The experience of feeling lost can feel very overwhelming, we all having our own ways of dealing with this. Having encountered this on the way to the theatre one day, writer and performer Charlene Salter draws from her own experience of seeking directions, but rather than being greeted with support, being greeted with the complete opposite. We hear of misunderstandings and confrontation, Access All Areas– renowned for their work highlighting the often unheard voices of learning disabled artists presenting their latest audio immersive tour, The Interrogation.

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In a bid to reunite the horn-rimmed revellers of Shoreditch with their Shakespearean ancestry, the Malachite Theatre Company are staging for Shoreditch each of the ‘Shoreditch nineteen’: the nineteen plays that the Bard wrote during his years as a Shoreditch reveller himself, many of which were first performed at the Theatre and the Curtain, just around the corner from St. Leonard’s. There seems an appealing sense of homecoming in this idea, a return to the roots of Shakespearean theatre as theatre for the community, rather than for the tourists and far-travelling theatre lovers that crowd the riverfront outside the Globe.

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