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VENUE: UNDERBELLY, EDINBURGH >>> With Book and Lyrics by award-winning rhymester Sam Norman, Music by Oxford First Class Honours graduate Aaron King whose professional CV is quickly becoming very impressive, and Co-created by TV producers Nell Butler (Airline; Celebrities Behaving Badly; You Be the Judge) and Genevieve Welch...

VENUE: ROUNDABOUT AT SUMMERHALL, EDINBURGH >>> Tones - A Hip Hop Opera is written and performed by Gerel Falconer an award winning actor, writer and Rapaturg, Artistic Associate and Playwright at HighRise Theatre. Hailing from North West London, Falconer is also a rapper known as G-R3AL R3AL G. Developed and directed by Jonny Kelly, The production is a coming of age story about Jerome...

VENUE: PARK THEATRE >>> If you have been unlucky enough to experience trauma in your life, you will know how it can change in a split second. You will be aware of how all-consuming it can become and how you can never go back to the person...

VENUE: RIVERSIDE STUDIOS >>> Sometimes you are lucky enough to stumble upon a little gem, and this was a polished diamond. Written and performed by Mohit Mathur, and directed by Phil Willmott, Dial 1 for UK is a one-man show and was performed at Riverside Studios from 25th - 28th July as part of Bitesize Festival.

VENUE: SOUTHBANK CENTRE >>> Artistic Director Yamoussa Bangoura brings his multidisciplinary company Cirque Kalabanté to London for the first time, performing between 24th - 28th July at the Queen Elizabeth Hall, Southbank Centre. Kalabanté, meaning “go-getter, ambitious child, with exceptional courage” in Sousou, seeks to promote African artistic cultures...

VENUE: ARCOLA THEATRE >>> How do you define sex and relationships in 2024? It’s complicated, obviously. Yet, popular culture still pushes the trajectory of finding Mr or Mrs Right in a sweeping-you-off-your-feet kind of way. In reality, lots of twenty-somethings have...