1.17am, or until the words run out

A post-show discussion on Thursday, 19 February 2026 with housing journalist Ruby Lott-Lavigna and actors Catherine Ashdown and Eileen Duffy. How do money and housing affect friendships as young people move into adulthood?

Free to ticket holders of that evening’s performance.

Ruby Lott-Lavigna is a journalist and writer based in London. She was previously the political correspondent for openDemocracy, where she was named one of the top Women in Westminster by the House Magazine in 2024. Before that, she was a senior staff writer at VICE UK, where she reported extensively on the global housing crisis. She now works on investigations and strategic communications at the NGO Global Witness, focusing on political lobbying stories, environmental news and human rights. Her work has appeared in VICE, the Guardian, Glamour, WIRED, openDemocracy, Private Eye and others.

A post-show discussion Thursday, 26 February 2026, with bereavement specialist Dr Meherangiz Press and playwright Zoe Hunter Gordon, who first met when Zoe attended bereavement service CWBISS. Grief is never straightforward.  But it's more complex when we have our own grief challenged by the different memories of others. How do we move through these feelings, and what role is there for creativity?

Free to ticket holders of that evening’s performance.

Dr. Meherangiz Press is a Counselling Psychologist with a special interest in the intersections between philosophy, psychology and politics. Existential psychology with its emphasis on the human condition is a mainstay in her work. In 2019 she published her doctoral research on the experience of grief in Syrian refugees in the UK. As a passionate advocate of social justice and mental health, she was a TedX speaker in 2015 on the topic of battling the stigma associated with psychotherapy.

Meherangiz grew up in Mumbai, India, and now lives in London where she works in the NHS within physical health conditions, and also run a small private practice. Everyday she works alongside her clients, whom she considers the true heroes of their own unique stories. She believes that there is something particularly courageous about even acknowledging the experience of grief and feels perpetually honoured to be able to witness clients approach it, work through it, and live with it.

A post-show discussion after the matinee performance of Saturday 28th, February 2026 with playwright David Eldridge (Beginning, Middle, End National Theatre) and playwright Zoe Hunter Gordon.  A discussion about closed time closed space form, writing naturalism in the current theatrical landscape, and how David’s trilogy inspired 1.17am. What does experiencing a show in real time do to an audience in 2026? 

Free to ticket holders of the matinee performance.

David Eldridge’s past productions at the Finborough Theatre include Fighting for Breath and A Week with Tony.

Theatre includes Beginning, Middle and End and Market Boy (National Theatre), The Spy Who Came in from the Cold (Chichester Festival Theatre, Soho Place and National Tour), Holy Warriors (Shakespeare’s Globe), Miss Julie and The Lady from the Sea (Royal Exchange, Manchester) In Basildon, Incomplete and Random Acts of Kindness and Under the Blue Sky (Royal Court Theatre and Duke of York's Theatre), M.A.D. and Serving it Up (Bush Theatre), The Knot of the Heart and Festen (Almeida Theatre), The Stock Da’wa and Falling (Hampstead Theatre), A Thousand Stars Explode in the Sky (Lyric Hammersmith), Babylone (Belgrade Theatre, Coventry), and John Gabriel Borkman, The Wild Duck and Summer Begins (Donmar Warehouse).

He is a Senior Lecturer in Creative Writing at Birkbeck College, University of London. He also writes for radio and TV. Early in 2026 ITV will broadcast his original four-part drama series Betrayal.