Biography

Kritika Agarwal is a Scenographer specialising in Set and Costume Design. They graduated last July with first-class honours from Middlesex University.

Kritika’s professional costume design and wardrobe credits are: Cable Street (Southwark Playhouse), Global Action Plan Anniversary Event (26 Leake Street, London), Angry Salmon (BYMT- Theatre Royal Plymouth), Checkmate (Camden People’s Theatre, London), Blind Who Now Has Eyes (Archway Whittington Hospital).

Previous set design and scenic painting credits are: Angry Salmon (BYMT- Theatre Royal Plymouth), King Arthur & the Twelfth Knight (Questors Theatre, London), The Crucible (National Theatre, London), Blues for an Alabama Sky (National Theatre, London).

It’s October 1936 in the heart of London’s East End.

Sammy, Mairead and Ron are carving out their own futures on Cable Street when Oswald Mosley’s British Union of Fascists start to march on East London.

Half a million Jews, Irish workers and communists unite to blockade the road they call home.

As the people raise their voices and take a united stand against hatred, the lives of the streets’ residents are changed forever.

Featuring a contemporary score, Cable Street is an electrifying reimagining of one of London’s most significant days.

A celebration of community and a rallying call to action, this timeless story is as powerful today as it ever was.

Angry Salmon is based in a big, cartoonish underwater world, we meet the inhabitants of a thriving fish-farm, who work their fins to the bone in order to be the best. Once a month, the Sky Ceremony happens, and the Humans lower their net to select those who will go on to ‘paradise’… Leo (the mayor’s eldest daughter) is sick of their non-stop way of living, and when disaster strikes, she initiates a mass escape through a crack in the farm’s borders. Suddenly, they find themselves in the deep blue sea, with one aim: find their fellow salmon.

An murder mystery adapted featuring familiar characters from Caroll’s Alice in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass who find themselves at a tea party like no other. An original design-led piece exploring the themes of misogyny, victim blaming and other nonsense. Come along to see the Mad Hatter leading a murder enquiry that takes an unexpected turn. ‘Checkmate’ was part of a theatre festival called ‘Fresh Fest’.

A retelling of Bovell’s When The Rain Stops Falling. A play about family, secret legacies, betrayal and forgiveness seen across four generations and spanning two continents.