Meet the company for the world premiere of Safe Space by Jamie Bogyo, opening in the Minerva Theatre this autumn, directed by Roy Alexander Weise.

Bola Akeju (Ted Lasso, School Girls; or, The African Mean Girls Play) plays Stacy; Jamie Bogyo (Moulin Rouge! The Musical, The Devil Wears Prada, Operation Epsilon), whose debut play this is, also plays Connor; Céline Buckens, (Showtrial, The Ex-Wife, Suspect) plays Annabelle; Ernest Kingsley Jr. (Is God Is, Washington Black) plays Isaiah; and Ivan Oyik (Little Brother, Ludwig) plays Omar.

The winds of change are blowing through the elite ivy-league halls of one of America’s most prestigious universities. For students Isaiah, Connor, Annabelle, Omar and Stacy, on the precipice of starting their adult lives, life is no longer about getting through a political science lecture with a hangover and auditioning for the school acapella group. Confronting the injustices of the past is top of the agenda – starting with the fact that the college is named after a notorious defender of slavery. And in this pressure cooker environment, everyone has to pick a side.

Beneath the passionate speeches, do old prejudices die hard? What happens to friendship and love amidst frank debate?

Whip-smart, hilarious and bracing, Safe Space runs Sat 11 Oct – Sat 8 Nov; book your tickets now.