As the lights shine bright on the Croisette, WeAudition, the world’s leading international community of on-demand self-tape readers, joins forces with Latigo Films, Red Sea Media, Flex, and Roxstar Entertainment for a dynamic series of events celebrating film, storytelling, and creative empowerment during the 2025 Cannes Film Festival.

Thursday, May 15th – Spotlight on Latigo Films

The week kicks off with an exclusive celebration hosted by Latigo Films and Red Sea Media at the stunning WeAudition House.. The evening will toast Latigo’s impressive 2025 film slate, including:

• “Not Without Hope”, directed by Joe Carnahan, starring Zachary Levi
• “Bride Hard”, led by Rebel Wilson (June release)
• “Off The Grid”, with Josh Duhamel and Greg Kinnear
• “Hotel Tehran”, starring Liam Neeson
• The newly announced “Neglected”, starring Josh Duhamel, Till Schweiger, and Dylan Sprouse

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Heisenberg is a warm, funny, and unexpected love story about two women who meet by chance at Euston Station. It’s a theatre rom-com that actually feels good to watch. The story unfolds in a restrained, masterful way, and as you’d expect from a two-hander, there is a LOT of dialogue. Sometimes it gets a bit much, but I think it’s worth sticking with.

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The Secret Lives of Baba Segi’s Wives is funny, bold, and moving. What sounds like a traditional setup — a wealthy Nigerian man with multiple wives — turns out to be a feminist, sharp, and modern story about sex, secrecy, and survival.

I saw the original 2018 production, which was full of energy, sparkle, and precision. This revival doesn’t quite reach those same heights, but the heart of the play is still strong. The story unfolds with wit and feeling, using physical theatre, Yoruba music, and classical storytelling to create something that’s rich with personality and alive with entertainment.

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Finally, after a year and a half of seeing Palestinians dying on our screens, a major theatre is taking on works that confront the most censored subject of our time.

As I sit in the cramped basement bar, eating my homemade dal and rice from a Tupperware container, I can’t help but compare this setting to the fundraiser nights held by the grassroots theatre company White Kite Collective. Their event series “Stand with Palestinians: Messages from Gaza” — welcomed at the Arcola, one of the few venues brave enough to publicly platform Palestinian voices—are different. There, the rooms are filled with more people of colour, more young people, more keffiyehs. The energy feels urgent. Oh well, I’ll take it still. Let me wait to see what unfurls on stage.

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From the opening scene, the production pitches suffering so high—wailing and all—that it leaves itself nowhere to go. The emotional intensity is already at its peak before anything unfolds, making for a numbing rather than escalating experience.

Visually, though, the set design is incredible. The cages and scaffolding, prison garms and streetwear, the looming Big House behind the glass—it all works to make the adaptation look relevant and striking. Unfortunately the ensemble lack cohesion. Moments that should feel revolutionary instead feel sparse, missing that collective urgency needed to make the story resonate.

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An outstanding play that beautifully conveys both the beauty and the pain of suffering with mental health—and the people who love us through the worst of times.

I first encountered babirye’s work at Stratford East as part of the Burn it Down programme, where they presented Yummy, a show placed in a game where “nobody is eating.” I loved the work-in-progress, so I was really excited to see a fully fleshed-out production by them—especially since …blackbird hour acts as a sequel to …cake, their critically acclaimed debut at Theatre Peckham.

Visually, the stage is bathed in deep blue, inky light. A bed sits at its centre like a ship—such a striking choice because mental health struggles are so often tied to a life spent in bed. But here, the bed isn’t just a bed. It becomes a portal to other possibilities—through music, letters, journals, and memory, the days spent in it take on a different form entirely. Before the show begins, snippets of conversation drift in, setting the tone and inviting us into Eshe’s world… “Who hurt you?”

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Brummie playwright Selina Thompson brings her bold new play Twine to The Yard Theatre in East London, shedding light on the racism embedded within the British adoption system while delving into the inner psyche of both the system and the adoptee. This complex play follows the journey of three characters—Bark, Sapling, and Seed—who are played by Muki Zubis, Nandi Bhebhe, and Angelina Chudhi. These characters represent personas of the unseen writer, Sycamore, as they navigate the emotional and psychological toll of adoption.

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Voted one of the most influential texts of the 20th century, Waiting for Godot asks for the human condition to slow down and appreciate what is – the show’s leads Estragon and Vladimir symbols of what it is to not be shrouded by materialistic things and just ‘be’. Waiting for Godot a tragicomedy concerned more so with the weight of the words spoken and the bleakness of ego and expectations. Taking residence currently at Theatre Royal Haymarket, James Macdonald’s rendition draws on the dreariness of waiting.

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Gone are the days of the ‘And they lived happily ever after’ trope and reality setting in. Bombarded with representations of love throughout the ages, notions of what love looks like are currently being dismantled. Relationship gurus perhaps the closest we’ll get currently to addressing what it takes to make a relationship last. Back with their second musical which I’m sure will be a hit, Lucy Moss and Toby Marlow of Six the Musical fame pen Why Am I So Single?, a self deprecating reality check of the dating scene in the early 21st century.

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Piecing various fragments of a puzzle together can seem challenging to some, effortless to others. Determining the culprit of a murder mystery a movement as old as human existence. Masters in the field skilled at arriving at their conclusions, a detective’s detail oriented eye is a tool that has been immortalised within many a work of fiction. A detective nation, detective stories continue to dominate our entertainment realm, Sherlock Holmes the most recognisable of fictional characters in the murder mystery genre. The Lost Estate keeping true to the tradition of dramatising these much loved stories with their The Great Murder Mystery dining experience.

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