A new play about our prejudices and identity in the age of suicide bombings in Europe by award-winning Swedish playwright and novelist Jonas Hassen Khemiri.
This winter, JM Barrie's much-loved tale takes flight. Exploring the possibilities and pain of growing up, it's a riot of magic, mischief, music and make-believe.
A reportage play. Valerie wants a job, Frank wants to run the marathon--Paul, Philip and Alan just want to hold on. This dramatic piece of reportage draws on interviews with murderers to create stark, uncompromising portraits of people rebuilding their lives.
Pip, a poor village boy, finds two chance meetings set his life on an unexpected course. At the water's edge, he has a terrifying encounter with an escaped convict. In the decaying grandeur of Miss Haversham's house, he falls hopelessly in love with the heartless Estella. When an anonymous benefactor helps him move to Calcutta, the heart of the British Raj, Pip pursues his great expectations and his dream of winning Estella's heart. Relocating Pip's extraordinary journey to nineteenth-century India, this coming-of-age story, evoking some of Dickens' most colourful characters, is faithful to the period of the book and the richness of Dickens' language - a vivid theatrical retelling of a universally loved masterpiece.
A sunny September day. Heather Smithson, a senior MI5 controller, has a dilemma. Her job is on the line. She pauses in the sunshine to brood on recent events and what they mean in her life. Seattle, Genoa, New York: What is the battleground? Who is the enemy?Hyperlynx was performed as a one act rehearsed reading at the Edinburgh Festival in August 2001. Its grim premonition of the terrorist activity of September 11th, necessitated that John McGrath wrote a second act. He completed the play in November before his death in January 2002.Hyperlynx was the winner of the Fringe First Award, Edinburgh 2002
A biting cultural satire on media cynicism and the world of celebrity where you can go from nothing to everything and back again in the space of a YouTube video.
New play from critically acclaimed poet, described as "the best dramatic poet now at work " by the Daily Telegraph
In 2006, two leading barristers: Philippe Sands QC and Julian Knowles tested the evidence of the grounds for an indictment of the British Prime Minister for the crime of aggression against Iraq. This book gathers the arguments and testimony, examining the criminal implications of the British Government's decision to use force against Iraq.
Bombay and Wembley collide in this comedy drama which explores community, sexuality and identity.
When Thomas reveals that he once fathered a son in a long-ago fling, the pair set off across the Irish countryside to seek the unknown child, with nothing more than a hobble and a limp to help them. A fable about tradition in a mad place, this title is a tale of the very old Thomas and his even more ancient 'da'.
A fierce, fabulous, edgy musical comedy about the steady rise of the right wing in a small Welsh town.
Inspired by the magazine problem pages they read growing up in the 90s and 00s, in Ask Me Anything, The Paper Birds become the agony aunts. Using the real letters sent to the company, this verbatim show explores what young people think, want and worry about today.
Sex/Crime is a darkly comic queer thriller: an exciting, challenging play that explores sex, violence, language, fear and queerness.
Inua Ellams' magical retelling of the much loved story by Antoine de Saint-Exupery turns the Little Prince into a descendant of an African race in a parallel galaxy.
A one-man tragi-comedy from award-winning playwright Rob Hayes, premiering at the Edinburgh Festival 2014.
A riotous journey through four waves of immigration from the seventeenth century to today.
A twisting two-hander, a psychological thriller from the acclaimed author of Belongings.
The streets of Notting Hill are alive with history and amongst the pulsating soca, dazzling colour, and endless sequins and feathers, Jade and Nadine are fighting for space in a world they thought was theirs.
The 14th Tale is a beautiful mellifluous narrative that tells the hilarious exploits of a natural born mischief.
The spirit and atmosphere of Herman Melville's masterpiece - romantic, ambiguous, characterful and rich with allegory is captured onstage.
The harvest is ripe in a Black Country pear orchard. Seasoned hands settle to familiar tasks and the ritual education of newcomers. But corrupted lands yield a bitter crop. The weather turns, friction mounts, and pesticide begins to fall.
A darkly comedic coming-of-age solo play, Before I Was A Bear is a modern myth about the power dynamics of sexuality and shame, women's relationships with each other, and an affair with a hot TV detective.
A gripping philosophical clash between Pope Benedict XVI and the future Pope Francis.
A controversial new musical from an acclaimed team of writers and performers.
A viciously funny and unforgettable play about first love, teenage lust and nature vs nurture.
This funny, life-affirming play is infused with humour and humanity. Tender and touching, Visitors is an elegiac celebration of a lifetime shared.
A new Christmas show adapted from the classic German children's novel, first published in the UK in 1931.
Written by one of Poland's leading playwrights, Tadeusz Slobodzianek. Based on a tragic, historic event that happened in the town of Jedwabne , Poland in 1941, Our Class chronicles the lives of ten classmates from their childhood in the 1920s to the beginning of the new millennium. Translated by Ryan Craig
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