Theatre
CYRANO DE BERGERAC | 2025 - 2026
‘No master to serve, no leash to bear. I walk as I please, and I speak as I dare.’
Poet. Soldier. Philosopher. Cyrano de Bergerac burns with brilliance.
Debris’s co-adaption of CYRANO DE BERGERAC for the Royal Shakespeare Company (RSC) alongside Simon Evans, and starring Adrian Lester, is transferring to London’s West End (Noël Coward Theatre) this summer after a sell out 5* run at the RSC.
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“Playful, poignant, profound”
Financial Times
★★★★★
“This huge-hearted production is enchanting”
The Times | Dominic Maxwell Read full review
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The Mail on Sunday | Neil Armstrong
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The Stage | Dave Fargnoli Read full review
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WhatsOnStage | Sarah Crompton Read full review
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The Guardian
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The Telegraph
Adrian Lester in Cyrano de Bergerac | Credit: photograph by Marc Brenner
MY BROTHER’S A GENIUS | 2025-2026
Poetry, grime and movement unite in this explosive new play about learning to fall, fail and find our own ways to fly.
My Brother’s a Genius by Debris Stevenson toured to UK schools and theatres in Spring 2026, in a major co-production with Sheffield Theatres and National Youth Theatre.
Daisy and Luke are twins navigating life in a high-rise estate, where ambition and self-doubt collide. Both twins have labels thrust upon them: Daisy the “idiot” and Luke the “genius”. But will their bond and shared dream of flying launch them up together or crash them apart?
Based on conversations with young people across the UK and created and written by Debris Stevenson (Poet in da Corner, Royal Court), My Brother’s a Genius combines poetry, grime and movement to explore neurodivergence, sibling rivalry, and the weight of expectations.
Credit: photograph by Chris Saunders
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Northern Arts Review | Phil Scown Read full review
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Everything Theatre | Harriet Ruggiano Read full review
MUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHING | 2023
Some Cupid kills with arrows, some with traps
By William Shakespeare
Remixed by Debris Stevenson
Directed by Josie Daxter
Shakespeare’s much-loved comedy meets reality TV romance in a raucous and lyrical adaptation by poet and playwright Debris Stevenson (Poet in da Corner, Royal Court) at the iconic Duke of York’s Theatre in London’s West End. Josie Daxter (NYT alumna), who has worked extensively with The PappyShow and Complicite, playfully directs this modern-day love story as we go behind the cameras into a loved-up world of gossip, matchmaking and manipulation. Don’t miss some of Britain’s best young talent taking over the West End with 1000 £10 tickets on sale for this 10th anniversary NYT REP Company production.
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The Reviews Hub | Jane Darcy Read full review
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The Stage | Alexander Cohen Read full review
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Sardines | Susan Elkin Read full review
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Theatre Weekly | Greg Stewart Read full review
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London Theatre 1 | Chris Omaweng Read full review
TREASON THE MUSICAL | 2022-
Credit: photograph by Mark Senior
Treason is the exciting new musical drama about the gunpowder plot, set to completely blow you away with a stunning new score and lyrics, featuring a fusion of original folk and pop songs that tell a crucial tale in England's history.
Debris has played the role of Narrator in the streamed concert of Treason in 2021 and in the live 2 day show in 2022 that sold out The Theatre Royal, Drury Lane where Debris also joined the creative team writing additional narrative material.
The Guardian described Debris as “a force as fierce as the flames that lap on a back-screen […] her energy and fizzing poetry hold us breathless”.
POET IN DA CORNER | 2020 & 2018
Following its critically acclaimed premiere in 2018, this coming of age story inspired by Dizzee Rascal's seminal album, returns for a limited run before going on tour. In a strict Mormon household somewhere in the seam between East London and Essex, a girl is given Dizzee Rascal's ground-breaking grime album Boy in da Corner by her best friend SS Vyper.
The Poet in da Corner soundtrack is available on all streaming services and an educational resource pack for the show is available here.
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“One of the most exciting things I’ve seen all year and marks out writer/performer/lyricist/dancer Debris Stevenson as one of the brightest emerging talents around. It is, in short, the real deal” Evening Standard | Fiona Mountford Read full review
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“Thrilling… Words blaze the stage and Stevenson appears like the Kate Tempest of grime”
The Guardian | Arifa Akbar Read full review
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“An inspiring, thoroughly enjoyable evening full of possibilities for where Stevenson — and theatre itself — might go next”
The Times | Dominic Maxwell Read full review
★ ★ ★ ★
“Debris Stevenson’s show is totally, boldly different from anything else”
Time Out | Alice Saville Read full review
THE SONG PROJECT | 2021
The Song Project began as a bold experiment bringing together a group of artists and playwrights to co-create in a new way, starting with the idea that some things can only be sung.
Conceived by Royal Court associate designer Chloe Lamford and award-winning Dutch singer and composer Wende, in collaboration with composer Isobel Waller-Bridge, choreographer Imogen Knight and playwrights E.V. Crowe, Sabrina Mahfouz, Somalia Nonyé Seaton, Stef Smith and Debris Stevenson, The Song Project focuses on those moments in life where rationality feels irrelevant.
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“‘I particularly loved the pulsating scariness of Debris Stevenson's Horror Story, sung against a red-lit wall, with its sharp observations about a nightmare of domestic life – "I'd moved into a fridge, the same colour as the toaster/colour as the sofa, colour as a bridge"’
WhatsOnStage | Sarah Crompton Read full review
Credit: Header photography by Helen Murray