Book Launch & Reading: Almost The Birthday Party by Paul Kalburgi Join playwright Paul Kalburgi for a one-night-only live reading of his dark comedy Almost The Birthday Party, to celebrate its publication by Playdead Press. Almost The Birthday Party is an absurd riff on Harold Pinter’s The Birthday Party – a fever dream of absurdity …
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Women’s Writes brand new show All That Glitters will premiere at Theatre503 from 26th – 28th of September, before heading to Shakespeare North Playhouse’s Solo Season for the 9th and 10th of October Jessie’s life is sorted. More than. So when her friends hear that the Fab 5 are finally coming to London, they lie …
London-based theatremaker Russell Lucas and London Playwrights, are teaming up to deliver a theatre-producing course for playwrights this November at the Old Diorama. Firmly focused on inspiring and enabling writers to take control and stage their own work, this workshop will take your idea and offer up ways to bring it into fruition. You could …
EDIE by Emma Dawson will be staged at Theatre503 on 23rd and 24th September. An earlier version of the play, titled MUM, was performed as part of the London Playwrights Festival last year so you can imagine our excitement to hear that the play has been developed further and is returning to the stage! We …
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Rainer opens this Wednesday, running for three weeks from the 1st to the 18th of June at the Arcola’s New Outside Space and is published by Bloomsbury, Methuen which can be purchased online and at the Arcola Theatre. You can watch the trailer to the show here! Book tickets here. We asked the creative team to …
Discussion with the creative team behind RAINER (running at the Arcola from 1-18 June) Read More »
The Festival of Fleeting Words is looking for playwrights for its online 24-hour new writing festival. They are open to anyone throughout the UK. Please note: This is a profit share event and the festival pays all of the creatives equally from a profit share box office split and is free for all creatives to join. …
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Who fancies coming to see a show with us?! LPW’s George Bailey’s company, Chewboy Productions has a play coming up and we’d love you to join us in supporting his work and getting together for a social gathering in the bar afterwards! We’re going along to the performance on Wednesday 17th November and really hope …
Who fancies coming to see a show with us?! LPW’s Emily Garside has a play coming up and we’d love you to join us in supporting her work and getting together for a long awaited social gathering in the bar afterwards! Don’t Send Flowers will be running at the White Bear Theatre Kennington with Forest …
This month’s episode of The NHB Playgroup Q&A Podcast is available now! Listen now at https://soundcloud.com/…/nhb-playgroup-flights-john…, or wherever you get your podcasts. In this episode, host Siân Mayhall-Purvis chats to John O’Donovan about his haunting and funny drama Flights. We discuss how real-life events formed part of the play’s development, just how many litres of …
You can now watch this event on YouTube. Watch here: https://youtu.be/TFAyrVGjLv8 It’s free to watch but if you like what you see, donations are very welcome and help us to create more events like this! Over the bizarre year that 2020 has been, we’ve been running our annual Play Club project. Writers get a …
