Conviction

To the right is a silhouette pen-style drawing of a man and a woman reaching to each other from each pan of a set of scales. Below them is the bottom half of a planet topped with flames. To the left is the title "Conviction" in yellow irregular full caps font. Below it the subtitle in a white distressed typewriter style "Love. The Law. The Climate." The background is green with black speckled texturing. Across the bottom of the image are the names “Grant • Walker • Caldicot • Kitch” on a black line-textured background.
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Maria, climate activist, pregnant, is arrested, tried for closing a vital motorway for two days. The disrupted public give evidence. Furious Gen Z activists tangle with the court. They’re also jokey, sorry for the disruption but the climate is bigger – and there is a way out, if only ‘they’ would concentrate, act. Jason loves Maria but tries to persuade her there’s a better way to get the message across. Will their baby be born in jail? Should baby boomers have done more, sooner. Activists face the Law. Is Maria guilty or a hero? We, the audience, are the Jury. The planet heats.

Conviction Rehearsed Reading Cast – October 2026

Headshots of Marianne Oldham, Kim Ismay, Kurt Kansley & Mark Carlisle

Time-bomb BEAM 2025 Cast

A row of seven headshots. The first is a headshot of Cassiopeia Berkeley-Agyepong, a black woman with chin length braids and dark brown eyes. She is wearing a black, ribbed turtleneck top. The second is a headshot of Sophie-Louise Dann, a middle-aged white woman with short ginger hair. She had light green eyes. She is wearing glossy coral lipstick and a dark teal fair isle jumper. The background is grey. The third is a headshot of Shobna Gulati, a middle-aged brown non-binary person with long dark grey hair. They have a mole above the left side of their lips and strong, manicured dark eyebrows. The background is dark grey and they are wearing an olive green shirt. The fourth is a headshot of Amy Parker, a white woman with brown hair which is tied up. She has blue eyes and is wearing a square golden earring and a golden pendant necklace over a blue t-shirt. The background is dark grey. The fifth is a headshot of Jack Reitman, a young white man with short dark hair and brown eyes. He is wearing a dark green, corduroy shirt. The top button is open and some chest hair shows. The background is textured grey. The sixth is a headshot of Clive Rowe, a middle-aged black man with very short hair. He smiles with his mouth closed. He is wearing a burgundy button-up top and standing in front of a green hedge. The seventh is a headshot of EM Williams, a young non-binary mixed-race person with hair shaved at the sides and with short blond-tipped curls on top. They have a septum piercing and a hoop in their right earlobe. The background is grey and they are wearing a white sweatshirt. The actors names are written at the bottom of each headshot.
A silhouette pen-style drawing of a man and a woman reaching to each other from each pan of a set of scales. Below them is the bottom half of a planet topped with flames. At the top is the title "Conviction" in yellow irregular full caps font. Below it the subtitle in a white distressed typewriter style "Love. The Law. The Climate." The background is green with black speckled texturing and the bottom fifth is black line-textured background.

Conviction has its first professional rehearsed reading

The first professional rehearsed readings of this new play by Ian Grant, and music by Chris Walker & Kitch, will take place on the 6th & 7th October in London.Writer, Ian Grant, fills us in on the new direction for Conviction…Maria, our climate activist...
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A curved glazed building with yellow brickwork above. A black sign over the windows reads LEEDS CONSERVATOIRE in white text with a broken rectangle around the words.

Conviction – The verdict at Leeds

Our week at Leeds Conservatoire was marked by the students’ work ethic – they were in the studio 20 minutes before call time, preparing and warming-up their voices – and their enthusiasm to experiment with new elements of Conviction.P Burton-Morgan directed and...
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To the right is a silhouette pen-style drawing of a man and a woman reaching to each other from each pan of a set of scales. Below them is the bottom half of a planet topped with flames. To the left is the title "Conviction" in yellow irregular full caps font. Below it the subtitle in a white distressed typewriter style "Love. The Law. The Climate." The background is green with black speckled texturing. Across the bottom of the image are the names “Grant • Walker • Caldicot • Kitch” on a black line-textured background.

Time-bomb becomes “Conviction”

We’ve re-titled the show formerly known as Time-bomb. Please welcome Conviction.We began to feel that 'Time-bomb', although it suggests the imminent explosion of the effects of the climate emergency and the clock inexorably ticking down, is too distant from the...
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Ten students pose with Ian Grant, Christopher Walker and Meredith Braun in front of a wooden single-story building. The building name, The Nest, appears in big orange letters at the top of the building.

Working with Chichester University students @ The Nest

*Time-bomb (working title) is now titled Conviction.Time Productions were delighted to be invited to Chichester Festival Theatre's studio space, The Nest, to work with University of Chichester music theatre students. Particular thanks to Meredith Braun, Senior...
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Jack Reitman, Cassiopeia Berkeley-Agyepong, Sophie-Louise Dann and Amy Parker pose in front of the Birmingham Hippodrome building sign. There is a BEAM showcase 2025 poster displaying on the screen above their heads.

Presenting Time-bomb at BEAM 2025

*Time-bomb (working title) is now titled Conviction.We presented our climate-justice musical Time-bomb at BEAM2025. BEAM is co-produced by Musical Theatre Network and Mercury Musical Developments and took place this year on 15th & 16th May at the Birmingham...
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Two girls in school blazers face each other on stage. One is brown skinned with braids, the other is white and has a blonde plait.They both hold scripts in their hands. Behind them is a brick wall hung with the Morpeth academy crest and on either side pop art style portraits. On the stage there is a keyboard, a drum kit, 3 amps and a yellow chair.

Co-creating Time-bomb with our new audience

*Time-bomb (working title) is now titled Conviction.Time-bomb is inspired by events that happened in Essex, north Kent and by the ripple effects on those travelling in and out of East London. It looks closely at the effect the climate emergency has on Gen Z.  To...
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