PLAYWRIGHT’S PLAY NIGHT No.8
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 December 2025 7.00pm
7pm A Haunting is an Act of Resistance by Rhys Lawton
“The world ended, but somehow rent still had to get paid.”/”The very ground will swallow you and all that is left is a name on a list.”
An admin assistant looking for cheap housing accidentally discovers that the ghosts from an 1838 mining disaster are still haunting a small Welsh town. Where some see horror, management see an untapped resource: Ghosts are real, what a boon to productivity! A workforce that doesn’t sleep, doesn’t eat & doesn’t know what “HR” means. As management gets more excited by the prospect of unlimited unpaid overtime they start wondering if they can manufacture more of these “ideal workers” and the memories of the past bleed up through the soil.
A comedy.
7.45pm If It Be Your Will by Shani Erez
“-Of course I care! Who doesn’t want to know what their therapist thought of them?!
-Fuck it. Wanna read your file?”
Three women - a therapist, her client and the therapist’s daughter.
Three meetings.
One just a few days after the therapist’s sudden death.
If It Be Your Will jumps back and forth in time between three encounters at the same London clinic; an achingly funny, tender and brutally honest look at the impossible nature of mother-daughter relationship and the tension between grief over mother and grief over motherland.
Rhys Lawton
Rhys has been performing and creating theatre for the last 20 years. His work includes award-winning theatre piece The Inevitable Heartbreak of Gavin Plimsole, online web series 9ft², Ethics Town, The Silt Verses, The Amelia Project & The Secret of St Kilda amongst others. He also co-created & writes the micro-fiction podcast Paddleboat and produces The Quantum Leopard Podcast - the podcast sibling of the loveliest comedy night in London. He's been a puppeteer, theatre director, improviser and TTRPG player. Currently working on an art installation centred around immortality and defunct technology. He has one cat at present.
Shani Erez
Shani is a director, writer and actor, working both internationally and across the UK.
She is an Associate Artist for BOLD Theatre, where her play The Foreigners’ Panto premiered. Other selected directing credits include the Old Red Lion, New Tower Theatre, Camden People’s Theatre, Playground Theatre, RWR at Theatre 503, Brighton Fringe Festival and Fleet Street theatre in Hamburg. She is a member of the Lincoln Center’s Director’s Lab and regularly directs and teaches acting & directing in leading drama schools in the UK.
As performer, selected stage credits include playing Shylock for the RSC; Titania at Southbank Centre, Olivia at Minack Theatre; various roles at Southwark Playhouse, Oxford Playhouse, nationwide tours and The Open Couple for Mazi Theatre; screen credits include the BBC, Lionsgate and as series regular for Pandora on the CW. In Israel, Shani worked as a radio anchor and journalist on national press for nearly a decade.