Routes

Rachel De-lahay’s debut play at the Royal Court was The Westbridge, which opened at the Bussey Building in Peckham in 2011 as part of Theatre Local, before playing to full houses in the Jerwood Theatre Upstairs. It was awarded the Alfred Fagon Award, while still unproduced. Rachel was part of the Royal Court’s Unheard Voices Writers' Programme and won the 2012 Writers' Guild Award for Best Play. She is currently under commission with the National Theatre Studio, Film Four, and Birmingham Rep.

Routes is a sharp-edged sketch . . . It plaits together tales of three young men who feel rejected personally or politically with tales of two white women . . . who have ducked and dived into some kind of power.