What To Watch: On Stage Aug 2023
Summer time is here but Is summer in the room with us? No but here’s a new list of theatre shows to check out while it’s muggy outside. To keep up to date and be the first to hear about our monthly round ups and discounts - sign-up to the newsletter.
Best Fit by Priscilla Krahn
Showing at: Theatre Deli, London
When: 4 - 5 Aug
About: Heated debates, wardrobe mishaps, and affirmations - Best Fit follows three women as they candidly explore beauty standards, womanhood, and the pressure to fit in. Set in an African tailoring shop, expect an energetic and warm journey into a view beyond the surface.
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Beneatha’s Place written and directed by Kwame Kwei-Armah
Showing at: Young Vic, London
When: 27 Jun - 05 Aug 2023
About: Inspired by the groundbreaking modern classic, A Raisin in the Sun, this UK premiere challenges today’s culture wars about colonial history and reckoning with the past.
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Dear England
Showing at: National Theatre, London
When: Until 11th Aug
About: The country that gave the world football has since delivered a painful pattern of loss. Why can’t England’s men win at their own game? With the worst track record for penalties in the world, Gareth Southgate knows he needs to open his mind and face up to the years of hurt to take team and country back to the promised land.
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Groundhog Day
Showing at: The Old Vic, London, UK
When: 20 May – 12 Aug 2023
About: Phil Connors is a pretty awful guy. But when the cynical Pittsburgh TV weatherman is sent to cover the kooky annual Groundhog Day event in the small town of Punxsutawney, Pennsylvania, he finds himself caught in a time loop that sends him on a hilarious path to enlightenment and redemption.
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Unwritten
Showing at: Little Angel Theatre
When: 26 - 27 Aug
About: A play about a character who has to learn to come of age past the point of growing up. It takes the audience on a trip of nostalgia, the present and hopefully poses the opportunity for a bright future.
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Something To Take Off The Edge.
Showing at: Various Locations
When: Until 27 Aug
About: Follow the journey of cellmates Ezra and Terry in a high-security prison in 1980's Britain as they flirt with drugs, chocolate Hobnobs and Shakespeare.
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Wish you were here
Showing at: Hen & Chickens Theatre
When: 27 Aug
About: Wish You Were Here is an informal postcard addressed to friends, lovers and past selves. Philip Ofe and Rhian Parker recount their travels abroad - traversing new experiences, complicated strangers and the confidence to go it alone.
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You Are African First Before Anything
Showing at: Omnibus Theatre
When: 29 - 31 Aug
About: This semi-autobiographical one-woman show explores the complexities of the African mother-daughter bond. Our protagonist Chile, an intelligent and ambitious woman in her mid-twenties, embodies the fusion of her British upbringing and Nigerian heritage.
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Grenfell: in the words of survivors, a new play by Gillian Slovo
Showing at: National Theatre, London, UK
When: 13 Jul - 26 Aug 2023
About: A powerful new verbatim play from the testimony of residents at the heart of the Grenfell Tower tragedy.
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A Strange Loop by Michael R. Jackson
Showing at: Barbican Theatre, London, UK
When: 17 Jun - 9 Sept 2023
About: Michael R. Jackson’s blisteringly funny, ‘audacious and uproarious’ (Guardian) heart-felt masterwork, exposes a young black artist grappling with desires, identity, and instincts he both loves and loathes. Hell-bent on breaking free of his own self-perception, Usher wrestles with the thoughts in his head, brought to life onstage by a hilarious, straight-shooting ensemble.
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The Effect by Lucy Prebble
Showing at: Nationsl Theatre, London, UK
When: 01 Aug - 23 Sept 2023
About: Hearts and minds racing, Connie and Tristan are falling for each other fast. But is their sudden and intoxicating chemistry real, or a side effect of a new antidepressant? As two young volunteers in a clinical drug trial, their illicit romance poses startling dilemmas for the supervising doctors.
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Ain’t Too Proud
Showing at: Prince Edward Theatre, London, UK
When: 31 Mar - 1 Oct 2023
About: AIN’T TOO PROUD is the exhilarating new musical following the remarkable journey of THE TEMPTATIONS from the streets of Detroit to the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame.
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