Eoin McAndrew News

The Royal Shakespeare Company (RSC) has announced that the chosen 37 Plays selected as part of its nationwide playwriting project, will receive script-in-hand readings across the UK throughout the Autumn of 2023. Learn more about the lineup of plays here!

The Royal Shakespeare Company has announced details of the final 37 Plays selected for its nationwide playwriting search: an ambitious new initiative open to anybody from anywhere in the UK.

Pinch Punch welcome you aboard Locomotive for Murder: The Improvised Whodunnit, a totally improvised, totally outrageous murder mystery, where killing the cast and cracking the case is in your hands. Expect dubious accents and shaky alibis, along with thrills, spills, and good old-fashioned kills. 

Locomotive for Murder: The Improvised Whodunnit is a quick and funny show that will have you laughing at jokes made up on the spot. While the beginning of the show takes time to be established, especially when speaking with audience members in order to build the characters, the rest of the show flies by in an hour of delightful comedy.

This festive season, join Pinch Punch as they perform The Improvised Panto. Using audience suggestions, 5 improvisers will create a one-of-a-kind, musical pantomime just for you!

Catriona has a history of making stuff up. But she’s getting better. When an attractive American tourist arrives, she decides to show him around her Northern Irish town. And she might blur the line between fact and fiction, just a little... Soon she's telling him about cannibal peasants, human roosters, and the largest orgy ever held on consecrated ground.

Omnibus Theatre today announces that The Girl Who Was Very Good at Lying, by Eoin McAndrew and Fiji by Evan Lordan, Pedro Leandro and Eddie Loodmer-Elliott, two critically acclaimed plays previously co-produced by Omnibus Theatre, will run at this year's Edinburgh Festival Fringe.

Laughs and learnings from an accomplished, if somewhat lopsided, dramedy

Strange Fish Theatre Company will present Dev's Army by Stuart D. Lee, directed by Helen Niland, designed by Phil Newman, with lighting by Amy Daniels and sound design by Paul Freeman. The show will be presented Tuesday 8th to Saturday 19th March 2022 at The Bread and Roses Theatre, Clapham & Thursday 24th March at The London Irish Centre, Camden.

Riverside Studios announces the full line up of specially curated brand-new theatre initiative Bitesize Festival. To kick off the year, Riverside's Bitesize Festival showcases work from fresh new talent and award-winning performers.

After a short run as part of Jermyn Street Theatre's Footprints Festival Eoin McAndrew's inventive and intriguing play, The Girl Who Was Very Good At Lying, now arrives at Clapham's Omnibus Theatre. Catriona is a young woman, still living at home in a small town in Northern Island. She works in a local pub and life is rather dull. When an American tourist walks into the pub, Catriona is captivated and offers to show him around. Aware that her surroundings are unremarkable, she decides to embellish the truth and create a much more exciting history. The fiction starts to unravel as her stories become increasingly incredible and the situation spirals out of hand.

Omnibus Theatre and Jump Spark Theatre today announce the first full-scale staging of The Girl Who Was Very Good at Lying, following an award-nominated short run as part of Jermyn Street Theatre's Footprints Festival.

Two weeks after announcing Footprints Festival, today Jermyn Street Theatre has unveiled its full programme of 43 shows brought together to celebrate the theatre’s reopening this Summer. Running for three months from May to August this jamboree of live work comprises an exciting combination of familiar faces and new talent.

Theatre Centre, in collaboration with Theatre503, will present ImagiNation Festival, an exciting new online event, culminating their national storytelling project. Showcasing 19 short plays across three days, as well as live Q&As with the acclaimed writers, the Festival aims to broadcast a digital patchwork of the nation, using the recorded submissions from across the country to share a multitude of voices.

Since its launch, over 250 people from different areas of the country have come together as part of the national storytelling project, ImagiNation, led by Theatre Centre and Theatre503.

Theatre Centre, in collaboration with Theatre503, has commissioned 19 playwrights to write a series of short pieces for the nation, for anyone to read and record a performance.

Rose Theatre Kingston today announces Eoin McAndrew, Eilidh Nurse and Sid Sagar have been chosen to have their new plays The Devil's In The Chair, Miles and Dark Faces in the Night worked on and performed as part of its inaugural New Writing Festival, a week-long event running from 9 a?" 13 September. The festival will feature rehearsed readings of the three new plays as well as arts engagement workshops for young people focused on new writing.

Freddie, Ted and The Death of Joe Orton is about middle-aged Freddie, suffering from undiagnosed OCD, who owns the three-bedroom house which he shares with his younger lover, aspiring musician Ted.

Ray Rackham Productions announces the world premiere of a new play, developed through the London Theatre Workshop Theatre Lab. FREDDIE, TED, and the DEATH of JOE ORTON by Don Cotter, directed by Ray Rackham, is coming to London Theatre Workshop (Leadenhall Market, 88 Gracechurch Street, London ECV3 0DN), starring Robert Styles, Eion McAndrew, Helen Sheals and Perry Meadowcroft.