NO SHOW
NO SHOW is a thrilling new night of theatre dedicated to platforming the boldest writer/directors working today. This intimate, limited run of original material at Park90 in Finsbury Park offers audiences a chance to experience three distinctive works, each presented as a 20 – 30 minute excerpt.
Guy Hodgkinson brings a sharp, cinematic edge to the stage with a fresh adaptation of This Closeness, the acclaimed film by Kit Zauhar, exploring intimacy, disconnection, and the strange performance of everyday life.
Steven Kavuma’s, These Four Walls (working title) Created in response to the murder of George Floyd in Minneapolis in May 2020, and the subsequent global resurgence of the Black Lives Matter movement, the play is a visceral exploration of systemic racism in society, white privilege, and how both affect a group of young people searching for difficult answers to complicated questions.
Audiences are invited not just to witness new stories, but to be part of their development—seeing them at a raw, electric stage of life before they reach full production.
Whether you’re a curious theatre-goer, industry insider, or someone seeking fresh, unfiltered work, NO SHOW promises an evening of innovation, experimentation, and unforgettable performance.
Wed 18 Jun: Post-show Q&A with Adeyinka Akinrinade, Guy Hodgkinson, Steven Kavuma chaired by Joshua Goodman
Join us after NO SHOW for a special Q&A exploring the vital role of research and development in the creative process. Hosted by our studio team, the conversation will centre on how actors, writers, and directors can carve out space for experimentation—especially when resources are limited. We’ll also discuss the unique challenges and opportunities for mid-career artists and how R&D can spark new ideas, collaborations, and ways of working.
No Noise Studio in association with Park Theatre.
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Evenings
19.00
Thu15.15
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Duration
Approx 1 hour 45 mins including an interval
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Genre
Drama
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Content warnings
This production contains references to racism and police brutality, mention of suicide and flashing lights.
Content Warnings
This production contains references to racism and police brutality, mention of suicide and flashing lights.
LAST CHURCH IN ENGLANDMention of SuicideTHESE FOUR WALLSDiscussions pertaining to police brutality & racial violence.THIS CLOSENESSThose sensitive to audible sensory exposure. Flashing lights.
Cast & Creatives
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Tamara Lawrance
Features in This Closeness
Tamara Lawrance
Features in This Closeness
Tamara is an award-winning actor of stage and screen.
For theatre, her credits include: Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom, Twelfth Night, The Tell-Tale Heart (National Theatre); Is God Is, Unreachable (Royal Court Theatre); King Lear (Chichester Festival Theatre) and The Comeuppance (Almeida).
For screen: Get Millie Black; Mr. Loverman; Time; The Silent Twins; Invasion and Small Axe.
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Ruaridh Adlington
Features in This Closeness
Ruaridh Adlington
Features in This Closeness
Ruaridh’s recent stage credits include: Fisheye (Omnibus Theatre); Chekov’s Dildo (Hope Theatre) and Plans – A monologue by Philip Ridley (The Arcola Theatre).
For screen: Blood on Snow (Dir. Cary Fukunaga) and Ill Fairs The Land (Dir. Patrick Ireland).
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Os Leanse
Features in This Closeness
Os Leanse
Features in This Closeness
Os trained at the Guildhall School of Music & Drama, where he was a Spotlight Prize Finalist.
For theatre, his credits include: Cymbeline (Shakespeare’s Globe); Much Ado About Nothing (Sheffield Theatres) and Stranger Things: The First Shadow (Phoenix Theatre).
For screen: Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning; Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part 1 (Paramount Pictures) and Trigger Point (ITV).
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Charlie Oscar
Features in This Closeness
Charlie Oscar
Features in This Closeness
Charlie trained at The Royal Conservatoire Of Scotland, where they were a Lionel Bart Foundation Scholarship.
For theatre their credits include: The Maids (Jermyn Street Theatre); Plaza Suite (Savoy Theatre) and Mad House (Ambassadors Theatre).
For screen: This Time Next Year, Mothering Sunday, Playdate and Doctor Who.
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Anna Griffith
Features in These Four Walls
Anna Griffith
Features in These Four Walls
Anna trained at Bristol Old Vic and Italia Conti. While training, she played Sally Bowles in Cabaret and Meg March in Little Women.
Her recent screen credits include: Claire Mitchell in Casualty (BBC, director Sean Healy) and as Sarah-Mary Clam in Sister Boniface Mysteries (BBC, director Di Patrick).
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David Joshua-Anthony
Features in These Four Walls
David Joshua-Anthony
Features in These Four Walls
David recently graduated from East 15. From there, he went straight into playing a series regular on Hollyoaks.
Theatre Includes: Bois (Corbett Theatre); B is for Black (Burnt Orange Tree) and Voices (Theatre Peckham).
Television Includes: Masters of the Air; Everything Now and Hollyoaks.
Film Includes: a lead in Richard II and a supporting role in Lost Boys.
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Wilf Walsworth
Features in Last Church in England
Wilf Walsworth
Features in Last Church in England
Wilf graduated from the Lyric Hammersmith’s Springboard programme last year, and co-created the play Haemosporidian there after winning the Bill Cashmore award.
Theatre includes: Haemosporidian; Wasted; Closer; Lysistrata (all Lyric Hammersmith); Chariots of Fire (Frinton Summer Theatre); The Tempest (Shakespeare in the Squares) and Buried (New York Musical Festival).
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Hannah Zoé Ankrah
Features in Last Church in England
Hannah Zoé Ankrah
Features in Last Church in England
Hannah Zoé is an actress, visual storyteller and wellbeing practitioner who trained with NYT REP Company.
For theatre, her theatre credits include: Gone Too Far! (Stratford East); Much Ado About Nothing, Mary Stuart (Duke of York).
Her TV credits include: Strike (BBC) and In The Long Run (Sky One).
Film credits: A Banquet; The Mummy and Home.
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Guy Hodgkinson
Writer, Director & Co-producer
Guy Hodgkinson
Writer, Director & Co-producer
Guy is a director, writer and producer.
His award winning short film ‘Aura’ played at BIFA and BAFTA qualifying festivals across the UK and Internationally.
He trained as an actor at The Royal Conservatoire of Scotland (BA 2017-20) where he was awarded The Laurence Olivier Bursary Award for Excellence by the Society of London Theatre.
Since 2021 Guy has worked in production on large scale film, Independent film and hetv for Sister pictures, BBC STUDIOS, big talk, dancing ledge, avalon and the bfi. These have been distributed by netflix, apple, BBC, BFI, AMAZON, channel 4 and film 4.
He is the director of No Noise Studio
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Steven Kavuma
Writer & Director
Steven Kavuma
Writer & Director
Steven Kavuma is an Ugandan-born, Welsh-raised writer and director. Previously he was Head of Programming at Seven Dials Playhouse, and Course Leader of Foundation Acting at ArtsEd. He was featured in The Stage 100 List as one of the most influential people in theatre.
His writing credits include Dal Gafael | Hold On written for the National Youth Theatre Wales, Theatr Genedlaethol Cymru and Fio Theatre. He has been commissioned by the Royal Court Theatre, National Theatre Wales and Swansea Grand Theatre. His play ANOTHER F***ING PLAY ABOUT RACE (longlisted for The Bruntwood Prize & Mustapha Matura Award ’22) has been developed by the Barbican Centre and Trafalgar Theatre. He was one of the writers of Sky Arts’ innovative television premiere GALWAD, a multiplatform, multilingual story set in our possible future world of 2052.
His theatre directing credits include The English Moor at the Globe Theatre, Tomorrow Night Live at Seven Dials Playhouse, Romeo and Juliet at the Globe Theatre / Royal Conservatoire of Scotland, Teleportation by Ronkẹ Adékoluẹjo at the Bunker Theatre and Blue/Orange by Joe Penhall at ALRA. Steven has also directed Doctor Who and Torchwood audio dramas for Big Finish starring Jodie Whittaker, Mandip Gill, Indira Verma and Sophie Aldred. As an associate director, his credits include the UK tour of Holes by Louis Sachar, Still No Idea at the Royal Court Theatre and An Octoroon at the National Theatre / Orange Tree Theatre. He is the chair of LOYALTY, an artist development company based in Wales and is a patron of Angel Shed. Steven is the co-founder of Diversity School Initiative, a campaign initiative that addressed under-representation in UK drama schools for over five years working with ArtsEd, Bristol Old Vic, Guildhall, LAMDA, LIPA, Mountview, and RADA. He also co-founded Uproot Productions, a Black-led production company harnessing the arts for social change.
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Jessica Hagan
Writer & Director
Jessica Hagan
Writer & Director
Jessica Hagan is a Ghanaian-British playwright and screenwriter based in London and Accra. Her debut play QUEENS OF SHEBA won multiple awards following a 10-city sold out National UK Tour in 2019. In January 2023, the play had a two-week run at The Public Theatre, New York City. In 2024, it was performed to sold out audiences at the Lincoln Center, New York followed by a USA tour. Jessica heavily explores themes of identity, displacement and misogynoir in her work, drawing on her experiences as both a Diasporan and a Black Woman.In 2022, she was selected for the AuthenticA Series Lab by Realness Institute, which culminated in pitching an original TV project at Series Mania. Her political thriller COUP, subsequently entered into a development deal. She is a recipient of the Writers Guild New Play Commission Scheme and a Jerwood Arts Fellow. In 2022, her second play BRENDA’S GOT A BABY premiered at the New Diorama Theatre. She is currently a writer-on-attachment at the Royal Court Theatre.
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Luke Sumner
Co-writer
Luke Sumner
Co-writer
Luke is a writer and actor from London. He began writing as part of the Cambridge Footlights before training as an actor at The Royal Conservatoire of Scotland. Before graduating, he joined the West End cast of Harry Potter and the Cursed Child in the role of Scorpius Malfoy. Luke’s comedy writing has been featured on Comic Relief, Sky TV and BBC Radio 4. His other writing credits include: Pushy Gear Shiny (BOLD Elephant); Fieldwork (Online); Mothers, Huge Night In (Edinburgh Festival) and The Emperor’s New Clothes (ADC Theatre).
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Adeyinka Akinrinade
Co-producer
Adeyinka Akinrinade
Co-producer
She is the Festival Director of the British Urban Film Festival and Assistant Producer at Full House Theatre. An award-winning producer across film and theatre, her credits include the BFI-funded The Lost Land Girl, and the independent short films Nāca and Aura. Recent theatre credits include Associate Producer on Nouveau Riche’s No More Mr Nice Guy and Beats by Kieran Hurley at Riverside Studios.
As a producer, she has worked with a wide range of companies including Tangled Feet, Revolution Arts, Greenwich + Docklands International Festival, Luton Literature, Next Generation Youth Theatre, BEDS VERU and The Hat Factory Arts Centre. She is a Stage One Bursary recipient and a former Bridge the Gap Producer.
Alongside producing, she is also an accomplished actor. Her theatre work includes performances at the National Theatre (Tartuffe, The Imposter by John Donnelly), Orange Tree Theatre (Pilgrims by Elinor Cook), Theatre503 and in Paines Plough’s Roundabout. Her screen credits include Grantchester, Top Boy, Temple, A Discovery of Witches and Everything I Know About Love. She also stars in lead roles as Alesha Richards in ITV and Amazon Prime’s Riches, and as Chantelle in the BBC and Netflix drama Champion.
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Ellie Wintour
Production Design
Ellie Wintour
Production Design
Ellie trained in Theatre Design at Wimbledon College of Art. She spent three years at Es Devlin’s studio as an Associate Designer, leading on Dua Lipa’s Future Nostalgia (World Tour); The Crucible (The National Theatre, Gielgud Theatre); Here Not Here (Gothenburg Opera House) and Beyoncé’s Renaissance (World Tour). Further credits as a Designer include: Thanks for Having Me (Riverside Studios); Dead Dad Death Cult (Battersea Arts Centre); Radiant Vermin (The Bridge Theatre) and Blizzard (Soho Theatre).
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