Emerging company Meteatra launches its first production with BORDERS: Digital, Political, Emotional, an evening of six short plays exploring how we live, love and struggle in a world that feels constantly on edge.
From Istanbul kitchens to London boardrooms, from refugee shores to AI dinner tables, these stories are funny, dark, personal and political all at once. They speak about technology, migration, gender, identity and power, but always through people we can recognise.
These are ordinary lives caught in extraordinary times.
The line-up includes Dark Rooms and Pandas; Openly Muslim; Sea Monsters; Mutfak, Göç ve Boncuk; Guess Who’s Computing to Dinner and One of Them. The evening brings together international writers whose voices cut through the noise with sharp humour and emotional truth.
English plays surtitled in Turkish, with one Turkish play surtitled in English.
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Running time
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Age guidance
14+ -
Content warnings
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Secil Honeywill
Director
Secil Honeywill
Director
Secil Honeywill is a theatre director and dramaturg from Istanbul, now based in Berlin. She studied Dramaturgy and Theatre Criticism at Istanbul University and has worked with theatres in Istanbul, London, and Berlin, including directing Kitchen to Measure, Everything Begins by Loving Somebody, and Say Your Name at the Arcola Theatre. She leads creative writing workshops through WriteNow Berlin and develops performance projects that respond to power, inequality, and the urgent questions of our time.
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Aine King
Writer (Sea Monsters)
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Andrew Lawston
Writer (Guess Who's Computing to Dinner)
Andrew Lawston
Writer (Guess Who's Computing to Dinner)
Andrew Lawston lives in West London and writes novels, short stories, and translations of classic French books, including the international bestseller The Story of my Escape, by Giacomo Casanova. This is his second play, following 2018’s Matrexit which was a finalist in the Arts Richmond New Plays Festival at the Orange Tree Theatre. Andrew has also been an occasional actor, and records his own audiobooks. Beyond writing, Andrew enjoys cooking and long river walks.
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Banu Şenel
Writer (Dark Rooms and Pandas)
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Salman Siddiqi
Writer (Openly Muslim)
Salman Siddiqi
Writer (Openly Muslim)
Salman is an emerging playwright whose debut full-length play, Outsiders, is currently in production with Park Theatre. He is also a director and co-founder of MUJU, a community theatre group creating work that brings Muslims and Jews together and opens space for difficult conversations.
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Erdoğan Soytürk
Writer (Mutfak, Göç ve Boncuk)
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Tamara von Werthern
Writer (One of Them)
Tamara von Werthern
Writer (One of Them)
Her stage work has been performed at The Royal Court, the Arcola, Southwark Playhouse, Summerhall, in Spain and Germany and includes The White Bike (The Space) and Puddles (English Theatre Berlin). She translated Hex (NT) for Schauspiel Hannover and is the founder of award-winning podcast Fizzy Sherbet. Her screenplay I Don’t Want to Set the World on Fire won Best Screenplay at Lift-Off Season Awards 2019.
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Meteatra
Producer
Meteatra
Producer
We are a theatre for everyone, committed to Equity, Diversity, Inclusivity, and Accessibility.
With a community spirit and professional discipline, we bring passion and care to everything we create.
Our goal is to create exceptional productions that reflect a range of voices and experiences. Meteatra is a place where everyone can feel represented, where every person can find a bit of themselves and their story on stage.
At Meteatra, every story matters. We believe our differences make the world more interesting, resilient, and joyful.
We invite and welcome you all to join us along the way.
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Lucie Regan
Associate Producer
Lucie Regan
Associate Producer
Lucie Regan’s recent projects include A Christmas Carol, Animal Farm and Method in My Madness with Theatre Tours International. Blood Wedding for 2’s Company, Rosy Carrick’s Musclebound, and A Midsummer Night’s Dream with Southwark Playhouse. Lucie also produces Telling Tinder Tales, a podcast about romance and dating.
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Olcay Boynudelik
Translations for surtitles
Olcay Boynudelik
Translations for surtitles
Graduate of English Language and Literature from Istanbul University. Lives in Istanbul
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Richard Williamson
Lighting Designer
Richard Williamson
Lighting Designer
Previous work includes: The Olivier award winning Rotterdam (West End/Off Broadway/UK National Tour); Dogs of Europe (Belarus Free Theatre at the Barbican and international tour); Richard III, An Arab Tragedy (Swan Theatre Stratford/International tour); Sampled and Danse Élargie (Sadler’s Wells); Great Expectations (UK tour); Little Miss Sunshine (Arcola Theatre and UK Tour); Fiddler on the Roof and The Comedy about a Bank Robbery (Istanbul); Beowulf, Septimus Bean and His Amazing Machine, Jason and the Argonauts (Unicorn); What’s On Stage ‘Best Production’ Winner Thebes Land (also video), New Nigerians, Drones Baby Drones (also video), Shrapnel (also video), Mare Rider, Macbeth, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, The Country (Arcola Theatre); A Political History of Smack and Crack (Edinburgh Fringe and Soho Theatre); Oedipus at Colonus (Cambridge Arts Theatre); The Body (Barbican); The Dark Side of Love (Roundhouse); In My Name, Boris World King (Trafalgar Studios); Amphibians (Bridewell); Thrill Me (Tristan Bates/Charing Cross Theatre/UK and international tour); Twentieth Century Boy (New Wolsey Ispwich); Re:Home (also video), Brenda (The Yard); Play Size (Young Vic); The Al Hamlet Summit (Tokyo International Festival/International tour); Strangers In Between (Trafalgar Studios and Kings Head); Ballo, Tosco, Denial, Someone To Blame (Kings Head); Summer Begins (Southwark Playhouse). Richard trained at LAMDA, is a Trustee of the Kings Head Theatre, is a board member of the Edinburgh Festival Fringe Society, and develops industry leading applications zoomOSC and zoomISO.
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Neil McKeown
Sound Designer
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Asia Johanna Rob
Assistant Director
Asia Johanna Rob
Assistant Director
Asia Joanna Rob is a UK-based Assistant Director and theatre-maker with over five years’ professional experience across film, theatre and education in international settings. Trained in the UK, India, and Poland, she brings a strong intercultural perspective to rehearsal rooms and specialises in international projects. With background in acting, she draws on her experience on film and TV sets (including credits on Netflix and Amazon MiniTV) to inform her practice.
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Isik Kaya
Assistant Director
Dark Rooms and Pandas
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İrem Cavusoglu
Bahar
İrem Cavusoglu
Bahar
İrem has been on and off the stage for the past 20 years, in The Threepenny Opera, A Midsummer Night’s Dream and Romeo and Juliet amongst the many. She has been a part of various productions in Turkish and English.
Her work also includes Say Your Name at the Arcola and most recently The Importance of Being Earnest at the Tower Theatre. She is an ordinary person by daylight and an actor by moonlight. -
Ates Togrul
Ali
Ates Togrul
Ali
Ates Togrul draws on his Actor Training and Coaching studies at the Royal Central School of Speech and Drama to explore the stage as a site of encounter where the performer, participants and the performing body breathe together. His work focuses on relational performance, embodiment, and empathy-based acting, drawing on his experience in lighting design and directing.
Openly Muslim
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Charlotte Reidie
Sarah
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John Gregor
Richard
John Gregor
Richard
John Gregor made his professional debut at the Theatre Royal, Plymouth, in The Curse of the Baskervilles in 1987. Since then he has performed across the UK in venues ranging from 1,000 seater theatres to outdoor plays in council estates. The last time he performed at the Arcola was in Scar Test, a play about the women held at Yarlswood Detention Centre. On screen he has been in The Bill (ITV), Wycliffe (ITV), and he appears in the YouTube series Sensory Squad. In the first Covid lockdown he made his own short film, Triggers, that was shown in film festivals worldwide and won several awards.
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Zain Qureshi
Waheed
Seamonsters
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John Gregor
Man on Cliff
John Gregor
Man on Cliff
John Gregor made his professional debut at the Theatre Royal, Plymouth, in The Curse of the Baskervilles in 1987. Since then he has performed across the UK in venues ranging from 1,000 seater theatres to outdoor plays in council estates. The last time he performed at the Arcola was in Scar Test, a play about the women held at Yarlswood Detention Centre. On screen he has been in The Bill (ITV), Wycliffe (ITV), and he appears in the YouTube series Sensory Squad. In the first Covid lockdown he made his own short film, Triggers, that was shown in film festivals worldwide and won several awards.
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Ates Togrul
Lorry Man
Ates Togrul
Lorry Man
Ates Togrul draws on his Actor Training and Coaching studies at the Royal Central School of Speech and Drama to explore the stage as a site of encounter where the performer, participants and the performing body breathe together. His work focuses on relational performance, embodiment, and empathy-based acting, drawing on his experience in lighting design and directing.
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Paul Boichat
Bear Man
Paul Boichat
Bear Man
Paul loves watching, reading and performing new writing and so is thrilled to add working with Meteatra to his recent highlights. These include Macbeth, Al in April in Paris and Elliot in Swing by at 8 and more serious roles in Politic Man, Henry V and Diaboliad. Screen credits include Toxic Town and The Young Woman and the Sea.
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Serpil Delice
Naj
Serpil Delice
Naj
Serpil Delice is a London-based theatre actor whose journey began in high school, when her determination earned her a place in the drama club. Without formal training, she developed her craft through years of work with respected directors and actors in London. A longtime member of Alaturka Theatre, she is passionate about socially relevant stories, exploring women’s rights, racism, immigrant life, and LGBTQ+ issues to create impactful, honest, and emotionally resonant performances on stage today
Mutfak, Göç ve Boncuk
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Koray Can Yanasik
Boncuk
Koray Can Yanasik
Boncuk
Koray graduated from the Conservatory of Haliç University in Istanbul in 2015. He went on to work with the Istanbul State Theatre for eight years, performing in a wide range of productions and collaborating with several prominent directors, before expanding his repertoire with various independent theatre companies. Since relocating to the United Kingdom in 2019, he has continued his work as an actor while also writing scripts for both stage and screen. Passionate about ensemble work and the collaborative creative process, Koray remains committed to exploring projects that bridge artistic practices between Turkey and the UK, and to fostering connections with artists from around the world.
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Ates Togrul
Mustafa
Ates Togrul
Mustafa
Ates Togrul draws on his Actor Training and Coaching studies at the Royal Central School of Speech and Drama to explore the stage as a site of encounter where the performer, participants and the performing body breathe together. His work focuses on relational performance, embodiment, and empathy-based acting, drawing on his experience in lighting design and directing.
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Abdullah Tercanli
Şef
Guess Who's Computing to Dinner
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Paul Boichat
Geoff
Paul Boichat
Geoff
Paul loves watching, reading and performing new writing and so is thrilled to add working with Meteatra to his recent highlights. These include Macbeth, Al in April in Paris and Elliot in Swing by at 8 and more serious roles in Politic Man, Henry V and Diaboliad. Screen credits include Toxic Town and The Young Woman and the Sea.
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John Gregor
John Murdoch
John Gregor
John Murdoch
John Gregor made his professional debut at the Theatre Royal, Plymouth, in The Curse of the Baskervilles in 1987. Since then he has performed across the UK in venues ranging from 1,000 seater theatres to outdoor plays in council estates. The last time he performed at the Arcola was in Scar Test, a play about the women held at Yarlswood Detention Centre. On screen he has been in The Bill (ITV), Wycliffe (ITV), and he appears in the YouTube series Sensory Squad. In the first Covid lockdown he made his own short film, Triggers, that was shown in film festivals worldwide and won several awards.
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İrem Cavusoglu
Kirsty
İrem Cavusoglu
Kirsty
İrem has been on and off the stage for the past 20 years, in The Threepenny Opera, A Midsummer Night’s Dream and Romeo and Juliet amongst the many. She has been a part of various productions in Turkish and English.
Her work also includes Say Your Name at the Arcola and most recently The Importance of Being Earnest at the Tower Theatre. She is an ordinary person by daylight and an actor by moonlight. -
Charlotte Reidie
Ariadne
One of Them
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Ece Ozdemiroglu
Sylvie
Ece Ozdemiroglu
Sylvie
Ece is back on stage after her Lady Bracknell in The Importance of Being Earnest by Immigrants by Pan Productions. A co-founder of Meteatra, Ece spent seven season’s at Arcola Alaturka co-devising and acting in The Crucible, Ana Hatlar, Yastik Alti, Asiye Nasil Kurtulur?, Kitchen to Measure, Everything Starts with Loving Somebody and Say Your Name. She attended City Lit Drama School for two years, learned improvisation with The Spontaneity Shop.
Book your tickets
Event Instance Listings
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Wed 11 Feb 2026
7pm
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Thu 12 Feb 2026
7pm
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Fri 13 Feb 2026
7pm
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Sat 14 Feb 2026
3.30pm
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Sat 14 Feb 2026
7pm
Artwork photography by Nick Fancher.