WAITING FOR THE LESBIANS

An icy January night. Raging in a sweaty Dalston basement: the thirty-fifth anniversary of radical lesbian club night THE DYKE FORUM.

Katie has stupidly agreed to work security. And her partner for the night, Michelle, is a woman of few words. That is, until you get her started on the ethics of punching a Nazi, encountering James Corden in a Leicester Square casino, and why The Dyke Forum died years ago. 

As an unlikely connection forms, the pair wrestle with the difficulty of standing outside the one place you’re meant to belong, and what is perhaps the hardest thing: finding the courage to actually go inside. 

Produced and directed by the team behind The Switchboard Project, and written by trans writer Sofia Wills, Waiting For The Lesbians draws a line from the rage and resistance of lesbian life in the 90s to the doom-laden absurdity of trans life in the UK following the Supreme Court ruling. 

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Part of Write Club 2026

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Running time:​ Approximately 60 minutes

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