New theatre writing company Cheeky Maggot are holding a rehearsed reading of The Shape Shifter at the Hampstead Theatre, Swiss Cottage, London on the 15th April at 7.30pm. We've just interviewed Amber Agar, who founded the company, so check out the interview.

'When the love of enigma… and the enigma of love become one.'

Written by young award-winning writer RL Nesvet The Shape Shifter is directed by exciting new director Kelly Wilkinson.

Kelly is a resident at The Hampstead Theatre, working with The Heat and Light Co and now in close association with up and coming playwright Nick Grosso.

In this gripping and thought-provoking piece set in 19th century France, questions about the notion of identity are raised when Dr Gilbert Chesnet "diagnoses" 18-year old Alice Barbin as a biological male.

As the boundaries between the sexes blur, conventional ideas of medicine, religion and the very fabric of society are put under the microscope as the age-old question of how we define ourselves is challenged.

The cast includes Lucy Davenport (film credits include Martin Scorcese's Gangs of New York and Sylvia) Anna Tolputt (The Entertainer with David Threlfall at Derby Playhouse), Lorna Bennet, Alastair Danson and Eleanor Montgomery.

Cheeky Maggot Theatre was founded by actress Amber Agar (series regular for ITV's "Murder City" and recently seen in" Age-Sex-Location" at the Riverside Studios, for which she received glowing reviews from The Times, The Telegraph and The Evening Standard.

See our WriteWords interview with Amber.