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Erinn Dhesi invites her audience to an educated analysis of social media usage, its effects on perception and lifestyle, and how cultivating an identity has become a feasible female-centric career. She mainly focuses on Instagram and tackles the subject with flair and specificity, creating an anti-boomer show that's a?oerooted in academya??.

The premise of Fire Hazard Games' latest feat is simple: a series of horrendous crimes are being discovered by the police and there are reasons to believe you are involved. But you have no memory of anything that happened the previous night. Following their gut, the participants need to hit the streets of Lambeth to put the pieces together, find out the truth, and decide their future.

Elyot is a peculiar man. He lives ruled by an eccentric routine, learning new words, and listening to Beethoven and pop tunes from which he's removed all the sung parts. When Laquaya breaks into his house in Peckham, everything changes. His strict pattern blows up as she violently barges into his life.

a?oeExcept for Hydrogen, all the atoms that make each of us up [...] were manufactured in the interiors of a collapsing stara??. But we amount to something more than the simple sum of our atoms, and Perhaps Contraption are proof of it. Their latest work, perfectly titled Nearly Human, is a joyous celebration of life. We follow the a little particle as it makes its way from being to being in what is a mesmerising blend of music and theatrics.

This year, Network Theatre Company take their audience to an unspecified futuristic time with The Future is Mental, an anthology of six short plays that are heavily recalling of Black Mirror. Written and directed by Rosie de Vekey, the pieces are smart and precise, and don't conceal their external inspiration.

Three strippers are working in a decadent venue in London. Among sleazy men, weirdos, and abuse, they're all trying to survive in a changing business. The theme and core idea have potential, but the execution is, unfortunately, a trainwreck.

Same-sexual relationships of any kind are illegal in Nigeria. Legal and social action is taken to any member of the LGBTQ community, with death by stoning as maximum punishment. As the political climate heats up and the country becomes more and more dangerous, Babatunde is visiting his best friend Regina in South London.

Croatian writer and performer Danaja Wass brings her latest project Notch to VAULT Festival directed by Madelaine Moore. While the piece still needs to smooth out some of its crinkles, it's a precise exploration of emigration, homelessness, and people's hypocrisy.

After a triumphant presence at Edinburgh Festival Fringe last year, Rosa Hesmondhalgh has taken Madame Ovary back to London for what's looking like another bewilderingly successful run.

It's safe to say that Be More Chill's journey to the major stages has been decidedly unconventional. After its New Jersey commission in 2015 and the subsequent limited run and cast recording release, fans started to spread the word thanks to the power of the internet.

Born out of the celebrations for the 400th anniversary of Shakespeare's death in 2016, Ben Elton's sit-com Upstart Crow went on to have three series and multiple Christmas specials. It follows William Shakespeare, who's by now rather well-known in London, as he attempts to write his notorious body of work pinching ideas here and there and taking credit for quotes that aren't his, scribbling away whenever his nearest and dearest say something clever for future use.

COLAB Theatre have woven another thrilling adventure: the company strikes gold with the Peaky Blinder infused Crooks 1926. London is held in the grip of the Sabini family, but the McDonalds are plotting to take over. After their patriarch's death, brothers Charles a?oeWaga?? (Angus Woodward) and William a?oeWala?? (Simon Pothecary) have gathered their clan to mourn the former leader and plan the road to supremacy.

Mixing theatre and food has become a bit of a craze in the past couple of years, so it was only a matter of time before shows involving food were introduced in festivals. Paul Flannery - who's spent ten years going in and out of the profession - and his assistant serve a delectable evening whether you enjoy spending time in the kitchen or not.

Katie Arnstein returns to VAULT Festival after Bicycles and Fish and Sexy Lamp to complete her It's a Girl! trilogy presenting Sticky Door directed by Ellen Howard. The show details a year in her life, examining how in 2014 she started the journey to reclaim her body and mind while being severely depressed.

In 1969, a serial killer brutally murdered three women in Scotland. Nicknamed Bible John by the police and the press, his identity is still a mystery. In the present day, four young women who are bored out of their mind while temping in an office find out that they share a mild obsession with true crime podcasts. As they start bonding on Carrie LaRue's investigation on the Glaswegian case, they try their own hand at giving justice to the victims.

The Paper Birds tackle all the important stuff and then some in their groundbreaking and format defying Ask Me Anything. After asking teenagers all around the countries to send them their problems and questions as if they were agony aunts, they noticed that, generally, their letters were falling into broader categories with some other thorny topics in the mix. The result is a moving, open, and honest project about the legitimate issues of today's youth.

After the press murders their Richard III and everything seems lost, Stu McLoughlin notices that Howard Coggins looks like Henry VIII. What ensues is a hilariously impertinent, rude, crass, and occasionally blasphemous revision of history. Think of Six, turn it upside down, add a couple of hysterical jokes, and you'll have The Six Wives of Henry VIII. The result is glorious.

Billy (Damian Lynch) and Scarlet (Izabella Urbanowicz) meet in a damp underpass covered in graffiti. He is involved in gang crime; she is the mother of their 15-year-old son Alfie. In a London where the tunnel acts as a partition between luxury living and council estates, the characters come to terms with how their relationship has changed through the years, gentrification, and the innate violence of Billy's lifestyle.

Electrick Village brings technology to VAULT Festival, creating an all-encompassing 360 adventure that - quite literally - transports the audience to another dimension. Met by a chirpy staff member and the creator of RawTransport - a a?oetop of the line travel companya?? - they explore the trappings of escapism and the dangers of Virtual Reality.

Rose and Simeon are approaching Mars while, back on Earth, Alisha and Marcus are hired as speech writers. While the latter two bicker about ethics and potential tragedy, the astronauts are coming to terms with success and mortality. Barry McStay's play The First packs a load of great ideas that, at this stage, don't hit as well as they could.