Marc Chamberlain

VENUE: ARCOLA THEATRE >>> On 22 July 2011, just before 3:30 in the afternoon, a lone figure driven by an extreme right-wing ideology detonated a bomb outside a building in Oslo’s Government Quarter, killing eight people and injuring many more. Two hours later, he was on...

VENUE: COURTYARD THEATRE >>> “Freedom was not what I wanted, only a way out”. So says Red Peter, the narrator of the short story, A Report to an Academy, which of all of Kafka’s works is surely the one crying out the loudest for adaptation for the stage...

VENUE: SOHO THEATRE, DEAN STREET >>> In the opening monologue of The Dao of Unrepresentative British Chinese Experience, Daniel York Loh relates one of the most famous stories of the early Daoist thinker Zhuangzi (369 BCE to 286 BCE). One day...

VENUE: FINBOROUGH THEATRE >>> There are countless ways you could engage with the glorious and terrifying world of Franz Kafka this summer. He died on 3 June 1924 and the centenary of his passing is being marked by a flurry of activity from exhibitions and new translations to radio shows...

VENUE: OMNIBUS THEATRE >>> If you don’t yet know who Joe Carstairs was, this play is a fine introduction to a character who lived life unashamedly their own way, defying the gender norms and oppressive forces of the twentieth century...

VENUE: BARONS COURT THEATRE >>> Superheroes, call centres, domestic violence, chimpanzees… add homelessness, lucid dreaming, and suicide to the list and you get close...