Cindy Marcolina - Page 38

Bili (Kemi Durosinmi) is introducing her boyfriend Brian (Tyler Fayose) to her sisters Rafi (Elizabeth Ita) and Ami (played by Estella Daniels on book due to Emmanuella Cole's being ill on press night). When their mother Wura (Ellen Thomas) decides to crash their dinner party unannounced, the reason why she's unaware of Brian's involvement with her daughter comes to the surface and unearths a series of deep-rooted family issues.

Max (Nicholas Shalebridge), his girlfriend Tess (Jessica Frances), and his brother Chris (William Shackleton) are involved in a terrible car accident that results in Tess' death. After he wakes up in a hospital following a suicide attempt months later, he believes Tess is still alive and wonders why she's not visiting him there. His brain injury kicks off a convoluted oneiric experience.

F. Scott Fitzgerald was 26 years old when his short story The Curious Case of Benjamin Button was first published in Collier's Magazine. It tells the tale of Benjamin, a man born in unusual circumstances. Instead of growing old, he becomes younger, trapped into a body he doesn't recognise as his own and forced to experience his life backwards. 

Clearday has gone from a small Singaporean start-up to an international cosmetic brand. When resentment and revenge come into play, an old draft of an advert promoting their cutting-edge skin whitening product is posted online resulting into a media disaster.

Theatr Clwyd's latest co-production with the Menier Chocolate Factory takes on Tennessee Williams' Orpheus Descending. Last seen in London at the Donmar Warehouse in 2000 starring Helen Mirren and directed by Nicholas Hytner, it's now presented by Tamara Harvey in slightly bizarre form.

Back in 2014, audiences stared rapt into their televisions as Courtney Act (aka Shane Jenek) debuted her flare and gorgeousness as one of the participants in RuPaul's Drag Race. They were already well known in their native Australia as they'd been the first queer contestant on reality tv but the competition turned Courtney into a worldwide star.

Jenny Hicks and Jacqueline Holborough were both serving sentences in HMP Askham Grange when they decided that prison needed theatre. Hence, Clean Break was born. From a collective of ex-prisoners, the company grew to be one of Britain's most progressive, life-changing, and groundbreaking organisations.

Over the past five years, INK have developed and produced over 150 new short plays by writers who have strong bonds with East Anglia. After showcasing them in their annual festival in Suffolk, they've taken their newest selection to London for the first time since their inception.

Adnan (Robert Hannouch) has just arrived in the UK from Syria. He escaped his home country and made his way across border after border penniless but with a burning desire for survival.

Miss Julie returns to London wearing the outstanding threads previously seen in Tom Littler's production at Jermyn Street Theatre in 2017. The new run plays in rep with Creditors, the other August Strindberg-Howard Brenton endeavour presented by the company and acts as an echo chamber for the thematic veins of the other.

On Friday 3 May, Wilde Theatre Productions presented Hal Cazalet and Michael Barry's collaboration for the first time in a showcase at The Place. The idea for The Happy Prince - their new musical based on Oscar Wilde's story of the same name - was born one evening in a pub in Buxton, where the two men were involved in different projects at the town's summer festival.

When a young love is re-lit when both parties are past their late 30s, a woman's objectives shift towards previously unexplored horizons. Her newborn desire to have a child nearly takes over her life. Written by novelist, screenwriter, and director Julia Leigh, Avalanche: A Love Story is directly inspired by her own experience with IVF treatments and presented by Anne-Louise Sarks as part of the Barbican's Fertility Fest. Maxine Peake takes on the role in the monologue, delivering an empathetic and emotional performance.

It's 1937, the largest cut diamond is being transported by train from London to the French town of Murder amidst a crowd of socialites and odd characters who are travelling to the town in the south of Franch for different reasons. Suddenly, the jewel disappears from its stand and an investigation kicks off.

Edmond Rostand is a broke poet who's going through a seemingly endless writer's block. His plays are critical flops, his investors don't have any more patience nor money to waste on him, and his wife needs him to provide for their family. In an attempt to help his actor friend Leon charm young Jeanne, he starts penning letters under his name, getting more and more involved in the pretense and kicking off the idea for his 1897 masterpiece Cyrano de Bergerac.

Jermyn Street Theatre's latest co-production with Keswick's Theatre by the Lake is a new version of August Strindberg's Creditors directed by the theatre's own Tom Littler.

In their venture rediscovering lost classic, Finborough Theatre brings back to the stage St John Ervine's Jane Clegg. The piece was first seen at the Gaiety Theatre in Manchester in 1913 and David Gilmore's new production in London is the first in 75 years.

Cecilia Gragnani moved to London from Milan ten years ago with stars in her eyes, anticipating the vibrant world that would be spreading out in front of her once in the city. She was fascinated by the neatness of row after row of Victorian houses lining the streets and excited to start her new life as an Italian expat.

After sell-out runs of their award-winning show Standard: Elite in Brighton and Manchester, Hidden Track have come up with a new theatre game about politics and unity.

The corpse of a young man is found dead on the Tumulus on Hampstead Heath. Then, another one. Both are immediately linked to the city's chemsex scene but Anthony thinks something else is going on, so he sets off on a personal investigation that spans parties and intimacy in Christopher Adams' play.

Two women and a man are called into the same studio at different times to have their portrait taken by John, an aging artist.