Star-Crossed | A new play at Plot 9 Maze Hill | Free Event

Cast as star-crossed lovers, two hot-tempered leads find themselves alone waiting for their strangely absent director.

Star-Crossed is a new site specific play set in and hosted by Plot 9 Maze Hill with support from the Royal Borough of Greenwich. Get your free tickets now!

Two actors, Roland and Julia, have been cast to play Romeo and Juliet and the show is fast approaching. With the air between them sour and their chemistry more than flat, the director's summoned Roland and Julia to an emergency rehearsal.  Roland runs in late with a head full of lines and a heart full of turmoil. Julia's where she always is, her nose scanning poetry like an inkject printer. She lifts her nose off the page and sees the sorry face of the Romeo she's meant to love. Where, oh where, she asks herself, is their director? 

The event

Thanks to funding from the Royal Borough of Greenwich's Community Art Fund, this is a free event but please do book a ticket. Any donations will be spit between the Lykwe theatre company and Plot 9.

These debut perfromances of Star-Crossed will be roughly 30 minutes long. Held in Plot 9's the circular seated spaced, under a repurposed (rainproof) army parachute. After the performance, you're more than welcome to stay and mingle with the cast, crew, and your fellow audience members around Plot 9's cozy fire place.

Andy Millns (creator of Plot 9) will be around if you want to find out more about the space or discuss hosting your own event there.

Getting to Plot 9

Plot 9 is in east Greenwich, a few minutes walk from Maze Hill Overground Station which is served by Southeastern and Thameslink trains. You can catch a direct train to Maze Hill from any of: Greenwich, Deptford, London Bridge, Cannon St, Blackfriars, City Thameslink, Farringdon, St Pancras or West Hampstead.  

VIDEO DIRECTIONS: It's a short route from Maze Hill station to Plot 9 but a little bit convoluted so please look at video directions here showing how to get there from Platform 2 of Maze Hill where you'll alight if coming from central London.

It is also possible to travel via North Greenwich and get the 188 or 422 bus, alighting on Trafalgar Road or Woolwich Road and walking up Vanbrugh Hill, turning right onto Restell Close. The space is halfway down the hill on the right. Look for the bright green campervan and the entrance is 10 metres beyond it on the right.

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If you're driving then there's usually plenty of free space on nearby Humber Road (2 hr free parking).

Plot 9 is not (yet) wheelchair accessible.  

Cast and Crew

The writer, Rens Juris Tesink, is a local performer, playwright and Plot 9 regular. He will be playing The Director. He is a recent graduate of East 15 acting school's Contemporary Theatre course where his debut play Liquid Crystal was produced. He, and his plays, have a stubborn curiousity about how the world works.

Playing Roland, Frankie Golding is a local creative drama school graduate. As an actor, writer, and musician, he aims to challenge theatrical forms and create original work around contemporary British stories and what defines our culture today.

Playing Julia, Renèe Buckland, is a proud actor from Aotearoa New Zealand who graduated East 15 Acting School in 2022. Renèe loves to bring physical theatre and dance into her acting work drawing on her dance training at Brent Street in Sydney, Australia. She’s passionate about showcasing New Zealand people and their stories on the international stage.

Creator of Plot 9 Maze Hill, Andy Millns is the former creative director and co-founder of Inition, an immersive 3D production and tech company that he ran for 15 years. Now back to his roots getting outside and building with natural and salvaged material. Also Curator of Installation Art at Breaking Convention, Europe's largest and longest-running psychedelics conference. 

Andy almost single-handedly built most of what you will see at this snug site tucked beside the railway near Maze Hill station in SE London. His vision is to make Plot 9 a space for Londoners to gather, talk, learn, grow, create and share.