Lucy Popescu’s theatre news: Puccini Trittico; Ikaria; The Light Trail; Make Mine A Double
Thursday, 10th November 2022 — By Lucy Popescu

Jasmine Blackborow in Super High Resolution
PUCCINI Trittico is at the King’s Head Theatre from Nov 13-21. Carmina’s revisioning of Puccini’s three one-act operas explores LGBT+ issues. Tabarro interrogates the gay community’s obsession with youth. Suor Angelica follows a group of traumatised young people in a gay conversion therapy centre. In Gianni Schicchi, a conman’s son falls for a member of the wealthy Donati family. kingsheadtheatre.com
• Philippa Lawford’s Ikaria is at the Old Red Lion Theatre until Nov 19. Simon has returned to uni after taking a year out. He’s keen to get on with his finals and not slip back into destructive habits. Mia, a first-year, is embracing the explosive freedom of life away from home. Simon doesn’t want to leave his room until he meets Mia. oldredliontheatre.co.uk
• When Essex teenager Jas meets Ellie playing football, there’s an instant spark. Both Ellie and Jas’ older sister Priya worry about what’s best for her. But how well do either of them really know Jas? Lydia Sabatina’s The Light Trail at The Hope Theatre is a play about psychosis and its impact on the lives of people who experience it, told via three interweaving monologues. To Nov 26. thehopetheatre.com
• Park Theatre’s season, Make Mine A Double, supports four emerging writers with a two-week run of their shows. Deli Segal’s Pickle, about being Jewish and secular in the UK today and Eliana Ostro’s Anything with a Pulse, about the games and pretences of modern dating, run from 14 Nov-26; Oliver Yellop’s Tunnels, set in East Berlin during the Cold War, and Sam Hoare’s Press, exploring press freedoms, run Nov 28-Dec 10. parktheatre.co.uk
• Nathan Ellis’ Super High Resolution at the Soho Theatre explores a junior doctor’s experiences in the modern NHS. Anna is determined not to quit. But when her patient runs out on her, and her personal life starts to spiral, she’s not sure how much more she can take. To Dec 3. sohotheatre.com
• Amy Trigg’s award-winning Reasons You Should(n’t) Love Me is at the Kiln until Nov 26. Juno was born with spina bifida and is clumsily navigating her 20s amid street healers, love, loneliness and the feeling of being an unfinished project. kilntheatre.com
• Cheryl May Coward-Walker’s The Wedding Speech is at Camden People’s Theatre from Nov 15-19 and at The Hope Theatre, Nov 29-Dec 3. A dramatic comedy about co-dependency, it explores the toxic bond between a glamorous, critical mother and her long-suffering daughter. cptheatre.co.uk
• Tower Theatre’s latest production is John Van Druten’s London Wall, a comedy drama set in a London solicitor’s office in City Road. It’s billed as a snappy exposé of women’s difficulties in the workplace – as relevant today as it was in the 1930s. Nov 16-26. towertheatre.org.uk