PLAYWRIGHT’S PLAY NIGHT’s is back.

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.

Lineup and Schedule

Tuesday 1st July 2025 7.00pm

7pm 

The Lion by Lilly Driscoll

“When they shut down the other pubs that once book ended this little estate, they knew it would be them next. There was no saving em. Once the land was sold off, the locals had to find somewhere else to take themselves. Some didn’t last... Succumbed to loneliness. Some ended up in prison. I guess that was it, life. But it wasn’t what anyone expected to happen.”

One building, two time periods. In 2022 we meet a young couple, living in a luxury flat - The Lion Apartments. Things begin to get increasingly worse, after witnessing a stabbing, they start to wonder if the flat is actually destroying them. And in 1992 The Lion pub still stands. A working-class pub that has been in the family for generations. When Kirsty starts hearing voices coming from the walls, will she predict the bad things that are to come? As the two worlds collide, we are confronted with what gentrification can do to a building, and the people inside. 

7.45pm

The Flow by Felix Kai

“This is different though. There’s none of your nice pitter-patter you get with rain. 

This is like you don’t even notice it's there,

This wet blanket,

Until it’s soaked you right through.”

It has been drizzling all year. 

Young couple Naomi and Tim go to visit Tim’s old friend Nikki. Nikki is not like Tim’s other mates. Nikki will accuse you of war crimes for buying a meal deal. 

As Tim flounders in the past, and Nikki’s intentions for the couple become clear… Naomi starts to feel as though she knows Nikki too. 

There’s a big storm coming and we’re about to hear the oldest story ever told.

The one about the flood and the end of the world.

Lilly Driscoll

Lilly Driscoll is an actor, writer and director from London. Lilly founded the company DE-MYS-TIFY in 2022, to support actors from low socio-economic backgrounds. As an actor Lilly has worked in TV, Theatre and Film with companies including BBC, Channel 4, ITV and at venues including Southwark Playhouse, Bush Theatre, Theatre 503, Shoreditch Town Hall and The Old Vic. 

Plays include Offie nominated Dirty Promises (The Hope Theatre), short play My girlfriend is a real doll face (Bush Theatre) and solo play Only You (Theatre 503). Lilly was commissioned in 2022 to write PIECES for Small Truth Theatre (Caravan Theatre), which is available to listen to on all audio platforms.  Lilly was part of the writers room at Stockroom (previously Out of Joint) for the majority of 2023. Co-writing the play The Growing (working title). Which was a co-production with Cardboard Citizens.

As a director Lilly recently worked with Clean Break for their members festival, assisted on a new Jim Cartwright play at The NT Studio, and directed her first full length play Silent Houses, at The Lion and Unicorn Theatre. 

Felix Kai

Felix is an actor, writer and deviser.

Felix trained in acting at The Royal Central School of Speech and Drama. They are an alum of writing groups at The Royal Court, Kiln and Soho Theatre. Felix’s most recent play ‘Deluge’ was shortlisted for the BOLD Playwriting Prize and is currently longlisted for the Theatre503 International Playwriting Award. Felix is under commission with TV production company Objective Fiction for a comedy sitcom.

Felix is a fan of the ancient classics, they want to make work with a timeless quality; writing that exists before, during and after the here and now.