at Omnibus Theatre is a powerful and inventive hip-hop theatre piece presented by Andy Jordan Productions and Hindsight Productions, blending beatboxing, spoken word and dance to reimagine the real life of Tyisha Miller who is a 19-year-old Black woman killed by police in California, and the dreams that were cut short on that tragic night. This award-winning show, having earned acclaim at the Edinburgh Fringe and four awards at the Los Angeles NAACP Awards, arrives in London with a striking fusion of style and substance that invites audiences to witness, confront and reflect on race, violence and lived experience.

The Seat of Me at Riverside Studios is an intimate solo performance written and performed by Giulia. Blending personal storytelling with live music inspired by Edith Piaf, the show traces Giulia’s journey across cities, languages, and versions of herself, asking how identity shifts when home is never quite fixed. At its heart is a simple question about belonging, explored through memory, movement, and sound rather than spectacle.

Loop at Theatre503: A one-woman show written by Tanya-Loretta Dee and directed by Sophie Ellerby, focusing on the tight grip of obsession. Dee, who also stars as Bex, delivers an intense performance that blurs fantasy and reality. The production uses sparse set design (Mydd Pharo) and psychological lighting (Cheng Keng) to heighten the visceral impact of Bex's unraveling mind. It's described as a must-see for those who crave bold theatre with bite.

Intermission Youth Theatre's "Comedy of Errors Remixed." A wild, heartfelt Shakespearean farce dropped right into the electric heart of modern London.

I walked out of Jurassic still chuckling to myself. This show at Soho Theatre offers plenty of sharp wit and clever twists, with heavy inspiration from a late-night Jurassic Park screening to explore ambition and deception.

The stage goes dark for what seems a heartbeat, then a single spotlight finds a young actor as they step across an invisible border. They turn slowly, reach toward emptiness, and utter, “Into the wood we go.” That moment, so simple and still, pulls me into A Midsummer Night’s Dream at Southwark Playhouse not as an audience member but as a trespasser in someone else’s dream.

It starts not with a speech, but with a scent. As Isabella Nefar grinds saffron threads between her fingers, the sharp fragrance drifts through the theatre, pulling the audience in like a memory you can taste. She stirs a pot on stage, the light catching the golden hue of the broth. For a moment, the room feels less like Soho Theatre and more like a family kitchen on a quiet Tehran afternoon.

Entering the Charing Cross Theatre this summer promises a captivating evening where history, mystery, and introspection entwine. The Daughter of Time brings Josephine Tey’s beloved novel into the theatrical spotlight—setting Scotland Yard’s Inspector Alan Grant in a post‑war hospital room, probing the age‑old question: did Richard III really murder his nephews, the Princes in the Tower? What starts as a way to fill idle hours with detective curiosity swiftly becomes a drama fueled by historical injustice and personal awakening.