Shows at Theatre503

Good For Her!

Iris is 27, broke, exhausted, and paralysed by the terror of failure. She’s spent years chasing a version of success that always feels just out of reach, haunted by the belief that if she stops running, she’ll disappear entirely.Now, between humiliating auditions and obsessive social media doomscrolling, mostly stalking a girl from school who somehow got everything right, something else is demanding her attention: her mother.Her mother’s voice still rings in her ears, a constant reminder that she must always be thinner, better, more. Even now, as her mother grows weaker and begins to depend on her, the pressure hasn’t lifted, it’s only changed shape.Good For Her! is a sharp, intimate solo show from emerging writer and performer Mollie Semple. It is about rebellion and conformity, shaped by fear, comparison, and a hunger for validation she can’t quite name. It’s about ambition, anxiety, and the quiet tragedy of building a life on someone else’s terms.Directed by Kayla Stokes, this production pairs gut-punch honesty with surreal edge, bringing a raw, intimate story to life. Kayla’s credits include Ars Nova ANT Fest, NYTW, and Battersea Arts Centre. Good for Her! marks their first collaboration, bringing together their shared interest in female led, emotionally charged storytelling.

Theatre503 • 22 Jul 2025 - 24 Jul 2025

Derry Boys

Paddy and Mick were born and raised in Derry and have always dreamed of something more, but when they’re torn apart as children and reunite as adults in London, they discover they’ve grown into two very different people, each with a radically different vision for their future.

Theatre503 • 20 May 2025 - 7 Jun 2025

All That Glitters

Jessie’s life is sorted. More than. So when her friends hear that the Fab 5 are finally coming to London, they lie about her perfect life in order to get her a spot on her favourite TV show. However, as she starts to dismantle what she thought she loved, it unravels in a way she never imagined…All That Glitters is a sparkling new comedy and exploration of Queer love, brought to you by the ONCOMM Nominated Women’s Writes as named 'Redressing the balance' by The Stage Newspaper.

Theatre503 • 7 May 2025 - 8 May 2025

Tachwedd (November/The Slaughter)

Four people. 2000 years. The feeling of being hunted. A horn sounds in the clearing, a factory explosion, a rush of blood. Can you truly escape the destiny set out for you? From selling out, to leaving home, to returning to a place of regret, Tachwedd charts a family’s journey as they try to reconcile the inescapability of the past with the weight of the future.

Theatre503 • 15 Oct 2024 - 2 Nov 2024

All That Glitters

Jessie’s life is sorted. More than. So when her friends hear that the Fab 5 are finally coming to London, they lie about her perfect life in order to get her a spot on her favourite TV show. However, as she starts to dismantle what she thought she loved, it unravels in a way she never imagined…All That Glitters is a sparkling new comedy and exploration of Queer love.

Theatre503 • 26 Sep 2024 - 10 Oct 2024

Nevernatal

Everyone’s getting married and having babies and Catherine’s got a thesis and a hangover. Now even her bestie Isabelle is having a baby shower and Catherine has to wade through yet another living Pinterest hell and play that repulsive chocolate nappy game with bizarre guests Maggie, Georgina and Willow. Can you stay friends when you’re in completely different places? Nevernatal is a charming comedy that brings five women together at a baby shower that tests the strength of friendship over the c

Theatre503 • 27 Jun 2024 - 28 Jun 2024

Sniff

When Alex goes to the toilet in a small-town pub, trying to pluck up the courage to propose to his girlfriend, he meets Liam, who seems well at home in these grim surroundings. Liam, struggling with addiction and money troubles, has never left the claustrophobic town that birthed him. He’s lost everything, if he ever had it. Alex, in a tight suit and the pride of a job in Canary Wharf, seems like he has everything. However, as Liam begins to draw Alex into his world, a dark truth begins to unravel.

Theatre503 • 25 Jul 2022 - 26 Jul 2022

No Particular Order

Tan’s innovatively written drama, told from an unnamed place and spanning 320 years, delivers snapshots of both a recognisable world and visions of the future. Through the lives of ordinary people - ornithologists, bureaucrats, soldiers, and tour guides - this prescient portrait of global politics and the rise of authoritarianism charts the fall, rise and continuation of a nation, always asking the same question, "Is it empathy, or power, that endures?"

Theatre503 • 31 May 2022 - 18 Jun 2022

Moreno

Four pro football players respond to a pivotal moment in US history when Colin Kaepernick took a knee during the national anthem. In the high octane theatre of the football stadium each must wrestle with the impact of choosing whether or not to bring politics onto the pitch and the potentially devastating outcomes to their lives and careers of their decision. Pravin Wilkins’ astonishing debut shines a light on race, sporting culture and American celebrity in a way not seen before on our stage.

Theatre503 • 1 Mar 2022 - 29 Mar 2022

Fragments Of a Complicated Mind

The newest play by Damilola ‘DK’ Fashola is a darkly funny and brutally honest exploration into a black girl writer's perspective of the burdens of modernity. This surreal commentary is a battle of rationale and reason, Fashola’s personified thoughts take on a disjointed debate of their own, through race, religion and cultural expectation in 2018.

Theatre503 • 15 Nov 2018 - 28 Nov 2018

Walk Swiftly and With Purpose

Playful yet sincere new writing about adolescence, womanhood and friendship. Fresh from its four star debut at the Edinburgh Fringe.History Boys meets Our Ladies of Perpetual Succour, as we follow four girls on the cusp of adulthood in this new take on coming of age. Until now they’ve lived mostly in their imagination ­­­— but real life interrupts, and their friendship has to bear the brunt.

Theatre503 • 13 Nov 2018 - 17 Nov 2018

No Place For A Woman

"An officer drove me up to gates and told me to wait, that it was no place for a woman." The wife of a prison camp commandant is throwing a party. She asks her husband for champagne. Instead he brings home a ballet dancer from the camp. Set towards the end of the Second World War, Cordelia O’Neill’s play combines theatre with live music and dance to tell the extraordinary story of two women, seemingly worlds apart, who become inextricably entwined in their struggle to survive.

Theatre503 • 3 May 2017 - 27 May 2017