Lighting Designer

While tourists flock to Camden in search of culture, chaos and creativity, a very different group gathers each week in a local community centre. For Anya, Jason, Glen, Ruby and Sandra, what begins as a play-reading group soon becomes something much more. When the community centre faces closure, old wounds begin to surface, loyalties fracture and long-buried truths demand to be heard. As the group prepares for a public performance, the stories they read begin to mirror their own lives, blurring the line between fiction and reality.

Inspired by local residents in temporary accommodation, members of Camden Disability Action and the Black Carers Collective, Dragonflies is a heartfelt new play by Juliet Gilkes Romero about grief, resilience, belonging and the transformative power of community. Against the backdrop of a city where loneliness hides in plain sight, Dragonflies asks what happens when the places that hold communities together begin to disappear.

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Dragonflies

Hampstead Theatre

Set against a manhunt in the lawless Sierra Nevada of the nineteenth century, with a pistol-packing, poker-playing heroine, La fanciulla del West sees Minnie Falconer, one of the first independent women to stake her claim in the wilds of California, fall in love with a stranger. But is the stranger who he claims to be?

La fanciulla del West

Opera Holland Park

Leigh Hodges, wife of a once-beloved high school teacher, finds herself thrust into the turbulent aftermath of her husband’s imprisonment. Standing by him amidst doubt and scrutiny, Leigh navigates the ultimate test of love, truth, and loyalty. Each revelation forces her to re-evaluate their life together while she struggles to shield their son Nicholas.

23.5 Hours

Park Theatre

OUR HOUSE with music and lyrics by the iconic British band Madness (with one song, It Must Be Love, written by Labi Siffre), and book by playwright Tim Firth is based in 1980s Camden Town. It tells the story of London lad Joe Casey, who, on the night of his sixteenth birthday, takes Sarah, the girl of his dreams, out on their first date. The story then splits into two different paths that Joe could follow.

Lighting Designer

Jamie Platt

Events

Past events

Jul 31 - Aug 1, 2026

Dragonflies · Hampstead Theatre

May 26 - Jun 12, 2026

La fanciulla del West · Opera Holland Park

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