SHOWTALK

Ghost Month, queer romance and supernatural hunger collide in Mei Leng Yew’s debut play. Blending bilingual comedy, family tensions and horror, The Hungry Ghost explores coming out, Chinese identity, language, belonging and the fears we carry with us.

A dreamlike journey between two parallel worlds. Philippe Decouflé’s stage adaptation of Haruki Murakami’s End of the World and Hard-Boiled Wonderland uses physical theatre, live music and inventive visual design to explore memory, identity, loneliness, love and what it means to be human.

A Strange World Turned Upside Down. Inspired by Pieter Bruegel the Elder’s Netherlandish Proverbs, Inverted Realm uses physical performance, surreal imagery and simple stagecraft to reflect a businessman’s greed, ambition and behaviour back at him, while questioning capitalism, ownership and what we mean when we call something 'fair'.

Beginning with a cup of tea placed directly in the audience’s hands, the production turns taste, scent, waiting and movement into a sensory exploration of memory, migration, home and cultural identity.

An investigative documentary performance that turns the death of a captive beluga whale into a wider examination of spectatorship, captivity and ecological grief, while leaving room for its methods of investigation and verification to be developed more fully.

Simple and predictable custody-battle story into an energetic piece of theatre through distinctly British comedy, a 1980s-pop-inspired score and a strong nine-person ensemble, while leaving room for Donna and Rick’s relationship to be developed further in a longer version.

Adapted from the 2014 film, the stage musical Pride revisits the real alliance between LGSM activists and striking miners during the 1984 miners’ strike. Flynn Ng reflects on the production’s emotional power, its transition from screen to stage, and the lingering question of whether the solidarity it celebrates belongs only to the past.

English teacher Lila enters the classroom determined to challenge misogyny through literature, only for the lesson to collide with trauma she has tried to suppress. Nicole Abraham’s gripping solo performance turns audience members into pupils and asks how much responsibility one teacher can carry for changing the world outside.

A dispute over noisy chickens slowly tears apart the apparently orderly marriage of Yifei and Ming. Dongmeng Chen’s darkly absurd domestic drama turns breakfast, eggs and a bowl of soup into symbols of care, responsibility and control, exposing the violence hidden beneath everyday life.

Lebanese sisters Yara and Mina love the same homeland but imagine radically different futures: one wants to stay and fight for change, while the other feels she must leave. Antonia Chammas’s solo performance brings revolution, migration, family and the Beirut port explosion into one ordinary living room.

Sometimes, the end of a friendship can hurt more than a breakup. Christine Fang’s Stunted follows longtime friends and roommates Celine and Max as years of intimacy, dependence and unspoken resentment collide, turning an ordinary goodbye into something painfully final.

A real 1971 archive of a young Uruguayan model imagining her future becomes the starting point for an encounter with memory, identity and unrealised lives. Alba Campayo’s poetic physical performance moves between private memory, motherhood and the public image of Diana Spencer, asking what remains of the people we once imagined we would become.