Gemma Lawrence News

In a landscape dominated by a dearth of lesbian stories, it’s refreshing to find one that doesn’t deal with sexuality at all, but focuses on the negotiations of parenthood and the complications of personal connections.

Get a first look at The Beach House, which will premiere at Park Theatre having been shortlisted for Liverpool Hope Playwriting Prize.

The Beach House will premiere at Park Theatre having been shortlisted for Liverpool Hope Playwriting Prize. The cast comprises Gemma Barnett (Offie winner Best Actress for A Hundred Words for Snow) Kathryn Bond (Breach Theatre's It's True, It's True, It's True) and Gemma Lawrence (A Dead Body in Taos).

David Farr made his name in 2016 bringing John le Carré's book The Night Manager to vivid life in a hit TV adaptation. In his latest play A Dead Body In Taos, re-animation is again the name of the game.

xProduction images have been released for A Dead Body in Taos - an unsettling science fiction and an intimate study of loss and bereavement, examining how artificial intelligence could alter our understanding of death, consciousness and the soul. Check out the photos here!

Fuel has announced that David Farr's new play A Dead Body in Taos will receive its world premiere this autumn at Wilton's Music Hall following preview performances at Bristol Old Vic. Directed by Rachel Bagshaw the production is part mystery, part sci-fi epic and part love story. Bagshaw is joined by designer Ti Green and Video Designer Sarah Readman. The cast features Gemma Lawrence as Sam and Eve Ponsonby as Kath.

Wilton's Music Hall announced an Autumn season for August-December 2022, with an impressive array of world-class theatre, music, comedy and opera in collaboration with a variety of distinguished production companies and talent.

The Women's Prize for Playwriting, produced by Ellie Keel and Paines Plough, with Principal Partner 45North and in association with Sonia Friedman Productions today announce the 62 longlisted scripts for The Women's Prize for Playwriting 2021, selected from 850 entries.

Anything Is Possible If You Think About It Hard Enough, written by Cordelia O’Neill and directed by Kate Budgen, opens at Southwark Playhouse on 24 September with previews from 22 September and runs until 9 October.

Following its critically acclaimed, sell-out run at Tristan Bates Theatre at The Actors Centre in 2020, four-time Offie- nominated Sunnymead Court now returns to Arcola Theatre as part of their outdoor festival, Today I’m Wiser, before touring to Dukes Lancaster, Theatr Clwyd and the Ustinov Studio, Bath. 

Following the sold-out live run of Gemma Lawrence's Sunnymead Court at The Actors Centre in September, the critically acclaimed production is set to return as part of The Actors Centre's On Demand programme, available to stream from 7.30pm on Friday 18 December until Sunday 3 January 2021.

The Actors Centre has today announced that its Graduate Festival - a week-long festival to support graduates whose final drama school showcases were cancelled due to Covid-19 - will run online from Monday 2 November - Sunday 8 November.

The Actors Centre, the UK's leading professional development organisation, supporting actors and creative talent throughout their careers, has today been awarded a grant as part of the Government's £1.57 billion Culture Recovery Fund (CRF). This grant will help The Actors Centre to face the challenges of the Coronavirus pandemic and help towards building a sustainable future for the organisation.

Defibrillator, in association with The Actors Centre, today announces a digital extension for the world première of Gemma Lawrence's sell-out, critically acclaimed new play Sunnymead Court a?" the playwright Gemma Lawrence plays Marie, and Remmie Milner plays Stella in this uplifting and heart-warming queer romance.

Presented by Defibrillator, in conjunction with The Actors' Centre, Gemma Lawrence's new play Sunnymead Court is a two-hander tale for our times. When Marie, thin, nervy, introverted, states she dreams of becoming a brain in a jar without the burden of a physical body, we know she will have problems reaching out for real contact. A regular piece of music she plays brings Stella, a confident and ongoing person who just wants to get sweaty again dancing with her mates.

Following the announcement from government that indoor theatre can return with social distancing, Defibrillator, in association with The Actors Centre, today announces the cast for the world première of Gemma Lawrence's new play Sunnymead Court.

Rehearsal photos have been released for Sunnymead Court at the Tristan Bates Theatre at The Actors Centre.

Sunnymead Court is set to open at the Tristan Bates Theatre at The Actors Centre on 24 September, with previews from 22 September. The production stars the playwright Gemma Lawrence as Marie, and Remmie Milner as Stella in this uplifting and heart-warming queer romance.

Sunnymead Court is a beautiful, queer romance. An uplifting, funny play about two women in lockdown who are just trying to find a way to say hello.

Chief Executive of The Actors Centre, Amanda Davey has warned that due to Covid-19, the future of the organisation is at risk as the registered charity, which is also home to the Tristan Bates Theatre, is set to run out of money by December 2020. Following the socially distanced world premiere of Gemma Lawrence's Sunnymead Court, The Actors Centre will remain closed for the remainder of 2020.