What To Watch: On Stage December 2023
Brenda’s Got A Baby by Jessica Hagan
Date: 31 Oct - 02 Dec 2023 Location: New Diorama Theatre
About: An uproarious new comedy about Black womanhood, sisterhood, motherhood – and babyhood.
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Clyde’s
Date: 13 Oct - 2 Dec 2023 Location: Donmar Warehouse
About: In the bustling kitchen of a run-down Pennsylvania truck stop, the formerly incarcerated staff have been given a second chance. Under the tyrannical eye of their boss Clyde, this unlikely team strives to create the perfect sandwich, as they dream of leaving their past mistakes behind for a better life.
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TAMING WHO?
Date: 29 Nov - 16 Dec 2023 Location: Arcola Theatre
About: Taming Who? is a fast-paced, Shakespearean remix. Giving fresh relevance, the play challenges gender stereotypes presented in Shakespeare’s original and explores identity and coming of age through the lens of youth culture in London today.
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Refilwe
Date: 13 - 17 Dec 2023 Location: The Workshop Theatre
About: spired by Zukiswa Wanner’s southern African retelling of the classic fairy-tale Rapunzel, Refilwe is a family adventure about home, hair and connecting with your roots, for audiences aged seven and older, with all performances presented in a relaxed environment.
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Bullring Techno Makeout Jamz by Nathan Queeley-Dennis
Date: 28 Noc - 20 Dec 2023 Location: Royal Court Theatre
About: Nathaniel is a serious romantic who sees love as a fine art. He’s looking for the Mona Lisa to his da Vinci, and tonight is the night: his date with Destiny…’s Child.
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Dreaming And Drowning
Date: 28 Nov - 23 Dec 2023 Location: Bush Theatre
About: Dreaming and Drowning is an intimate and visceral deep-dive into the boundless mind of a young Black queer man wrestling with anxiety.
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Two Strangers (Carry A Cake Across New York)
Date: 09 Nov - 23 Dec 2023 Location: Kiln Theatre
About: Dougal is a naive, impossibly upbeat Brit, flying to New York for his Dad’s second wedding. The Dad he’s never known. Waiting for him at the airport is Robin, the sister of the bride. She’s a native New Yorker, she’s late for work, and she doesn’t have time to stop and see the sights.
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Queens of Sheba
18 - 23 Dec 2023, Soho Theatre
Turned away from a nightclub for being “too black”, four women take to the stage with their own explosive true stories: the music and the misogyny, the dancing and the drinking, the women and, of course, the (white) men.
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Rapunzel
05 Dec - 24 Dec, Theatre Peckham
Get your bonce in locs-step with Theatre Peckham this Christmas as they weave and style this modern day Hairy-tale with a few twists.
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Cinderella
Date: 23 Nov – 31 Dec 2023 Location: Lyric Hammersmith
About: Cinderella is a bonafide boss-lady who runs her own business at Shepherd’s Bush Market. One day the most handsome Prince Henry, who dreams of a life less spare, wears a disguise to the Market and falls instantly in love with Cinderella. With the paparazzi in hot pursuit the Prince is forced to flee. And so begins the quest to unite the unlikeliest of likely romances, Cinderella and the hapless Prince. But will Cinderella’s step-sisters Muffy and Gusset and step-mother Lady Jelly Bottom get in the way of their happily ever after? Of course they will, it’s panto.
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Dear England by James Graham
Date: 09 October— 13 Jan 2023 Location: Prince Edward Theatre
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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