Over the course of our 45-year history, the Gate has made a significant impact on UK theatre, launching the careers of countless iconic artists and premiering cutting-edge work, originally in Notting Hill.
Here are some highlights of the work we’ve brought to the UK stage, telling international stories and diversifying the narratives audiences see since 1979.
Wish You Were Here, written by Pulitzer prize winning Sanaz Toosi and directed by Sepy Baghaei. Every cast member was of Iranian heritage and the show was praised for its authenticity, with many of the audiences leaving heartfelt messages on postcards after the show.
Bootycandy, written by Robert O’Hara and directed by Tristan Fynn-Aideunu.
Exploring childhood, sexuality, fantasy and reality, this was the largest production the Gate had produced to date in terms of both budget and ambition.
A Sudden Burst of Violent Rain, written by Sami Ibrahim and directed by Yasmin Hafesji.
This was a co-production with Paines Plough and the Rose Theatre with a run at the Roundabout at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival before it’s London premiere with the Gate at Theatro Technis in Camden. This was a timely poetic fable of an impenetrable immigration system that mirrors our own.
‘We all live under the same sky. It’s just that, beneath that sky, there’s some arsehole saying “don’t stand here, stand over there and shut your mouth”.’
Dear Elizabeth, written by Sarah Ruhl and directed by Ellen McDougall, was performed both online and in person at Theatro Technis, the Gate’s Camden-based venue partner. A piece of theatre made from the love letters of two poets, two different performers took the roles of Elizabeth Bishop and Robert Lowell for each performance.
Performers included: Thalissa Teixeira, Jade Anouka, Tamsin Greig, Travis Alabanza, Tim Crouch, Chris Thorpe, Lucy Ellinson and Kwame Owusu.
