The Hale Playtexts

The Hale has three published play texts.

Ad Libido by Fran Bushe:

Fran wants to fix sex. No matter how hard she tries, how many wonder cures, trips to the doctor and offers of help from friends, she doesn’t feel like her fire’s been lit. Sometimes it hurts. Join Fran on this “relentlessly hilarious” quest (The Stage), with songs, as she pursues a satisfying sex-life. Expect toe-tapping tunes, a magic penis and a visit to a Sex Camp. Oh, and dolphins. Fran Bushe's award-winning play AD LIBIDO explores her experience of Female Sexual Dysfunction (which covers problems with sexual response, desire, orgasm or pains during sex), a condition affecting around 40% of women at some point in their lives.

If You Love Me This Might Hurt by Matty May:

An uncomfortable and funny show about rage, suicide and so-called self-care. In his debut solo show Matty explores mental health, what it is to grow up queer and working class around men and the trauma they inflict and the magic of having a brilliant Nan. This show ain’t gentle babes. Supported by Arts Council England and Scottee and Friends. Commissioned and supported by CPT.

My Uncle Is Not Pablo Escobar:

by Valentina Andrade, Elizabeth Alvarado, Lucy Wray & Tommy Ross-Williams. Latinx Women from South London take centre stage and dare you to call them invisible. Vogue balls. When four different worlds collide; identity, history and status become the driving forces to unveiling the biggest money laundering scandal in history. Confetti. From not having a box to tick to challenging toxic stereotypes; as Alejandra, Lucia, Honey and Catalina risk everything to expose a multinational bank, they confront the audience with what it means to be both Londoner and Latinx. Chihuahua.
My Uncle is Not Pablo Escobar relishes in the seen and unseen of communities and systems so insidiously hidden.