Don’t Waste Your Bullets on the Dead by Stoke Newington-based writer Freddie Machin premieres this month at Vault Festival
Based on interviews with former and current residents of a Leyton housing estate, Re: Home examines what our homes mean to us
On the eve of their adaptation of Le Petit Prince, director Rubyyy Jones talks about the state of queer theatre today – and how genuine equality is still a work in progress
The Oscar-winning co-writer of Ida returns to the Arcola with Jane Wenham: The Witch of Walkern, a play about one of the last witch trials in England
#Haters is a story about community conflict based on a controversial incident at a Hackney pub last year
Visitors to Victoria Park’s winter town can immerse themselves in the delights of a Christmas pantomime
This year’s Hackney Empire pantomime reimagines Jack and the Beanstalk as a climate change fable
Arcola production about R.D. Laing’s 1960s mental health commune examines the nature of psychiatry while remaining at its core a domestic farce
Hackney Showroom was wowed this week by the charismatic Brigitte Aphrodite for a short run of her Edinburgh-feted musical play about depression
Punk-poet Brigitte Aphrodite brings her acclaimed musical My Beautiful Black Dog about mental health to Hackney Showroom
A new play at the Arcola looks at the legacy of the ‘anti-psychiatrist’ whose mental illness centre in Bow became notorious for its controversial methods
