A staged-reading double-bill
Book tickets on the Drayton Arms Theatre website
Tuesday 28th October 2025 7.30pm
The Drayton Arms Theatre, Old Brompton Road, London
https://www.thedraytonarmstheatre.co.uk/talking-to-dad-blank
Talking To Dad
Sometimes the generational gap is a blessing and a curse – Susannah and her father Peter, attempt to reconnect over casual chat about newspapers, friends, relationships and family bonds in a light-hearted look at family life.
Cast
Susannah – Holly-Anne White
Peter –
Steven –
About The Cast
Holly-Anne White is an Actor, Director, and Filmmaker and A graduate of Drama Studio London (2021)
Outside her role as General Manager at The Playground Theatre, she has expanded her creative practice into production.
Recent credits include serving as Production Assistant on Ruby Wax’s national tour ‘I’m Not As Well As I Thought I Was’ and as Deputy Manager on ‘Rehab: The Musical (2024)’, a production she continues to support.
As a director, Holly-Anne has worked across showreels, short films, and events. Her most recent film, ‘Eat The Rich’, won the People’s Choice Award at the 24 Hour Film Festival. She directed the premiere of ‘Wifi-Sexual’ at The Penge Bridge House Theatre in 2023, before two subsequent runs in 2024. The production transferred to The Playground Theatre in September 2024, where it earned an Offie nomination for Best New Play. She also collaborated with Broken Gods Productions, directing ‘D.C Richard Head’ (2024) earning a nomination for Standing Ovation Awards.
Her stage acting credits include Rowena in A Level Playing Field (dir. Jonathan Guy Lewis), and Nan King in Tipping The Velvet (dir. Jelena Budmir). On screen, she has appeared as Shona in Piqued Interest (dir. Kieran Jenkins) and Inara Vilani in Doctor Who Guardian (dir. Dan Clark).
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Two people one problem – they both think the other person is in the wrong place and wrong time. A comical look at the bonds that define us and what happens when these bonds are taken away. A whimsical tale for a world in confusion.
Cast
One –
Two – Eva Ceroni Marti
About the Cast
Eva Ceroni Marti
Eva Ceroni Marti trained at Drama Studio London’s where she obtained an MFA in Professional Acting with Independent Production. She is also a member of the National Youth Theatre.
Eva is British, with Spanish-Italian origins and speaks Italian, Spanish, and Catalan fluently.
You can currently find her in The Paddington Bear Experience at the County Hall. Theatre work includes “Tit(s) for Tat” (which she also produced, at TheSpace on the Mile), Knockouts (Grange Theatre), The Picture of Dorian Gray (The Playground Theatre), Endings (with NYT), The Nutcracker (Phoenix Theatre). Performances whilst in training include Richard III, She Stoops to Conquer and The Cherry Orchard.
