PLAYWRIGHT’S PLAY NIGHT No.13
Once a month we are inviting audiences to a double bill of brand new work at different levels of readiness. Scripts will be in hand. Some plays might be 20 minutes of an idea, others will be full length. It’s not polished but it is all the fun. We are inviting audiences to take a look and support some of the incredible new voices out there. There’s nothing better than live feedback, and this is giving exactly that.
Tuesday 7th July 2026 7.00pm
Zero Impact Net by Leela Velautham | For The Rest Of Our Lives by Dominic Conneely Hughes
ZERO IMPACT NET BY LEELA VELAUTHAM
I don’t think you understand, this is something that’s going to actually happen, in the world, it’s not just some marketing –
While initially hopeful of her ability to make a difference working in a university sustainability office, Jess instead finds herself managing the expectations of despondent students, over-critical faculty, her fiercely uncompromising supervisor, and the more bureaucratically-minded Vice Provost. When Philip, a representative from a large tech company arrives to propose a public-private partnership that appears to be too good to be true, Jess is forced to confront whether engaging in morally questionable action for the environment is better than doing nothing at all.
About Leela Velautham
Leela Velautham is a two-time semi-finalist of the Bay Area Playwrights Festival and a finalist in the University of Oxford’s New Writing Festival in 2011 for her play “Schroedinger’s Hat”. Her play “Post-Scarcity Possibilities” was staged as part of the 2022 Meganne George Women’s Work Short Play Festival at the New Perspectives Theatre Company and a reading of her play “Take my Milk for Gall”, a prequel to Macbeth focusing on Lady Macbeth’s fertility issues, was presented at the Amphibian Stage SparkFest in June 2023. Most recently, Leela was a member of the 2023-24 PlayGround Playwright Residency Program and the AJT Theatremacher cohort.
About Victoria White (Director)
Victoria White is a lawyer in training who directs plays in her spare time. At St Hilda's College Oxford, she adapted and directed a performance of Thomas Middleton’s Women Beware Women, and directed other pieces for the OUDS intercollege competition. Recently, she has been involved in dramatic performances at Middle Temple, where she has performed in Twelfth Night and The Merry Wives of Windsor, and also directed workshop sketches for the Shakespeare Cup, an inter-inn acting competition between Middle Temple and Inner Temple.
the rest of our lives BY DOMINIC CONNEELY huGHES
Do you not have forests in Kensington?
We do, but now we have to share them with everyone else. They were given away during the communist uprising of 1997.
Six Brits from all walks of life are put together in a flat in their first year of university and discover they’re best friends. But with clashing dreams and financially unequal backgrounds, they find out how hard it is to stick together as they grow up and the world goes to hell around them. Set over 20 years, For The Rest Of Our Lives is a comedy about money and who has got more of it, where everyone realises all they can do is laugh. Charting a course through the blind optimism of the children of the 1990s and the multiple crises they will suffer in the 21st Century, will these friends finally grasp that the moral and economic arc of the universe does not always go up?
About Dominic Conneely Hughes:
Dominic Conneely Hughes is a writer based in South London. His work has been performed at the Kings Head Theatre, the White Bear, the Space, the Edinburgh Fringe, and the Courtyard Theatre, receiving several 4* reviews. He has been shortlisted for the VCA Playwriting Award, the BBC Drama Room, the Peter Shaffer Playwright-in-Residence, and a Film The House Award.
Dominic finds describing his work akin to pulling teeth out, hoping instead someone will witness it and conjure their own understanding. In lieu of that, you could say he writes about other people, and occasionally himself.