A drama telling the stories of four generations of Northern Irish women and a new play featuring live cooking on stage are on the menu during the autumn and winter 2025 season at Coventry’s Belgrade Theatre.
Consumed is a Paines Plough, Belgrade Theatre, Sheffield Theatres and Women’s Prize for Playwriting co-production. Karis Kelly’s play is “a pitch-black and twisted tale of dysfunctional family dynamics, generational trauma and national boundaries”. Four generations of women are reunited under one roof in “a house full of hungry ghosts, with more than one skeleton in the closet”.
Consumed will preview on Friday 25 and Saturday 26 July as part of the Belgrade’s See It First programme. It will then go to the Edinburgh Festival before returning to Coventry from Wednesday 3 until Saturday 6 September as part of a UK tour.
Sophia Griffin’s debut play After Sunday tells the story of three men who are receiving treatment in a medium-secure hospital. Believing in the healing power of food, Naomi invites them to join a Caribbean cooking group. Each Sunday, as the hospital is transformed with the smells, tastes and memories of home, Naomi considers whether it’s possible to create a refuge for three men living inside the system.
A co-production with the Bush Theatre, After Sunday will be directed by the Belgrade’s artistic director Corey Campbell in the B2 auditorium and will feature live cooking throughout. It will première from Friday 10 until Saturday 25 October.
The Belgrade has announced its 2025 panto will be Sleeping Beauty, which will be written by the theatre’s panto veteran Iain Lauchlan. It will run from Wednesday 19 November until Saturday 3 January 2026.