Virginia Plain Theatre To Present THE PITCHFORK DISNEY At Meraki Arts Bar
Indie theatre outfit Virginia Plain Theatre will present a long overdue revival of Philip Ridley's chocolate-coated post-apocalyptic fairy tale, The Pitchfork Disney at Meraki Arts Bar. The Pitchfork Disney is directed by Victor Kalka (Chef, Radiant Vermin) and stars indie theatre mainstays Jane Angharad and James Smithers (Albion, Gundog) as orphaned twins Presley and Haley.
VINCENT RIVER Comes to Greenwich Theatre This Month
Bringing to life Philip Ridley’s thrilling, heart-breaking, and at times darkly humorous play Vincent River, for a limited three week run, Greenwich Theatre presents their second in-house production of 2023.
Review: LEAVES OF GLASS, Park Theatre
Director Max Harrison takes the play and makes it a contemporary exploration of unaddressed trauma, gaslighting, and complicated family relations with performances that scrape excellence once they settle into themselves.
THE JOURNEY TO VENICE Comes to the Finborough Theatre
The UK premiere of the award-winning The Journey to Venice opens at the Finborough Theatre for a four week limited season on Tuesday, 28 February 2023 (Press Nights: Thursday, 2 March 2023 and Friday, 3 March 2023 at 7.30pm).
Review: THE POLTERGEIST, Arcola Theatre
Philip Ridley writes an atomic bomb of a play and keeps his finger on the release button until Sasha explodes in an earth-shaking climax. Social niceties and typically British politeness masquerade a coarse, brash internal monologue whose quick quips are absolutely annihilating and, frankly, indecently amusing.
Arcola Theatre Announces Programming For its Autumn Season
Having celebrated the fifteenth anniversary of their annual opera festival Grimeborn this summer, Arcola Theatre, led by Artistic Director, Mehmet Ergen, and Executive Producer, Leyla Nazli, have announced new programming for their forthcoming Autumn season with returning Arcola collaborators: New Earth Theatre Company, Philip Ridley, b*spoke theatre company and Frank McGuinness.
THE WOODS Will Be Revived at Southwark Playhouse in 2022
Nick and Ruth are spending the weekend at a remote cabin in the woods. They push their relationship to breaking point in a night of stories and fights, only to rediscover their need for one another in the morning, but the final reconciliation remains uncomfortably tempered by the violent core we now know to be hiding beneath.