Break-Thru Productions presents

THE COLD ROOM

Written and Directed by Lunga Yeni

Set within the fractured intimacy of a rehearsal space, The Cold Room unravels the unspoken power dynamics between three Black creatives navigating art, identity and survival within a system that both desires and erases them.

Part psychological drama, part meta-theatrical reckoning, the play explores how performance becomes both mask and mirror, asking what it costs to speak when silence is safer. Through an interplay of movement, language and live video, the production shifts between reality and memory, humour and heartbreak, legacy and loss.

Meet the cast

REN LAWRENCE

Coletta

Ren trained at Rose Bruford College, reading American Theatre Arts, and spent a year at Stephen F. Austin State University, where she was cast in Hairspray the Musical. Classically trained, Ren has played roles from Shakespeare to Debbie Tucker Green and Sam Shepard, working at major theatres including the Royal National Theatre, Shakespeare’s Globe and Hackney Empire. Her independent film work includes Break-Thru Productions’ Disposable Angels, selected for screening at Cannes Short Film Festival.

YVETTE ROCHESTER DUNCAN

Kemi

Yvette’s theatre credits include Much Ado About Nothing (Novello Theatre, RSC – The Complete Works Festival), The Big Life (Apollo Theatre), Mother Courage (Nottingham Playhouse and national tour), Funny Black Women on the Edge (Theatre Royal Stratford East), Off Camera (West Yorkshire Playhouse), Fruit Salad (Greenwich Theatre) and The Thing About Shirley (Hackney Empire). Television credits include Casualty, Don’t Shoot the Messenger, The Bill, Touching Evil, Chef and Club Class. Voice-over work includes Jim Jam & Sunny for CITV.

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CREATIVES

Producer: Luyanda
Videographer: Russell Nii Evans
Set Designer: Robin Thomson
Composers: Alas de Colibri and Laine Powell
Choreography: Luyanda and Lunga

CREW

Stage Manager: Chin Cool
Stage Assistant: Sonia Davis

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