No Apologies

Marlborough Productions present No Apologies by Emma Frankland.

A radical, queer mis-remembering of Nirvana’s iconic 1993 MTV Unplugged concert.After a critically acclaimed run at the Edinburgh Festival in 2025 (winning the Bragi Award for creativity and artistic excellence and a Besties Award for new writing) this brilliantly witty and emotionally powerful show embarks on a major world tour.Urgent and politically sharp, No Apologies is a spectacular collision between theatre and grunge, autobiography and alternate history, weaving together threads of pop culture with mythology and ritual, fuelled by the experience of coming-of-age in the nineties.“This is precisely the kind of fearless, formally inventive, emotionally devastating theatre the medium needs.” The Theatre TimesWritten and performed by Emma Frankland, multi award-winning writer for theatre and TV.

With spectacular direction from Harry Clayton Wright, featuring original music and an anarchic sound score by punk composer Keir Cooper, produced by Marlborough Productions - nationally and internationally recognised producers of queer-led, intersectional performance.“Emma Frankland creates a ritualised spectacle, a vigil full of grief, joy and wild abandon.

And hope.

This ruddy gorgeous show is a call to live your life on your own terms and to the very full, and whether you are trans or not, that’s a lifesaver in every way.” Lyn Gardner, The Stage