DOUGLAS BOOTH

(left) and Tony Revolori (right) play Howie and Solomon, respectively, in U.S. playwright Stephen Karam’s 2007 dark comedy Speech & Debate, which Tom Attenborough will direct for Defibrillator productions at the Trafalgar Studio 2 from February 22. The play, which includes within it moments from Arthur Miller’s The Crucible — given a musical treatment — plus an homage to Wicked, is about three students (the third is still to be cast) who unite to bring down a male teacher who abuses boys.