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Influencer play FLIP! heads to Soho Theatre

Casting has been announced for FLIP! The play comes to Soho Theatre from November 7-25.

Meet Carleen and Crystal. The influencers with cultural commentary that will have you in stitches! Love them or hate them, there’s no stopping their fast-growing online following.

Offline, Carleen has her reservations about their cyber personas, but she idolises Crystal and would follow her anywhere…even to FLIP!, the new social media giant that has everyone hooked – and Carleen and Crystal are no exception; especially when it seems that their videos could make them famous.

Superstardom, followers, fame, influence, money: it’s all just one click away. FLIP! is the answer to everything they’ve ever dreamed of. But is it too good to be true?

Leah St Luce (9 to 5 The Musical) will play Carleen, with Jadesola Odunjo (School Girls; or, The African Mean Girls Play) as Crystal.

Writer Racheal Ofori and director Emily Aboud will be joined by set and costume designer Anna Robinson, sound designer Eliyana Evans, movement director Aline David and lighting designer KJ.

The play is produced by Fuel in association with Alphabetti Theatre.

Miriam Battye’s Strategic Love Play sets rehersals ahead of Soho Theatre run

Check out these rehearsal images from Miriam Battye’s Strategic Love Play, coming to Soho Theatre.

A coproduction with Soho Theatre and Belgrade Theatre in association with Landmark Theatres, the production will tour the UK this autumn, arriving in London from September 6-23.

Directed by co-artistic director Katie Posner, Battye’s Strategic Love Play takes place on an awkward first date, speaking uncomfortable truths about modern dating and romance with acid wit. Letty Thomas and Archie Backhouse star.

So they’ve both swiped right. Now they’re meeting for the first time. Facing each other. As if that’s a normal thing to do. But she’s being uncomfortable, and he’s a total bore. The vibe is horrific and the banter is even worse. But something is keeping them in their seats. Something is making them stay.

The production will feature set and costume design by Rhys Jarman, lighting design by Rajiv Pattani, sound design by Beth Duke, intimacy direction by Robbie Taylor Hunt, movement direction by Gabrielle Nimo, dramaturgy by Gillian Greer and the casting director is Jacob Sparrow. The production manager will be Josephine Tremelling and the company stage manager will be Simon Perkins. 

More information: painesplough.com/productions/strategic-love-play/

Soho Theatre to host Miriam Battye’s Strategic Love Play

Soho Theatre will welcome Miriam Battye’s Strategic Love Play as part of its UK tour this autumn.

So they’ve both swiped right. Now they’re meeting for the first time. Facing each other. As if that’s a normal thing to do. But she’s being uncomfortable, and he’s a total bore. The vibe is horrific and the banter is even worse. But something is keeping them in their seats. Something is making them stay. Welcome to your hot date.

Directed by Paines Plough co-artistic director Katie Posner, Strategic Love Play takes place on an awkward first date, speaking uncomfortable truths about modern dating and romance with acid wit. 

Letty Thomas and Archie Backhouse star in the production, which is a coproduction between Soho Theatre and Belgrade Theatre in association with Landmark Theatres. The tour will launch after a full run at the Edinburgh Fringe.

Writer Battye (Dead Ringers, Succession) said: “A first date is a fascinating place for a play. There’s simultaneously massive stakes and no stakes at all, depending on how you will it. It’s brutal and it’s trivial in equal measure. There’s a lot of theory and analysis and assistance swirling around the project of coupledom. But at the end of the day, it starts, or it ends, with two people sitting across from each other with no guidance. We’re all alone out here. We always have to do that bit. I wanted to write about that bit.”

The production will feature set and costume design by Rhys Jarman, lighting design by Rajiv Pattani, sound design by Beth Duke, intimacy direction by Robbie Taylor Hunt, movement direction by Gabrielle Nimo, dramaturgy by Gillian Greer and the casting director is Jacob Sparrow. The production manager will be Josephine Tremelling and the company stage manager will be Simon Perkins. 

Strategic Love Play will run at Soho Theatre from September 6-23, 2023.

For more information: painesplough.com/productions/strategic-love-play/

Soho Theatre spots Luke Rollason’s Bowerbird

Extraordinary star Luke Rollason is bringing his third solo show, Bowerbird, to the Soho Theatre this July.

The show is described as an absurd ode to the great indoors and the relationships we form with the objects we fill it with – the armchair singing the lost loves that left behind their bum imprints, abandoned utensils with uncertain parenthood, and the sordid spooning going on in your cutlery drawer. This soft-furnished fun combines mime, clowning and outrageously inventive uses of tape measures.

Rollason stars as one of the leads of Disney+ comedy series Extraordinary, playing the role of a cat-turned-human called Jizzlord. He trained at the infamous clown school L’Ecole Philippe Gaulier. He was a finalist at the 2020 Sketch Off and Musical Comedy Award competitions.

Bowerbird will run at the Soho Theatre between July 5-8.

“Luke Rollason: Bowerbird”” performed at the Brighton Fringe Festival 2022 Photography by DFphotography.co.uk/Danny Fitzpatrick Credit : DFphotography.co.uk

Kiell Smith-Bynoe and Ed MacArthur bring String V SPITTA to the Soho Theatre

Ghosts star Kiell Smith-Bynoe and Ed MacArthur (Bad Education) will bring their stage show String V SPITTA to the Soho Theatre before a run of shows at the Edinburgh Festival.

String V SPITTA stars Smith-Bynoe as SPITTA, a Grime bar spitting maverick from East London who’s shaken up the kids entertainment scene. Meanwhile, every kid within a five-mile radius of the Kings Road wants charming classical musician, Silly String (MacArthur) and his Silly Songs.

In String V SPITTA , these two big hitters of the children’s entertainment circuit are forced to put aside their rivalry, swallow their pride and perform as a double act in a once in a lifetime booking: little Anastasia’s sixth birthday party. And everyone’s invited.

From Country Mile Productions and director George Chilcott, the show is running from August 1-10 at the Soho Theatre, before moving to the Pleasance in Edinburgh later the same month.

For tickets, visit sohotheatre.com

Fleabag takes encore for National Theatre Live

Fleabag will return to the big screen as Phoebe Waller-Bridge’s oversexed, emotionally unfiltered and self-obsessed character heads back to cinemas this June.

Written and performed by Waller-Bridge (Fleabag, Killing Eve) and directed by Vicky Jones (Run), Fleabag is described as a rip-roaring look at some sort of woman living her sort of life. As with family and friendships under strain and a guinea pig café struggling to keep afloat, Fleabag suddenly finds herself with nothing to lose.

The production is presented by DryWrite, Soho Theatre and Annapurna Theatre, with set design by Holly Pigott, lighting design by Elliot Griggs and sound design by Isobel Waller-Bridge.

Fleabag started its life on-stage at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival in 2013, winning a Fringe First award that encourages new work. The award-winning play later inspired the BBC’s hit TV series of the same name, and was captured live on stage from London’s West End in 2019.

Fleabag will be broadcast in selected cinemas worldwide from June 15, 2023.