This week's episode comes fresh from the West End, and we are trying our best not to become nemeses with Colman Domingo.

Colman Domingo, we love you!

https://theapollotheatre.co.uk/tickets/retrograde/

Renata and Rasa remind us of the importance of leaving your toxic partner behind, whilst watching Alterations at the National.

https://www.nationaltheatre.org.uk/productions/alterations/

We are back from summer holidays with a banger! We went to see not one, but two (!) musicals! We might not be able to escape the death grip of American playwrights, but we diversified a bit tho! Right guys?...

Guys?..

TW: Blood; themes of Suicide, poor mental health, death.

Renata and Rasa go see the acclaimed play, Slave Play on the West End.

Listen to us trying to do our best to hate on Skeleton Crew at Donmar Warehouse!

For the very first episode of We're Just Haterz Renata and Rasa go to see My Father's Fable at the Bush Theatre.

Renata and Rasa slightly disagree on Oedipus, but sound crisp doing it!

https://www.oldvictheatre.com/stage/oedipus/

In the first episode of 2025 Renata and Rasa learn The Importance of Getting a New Mic!

Have a delicious listen!

Our first International Episode! We watched The Years at the ITA (Amsterdam, NL). direction and adaptation Eline Arbo based on the book by Annie Ernaux translation Hofstede music Thijs van Vuure set Juul Dekker costume Rebekka Wörmann and Bonnie Brandt (intern) lightning Varja Klosse en Emanuel Nijkerk (intern) dramaturgy Willemijn Barelds and Hiske Krammer (intern) assistant director Ludy Golstein cast Mariana Aparicio, Nettie Blanken, Janni Goslinga, Ilke Paddenburg and June Yanez co-production Het Nationale Theater and Internationaal Theater Amsterdam

We are back to our regularly scheduled programme with National's The Other Place.

A new play by Alexander Zeldin
After Antigone
In association with A Zeldin Company

Director - Alexander Zeldin

Set & Costume designer - Rosanna Vize

Lighting designer - James Farncombe

Sound designer - Josh Anio Grigg

Cast includes Emma D’Arcy, Jerry Killick, Nina Sosanya, Tobias Menzies, Alison Oliver, Lee Braithwaite

In this week's episode Renata and Rasa are reconsidering changing the name of the pod.

BRACE BRACE @ Royal Court

Author - Oli Forsyth

Director - Daniel Raggett

Movement director - George Mann

Fight director - Alex Payne

Set & costume designer - Anna Reid

Lighting designer - Simeon Miller

Sound designer - Paul Arditti

Video/projection designer - Matt Powell

Casting director - Arthur Carrington

Cast includes: Anjana Vasan, Craige Els, Phil Dunster

This week Renata and Rasa went to the National and produced an episode that might be a bit of a shocker...

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Author - Tanika Gupta

Composer - Nitin Sawhney

Dramaturg - Ola Animashawun, Sasha Milavic Davies

Director - Pooja Ghai

Movement director - Anjali Mehra

Fight/Intimacy director - Rachel Bown-Williams

Set/costume designer - Rosa Maggiora

Lighting designer - Matt Haskins

Sound designer - Elena Peña

Vocal/dialect coach - Hazel Holder, Tamsin Newlands

Casting director - Naomi Downham

Cast includes - Meera Syal, Natalie Dew, Avita Jay, Marc Elliott, Raj Bajaj, Shobna Gulati, Stephen Fewell, Zubin Varla

Renata and Rasa get quite emotional while discussing The Real Ones at the Bush Theatre.

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. Author - Waleed Akhtar

Dramaturg - Titilola Dawudu

Director - Anthony Simpson-Pike

Assistant director - Ashen Gupta

Movement director - Iskandar Sharazuddin

Intimacy director - Robbie Taylor Hunt

Set & Costume designer - Anisha Fields

Lighting designer - Christopher Nairne

Sound designer - Xana

Video/projection designer - Matt Powell

Vocal/dialect coach - Gurkiran Kaur

Renata and Rasa loose half of their audio and manage to make a short episode for a change, discussing Death of England: Delroy.

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DEATH OF ENGLAND: DELROY

@sohoplace

Author: Clint Dyer and Roy Williams

Director: Clint Dyer

Performer: Paapa Essiedu

Co-Set & Costume Design: Sadeysa Greenaway-Bailey, ULTZ

Lighting Design: Jackie Shemesh

Co-Sound Design: Benjamin Grant, Pete Malkin

This week Renata and Rasa learn that once you dismantle a play, you might not be able to rebuild it. Pun indeed intended.

https://www.delfontmackintosh.co.uk/whats-on/my-master-builder

This week we watched the show that definitely pushed the envelope!

https://www.hampsteadtheatre.com/whats-on/2025/apex-predator/

We are back with the talk of the town!

https://www.evitathemusical.com/

We are back with a sexy one!

https://www.delfontmackintosh.co.uk/whats-on/born-with-teeth

Almeida led us into a nihilistic doomsday spiral or another cheerful WRJH episode!

https://almeida.co.uk/whats-on/a-moon-for-the-misbegotten/

Can a theatre go through puberty?

This and much more on this week's episode all about Showmanisim by Dickie Beau at the Hampstead theatre.

https://www.hampsteadtheatre.com/whats-on/2025/showmanism/