Theatre Peckham Archives - North West End UK

My first review for North West End UK came courtesy of The Bone Sparrow at Theatre Peckham, so the venue has a special place in my heart. That particular work made me cry my eyes out in a way that no other piece of art has affected me. Theatre Peckham continues to produce challenging, diverse and unique theatre in a slick space whose events attract young, lively and local support. The future of theatre can be found in such spaces, so it's always a buzz to see them thriving. It's a testament to their varied programming that Wonderland in Alice lands on their SE5 stage and in this new adaption of Lewis Carroll's Alice in Wonderland asks a question, who would we be if we were free from the binary constraints of gender? It's an indication of the current political climate that even pr...

In a country where the Home Office ponders sending asylum seekers to Rwanda for ‘processing’ and Navy battleships intercept people crossing the Channel on a lilo, The Bone Sparrow couldn’t be timelier. It’s ironic that Boris Johnson can fly to Kyiv with ease, while Ukrainians fleeing war, can’t get to the UK for love nor money. The UK’s discourse on migration feels endlessly toxic, but the Brits are far from alone in their unbridled ignorance with regards to this topic. Pilot Theatre have landed at Theatre Peckham to shine a light into this darkness. Their welcome pitch is a stage adaptation of Zana Fraillon’s book about Subhi, a boy born in an Australian detention centre after his mother escapes genocide in Burma. Like the prisoners in Plato’s Allegory of the Cave, Subhi has no concep...

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Wonderland in Alice – Theatre Peckham

The Bone Sparrow – Theatre Peckham