Egusi Soup by Janice Okoh

A British-Nigerian family pack their bags and prepare to head home for a funeral…but first they must lose some excess baggage!

A ‘script-in-hand’ performance about life in London, death in Lagos and soup on the kitchen table.

Touring the Eastern region in October 2009

Let Newton Be! by Craig Baxter

Nearly 300 years after his death Isaac Newton is still a hugely powerful figure. What drove him to make the discoveries which changed the way we think? How did his heretical religious views shape the foundations of his work? Why did he threaten to burn down his mother’s house?

Craig Baxter’s play breaks through the myth to reveal the man - complex, comical, obsessively driven and totally uncompromising. Using his own words and those of his contemporaries, Let Newton Be! brings this greatest of British scientists to the stage in a new production from Menagerie, commissioned by the Faraday Institute.