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‘Big decisions were driven by this constant fear of missing my fertile window’: Writer & director Simona Hughes on the inspiration for About 500

In Featured Shows, Features, Festivals, Interviews, London theatre, Native, Online shows, Plays by Featured Content4th February 2022

About 500, which takes its title from the number of ovulations a woman is likely to have in her life, finally gets its live premiere this month, rescheduled after two Vault Festival cancellations. Writer and director Simona Hughes took time out of rehearsals to tell us more about the show and its journey.

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NEWS: Twice-cancelled Vault show About 500 gets premiere at Union & Omnibus Theatres

In Featured Shows, Festivals, London theatre, Native, News, Online shows, Plays, Press Releases by Featured Content1st February 2022

About 500, Simona Hughes’ acclaimed play about women’s infertility, finally gets its live premiere this month with limited dates at London’s Union and Omnibus Theatres. Time to get booking!

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Are the OnComms the template for theatrical awards in ‘the new normal’?

In Awards, Features, Native, Online shows, Opinion by John Chapman1st July 2020Leave a Comment

The current circumstances mean that there are questions about whether there will even be a usual theatre awards season next winter/spring, especially as there may, ostensibly, be little to give awards for. However, one scheme has stepped blinking into the light.

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“Many women will say … you just don’t feel like a proper woman”: Simona Hughes on writing Vault Festival fertility drama About 500

In Festivals, Interviews, London theatre, Native, Plays by Featured Content27th February 2020

“Feminism has emancipated us and raised our expectations, but unfortunately in the process we have found ourselves yoked to a timetable that ignores the constraints of our biological clocks.” Read what Simona Hughes told us about why she wrote her new play exploring the fertility timebomb, About 500, then book your tickets!

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NEWS: Fertility tale About 500 receives UK premiere at VAULT Festival

In Featured Shows, Festivals, London theatre, Native, News, Photos, Plays, Press Releases by Featured Content28th January 2020

Simona Hughes’ new play about eggs, time and the cruel lack of both, About 500, will premiere as part of London’s Vault Festival later this spring. Time to book your tickets!

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