PLAYWRIGHT’S PLAY NIGHT No.5
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 2nd September 2025 7.00pm
7pm
Wombed by Sophia Golan
‘If I had a child I’d hold her inside me. She wouldn’t get out of me, I wouldn’t let her.’
Crushed by London’s loneliness, after two years of absence, one Tuesday night, Nina returns home with a plan, to make her mother, Melanie, let her back into her womb. The play explores the pain and beauty of a symbiotic relationship between mother and daughter, the woman’s ownership of her own body as a vessel, and our eternal Odyssean wish to return home, back into the womb.
7.45pm
Lost Boys by Martin Edwards’
‘Oppression? That’s funny. A second ago, me and you started off the same, or did you forget that bit?”
When Isaiah finally visits Reece in prison, the pair stick to their familiar script. But their customary banter fails to conceal the recrimination, competitive victimhood and secrets that sits between them. Isaiah has an ulterior motive for his visit. But Reece has a far more sinister agenda. Because ever since he was convicted of drug-dealing at Isaiah’s elite university, the school dropout has harboured suspicions his best friend played a part in his downfall. And in revenge, he rejects Isaiah in the most shocking way. A play that explores authenticity, success and the price we pay to be accepted.
Writer Sophia Golan
Writer Martin Edwards
Sophia Golan
Sophia Golan is a theatre director and writer. Most recently, she directed Brief Play About Rage at The Cockpit Theatre and assisted Jay Miller on The Glass Menagerie at The Yard Theatre.She wrote and directed her original play ‘Melting’ at The Old Red Lion Theatre and worked at The Gorki Theatre (Berlin), Tzavta Theatre, and Gesher Theatre. Golan trained with Katie Mitchell in the Theatre Directing MA at Royal Holloway University of London and later was her intern at The House of Bernarda Alba (Hamburg Schauspielhaus).
Martin Edwards
Martin Edwards is an Offie-nominated actor whose performance in the American two-hander This Bitter Earth at The White Bear earned him a nomination in the Best Lead Performance in a Play category. As a writer, he made his Radio 4 debut with Death Knock based on his time as a news reporter in Brent. His stage writing has been shortlisted for The Alfred Fagon Award. His feature film script Forgotten Kings – written during his MA in Writing for Stage and Broadcast Media at the Central School of Speech & Drama – reached the top 10% of scripts submitted nationwide for BBC Writersroom’s Open Call. He was a script reader for Theatre503 for over a decade.