International Women's Day

Following last year’s celebration of original work from fabulous female artists, New Work Nights returns with a fantastic double bill of drama from Midlands writers for International Women’s Day 2017. Save Our School Dinners...

Jamie! by Paven Virk
(National Theatre, Belgrade Coventry, Royal Court) is the premiere of a new comedy-drama about a group of dinner ladies, living in the Midlands but from all over the world, who aim to save the only school in their small community one dinner at a time.

LITE from Mooville Theatre (mac, Birmingham Rep) showcases a 20 minute extract of this new play, alongside documentation of the process of making it and a Q&A session about the issues it raises about skin lightening, identity and image.