Playfight by Julia Grogan
Following a sell out run at the Edinburgh Festival 2024 this brutal, hilarious heartbreaking play that was shortlisted for the Theatre Uncut Political Playwriting Award will be showing at:
Bristol Old Vic Theatre - 14th - 29th MARCH 2025
Directed by Emma Callander (TU Artistic Director)
'“Julia Grogan has squeezed every ounce of the experience of girlhood and laid it bare in all its cruelty, ugliness and uncertainty and delight in this marvellous jewel of a play” ***** The Times
two Palestinians go dogging by Sami Ibrahim nominated for an Olivier Award
The winner of the inaugural Theatre Uncut Political Playwriting Award premiered at the Royal Court in June 2022. The production directed by Omar Elerian was nominated for the Oliver Award for Outstanding Achievment in an Affiliate Theatre.
The Merthyr Stigmatist in Merthyr
Lisa Parry’s shortlisted Theatre Uncut Political Playwriting award play was presented for a live audience at THEATR SOAR in Merthyr Tydfil on 5th and 6th OCT 2022.
“Deeply moving” **** the Guardian
“Stylish, tense and taut” **** the Stage
“Wonderfully human and humane” Stage Door
Chasing Hares
by Sonali Bhattacharyya
at the Young Vic
The winner of the 2021 Theatre Uncut Political Playwriting Award, Chasing Hares by Sonali Bhattacharyya, premiered at the Young Vic July 2022.
“Seamlessly yokes the personal to the political” ***** Telegraph
TOOLS FOR CHANGE
Digital reimaginings of three plays from the Theatre Uncut archive that explore issues of racism, censorship, power and identity co-produced by Theatre Uncut and Traverse Theatre.
A Coin in Somebody Else’s Pocket by Suhaiymah Manzoor-Khan - click here to view
Re: Exhibit by Gbolahan Obisesan - click here to view
Safe by Niellah Arboine - click here to view
Playtexts available for students and staff in schools, universities and colleges to download HERE
BUBBLE by KIERAN HURLEY
What happens when a male lecturer calls a female student a slut?…
“Bubble was planned long before the pandemic, but its experimentation with online performance could have been made for this moment.” The Guardian
MORE INFO HERE
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