Sarah Readman

In this intricate and playful solo show, inspired by his involvement in the Egyptian revolution of 2011, and his experience of the counter-revolution that followed, actor and activist Khalid Abdalla (United 93, The Kite Runner, The Crown) takes us on a surprising journey into his own history, set against a cartography of seismic world events.

From the histories of colonialism and decolonisation; friendship and loss; protests and uprising against regimes across the world; to the violence in Gaza, Khalid brings together the personal and the political in an act of anti-biography that asks how we got here and how we find agency amidst the mazes of history.

Written & Performed by Khalid Abdalla
Director Omar Elerian
Set & Costume Design Ti Green
Lighting Design Jackie Shemesh
Sound Design Panos Chountoulidis
Video Design Sarah Readman
Choreographer Omar Rajeh
Dramaturgy Ruth Little
Writing Mentor Chris Thorpe
Associate Director Riwa Saab
Associate Set & Costume Designer Jida Akil
Associate Lighting Designer Rajiv Pattani
Associate Video Designer Virginie Taylor
Press Representative Bread & Butter PR
Marketing Consultant Stacy Coyne Wright
Poster Photography Manuel Vason
Poster Design CHILL Create
Trailer Jamie Isbell / Jam + Post
Production Manager Milorad Zakula
Company Stage Manager Nikita Bala
Technical Stage Manager Paul Thomas

Photos by Helen Murray

Enter a secret world where magic and memory can heal in our new family theatre production, Enitan's Game. 

Tucked away off a busy road in Wembley is a special place. Warm and welcoming, it’s a home for many when you are far from your own.

Inside you’ll find Enitan and Ged, two friends who collect objects and stories.

One such item is a game, made by Enitan’s grandfather when she first arrived in the UK. As a young girl, whenever she felt sad or homesick they played it together. It made her feel stronger and helped her grow.

Now Enitan’s grandfather has gone and she needs your help to play again. Together, you’ll discover a secret world, and unlock the storyteller in you.

Experience an immersive theatre show for families from Punchdrunk Enrichment in our brand new venue. Enitan’s Game celebrates the power of shared stories, loss and community.

Pick a card, let the journey begin.

Co-Creators Mia Jerome and Peter Higgins

Co-Writers Mia Jerome, Omar F. Okai, Casey Jay Andrews and Simon Maeder

Director Omar F. Okai

Designer Casey Jay Andrews
Design Lead Lydia Reed

Games Consultant Simon Maeder

Sound Designer Dom Kennedy

Lighting and Video Designer Sarah Readman
Lighting Associate Jodi Rabinowitz

A forbidden marriage. A hidden family. A dangerous web of secrets and lies.

The recently widowed Duchess falls in love with her steward, Antonio. Her brothers, eager to keep her under their control, warn her not to remarry. But some things are worth fighting – and lying – for…

In a rigid, male-dominated world, how far does a woman have to go to protect those she loves the most? And what desperate measures will the men in her life take to control her story?

Award-winning Director Rachel Bagshaw (Midnight Movie, Royal Court) makes her Globe directorial debut with this ‘richly atmospheric’ ★★★★ (Financial Times) anniversary production of Webster’s violent tale of misogyny and deceit.

Access Consultant Zoë Halliday
Assistant Director Roberta Zuric
Associate Movement & Intimacy Director Ana Beatriz Meireles
Candle Consultant Sally Ferguson
Caption Designer Sarah Readman
Casting Director Becky Paris CDG
Composer Anna Clock
Costume Supervisor Sabia Smith
Director Rachel Bagshaw
Dramaturg Zoë Svendsen
Fight Director Rae Bown-Williams
Fight Director Ruth Cooper-Brown
Movement & Intimacy Director Ingrid Mackinnon
Set & Costume Designer Ti Green
Text Consultant Giles Taylor
Voice Coach Kay Welch
Wellbeing, Cultural and Diversity Consultant Carol Cumberbatch

Two brothers on a beach need to figure out what to do with their dad - but the sea has other ideas.

Mark and Tiny walk the shore of Seaton Carew in the North East. Their dad is dying, and their town is crumbling. Family rifts and political divides try to pull them apart, while a figure made of driftwood stalks the shore at night.

Pentabus and ThickSkin are two of the UK’s most prominent theatre companies. Joining forces to present Driftwood, a new play by Bruntwood Prize Winner, Tim Foley (Electric Rosary).

Writer Tim Foley
Co-director Neil Bettles
Co-director Elle While
Designer Lulu Tam
Lighting Designer Charly Dunford
Sound Designer Lee Affen
Video and Creative Captions Designer Sarah Readman
Costume and Associate Designer Daria Vasko
Production Manager Fiona Hilton
Stage Manager Kirsty Smith
Cast James Westphal & Jerome Yates

Photos by Andrew Billington

Fuelling interworld travel with your imagination.

When a series of stones mysteriously appear in a primary school, pupils are unaware this is the start of an epic adventure. A travel company from another world is in peril, and urgently needs the children’s help.

Route 158 is Punchdrunk Enrichment’s most ambitious primary school project to date. Running over two academic years pupils must guide the travel company to their school then help re-fuel their vehicle. From the outside, this vehicle seems like a dusty old double decker bus, but when the pupils step on board they realise their imaginations are more powerful than they thought possible.

Produced by Punchdrunk Enrichment, supported by the Paul Hamlyn Foundation

Co-Creator, Director and Writer Tara Boland

Co-Creator and Designer Kat Heath

Co-Creator Peter Higgin

Producer Holiday Donaldson

Sound Designer Dominic Kennedy

Head of Technical and Lighting Designer Sarah Readman

Cast Annemarie Anang, Tara Boland, Dan de la Motte

Production Manager Stuart Heyes

Head of Set Joe Iredale

Head of Scenic Lisa Rust

IT Consultant Jon Cooper

Company Stage Manager Jo-Ann Briel

Technical Stage Manager Molly Tackaberry

Graphic Designer Rory Muldoon

Production Electrician Eren Celikdemir

Costume Supervisor and Set Dresser Lily O’Hara

Scenic Artist Charlotte Gainey

Carpenter Fin Cullum

Technician Anthony Doran

Prop Maker Hannah Sharpe, Erin Tse

Trainee Scenic Assistant Tara Cousins, Bex Hazell

Bus Drivers Charlie Slynes & William Bradford

Photos by Nina Robinson

Set in a world where gods walk among the mortals, this unapologetically queer story follows different characters – all lost in the woods. Two young trans people find love whilst escaping oppression; a shipwrecked migrant searches for his family; goddesses clash; parents fret; an alchemist brews magic and a teenage Cupid sets hearts on fire – causing chaos and near disaster. And all the while, time is running out!

Galatea was written in the 1580s by John Lyly, William Shakespeare’s best-selling but now long-forgotten contemporary, inspiring Shakespeare’s comedies from As You Like It to A Midsummer Night’s Dream. Performed in front of Queen Elizabeth I, over four hundred years ago, this tale of love, joy and the importance of welcoming outsiders is an incredibly resonant story for modern times.

Commissioned by Brighton Festival for its World Premiere, this ambitious, outdoor production is a major collaboration between Wildworks, award-winning queer theatre maker, Emma Frankland; LGBTQIA+ culture catalysts, Marlborough Productions and leading theatre historian, Andy Kesson.

Director Emma Frankland
Associate Director Duffy
Associate Director Andy Kesson
Dramaturg Subira Joy
Set and Costume Design Mydd Pharo
Associate Designer Ellie Williams
Assistant Designer Ica Niemz
Lighting & Video Design Joshua Pharo
Co-Video Design and Production Electrician Sarah Readman
Caption Design Joshua Pharo and Sarah Readman
Musical Director & Composer – Vicky Abbott
Sound Designer Xana
Sound Design Associate/Performer Kayodeine

Photos by Kaleido Shoots

By Tangled Feet and Rowan Tree

We are all trying to work out our story. Who are we? How are we shaped? Where do we fit in?

Cleo arrives into a new home, unsure of what the future holds. She meets the playful Bertie, who brings her out of her shell, and Leila, who she has more in common with than she first thought.

Life has been unsettled for the trio: Bertie is pushing towards the future, Leila is trying to reconnect with her past and Cleo is searching for answers.

Together they balance, dance and climb to navigate imagined worlds, divided loyalties and loved ones far away. They unite to discover a place called home, the value of play, and together, learn how to own their own stories.

Developed through working creatively with young people in care over a period of years, this "inspiring, engaging, beautifully evocative production” (Everything Theatre) explores a fundamental need we all share - the need to belong.

Nominated for Two Off West End Awards (Best Production, Best Performance by an Ensemble).

Director: Nathan Curry
Dramaturg & Writer in the room: Shireen Mula
Set & Costume Design: Becky-Dee Trevenen
Lighting Design: Sarah Readman
Sound Designer: Guy Connelly
Stage Manager & Production Manager: Josephine Tremelling

Photographs: Greta Zabulyte

Summer 1940. On a peaceful morning in her Washington D.C. living room, widow Fanny Farrelly anxiously awaits the return of her daughter and her German husband, fleeing Europe with their children.

As night falls, dark secrets emerge, and this American sanctuary becomes even more dangerous than what they left behind.

Known for her success on Broadway (The Little Foxes, The Children's Hour) Lillian Hellman was also a brilliant activist, ahead of her time. WATCH ON THE RHINE is her masterpiece political thriller, given a timely revival by director Ellen McDougall.

Produced by Donmar Theatre

Director : ELLEN MCDOUGALL
Set and Costume Designer : BASIA BIŃKOWSKA
Lighting : AZUSA ONO
Sound : TINGYING DONG
Video : SARAH READMAN
Dramaturgs : EMMA JUDE HARRIS, mezze eade, ZOE SVENDSEN
Fight Director : CRISTIAN CARDENAS
Musical Director : JOSH MIDDLETON

CAST : KATE DUCHÊNE, CAITLIN FITZGERALD, PATRICIA HODGE, JOHN LIGHT, CARLYSS PEER, GEOFFREY STREATFEILD, MARK WASCHKE, DAVID WEBBER with young company : BILLY BYERS, BERTIE CAPLAN, FINLEY GLASGOW, HENRY HUNT, TAMAR LANIADO and CHLOE RAPHAEL.

production photography : MANUEL HARLAN

Nominated Offies 2022 Access

Kath Horvath is found dead in the New Mexico desert. With her body is a message for her estranged daughter Sam: ‘Do not grieve. I am not here.’

Journeying to the small town of Taos, Sam discovers her mother has become embroiled in an unsettling deal with FutureLife, a multinational biotech corporation promising digital immortality.

Now Sam has an unimaginable chance to rebuild their broken relationship. But first, she must decide whether she can finish what Kath has started.

From the writer of The Night Manager, David Farr, comes an unsettling thriller. Travelling back in time to the counter-cultural protests of the 1960s and forwards to a near future on the cusp of a new technological revolution, this powerful drama probes how AI can alter our understanding of life and death.

A Dead Body in Taos includes fully integrated captioning as part of every performance.

A Dead Body in Taos is co-commissioned by Fuel, Theatre Royal Plymouth and Warwick Arts Centre with support from Bristol Old Vic; A Dead Body in Taos is funded by Arts Council England and produced by Fuel.

A new play by David Farr
Director Rachel Bagshaw
Designer Ti Green
Lighting Design Katy Morison
Composition and Sound Design Ben and Max Ringham
Video Design Sarah Readman
Movement Director Ingrid McKinnon
Fight Director Bret Yount
Accent Coach Gurkiran Kaur
Casting Director Louis Hammond CDG
Associate Director Tian Brown-Sampson
Associate Sound Designer Ellie Isherwood
Costume Supervisor Victoria Nissley
Assistant Costume Supervisor Jo Lewis
Assistant Director Oliwia Charmuszko-Carrigan
Production Manager Helen Mugridge
Company Stage Manager Roisin Symes
Relighter/TSM Rachel Bowen
Production Sound Engineer David Chin
Wardrobe/ASM Verity Johnson
Wardrobe Associate Charlotte Weiss

Photos by Helen Murry

Winner Offies 2022 Best Production (Play)
Nominated Offies 2022 Access

Alice and Phil bare every messy, painful, hilarious, irritating, delightful, loving detail of their relationship as it bends and shifts to everything life throws at them. Nothing goes unshared …

An Orange Tree Theatre production in association with The JMK Award.

Director Indiana Lown-Collins
Designer Ica Niemz
Lighting Designer Jonathan Chan
Sound Designer Oliver Vibrans
Creative Captioner & Projections Designer Sarah Readman
Movement Director Isolte Avila
Intimacy Coordinator & Director Asha Jennings-Grant
BSL Interpreter Deborah McLeod
Access Consultant Laura Guthrie
Casting Consultant Christopher Worrall
Deputy Stage Manager Waverley Moran

Cast Adam Fenton and Katie Erich

Jenni is not an athlete. Jenni has not done enough training. Jenni wants to perform a feat of endurance, live and in real time. She really wants to be able to run up hills and mountains.

Exploring colonial legacies through the prism of the Bolivian/Aymaran warrior Bartolina Sisa and modern day women who are out-performing men at ultra marathon running, Jenni wants to know how we carry on when things get really hard?

Endurance looks at how we endure, why we endure, and how women can make their innate propensity for endurance work in their favour to tip the balance of power.

A HOME Theatre Commission. Supported using public funding by the National Lottery through Arts Council England. Originally commissioned by Upstart Theatre as part of Dare Festival 2019.

Written and Devised by Jennifer Jackson and Simon Carroll Jones
Costume Design Cécile Trémolières and Tracey Dunk
Lighting & Video Design Sarah Readman (development by Joshua Pharo)
Sound Co-Designed by Alexandra Faye Braithwaite and Annie-May Fletcher
Dramaturgy Emily Ling Williams
Creative Tech Consultancy idontloveyouanymore

As Lighting Associate

In the smouldering promise of the fall of Troy, a mythical world of gods and mortals rises from the ashes.

As Greece teeters on the brink of victory, the neon backstreets of Downtown Troy give way to a sprawling labyrinth hiding secrets even the prophecies could not foretell.

In this colossal playground, the furies watch on as mortals play out their fate.

And as night falls, the city comes alive.

One last time.

The Burnt City is the latest production by award-winning company Punchdrunk, who make genre-defying experiences for audiences around the world. Blending classic texts, contemporary dance, physical performance and award-winning design installations, their work ranges from projects that use new technologies to large-scale site specific performances.

Directed by Felix Barrett and Maxine Doyle

Designed by Felix Barrett, Livi Vaughan and Beatrice Minns

Sound Design by Stephen Dobbie

Lighting Design by Ben Donoghue, Fragment 9 and Felix Barrett

Costume Design by David Israel Reynoso

Audience Experience Curator Colin Nightingale

When your time’s up, how will you account for your life on Earth?

Everyman is riding high. He works hard and plays harder. He has success, wealth, good looks and is living the dream… until Death comes calling. Forced to take a chaotic pilgrimage, Everyman becomes a man on the run, frantically attempting to justify his life choices – but who will speak in his defence before his time runs out?

Everyman holds an awkward mirror up to humankind and asks whether it is only in death that we understand our lives…

Miracle Theatre brings Carol Ann Duffy’s radical adaption right up to date, creating a multi-sensory experience with sizzling sound score, mesmerising 3D projection, stunning design, and gripping performances. This must-see show is a stark reminder of how fragile our relationship with the planet really is.

Director Kyla Goodey
Composer Dom Coyote
Designer Amy Pitt
Lighting and Video Designer Sarah Readman
Musician and Technician Louis Gulliver King
Cast Dean Rehman, Giles King, Laura Cairns, Charlotte Merriam

Let Loose is a dazzling celebration of play and the delights of friendship through movement and music. It’s about breaking free and embracing life – a message we can all relate to this summer!

A Unicorn Theatre, English National Ballet and Tea Films production

Directed by Rachel Bagshaw
Choreographed by Arielle Smith
Performed by Precious Adams, Julia Conway, Matei Hadrian Holeleu and Van Le Ngoc
Ballet Mistress: Mayumi Ganley
Set and Costume Designer: Charlotte Espiner
Lighting Designer: Sarah Readman
Director of Photography: Dan Patrick Hipkin
Cinematographer & Editor: Oliver Bury

Music: Grande Tarentelle, Op. 67, RO 259 Gottschalk, Louis Moreau. Performed by Hot Springs Music Festival Symphony Orchestra, Michael Gurt (piano) and Richard Rosenberg (Conductor). Licensed by courtesy of Naxos Music UK Limited.

Streamed in partnership with The Guardian.

Someone is having a sleepless night and browsing the internet.

A girl fights for her life in a lift. New Window. A protest in Trafalgar Square. New Window. A naked man in a bathtub. New Window. Janelle Monae, dancing.

The possibilities are endless. Even at 2am. That’s the thing about being Extremely Online: there’s no limit on where you can go.

Directed by Rachel Bagshaw, the play explores what it is like to have a digital body, when your physical body is always glitching and letting you down.

The production creatively combines Spoken English, BSL, captioning, and audio description.

Midnight Movie was developed whilst on a Royal Court residency and with the support of producer Matt Maltby, Unlimited, and Arts Council England. The production is produced by the Royal Court in collaboration with Matt Maltby.

Midnight Movie is part of the Royal Court’s Jerwood New Playwrights programme, supported by Jerwood Arts.

Writer Eve Leigh
Director Rachel Bagshaw
Set and Costume Design Cécile Trémolières
Lighting Design and Video Design Josh Pharo & Sarah Readman
Composer Nwando Ebizie
Sound Designer Emily Legg

Photographs: Helen Murray

The technology of the future is being developed, in part, by very intelligent and/or very well-funded people who believe that death is just a technical glitch and immortality is genuinely possible.

The human being is being upgraded. This is terrifying and exciting and it’s coming – whether we like it or not.

Unlimited and RashDash come together to imagine the implications of real world, leading edge developments in human enhancement technologies.

Co-created by Clare Duffy, Abbi Greenland, Helen Goalen, Jon Spooner and Becky Wilkie
Set & Costume Design Rhys Jarman
Lighting & Video Design including Creative Captions Sarah Readman & Josh Pharo
Sound Design Becky Wilkie & Joel Clements

Photos by: Jonathan Keenan

Immersive audio work commissioned for NOW 17 radical new performance festival at The Yard Theatre, Hackney Wick. Made by Julie Rose Bower.

Live Foley sound effects combine with looping technology to create layers of immersive sound bringing to life stories of a year spent in Russia.

Out of the ashes time, Voodoo rises. Project O think again about how best to use dance to explore, heal and challenge the violence of systematic oppression that haunts our every step. In a clash of tongues, colours, continents and histories. You are invited join us for this four hour ritual: 

Two brown women dance a dance to dance themselves out of the desire for and expectation of an aesthetic assimilation that upholds a system of white supremacy that is at once subtle, blatant and all pervasive.

Created by Alexandrina Hemsley and Jamila Johnson-Small

Set Design by Charley Fone

Sound Design by Verity Susman

Photography by Katarzyna Perlak

Circumference is a collective of internationally acclaimed circus, audio and visual artists come together to create 'Shelter Me', an interactive acrobatic journey where performance, installation and experience meet. Performed at Theatre Delicatessen, London, between May and July 2015.

Devised and created by: 
Aislinn Mulligan, Helena Reynolds, Pablo Meneu, Nich Galzin and Ellie Rose Rusbridge

with Direction from Maia Alexander

Direction Mentoring by Roland Smith

and an Original score by Aniek de Rooj

Produced by Jake Orr

Associate Produced by Simon James Holton

Production Managed by Andrea Salazar

Set Design by Beata Csikmak

Mural Painting by Sam Hanner

Lighting Design by Joshua Pharo and Sarah Readman

Videography by Ewan Mulligan

Photography by Bertil Nilsson, Lorna Palmer, Richard Davenport, and Hannah Anketell

There’s Duck and there’s Mickey. They’re the kids of America and it’s the 80s apocalypse. They hate their parents and there’s no point in algebra. They’re grabbing at this thing called life: guitars, girls, love, fury, heartbreak and noise noise noise. Punk is their escape from suburbia and it’s like nothing they have ever heard. It’s fast – it’s alive – it’s already dead.

punkplay is a riot of a play told at breakneck pace with a killer soundtrack. It’s a coming-of-age story about subcultures, friendship and not-fitting-in – all on rollerskates.

Southwark Playhouse, September 2016
Directed by Tom Hughes
Design by Cécile Trémolières
Sound Design by Jethro Cook
Photographs by Helen Murray

Young Tom lives next to a lighthouse with his mother and father. After a difficult year, it soon becomes clear that they’re sharing their home with a stranger: a gigantic glowing jellyfish. Can the family learn to live with the animal in their attic?Originally composed music, puppetry and visual storytelling blend to tell a personal and adventurous story of the sea, parenthood and mental health.

Directed by Matthew Woodford
Puppetry and set design by Smoking Apples
Music and sound design by Finn Anderson

An immersive dining experience, inspired by the world of Twin Peaks, set over two floors of an impressive multi-storey building in Farringdon, London.

Set in the fictional town of Double Pineview, Lemonade and Laughing Gas created a labyrinthine world of Lynchian twists and turns. From Wanda's Diner, to Black Jack's, and the Roadside Bar to smaller, more intimate spaces: an eerie family dining room, a town morgue, a deserted greenhouse, a young girl's bedroom. Guests were invited to sup on three courses of classic American diner food with a twist, bespoke themed cocktails, and wander through Double Pineview's very own slice of Small Town America, intermingling with familiar faces along the way, and discovering the town's secrets for themselves.

The Owls Are Not What They Seem ran from August 28th to November 21st 2015.

Created by Lemonade and Laughing Gas

Directed by Louise Orwin

Set Design by Amy Lord