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A new tragic comedy by Jack Stacey (The Play That Goes Wrong, West End), directed by Zachary Hart (Julius Caesar, The Bridge).

Set in a dystopian future, 100 Paintings tells the story of a young artist and his mother struggling to survive in the crumbling Savoy Hotel.

“How am I supposed to be a professional artist with my mother barging in offering hot beverages and food every five minutes?”

Battling mountains of unpaid hotel bills, the young artist has three days to produce one-hundred original paintings and deliver them to the new hotel manager or he and his mother face being turned out onto the street.

With hilarious distractions coming in full force, he struggles to keep on course to meet the deadline, but help often comes from the most unexpected of places…

Direct from a ★★★★ sold-out run, 100 Paintings comes to the Hope Theatre for a limited three-weeks.

“A stellar debut… A series of hilarious tirades hides a deeper exploration of artistry.”
“Outstanding direction… Stacey’s new play is nothing short of magnetic.”
– Broadway World, ★★★★

“Very funny… Like Tom Stoppard… Unconventional, unpredictable, entertaining throughout.”
– Breaking the Fourth Wall, on The Way Out

Running time: approximately 75 minutes, with no interval

Latecomers may not be admitted. Please arrive in good time for the start time of 7:45pm.
Under 18s are not permitted into the theatre for this performance.
No re-admittance once the performance has commenced. Refunds and exchanges are not available.

Jane is dangerously bored. Her boyfriend Jo is more into his gamer score than her current existential crisis. Apparently, her best friend Fran’s latest spiritual awakening came courtesy of a hairdryer in the bathtub… but that’s definitely a step too far for Jane. How far will Jane go? Because when her value is measured in ‘likes’ and ‘clicks’, who is she if nothing ever happens?

Happenings is a pitch-black comedy which quickly descends into an uncomfortably close viewing of three thirty somethings, who were promised the world and are now feeling distinctly short changed. Set in a seaside town under cliffs where the wretched come to end their struggles, it’s hard to evaluate how bad things really are for you, when you live under the shadow of a famed suicide spot. Things aren’t great, but they’re all ok…right?

Fran claims to have found a higher state of consciousness from it all and Joe is happy enough burying his head in the sand. It’s Jane that can’t breathe. The monotony, the boredom, the lack of something to tweet about; life doesn’t seem this dull for anyone else.

She needs something to happen… Otherwise what’s the point?

‘I hope you’re okay. And if you’re not, that’s okay too. I’m not okay either’

23 year old Lexie spends a lot of her life on the Tube. And if she’s honest, the Underground is pretty much the only place her life makes any kind of sense. At least, it’s the only time when she knows where she wants to go and how she has to get there. She’s pretty sure life isn’t meant to feel this empty, that it shouldn’t just be about a job you hate and the growing feeling you’re being left behind, but maybe she isn’t meant for more than that.

But one night she has a drunken and unexpectedly vulnerable moment with a stranger on a platform – a stranger who seems purposeful, put together, and frankly everything she’s not. Can a chance encounter, fuelled by a little fate and a lot of alcohol, change everything?

Tubes & Tribulations is a new play about feeling lost, discovering connection, and finding your way back to yourself.

SHORTLISTED FOR THE NEW DIORAMA & UNDERBELLY UNTAPPED AWARD 2022

Two privileged, East London-dwelling flatmates have to keep a chicken alive for a year in order to inherit a large fortune.

Hen is a percussive, surreal examination of intergenerational trauma, addiction and the madness of grief. Crucially, it is also a comedy about an invisible chicken. As the challenges of living with a barn animal become more and more unbearable, Alister and Andrew have to ask themselves what they are willing to forgo of their sanity for the sake of money.

This is a chaotic and unflinching look at the toxicity of privilege that highlights the inherent absurdity of class. Thematically Hen explores co-dependency, addiction and the membrane between homo-social and homosexual relationships. The play also explores the relationship with grief and addiction as Alister substitutes substance abuse with his new found obsession with his deceased mother. Despite is long-ranging and dark subject matter, however, Hen remains a comedy.

Latecomers may not be admitted. Please arrive in good time for the start time of 7:45pm.
Under 18s are not permitted into the theatre for this performance.
No re-admittance once the performance has commenced. Refunds and exchanges are not available.

‘People don’t feel comfortable talking about death.
People don’t know what to say.
But that’s the only time it feels real.‘

After losing her mum to cancer in March 2019, Ana started writing her letters as a coping mechanism. The subject of these letters would vary from random things that happened on her day, things that were going through her head, to deep raw feelings she was experiencing after her mum’s departure. Reading back these letters, she realized they told a story.

Letters To My Dead Mother is a one-woman, autobiographical show about grief: its stages and the radically contrasting ways it manifests itself.

Death is, inevitably, part of one’s life. Grief comes in the package for the ones around it. Yet, most grievers feel like a burden when talking about their losses. Grief is always a good subject to avoid, unless you want to kill the mood or ruin someone’s day.

Ana unapologetically puts hers on stage.

And she promises you’re down to have a good time if you come along for the ride.

‘Do you want to fuck me or be me?’
‘Is there a difference?’

As London goes into lockdown 1, a queer filmmaking collective are on the verge of being evicted from their London home. The only thing to do is clearly going on a misjudged road trip to Paris to find the one successful movie-star they once knew to convince him to help them, willing or not.

Road to Nowhere is a dazzling new comedy that questions what it means to create art without hope of success. Told with a diverse group of characters and short films, Road to Nowhere presents the difficult time of artists struggling through the pandemic with wicked humour and multimedia flair.

Road to Nowhere is Little Creatures Theatre’s first production and comes to the Hope Theatre after a sold-out run at the Bread & Roses Theatre in February 2022.

The princess, the patient and the handshake that changed the face of AIDS

2022 is the 35^th anniversary of Princess Diana’s opening of Broderip Ward at The Middlesex Hospital. This play addresses topics and events that are largely forgotten, an untold part of recent LGBTQ+ history.

Based on personal testimonies, Moment of Grace by Bren Gosling (Arcola, Pleasance, New Wimbledon Studio, Bloomsbury Studio, RADA Studio and King’s Head Theatre) tells the story of the famous visit by Diana Princess of Wales to Britain’s first AIDS Unit and its impact on three people: Andrew, a patient, Jude, a nurse, and Donnie, a fireman estranged from his son. AIDS was taboo. Even being seen to work on this ward could cost you everything. Worldwide interest, news crews and a televised interview followed. To change public misconceptions, would you have risked it?

This one act play showcased to acclaim at Bloomsbury Festival 2018 and in 2020 won the NO: INTERMISSION International One Act Play Competition. A filmed version was streamed from The Actors Centre, and this was awarded an ONCOM Commendation by The Offies.

‘Deeply moving…shocking…heart-breaking.’ ★★★★★- @LondonTheatre1
★★★★★- @scenealba

Audience responses:

‘Moment of Grace made me laugh, get angry, and cry. It also opened my heart.’
‘A wonderful story. Compelling. Please see it.’
– Alison Steadman

There will be a post-show talk after the 4pm matinee performance on Saturday 9th July

Latecomers may not be admitted. Please arrive in good time for the start time of 7:45pm (matinees at 4pm).
Under 18s are only permitted into the theatre for matinee performances.
No re-admittance once the performance has commenced. Refunds and exchanges are not available.

Have you ever wondered how people in the past dealt with their periods?

If Queen Victoria coasted* through her cramps? And what if period dramas really were about… periods?

Comedy, cabaret and tap collide in this hilarious one-woman show, teaching the history you never learnt at school. Armed with glitter, blood, some history books and an arsenal of embarrassing stories, Heather is on a mission to push through the menstrual taboo and change the way we think about bleeding.

Audiences are invited to embrace themselves fully, let loose and have a BLOODY good time!

*Obviously she didn’t. It was 1837.

Dyslexia Untied are recruitin’!

So get your kit bag, shin pads and put your mingin’ boots in.

TECTUM Theatre & Brutal Snake Productions are proud to present the raucous, electric world-premiere of Hand Of God, a piece of gig-theatre about the worst five-aside football team in Birmingham.

With music inspired by old-school garage, Hand Of God follows the passionate footballing wonder-kid Kieron who, devoted on winning, winds up captaining the local drug dealers 5-aside team.

Will he finally get the glory he’s been craving, or will everything get too much?

Drugs and raving, pride and unbelievable tekkers fight for centre stage. Hand of God asks the question ‘Can football get men talking about mental health?’

Written by Sam Butters

Lyrics and Direction by Charlie Derrar and Joseph Siddle

Music by Charlie O’Connor

The debut play from TECTUM Theatre

Latecomers may not be admitted. Please arrive in good time for the start time of 7.45pm.
Under 18s are not permitted into the theatre for this performance.
No re-admittance once the performance has commenced. Refunds and exchanges are not available.

Milk
“Do you want the baby to starve, to waste away, to be no longer!?”

Milk is a fast-paced work observing two siblings dealing with loss, a slave, and a visitor who enters from the sky and disrupts their lives. Milk explores ritual, torture, death, and the hope of new beginnings.

Honey
“Got to keep him interested don’t we, we have to make sure he always wants you twenty-four-seven”

Honey employs bee-like behaviour to explore human relations. Characters are numbered One through Four, each with a unique role. Honey investigates life cycles, hardwired impulses, and their effect on relationships through repetitive action and disruptions in speech patterns.

https://londontheatre1.com/reviews/milk-honey-two-absurdist-one-act-plays/…

Latecomers may not be admitted. Please arrive in good time for the start time.
Under 18s are not permitted into the theatre for this performance.
No re-admittance once the performance has commenced. Refunds and exchanges are not available.