Arab Nights

Soho Theatre
28 November

Shahrazad, bright as a lamp 
and full of fire, nightly tells a story 
for her life: filling the dark 
with dreams and danger, 
love, adventure and the quick 
of golden flickering matchlight.



Arab Nights is on tour until 13 December
http://www.mettatheatre.co.uk/productions/arab-nights/ 

The Cat's Mother

Hoxton Courtyard
22 November

Windowless, we lose our way
where strange reality
meets blacked-out dream;
and stumble headlong into stories
blacker than they seem.

The Cat’s Mother plays at the Courtyard Theatre until 8 December
http://www.thecourtyard.org.uk/whatson/281/the-cats-mother

NSFW

Royal Court
19 November

They do not deal in love -

only in sex and skin, bodily flaws

and imperfections. They are safe

behind their slick demands

and steely walls – the palaces

they build for glamour scum.

NSFW runs at the Royal Court until 24 November

http://www.royalcourttheatre.com/whats-on/NSFW

Constellations

Duke of York's Theatre
14 November

Beautiful white balloons and galaxies

where couples meet 

as though they were the first

to live this way – each word a choice, 

unseen, but now a fragment

of a new reality. Like bees they fly 

above the city – so intent,

although they cannot see their way

or which of all these worlds

will be their destiny.

Constellations plays at the Duke of York's Theatre until 5 January 2013

http://www.constellationstheplay.com/index-constellations.php

Quills

White Rabbit Cocktail Club

10 November

White-faced and wigged

and robed (or not) in silk 

the Marquis sits,elegant 

in his strange small cell of sin;

his fantasies played out in ink

upon his bed sheets: 

stories that slither 

in the ears of madmen.

 

Quills was presented by Second Skin Theatre, 

17 October - 11 November 2012

http://secondskintheatre.com/pages/

Matilda the Musical

Cambridge Theatre

6 November

They erupt, these children,

naughty little newts and bookworms,

daring to defy both cake and school,

playing with superglue and telling stories

you would weep to hear.

They are as loud and bright

as fireworks onstage, exploding

in the face of huge, mad Trunchbull

and those odious Wormwoods.

I adored it all – 

especially the scooter curtain call.

Matilda the Musical plays at the Cambridge Theatre

http://uk.matildathemusical.com/

The President and the Pakistani

Waterloo East Theatre

3 November

Here, in a square of cardboard boxes

and the lull of leaving, fighting,

losing a dog, dancing and drugs

and 80s breakbeat, Moby Dick

and pained surprise and loss

and new ways out and on and up at last;

here are the seeds of a new president

emerging in a flat in Harlem,

and the rest is history.

 

The President and the Pakistani played at the Waterloo East Theatre, 3 October - 4 November

www.waterlooeast.co.uk/

La Fille a la Mode

Theatre Royal Haymarket
2 November

Follow the girl in red foyer to bar,

up stairs and down,

down labyrinthine passageways

and in and out of plush plum velvet chairs.

They like a drink, these girls

who know too well the price of fame,

perfume and sex.  Their stories linger

like a bitter aftertaste to their success.

 

La Fille a la Mode runs at the Theatre Royal Haymarket until 9 November

www.trh.co.uk/whatson/la-fille-a-la-mode/

Shelf-Life

Theatre Delicatessen

 29 October

Balloon in hand you bowl along

the grimy corridors of birth

and school, uni mistakes

and cheap satiny weddings;

then emerge onto a rooftop

in the rain, above a city gleaming stars,

streetlamps below, and all about you

white balloons are letting go.

 

Shelf-Life runs at Theatre Delicatessen until 10 November

www.theatredelicatessen.co.uk/productions/shelf-life/