Esther Smith

Cook, now aged 21, is living in Manchester, and works as a drug peddler for Louie, a wealthy nightclub owner and drug baron. Having spent years on the run after killing John Foster, Cook sleeps in his car, and routinely has sex with Emma, his friend-with-benefits.

Two people who are seemingly ‘just good friends’ spend the day together.

Set in a sleepy English seaside town, this is a comedy about a not-quite-grown-up who finds himself accidentally catapulted into the thick of a very grown-up situation.

On the day of her wedding, Leah is possessed by a dybbuk – the spirit of her former lover who died after learning of her engagement to another man. Set in the vanished, mystically religious world of 19th-century Eastern European Hasidism, S. Ansky’s The Dybbuk is a complex and meticulously crafted tragedy in which two lovers, betrothed before birth and denied earthly communion, are ultimately bound together for all eternity. This semi-staged reading took take place at the Almeida, as part of Six Artists in Search of a Play.

A young couple try to navigate their sex life after the birth of their baby.

A struggling disabled actress gets a job advising a film star how to be disabled for his latest role.

Two people who are seemingly ‘just good friends’ spend the day together.