Horrible history: English Kings Killing Foreigners is at Camden People’s Theatre

IT’S 30 years since the government effectively outlawed all raves. At the King’s Head Theatre, Ned Campbell stars in Kieran Hurley’s Beats, celebrating rebellion and resistance. Until April 24, 9pm. In Linus Karp’s Diana: The Untold and Untrue Story, we join the people’s princess in heaven as she shares the untold and untrue tale of her extraordinary life. The show combines drag, multimedia, audience interaction, puppetry and a lot of queer joy. Until May 5, 7pm. kingsheadtheatre.com/

• Nathaniel Brimmer-Beller’s In Everglade Studio is billed as a comedic thriller with original music by Brimmer-Beller and Aveev Isaacson. In 1974 London, three musicians and their manager seal themselves inside an underground recording studio to complete a country-rock album, unaware that material in the walls is driving them to the brink of insanity. As artistic and social tensions flare, the music becomes stranger. Until May 4, 7.45pm. www.thehopetheatre.com/

• At the Hen and Chickens Theatre, Corona Daze, Alice Bragg’s one-woman show follows Nicky Parsons, mother, wife and ambitious Norwich estate agent, during lockdown. Things descend into hand sanitising chaos as Nicky loses control of her life (and loo roll stock). Over Skype conversations with her rule-breaking mum, Nicky shares the farcical and frightening reality of imposed isolation. Under socially distanced duress, she is forced to re-evaluate her life. Until April 25 and May 19-25, 7.30pm. unrestrictedview.co.uk/

• Inspired by the little-known 1884 Berlin Conference at which world powers met to divide up the African continent, 1884 is an immersive theatre show about the colonial experience. Played at tables in small groups, participants will form family units, collaborate on activities, and make decisions about their fictional family and community. As rules are gradually imposed on them they must decide how to respond. Until April 27, 7.30pm. shoreditchtownhall.com/

• On September 13, 2022 Mahsa Amini was arrested in Tehran by Iran’s Morality Police for alleged non-compliance with the country’s mandatory hijab rules. Mahsa died three days later. Mehrnoosh Khorsand’s Trauma is set against the backdrop of human rights violations and extrajudicial killings in Iran. Leila, a traumatised refugee is in a London hospital. Separated from her daughter, she struggles to distinguish between hallucinations and reality, unsure who to trust or if she can find her child. April 19-20, 9pm. etceteratheatrecamden.com/

• At Camden People’s Theatre, English Kings Killing Foreigners explores nationalism, intersecting identities and Henry V. Inspired by Phil Arditti and Nina Bowers’ experience of performing Shakespeare’s play, they peel back the skin of English cultural identity to reveal the steaming battlefields that lies beneath. From rehearsal room microaggressions, to the battlefields of France and the bureaucracy of applying for citizenship, they are unwilling actors in a national story. April 23-May 11, 7pm. cptheatre.co.uk/