Playwright Tom Neill tells us what audiences can expect at the rehearsed reading of his new script inspired by the climate change conundrum.  ​What inspired you to create this show? Why this story? I’m very interested in the topic of the environment and climate change, and thinking about what I can do to help, and in learning about how it’s going to affect future lives, not just my own. So I wanted to dig in to that more, translate the data and issues in to the everyday world, and put them on the level of personal relationships. What do audiences have to look forward to? The script is ..read more

Lorraine Spenceley, director of Not Such Stuff gives us insight into what to expect from Creative Curve's upcoming show at The Bread & Roses Theatre. A series of interwoven soliloquies, in which Shakespeare’s female characters have the chance address their lot, in their own words without the help of male quill. If you have ever wondered why Shakespeare’s women behave the way they do Not Such Stuff may give you some answers.   What inspired you to create this show? Why this story?  I first saw “Not Such Stuff” at South London Theatre, it was just as everyone was coming out ..read more

Hello! We are the team behind A Proper Working-Class Sausage Roll, which is performing at The Bread and Roses Theatre on the 30th January to the 3rd February! The Bread and Roses Team have sent us a few questions about the show, and we’ve all contributed to the answers below!   Who are the collaborators on this production? Naturally there is the cast: Arianna Gallenzi and Niall Humphryes, who swap between the two characters of the show each night. Then of course, Jamie Holland my talented Co-Producer, and Valentin Burwell, our sensational technician. And of course, myself, Adam Labo ..read more

Ahead of Hazel's debut play opening at The Bread & Roses Theatre next week we spoke with her about the creation of the show and what to expect. What inspired you to create this show? Believe it or not, Blueberries for the Rainbow is my first full length play. I wrote the first scene as part of a short online playwrighting course in 2021 and it just grew from there.  I desperately wanted to write a play that looked at how modern mothers are treated and how their needs are so often neglected, mostly by themselves and the people closest to them. Blueberries does this. It says to the au ..read more

Two Guys in a Room is a new London based theatre company dedicated to bringing original plays to audiences.  Their work is designed to be both entertaining and thought-provoking, challenging the modern world in the most enjoyable way possible for an audience. Their new play (written by Harry Cowper) is a drama about faith, grief, capitalism and quantum physics. We chatted with Harry and Siân about their upcoming production. First of all, what do audiences have to look forward to? MONUMENTUM is a play that asks a lot of questions and doesn’t give the audience any easy answers ..read more

Ahead of Can't Pay? Won't Pay! opening this week we spoke with Genia Gianni about reviving Dario Fo's political farce. What inspired you to create this show? Why this story? We chose to continue our stage performances this season with ‘Can’t Pay, Won’t Pay’, a hilarious fast-paced comedy by Nobel prize winner Italian playwright Dario Fo. An adaptation of a classic Italian political farce, paralleling the current cost of living crisis. Our previous production, ‘Death and the Maiden’ by A. Dorfman, was a dark, tense psychological thriller on fascism. We decide to continue our political immersi ..read more

What inspired you to create this show? Why this story?This is a political satire poking fun at the entirety of the British Establishment. Who better to be the mouthpiece for that than someone who has been spat out from its core, Prince Andrew. You describe the piece as a pacey parody what do audiences have to look forward to?Yes it’s pacey, funny and rude and makes some valid points about how we are mesmerised into believing in the legitimacy of people who have influence over us. Have there been any obstacles in the creation of No Sweat?It’s been a pretty smooth ride. As ..read more

What Inspired you to create this show, why this story After our show Botox or Bust, we had done rewrites, and were working towards a Rehearsed Reading  of the new version of the show,  then Covid, social distancing and lockdown hit.    To keep writing and to keep sane,  and to keep in line with social distancing rules,  Real Housewives was born as a spin off show from BoB.    It is written around 3 characters who had proved popular,  which would make it easier to stage and tour. What do audiences have t ..read more

Photography: Cristian Solimeno How a vanishing, pre-internet south London and a chance conversation about a comatose patient inspired Mark Bastin to write To Have and To Hold   For me, To Have and To Hold is the realisation of a long-held ambition. I’d wanted for some time to write a piece which captured the world my parents came from. A working class south London long before the internet, a world of pubs, going to the pictures and meeting people at the local palais. I was also keen to write a love story, but one from the viewpoint of a life lived, as opposed to the heady r ..read more

Mark and I met in the dark depths of the third lockdown, over Zoom, on a playwriting course. At the time the idea of pursuing a career in theatre directing was very new (a slightly perverse notion, it must be said, given that every theatre in the country was closed at the time, but then absence had made the heart grow fonder). I was keen to develop new work and noticed, from the short extracts shared in our classes, that Mark was possessed of a natural gift for writing character and speech. I asked if he had anything I could read and he sent over a monologue delivered from the perspective of ..read more