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Sadie Sink wins best West End debut performer at 2026 Stage Debut Awards

She picked up the coveted prize for her performance in Romeo And Juliet opposite Noah Jupe at the Harold Pinter Theatre.

Evening Standard · Sep 27

Bloodsport: After Helen of Troy review – classical myth burns into modern England

In Ava Pickett’s tense play, Michelle Dockery’s heroine returns to a Towie-styled world where the violence and misogyny are all too recognisable

The Guardian - UK · Sep 11

Bloodsport: After Helen of Troy - Ava Pickett’s urgent riposte to toxic masculinity

4/5 Stratford East Theatre Royal’s production of Ava Pickett’s play which takes the Trojan war to modern-day Essex

Evening Standard · Sep 11

Emma at the Rose Theatre: Jane Austen will be laughing in her grave

3/5 Ava Pickett’s new adaptation is not for purists, but it is very funny

Evening Standard · Sep 23, 2025

Emma review – Austen’s comedy of manners gets an exaggerated Essex makeover

Ava Pickett’s modern-day adaptation of the novel adds pop music, farce and clowning but lacks gimlet-eyed observations

The Guardian - UK · Sep 23, 2025

1536 turns Anne Boleyn’s downfall into a witty, wrenching parable of girlhood

4/5 The themes of female friendships, misogyny and the trickle-down effects of patriarchy are as present today as they are in this play set 500 years ago

The Independent UK · May 14, 2025

1536 review – three Tudor friends throw sharp light on Anne Boleyn’s execution

Ava Pickett’s bold debut shows how a trio of ordinary women in rural Essex learn of the queen’s death, and speaks clearly to our own age

The Guardian - UK · May 14, 2025

1536 at the Almeida Theatre review: Ava Pickett's debut play is electrifying

4/5 This look at Anne Boleyn’s life is bold, idiosyncratic and disturbingly funny

Evening Standard · May 14, 2025

‘I don’t buy it’ … Ava Pickett on her play about Anne Boleyn’s treason and incest

Was the second wife of Henry VIII really guilty of the crimes she was beheaded for? Pickett’s award-winning new play takes a sideways look at her downfall – by imagining its impact on everyday women

The Guardian - UK · Mar 25, 2025

Ava Pickett’s drama of female friendship in Tudor England wins Susan Smith Blackburn prize

Pickett’s ‘very funny and very angry’ play 1536 follows three women as they discuss the arrest of Anne Boleyn

The Guardian - UK · Mar 11, 2024