A nurse, a delivery driver, and an entrepreneur walk into a speed awareness course…
Abz is the UK’s leading expert on road safety and the most in-demand course facilitator north of the M25.
In an entirely average hotel basement somewhere in Birmingham, three speedsters are summoned to his class with a choice: change your ways, or lose your licence.
But a routine training course quickly veers into a tumultuous group therapy session as they are forced to confront the real question: why are you all so angry?
SPEED is a break-neck journey through the daily annoyances and deep-buried secrets that leave us spinning. Wickedly comic and darkly thrilling, this world premiere production reunites writer Mohamed-Zain Dada and director Milli Bhatia after the wild success of the Olivier Award-nominated, Blue Mist (Royal Court).
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Saturday 19th April at 2:30pm
Thursday 8th May at 7:30pm
Wednesday 23rd April at 7:30pm
Saturday 3rd May at 2:30pm
Saturday 26th April at 2:30pm
Thursday 1st May at 7:30pm
Saturday 26th April at 1:30pm
Thursday 1st May at 6:30pm
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Alexander recently Graduated from the University of East London where he studied Performing Arts and specialised in experimental, ritualistic, divisive theatre.
He is a passionate early career Stage Manager who has already worked on multiple professional theatre productions, such as (Rehearsal) Stage Manager on The Glorious French Revolution and Stage Manager for Win(d)ing Orchestra’s R&D3.
Alex is also a dedicated theatre technician, being involved in many productions as an operator, displaying his skill in understanding the technical aspects that bring a show together.
Theatre/Opera credits include: Festen (ROH); Oliver! (Gielgud); Twelfth Night (RSC); King Lear (The Shed, NYC); Dr Strangelove (Noel Coward); Quiet Songs (Pit, Barbican); 1984 (Theatre Royal, Bath); The Spy Who Came in From the Cold (Minerva, Chichester); Abigail’s Party (Theatre Royal, Stratford East); Carmen (Glyndebourne); Machinal (Old Vic); The Hungry Body (Donmar Warehouse); King Lear (Wyndhams); The Witches (National Theatre); Cruel Intentions (The Other Palace); The Hunt (St Anns, NYC); My Beautiful Laundrette (Leicester Curve); Sleuth, Closure (Theatre Royal, Windsor); Shooting Hedda Gabler (Rose Theatre, Kingston); Macbeth (Shakespeare’s Globe); The Crucible (NT and Gielgud); Mates In Chelsea, Hope Has a Happy Meal, Imposter 22 (Royal Court); Village Idiots (Nottingham Playhouse/Stratford East); The Harmony Test, Between Riverside and Crazy, Akebah (Hampstead Theatre); The Birthday Party, The Deep Blue Sea, A View From the Bridge (West End); Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf (Theatre Royal, Bath); Dirty Dancing (Dominion Theatre/National Tour); A Beautiful Thing (Theatre Royal, Stratford East); Itch (Opera Holland Park); A Little Life (Harold Pinter).
Theatre credits include: Dr. Strangelove (Noel Coward Theatre); Fan Girls (Lyric Hammersmith); Alma Mater (Almeida Theatre); With Nail & I (Birmingham Rep); Lyonesse (Harold Pinter Theatre); My Neighbour Totoro (West End / Royal Shakespeare Company / Barbican); Little Shop of Horrors, Miss Saigon, The Good Person of Szechwan, The Band Plays On, She Loves Me, Reasons to Stay Alive (Sheffield Theatres); Wild Rose (Lyceum Edinburgh); Straight Line Crazy (The Shed, New York / The Bridge Theatre); The Enormous Crocodile, Once on This Island (Regents Park); The Glow, Seven Methods of Killing Kylie Jenner (Public Theatre, New York / Wooly Mammoth, Washington DC); Living Newspaper Edition 7, Pah-La (Royal Court); The Mirror and the Light (Gielgud Theatre); Anna X (Lowry / Howard Pinter); Marys Seacole, Blindness (Donmar Warehouse); Out West (Lyric Hammersmith); The Odyssey (Unicorn Theatre); Minority Report (Nottingham Playhouse, Birmingham Rep, Lyric Theatre); Inside (Orange Tree); Dick Whittington (National Theatre); Rockets and Blue Lights (Royal Exchange); Faces in the Crowd, Mephisto, Dear Elizabeth, The Human Voice (The Gate); Equus (Theatre Royal Stratford East / UK Tour); Armadillo (The Yard); Reasons To Stay Alive (ETT / UK Tour); One (HOME / UK Tour / International Tour); Forgotten (Arcola Theatre /Theatre Royal, Plymouth); Hive City Legacy (Roundhouse); Snowflake (Kiln Theatre / Old Fire Station); Fairview (Young Vic); Cuckoo (Soho Theatre); Nine Foot Nine (The Bunker / Edinburgh Festival Fringe); Becoming Shades (VAULT Festival).
Other credits include: Twice Born (Scottish Ballet); HOME (Rambert2); Guardians of the Galaxy: The Live Immersive Experience (Secret Cinema); Winter Light (commissioned by the Museum of the Home); V&A Divas Exhibition.
Her awards include an Olivier Award and WhatsOnStage Award for Best Lighting Design for My Neighbour Totoro and a Knight of Illumination Award for Plays and Off West End Award for Best Lighting Design for Equus.
Milli is a stage, screen and radio director, and dramaturg from East London. She is an Associate Artist at Synergy, and was Associate Director at The Royal Court Theatre.
Before this, she was Trainee Director and then Literary Associate at The Royal Court, Associate Artist at The Bush Theatre, Resident Assistant Director at Birmingham Rep and Creative Associate at The Gate Theatre. Her training includes The National Theatre Director’s Programme, and The Old Vic 12.
She is a two-time Olivier Award nominee, for her productions of seven methods of killing kylie jenner and Blue Mist, both premiered at The Royal Court Theatre. She has also been nominated for Off West End Awards, Visionary Arts Awards, EE Awards and Asian Media Awards, and her work has received West End and international transfers, including to The Public Theater NYC, Woolly Mammoth DC, Riksteatern and The Swedish Biennale (Dramaten). Her work in theatre also includes Chasing Hares (Young Vic), King Troll (The Fawn) (New Diorama), My White Best Friend and Other Letters Left Unsaid (Royal Court/Bunker), Macbeth:Something Wicked (Donmar tour), Liberation Squares (Nottingham Playhouse/Brixton House/National tour), Dismantle This Room (Bush Theatre/Royal Court), Maryland and Baghdaddy (Royal Court).
Mohamed-Zain Dada, goes by the name Zain, is a playwright and screenwriter. His first writing credit, Emily (Glitched) In Paris was for the Royal Court Theatre’s Living Newspaper series in March 2021. He is an alumnus of BBC Drama Room’s 2022-23 cohort and NFTS x Left Bank Pictures inaugural Diverse Writer’s Room Programme 2024. Zain’s debut play, Blue Mist premiered at the Jerwood Theatre Upstairs at the Royal Court Theatre in October 2023 to four and five star reviews and was nominated for an Olivier Award. His second play, Dizzy premiered at the Sheffield Playhouse (co-produced by Theatre Centre).
Tomás trained at the Glasgow School of Art and the Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama. He is a recipient of the 2021 Linbury prize for theatre design and was the production designer on the BAFTA award winning short film Too Rough.
As an artist, he has created installations/performance pieces for the Centre for Contemporary Arts (Glasgow), Transmission Gallery (Glasgow) and Embassy Gallery (Edinburgh).
Design credits include: Wish You Were Here (Gate Theatre), Dawns y Ceirw (Theatr Cymru, National Dance Company Wales), Dreaming and Drowning (Bush), Blue Mist (Royal Court), The Bacchae (Lyric Hammersmith), My Uncle Is Not Pablo Escobar (Brixton House), Sanctuary (Access All Areas), Sophocles’ Oedipus / Silent Practice (LAMDA), Time Is Running Out (Gate Theatre, Cardiff), Winning (Glasgow School of Art), Autocue (Centre for Contemporary Art Glasgow).
Costume design credits include: Look Back In Anger, Roots (Almeida), Multiple Casualty Incident (Yard Theatre), Julius Caesar (RSC).
XANA is a composer, sound artist, music supervisor and a sound designer developing accessible audio systems for theatre and live art spaces. Xana is the music science and technology lead and project mentor supporting Black artists and inventors at audio research label Inventing Waves. Xana has won the 2023 and 2024 – Black British Theatre Award for Best Sound Design.
Theatre credits: Pig Heart Boy (Unicorn Theatre), Shifters (Offie Finalist), Barcelona (Duke of York), The Real Ones, My Fathers Fable, Elephant, Sleepova (Offie Nom), The P Word (Offie Nom), Strange Fruit (Bush Theatre); Dead Girls Rising (Silent Uproar, UK Tour), The Architect (ATC/GDIF), Beautiful Thing (Stratford East); Imposter 22, Word:Play, Living Newspaper #4 (Royal Court); Rumble In the Jungle (Rematch:Live); Anna Karerina (Edinburgh Lyceum, Bristol Old Vic); Intimate Apparel, The Trials, Marys Seacole (Donmar Warehouse); Earthworks, Sundown Kiki: Reloaded, The Collaboration, Sundown Kiki, Changing Destiny, Fairview, Ivan and the Dogs (Young Vic); …cake (Theatre Peckham); Who Killed My Father (Tron); as british as a watermelon (Contact); Hyde and Seek (Guildhall); Burgerz (Hackney Showroom); King Troll [The Fawn] (Offie Finalist), Everyday (Deafinitely) (New Diorama), Black Holes (The Place); Hive City Legacy (Roundhouse); Main Character Energy, But Daddy I love her, Glamrou: From Quran to Queen, Curious, Half-Breed (Soho Theatre); Blood Knot (Offie Finalist), Guards At The Taj (Offie Finalist) (Orange Tree Theatre); Samuel Takes A Break, SEX SEX MEN MEN (Yard Theatre), Limp Wrist & The Iron Fist, Everything I own, Is Dat Yu Yeah (Brixton House).