See NEW Next Tuesday

16 JUNE - Black Beth (Work in Progress) -

Black Beth was originally written to explore the unspoken dynamics of the workplace. The rehearsal room becomes a space to examine big ideas around race, authorship, and office culture, where the past is ever-present on stage.
At its core, Black Beth is a meta-theatrical play set in an arts space, where a group of actors are developing a piece about slavery. As rehearsals unfold, the focus shifts from the play they are making to the relationships, tensions, and power structures embedded within the room itself, both fixed by hierarchy and constantly shifting in real time.
What emerges is a blend of naturalistic drama and farce, where the line between comedy and tragedy is blurred, often tipping into the absurd.

Written by Cheryl May Ndione
Produced by Mya Onwugbonu and Purple Moon Drama

23 JUNE - That's Ace (Preview) -

Ace, a lifelong Doctor Who fan, has always led a rather sheltered life but tonight, everything changes. Her school crush, Sasha, has invited her out to a nightclub.
Sadly, Ace has never been clubbing before, so she arrives 15 minutes before the club. On time is late, after all. As the club slowly fills with people, Ace has to wait in this hostile new environment for Sasha to arrive. All the while she tries to determine whether her feelings for Sasha are romantic or platonic and discovers how prominent the focus on sex in society really is.
Is it love? Is it friendaship? What’s the difference?
That’s Ace explores asexuality, attraction and the feeling of living outside of societal norms.

30 JUNE - Marital Bed (Rehearsed Reading) -

When a harassed and exhausted mother (and zoologist in a previous life) is tempted by a galvanising opportunity to return to the lab, she suggests outsourcing her partner’s sexual needs to a stranger, and smashes open a pandora’s box of long-buried truths and uncomfortable revelations as she wrestles with how to get more satisfaction in her life without hurting her husband’s feelings... Marital Bed is a story about pornography, desire and laundry, an extract from the play was runner-up for Comedy Writing at the Funny Women awards in 2023.

Written by Kate Rawson

14 JULY - The Mysterious Case of the Mary Celeste (Rehearsed Reading) -

21 JULY - To Be You (WIP) -

"The sky has the stars and I have you by my side".

While packing up her childhood bedroom before a sudden move to Nigeria, a young woman discovers that the past never lays dead. Old photos, forgotten sketches and half-remembered rituals pull her back into the brutal, beautiful tangle of girlhood and adolescence—where belonging was survival, and one friendship shaped everything she became.
Told through an intimate, vivid and fast-moving monologue, To Be You charts the shifting bond between two girls growing up in Essex and their desperate hunger to belong: one Black and aching to be seen, one biracial and determined to reinvent herself at any cost. After their worlds collide with lies, longing and the politics of colourism and desirability, the past resurfaces, demanding a reckoning she can no longer outrun.

A raw and darkly humorous exploration of guilt, memory, and the identities we shed....and the ones that refuse to let us go.
It asks what the cost of belonging is. And which parts of yourself you’d kill to pay it.

A new play by Women's Prize for Playwriting and Alfred Fagon Award shortlisted writer Esohe Uwadiae.
Shortlisted for the inaugural Mustapha Matura Award 2021.
Supported by the Mercury Theatre and Marlowe Theatre through the Catalyst for Culture Initiative.

28 JULY - MR. Thrushby's Adventure (WIP) -

An enjoyable crime caper, set at the start of World War II, that takes a retired bachelor stuck in his ways and liberates him from the boredom of his life. A humdrum existence has led Mr Thrushby to yearn for adventure; but has he left it too late? In the midst of his despair, likeable rogue Sam Carlton – a young criminal on the run after an audacious burglary – bursts into his life. Mr Thrushby finds himself in cahoots with a criminal and embarks upon his own comedic and thrilling adventure – in a wholly unorthodox manner!

Mr Thrushby’s Adventure has received a staged reading by The Bravo! Theatre, Mexico; as part of the 2025 Hudson Valley Theatre Festival, New York; by the Windsor Words Workshop at the Theatre Royal Windsor, to a 4-star review (Theatre Life); and as part of Playhouse East's inaugural Fringe Feb festival 2026, London, in a double-bill showing with Waters’ debut comedy-thriller, Living with an Alien, to a 4.5-star review (Theatre Life).