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Nancy Netherwood
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✨Playwright + screenwriter | RADIANT BOY @ Southwark Playhouse | Stage Debut nominee 2025 | RSC 37 Plays | Horrible little genre fan🩸🔮 | she/they ✨
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RADIANT BOY is coming to Southwark Playhouse in May and I couldn’t be happier!!

Directed by Júlia Levai, produced by Cloudburst Productions, with Stuart Thompson back, back again as Russell and Renée Lamb joining us as The Voice/Steph (more casting to come!!)

On sale now!! ✨❄️🎶
North-East England, 1983. As a snowstorm rages outside, trainee singer Russell and his mother await the arrival of a young priest who believes Russell is possessed.

With a soundtrack of North-East folk music and 80s New Wave, Radiant Boy is a play with music about faith, shame and queerness.
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Here are your Best Writer nominees at this year's The Stage #DebutAwards:

✨ Sarah Bond
✨ Nathan Englander
✨ Danny James King
✨ Nancy Netherwood
✨ Ava Pickett
✨ Milly Sweeney
✨ Saana Sze

Read more here 👉 www.thestage.co.uk/the-stag...
September 10, 2025 at 8:02 AM
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Rachel Zegler and Giant playwright Mark Rosenblatt are among more than 40 nominees for The Stage Debut Awards in association with Netflix, which will be presented on September 28.

Read more here 👉 www.thestage.co.uk/news/the...
August 20, 2025 at 11:03 PM
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★★★★★ “An experience that lingers long after the lights come up” @whatsonstage.bsky.social

Have you joined us yet for Nancy Netherwood's chilling new play with music, Radiant Boy?

Must end 14 June.

📽️ Adam Nightingale
June 4, 2025 at 10:00 AM
Two weeks left of Radiant Boy!! Come on down!!
'Hauntingly Beautiful'

You only have 14 days left to catch the critically acclaimed Radiant Boy @swkplay.bsky.social. Don't miss this ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ psychological drama guaranteed to keep you on the edge of your seat...

🎟 southwarkplayhouse.co.uk/productions/radiant-boy
📸 Olivia Spencer
June 2, 2025 at 4:08 PM
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★★★★ Review: Radiant Boy: A Haunting – Smart, atmospheric play upends well-worn horror tropes to tell a tale of queer rage and catharsis 👇
Radiant Boy: A Haunting review at Southwark Playhouse: Smart
Read our review of Radiant Boy: A Haunting at London's Southwark Playhouse. Written by Nancy Netherwood, this atmospheric play upends well-worn horror tropes
www.thestage.co.uk
May 27, 2025 at 1:59 PM
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Tech in progress, exorcism incoming...

Be the first to see this chilling new play with music from the incredible @nnetherwood.bsky.social - possessing you from Wednesday 21st May -14th of June @swkplay.bsky.social .

🎟️southwarkplayhouse.co.uk/productions/radiant-boy
May 20, 2025 at 1:44 PM
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🚨 ONE WEEK TO GO 🚨

Will you be joining us to release Russell from his demons?

With limited availability across previews don’t miss Nancy Netherwood’s chilling new play with music and be one of the first to be delivered.

🎟️ southwarkplayhouse.co.uk/productions/radiant-boy
May 14, 2025 at 2:38 PM
Wrote a micro-piece for this month’s @swkplay.bsky.social newsletter about the everyday magic of Sirkka Liisa Konttinen’s photography and its influence on RADIANT BOY ✨❄️🎶

🎟️ southwarkplayhouse.co.uk/productions/...
May 6, 2025 at 7:33 PM
Look at these stunners! An unbelievably gorgeous room to be in
We’re loving these shots of Radiant Boy: A Haunting in rehearsals!

1983. Russell returns home, believing he’s the victim of possession. This play tackles faith, queerness, and connection, with a soundtrack of North-East folk music, and 80s New Wave.

21 May - 14 June
📸 Oli Spencer Photography
May 6, 2025 at 1:06 PM
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Dynamic premieres, side-splitting comedies, with DJing, folk, 80s new wave and Sondheim scores to spare!

🔥 FORGE Festival | 13 - 17 May
🌨️ Radiant Boy | 21 May - 14 June
⛺ This Is My Family | 23 May - 12 July
🐸 The Frogs | 23 May - 28 June

COCKFOSTERS and Midnight Cowboy continue until 17 May.
May 1, 2025 at 4:16 PM
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Oh hello, THE VOURDALAK has landed on Channel 4's free streaming service. A ripping adaptation of the Tolstoy (also seen in Mario Bava's BLACK SABBATH, of course). Love the commitment to having the titular blood-sucking cadaver portrayed by a life-size walkin' talkin' marionette, good stuff...
April 17, 2025 at 9:13 PM
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Not only this — and this is a big deal — but how on earth will the police ensure that male officers won’t be allowed to search cis women who look a bit butch and can’t prove they’re women?
if I understand correctly, the campaigners wanted (in their words) to stop trans women officers with a gender recognition certificate searching women.

and, in response, the police have decided to allow male officers to search trans women.

not sustainable. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
Trans women arrested on Britain’s railways to be strip-searched by male officers
British Transport Police amends policy in light of supreme court’s landmark ruling on definition of a woman
www.theguardian.com
April 17, 2025 at 6:27 PM
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This is where your Harry Potter money goes
jk rowling funded a case going before the supreme court that argues it should be legal to discriminate against and persecute trans ppl.

yet still we have to listen to ‘centrists’ claiming she isn’t bigoted she just has ‘a difference of opinion’.

no trans ppl have a voice in these proceedings.
April 16, 2025 at 9:50 AM
Doing this with THE Simon Stephens on 3rd June!! ✨❄️🎶
Spooky, interesting, probably very nerdy conversation with two fantastic playwrights.

Join us on June 3rd for a post show Q&A with Nancy Netherwood, hosted by Olivier & Tony award winning playwright Simon Stephens. Don't miss it.

🎟 southwarkplayhouse.co.uk/productions/radiant-boy
📸 Kevin Cummins
April 8, 2025 at 10:40 PM
Here they are!! The cast of DREAMS!! ✨❄️🎶
North-East England, 1983. As a snowstorm rages outside.
London, 2025. We announce the spectacular cast bringing Radiant Boy to life.

Wendy Nottingham ('Peaky Blinders' (BBC)) and Ben Allen ('Macbeth' (Wessex Grove)) will be join Stuart Thompson and Renée Lamb to complete the cast of Radiant Boy.
March 25, 2025 at 2:50 PM
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Our first preview has officially SOLD OUT! 🎉

Thank you so much to everyone who is coming along!!

Missed out? Don't panic, there's limited availability to our first few shows but when they're gone, they're gone. You know what to do...

🎟 southwarkplayhouse.co.uk/productions/radiant-boy
March 22, 2025 at 12:03 PM
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In case you missed it (how could you) we announced our new show Radiant Boy by @nnetherwood.bsky.social on Tuesday.

Here’s the reaction so far…

Convinced? Get a ticket while you can with limited preview seats still available.

🎟 southwarkplayhouse.co.uk/productions/radiant-boy
February 27, 2025 at 2:12 PM
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We've been utterly overwhelmed by the response to Radiant Boy and CANNOT WAIT for you all to see it!

There are less than 50 tickets left for our first preview, so if you want to bag a £10 ticket we'd recommend getting your skates on...

🎟 southwarkplayhouse.co.uk/productions/radiant-boy/
February 26, 2025 at 11:54 AM
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So Preview one is actually SELLING FAST so really do go and grab tickets for those while you can!!!

southwarkplayhouse.co.uk/productions/...
Radiant Boy: A Haunting - Southwark Playhouse Borough
A chilling new play with music. North-East England, 1983. A snowstorm rages outside, Russell awaits the arrival of a young priest, who believes he is possessed.
southwarkplayhouse.co.uk
February 25, 2025 at 5:02 PM
RADIANT BOY is coming to Southwark Playhouse in May and I couldn’t be happier!!

Directed by Júlia Levai, produced by Cloudburst Productions, with Stuart Thompson back, back again as Russell and Renée Lamb joining us as The Voice/Steph (more casting to come!!)

On sale now!! ✨❄️🎶
North-East England, 1983. As a snowstorm rages outside, trainee singer Russell and his mother await the arrival of a young priest who believes Russell is possessed.

With a soundtrack of North-East folk music and 80s New Wave, Radiant Boy is a play with music about faith, shame and queerness.
February 25, 2025 at 11:29 AM
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#SaveThePCC

Some of you may have read about the situation regarding our new landlord wishing to add a new redevelopment break clause, with only 6 months notice to our lease.

For now, we're simply asking you all to share & sign the petition below;

you.38degrees.org.uk/p/princechar...
Save The Prince Charles Cinema
The iconic Prince Charles Cinema in London’s West End future is under serious threat! We are beyond disappointed that our landlords Zedwell LSQ Ltd and their ultimate parent company Criterion Capital...
you.38degrees.org.uk
January 28, 2025 at 10:14 AM
Favourites of 2024 ✨

Books (titles/authors in Alt text)
December 31, 2024 at 12:15 PM
Delighted by Joel Golby's Guardian review of this year's Ghost Story for Christmas:

"We need more geniuses given free rein to do whatever the hell they like... and I don’t think it should have to be Christmas and I don’t think it should have to be Mark Gatiss for us to have that."
A Ghost Story for Christmas: Woman of Stone – far too good to only exist as festive TV
Mark Gatiss’s one-off spooky tale starring Mawaan Rizwan, Monica Dolan and Éanna Hardwicke is a total treat. Can we have much more like this please?
www.theguardian.com
December 23, 2024 at 3:01 PM
PSA that the lovely doc Made in England: The Films of Powell & Pressburger, presented by Scorsese, is available on iplayer along with most of the P&P big-hitters which (imo) are the ideal Christmas watches!
Made in England: The Films of Powell and Pressburger
Eminent American film-maker Martin Scorsese shares his lifelong love affair with the films of Powell and Pressburger.
www.bbc.co.uk
November 26, 2024 at 3:03 PM
Quick introduction for new followers!

I’m a playwright + screenwriter interested in horror, magical realism, folklore, queer narratives + mental illness and how they can intersect.

Was part of Hampstead Theatre INSPIRE 2022 and RSC 37 Plays, currently working on projects for screen and stage!
November 22, 2024 at 12:39 PM