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Narcissistic Reflections on a Queer Childhood Part of Write Club Festival 2025 “What happens when playing and becoming others makes you feel more yourself?” An hour long solo musical-comedy-poetry–monologue-cabaret (a lot of things!)  performance, mainly about what it says on the tin – growing up queer. Of course, though, those three words mean a lot more than anything that fits inside of a tin. They mean very specific things to different people.

Tickets available here. Fresh Mountain Air is a story of guns, violence, racism, and politics and the deep divisions affecting all of us. It follows three young American women who join a hiking organisation and meet for the first time in a secluded cabin in the woods. They return from their first hike to find the innkeeper and their three rental cars gone. It is getting dark, the nearest town is twenty miles away and there is no internet or phone ...

Tickets available here. Is obsession even about the person you’re obsessed with? When desire meets fantasy, we transform someone into something – something that we need them to be, and in turn something that allows us to be someone else. A university tutor who wages academic warfare. A dating app match who teases and slips through fingers. A school crush who looks at you like no one else has before. A monologue in three parts, Looking for Giants sees our narrator enter the minds of the men she can’t stop ...

Tarantula https://www.arcolatheatre.com/whats-on/tarantula/ Written by Philip Ridley Directed by Wiebke Green Starring Georgie Henley “Of course – as you’ve no doubt guessed – there’s a big ‘But Then’ moment heading this way…” It’s a sunny, spring day in East London. On a street corner, two teenagers kiss. One of them is Toni. This is her first kiss. It makes her very happy. But someone is watching. Someone who doesn’t care about her happiness at all. And they’re about to change Toni’s ...