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The After School Club showcase serious potential that should be nurtured and encouraged in this funny and big hearted play about love.

Extremely entertaining, hilarious and interesting show about the struggles of setting a comedy workshop in the heart of the Jenin refugee camp in Palestine.

Pros: Kuran Dohil’s professional stage debut is brilliant and side-splittingly funny. She captivates the audience with her powerful stage presence. Cons: Does well to avoid sweeping generalisations, but includes some religious stereotypes, especially in the portrayal of convert Simon. Guleraana Mir’s play Coconut tells the story of twenty-something Rumi, a Muslim ‘coconut’, brown on the outside, white on the inside. Rumi is a pork-scratchings-and-vodka kind of girl, instead of the modest girl her family and community want her to be. Just when she thinks she’ll never find ...

Pros: Sharp dialogue intelligently addresses difficult issues with a wonderfully warm and light-hearted tone. Cons: An occasional few nervous jitters came through, but these merely added to the sincerity of the piece. Ayo, a captivating, earnest black girl, and Flo, a passionate and bookish white girl, have been a couple since they were students and shared a shy first kiss at a club. A few years later they are living in their overpriced flat in present-day Peckham, where they argue about ...

A realistic representation of not often exposed social and familial concerns, this relevant modern drama is a must see.

An intriguing companion piece to an earlier play makes its point with clarity, providing a sobering conclusion to the most disturbing of storylines.

Over two-and-a-half hours long, this new play is still very much work in progress and would benefit from a drastic pruning.

Humble but well accomplished production of one of the best plays of the 20th century.

Poignant and thought-provoking play which invites us to look at the refugee problem from the refugee’s perspective.

More musical revue than musical, this show offers an evening of light entertainment in its exploration of the universal theme of love.