Announcing our brand new season for 2026
We are thrilled to announce our brand new season in partnership with Olivier-award-nominated playwright and Sky Arts Award winner Ryan Calais Cameron, of three handpicked new plays to be staged in our Broadway Studio theatre across 2026.
The Programme
This programme delivers the essential support writers need to thrive - from dramaturgy and funding to development space and mentorship for three early-career Black and Global Majority based in Lewisham.
Justice Ezi, Demi-Wilson Smith and Kaleb D’Aguilar will take their work from early-stage scripts to fully realised productions, each staging 12 performances in the Broadway Theatre Studio. A complete, end-to-end pipeline from page to stage.
Curated by Cameron, whose acclaimed work includes For Black Boys Who Have Considered Suicide When The Hue Gets Too Heavy, Retrograde, and the upcoming Afronauts at the Royal Court - this initiative is deeply personal. Having grown up in Lewisham with Broadway Theatre on his doorstep, Cameron has shaped the season in partnership with the theatre to break down barriers and build meaningful, local support.
The Plays
Last Goal Wins 1-12 July 2026
Our first play in the season is Justice Ezi's play Last Goal Wins.
Two footballers clash for a coveted spot on Nigeria’s national team, battling identity, belonging and power imbalances in a high-stakes drama set against the fever pitch of World Cup season in Last Goal Wins by Justice Ezi.
“When I got called to play for this beautiful country; I realise why we are the giants of Africa”
Victory and Youssef, long-time friends and players, are competing for the final spots on the Nigerian national team ahead of the World Cup. They are both confident that it is finally their time, but a last-minute recruit changes everything and threatens the future of both players.
The football trials set the stage for an incisive look at Nigeria. Tackling themes of identity, racism, belonging and power within the sport. Last Goal Wins asks why players represent other nations and is shaped by Justice’s own Nigerian-British experience.
Cranes
By Demi Wilson-Smith
It’s 2010. Summer has just turned eighteen. She's lucky enough to have the rest of her life to look forward to. She has always dreamed of being a photographer - but it's hard to dream about the future when the world around you is on fire. What is there to look forward to exactly? The solution? Change the world. Duh. By going to a protest increasing student fees, obviously.
Summer throws herself into her first ever protest, and has the best day of her life, literally. She knows this one will go down in history. This has got to change things - she can feel it.
And she's right. It changes everything. Just not in the way she expects.
A moving depiction of the personal cost of activism. Cranes, is inspired by Demi’s true story about the suppression of protest, the brutality of the criminal justice system, and the heroes who don't get commemorated by statues. At least not at first. This debut play by writer and performer Demi Wilson-Smith received its first showcase last year at SEEN Festival. Now, with further development work, Cranes returns as a fully-realised show.
How To Keep Warm in Winter
1973. London is on the verge of a terribly cold winter with Prime Minister Edward Heath’s announcement of a Three-Day week. Just arrived from Jamaica, Irene joins her childhood sweetheart Everton in London, sharing a tiny room in a house in Peckham, as the two try to adjust to their new life together and navigate a racist new country, unwelcoming to the growing Caribbean population.
Socio-political changes in the UK and the fuel crisis exposes the differences between them, and a blossoming new friendship with their landlord David threatens the likelihood of our young couple’s marriage to last through winter.
