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As one emerges from Tottenham Court Road station, a new icon has been erected, its marque luminous and digital, its black exterior fitting for the location on the edge of Soho. It’s the first new theatre in London’s West End for half a century, and unusually for theatre in the Capital, it’s a rare ‘in-the-rounds’ stage: @sohoplace.

It feels slightly too modern, out of place, new. Alas, this isn’t a bad thing as it challenges the concept of West End theatre we know and love. And just as fitting is the first show running here: Marvellous.

In the upstairs room of a pub, a short walk from Clapham High Street, a collective of creatives set up to showcase a work in progress of their latest project: Patience is a Verb. The Burning Attic team, and the research they’ve collected, forms a production that shines a light firmly on a key issue for trans and non-binary people, telling the modern day ‘Waiting for Godot’ story about the struggles to access the health services needed.

We deserve our stories to be told. We deserve to have our experience listened to and our trauma played out in order to not only heal and mend ourselves, but protect the generations that take over and walk in our footsteps. It’s why theatre, contemporary pieces that exist in pub theatres and on the fringe, are so important, so fundamental to our collective struggle towards success.