RELATIVE MOTION to Make World Premiere at Southwark Playhouse Borough
by Stephi Wild - Jul 16, 2026
Feuille Dooley Productions and Very Rascals Productions will present the world premiere of RELATIVE MOTION, a new play by Stephanie Greenwood blending romantic comedy and psychological thriller to examine coercive control through Newton's laws of motion.
DEAR MARTIN Comes to the Arcola Theatre Next Month
by Stephi Wild - Feb 6, 2025
Following an unexpected friendship between a psychopath in a high security hospital and his secret lover’s husband, Madeleine Brettingham’s debut play Dear Martin is a darkly comic commentary on mental health, connection and redemption.
Review: UNION, Arcola Theatre
by Cindy Marcolina - Jul 26, 2023
Union is half love letter to a changing city and half harangue against the soulless destruction of local communities for the benefit of a coffee shop chain. Max Wilkinson offers an abundance of topical matters, slightly overdoing it, and better suited for a longer running time.
THE JOURNEY TO VENICE Comes to the Finborough Theatre
by Stephi Wild - Feb 2, 2023
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
by Cindy Marcolina - Oct 18, 2022
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
by Stephi Wild - Aug 16, 2022
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.
BWW Review: TARANTULA at Southwark Playhouse
by Louise Penn - May 2, 2021
Toni's life is about to change on a sunny day in East London. Issues of memory, identity and shadows of the past are explored in this one-woman show featuring Georgie Henley.
Philip Ridley's THE POLTERGEIST To Be Streamed For Limited Season
by Stephi Wild - Jan 18, 2021
Following the 5 star critical success of the live streaming of Philip Ridley's brand new play, The Poltergeist, during the second lockdown in November, Tramp are delighted to announce that, for a limited season only, this ground-breaking work will be available to view online via the Southwark Playhouse website, in partnership with streaming service Stream Theatre.
Tramp Presents Limited Streaming Season of THE POLTERGEIST
by Stephi Wild - Dec 22, 2020
Following the 5 star critical success of the live streaming of Philip Ridley’s brand new play, The Poltergeist, during the second lockdown in November, Tramp have announced that, for a limited season only, this ground-breaking work will be available to view online via the Southwark Playhouse website, in partnership with streaming service Stream Theatre.
OffWestEnd Announces 100th OnComm For THE POLTERGEIST Streamed Live From Southwark Playhouse
by Chloe Rabinowitz - Nov 25, 2020
OffWestEnd has announced its 100th OnComm award to the production The Poltergeist by Philip Ridley, starring Joseph Potter and directed by Wiebke Green. Presented by Tramp and streamed live from Southwark Playhouse in November, The Poltergeist is a darkly comic new play about art, family, memory, and being haunted by the life we never lived.
BWW Review: THE POLTERGEIST, Southwark Playhouse
by Shane Morgan - Nov 21, 2020
Playwright Philip Ridley is known for his menace, his verbal gymnastics and the bleak lens through which he observes the world his characters inhabit. There can be no better set of tools or writer to implement them when it comes to a painfully uncomfortable family birthday that unearths childhood stories, family friends and a box of painkillers.
BWW Review: SADNESS AND JOY IN THE LIFE OF GIRAFFES, Orange Tree Theatre
by Aliya Al-Hassan - Aug 12, 2019
There is something innately sad about Portuguese dramatist Tiego Rodrigues' play, Sadness and Joy in the Life of Giraffes. This is the final play of the Orange Tree Theatre's Directors' Festival where Director Wiebke Green explores an intriguing play about childhood, loss and growing up.