Review: ANIMAL, Park Theatre
Jon Bradfield (script) and Josh Hepple (original story alongside Bradfield) pen a relatable tale of love and lust in the digital age, putting disability centre-stage in all its complicated frustrations. They don’t shy away from bleak comedy and pitch-black wit, presenting an excellent piece of socially engaged theatre that educates and entertains in equal measure directed by Bronagh Lagan.
Photos: Inside Rehearsal For the UK Tour of ANIMAL
Winner of the inaugural Through the Mill Prize and shortlisted for the Papatango Prize, Park Theatre and Hope Mill Theatre present brand-new play ANIMAL, exploring how disability, sexuality and lust co-exist for people who require round the clock assistance. Check out all new rehearsal photos here!
ANIMAL Tours to Park Theatre This Spring
Winner of the inaugural Through the Mill Prize and shortlisted for the Papatango Prize, Park Theatre and Hope Mill Theatre present brand-new play ANIMAL, exploring how disability, sexuality and lust co-exist for people who require round the clock assistance.
SLEEPING BEAUTY TAKES A PRICK! to Open Charing Cross Theatre in 2023
The team behind the Above the Stag pantos, London’s most popular and acclaimed pantomimes for grown-ups will present their biggest show yet in 2023. Sleeping Beauty Takes A Prick! is the first production from He’s Behind You!, the company founded by the team behind Above The Stag Theatre’s phenomenally successful run of queer adult pantos.
Photo Flash: First Look At Above The Stag's Panto PINOCCHIO: NO STRINGS ATTACHED!
A decade into its celebrated programming of immensely popular raucous adult pantomime; Above The Stag Theatre is delighted to announce it's 2019 Christmas show PINOCCHIO: NO STRINGS ATTACHED. Above The Stag pantomimes have developed a cult following, blossoming into a staple 'must-see' for the theatrically adventurous and LGBT+ friendly, in London's Christmas calendar; - regularly selling out its entire fifty-performance runs.
Above The Stag's Christmas Panto Announced As PINOCCHIO: NO STRING ATTACHED!
A decade into its celebrated programming of immensely popular raucous adult pantomime; Above The Stag theatre is delighted to announce it's 2019 Christmas show PINOCCHIO: NO STRINGS ATTACHED. Above The Stag pantomimes have developed a cult following, blossoming into a staple 'must-see' for the theatrically adventurous and LGBT+ friendly, in London's Christmas calendar; - regularly selling out its entire fifty-performance runs.
Russell Tovey, Mark Bonnar & More Announced For QUEERS At Old Vic
The Old Vic today announces casting for Queers, a series of eight monologues curated by Mark Gatiss. Staged on 28 and 31 July at The Old Vic, they mark 50 years since the Sexual Offences Act of 1967 began the decriminalisation process for homosexuality between men. Queers celebrates some of the most poignant, funny, tragic and riotous moments of British gay male history over the last century.
Announcing the Winner of the Inaugural WiT Award
D.A. Nixon is the first winner of the WiT Award, the prize created to discover and nurture new writers working in the theatre industry. He wins an £8,000 commission, and additionally a dramaturgical relationship with Out of Joint which will include a public reading of his submitted play, Look Me In The Eye When We're Dancing.