Biography

Kritika Agarwal is a Set and Costume Designer and is now a resident Creative Associate at the Belgrade Theatre. Kritika graduated with first-class honours in BA Theatre Design from Middlesex University.

​Kritika loves exploring stories of empowerment and movement through fabrics, textures and colours. Often inspired by fashion, architecture and fine art, Kritika has a unique way of approaching design. Kritika highly values sustainable and accessible theatre practice.

The original play originally scored with rap and R&B.

Some aspects of this new, innovative co-production of Romeo and Juliet aren’t new at all.

Everything that makes Shakespeare’s play so well loved is here. The rich, feuding families. The intense, forbidden passion. And the flash of violence tears the young lovers apart, sending them spiralling towards tragedy.

This is unmistakably Shakespeare’s love story, largely unaltered in its original text. But it’s not just Shakespeare’s play. There is an important Plus One: rap.

Our story shines with new, original elements of rap, as well as soul and R&B. Think everyday English as well as the Elizabethan variety. And the poetry of rap rhythms as well as perfect pentameters.

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.