Noughts & Crosses

I was lucky enough to spend summer 2025 in the beautiful grounds of Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre. I remember watching a production of A Midsummer Night’s Dream there with my Brownie troop when I was about 7 years old. I fell in love with the space! It felt truly magical to be there among the trees and, as I watched the brilliant cast perform, it was one of those pivotal moments in my life when a little voice inside me said: ‘I want to do that when I’m older’. So needless to say, my summer at Regent’s Park was a dream come true!

Not only was I performing in this iconic venue but also had the privilege of bringing an iconic book to life: Malorie Blackman’s Noughts & Crosses, adapted by Dominic Cooke.

From Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre website:

‘All our lives criss-crossing but never really touching.
A world full of strangers living with all that fear.

Widely considered to be one of the 21st century’s greatest novels, Malorie Blackman’s best-selling Noughts & Crosses, a bittersweet love story with echoes of Shakespeare’s Romeo & Juliet, is revived for the London stage in this brand-new production.

By a secluded beach Callum and Sephy meet in secret; life-long friends living on separate sides of a divided world. When Callum, from a Nought family, is accepted to Sephy’s prestigious Cross school, will it bring them closer, or will the hate and fear that surrounds them drive them apart?

Dominic Cooke’s ‘excellent adaptation’ (The Independent) of this epic story set against the political backdrop of a deeply divided society, is directed by Associate Artistic Director Tinuke Craig (A Raisin in the Sun) in her Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre debut.’