Runner Girl

Runner Girl returns for a one night only special at Theatre Peckham after a sold-out run at Lion and Unicorn Theatre as part of Camden Fringe Festival 2025. Join us in experiencing more poetry and spoken word, more movement, and more music before the piece goes into further music and movement development for 2026.

Anu has just arrived back home from uni and is navigating a world of buried feelings that rise to the surface after one terrifying encounter with a stranger. Runner Girl is a raw and relentless rhythmic story of a young woman who misses her Mum, a young woman whose been running from young, in more ways than one - but in this case, her routinely jog takes a terrifying turn triggering long-buried wounds she’s fought hard to keep hidden. This is a piece full of poems and prayers, rhymes and rhythms, and music and movement, following Anu on a path she was determined to not travel: visiting love lost, old wounds opened, and new truths given space to unfold.

Running Time: 75 mins

Age Recommendation:    14+

Content Information: Strong language and references to sexual assault, sexual harassment and suicidal thoughts.