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It's the Roaring Twenties in London. The Great War is over, having killed millions of people with it; citizens are going back to their disheveled lives and organised crime thrives in a city that's getting back up on its feet.

Jermyn Street Theatre open the celebrations for their 25th anniversary with a world premiere aged 120. Harley Granville Barker's Agnes Colander: An Attempt At Life was found by the British Library about a century after the Edwardian director wrote it in 1900 and was immediately hailed as a masterpiece.

After winning People's Choice Award in last year's edition of the VAULT Festival, Out Of The Forest Theatre are back with Call Me Fury to tell the stories of unjustly condemned women throughout the centuries.

BBC Writers Room's Hayley Wareham and Flux Theatre present bottled, a jarring original play about domestic abuse.

Nessa Matthews compares the struggles of mental health to an astronaut floating in space. The metaphor she draws in her new solo play Infinity falls into place perfectly and engages the imagination in a colourful journey of healing and acceptance.

A wonderful flat in Central London. You can see Big Ben from one of the windows and you can walk to work. All this for a ridiculous price. 'Where's the catch?'. Tom and Ed are flat-hunting and stumble upon the perfect accommodation, but something's not right.

Shaun Amos explores the relationship with his deceased father in Ashes, a confused piece of dark comedy that doesn't reach the desired objective. First presented at The Arcola Theatre Scratch Night, it's a rollercoaster. Amos details his childhood and family life with sincerity and brashness, depicting a troubled youth and making no excuses for it.

After years of world-wide success, girlband Get RREEL are breaking up. Ireland's pride and joy are hosting one last intimate concert to explain to their most loyal fans why they've taken this decision.

Following her award-winning Bicycles and Fish, Katie Arnstein is back at VAULT Festival with Sexy Lamp, an honest and straightforward account of her beginnings as an actress and a cutting analysis of the flaws and sexism of the business.

Anonymous Is A Woman strikes again with a disquieting site-specific show about consent and its withdrawal. Inspired by the Aziz Ansari scandal where a woman referred to as 'Grace' accused the comedian of pressuring her into sex while he stood by the opinion that it was merely a bad date, Greyscale is an exploration of blurred lines and personal stance.

Superhoe marks Nicole Lecky's debut at the Royal Court Theatre in the venue's first collaboration with Talawa Theatre Company. Written and performed by the actress, the monologue sees 24-year-old Sasha taking one wrong turn after the next.

Bertie is living a hectic life in London. When everything starts to go wrong, she moves to the seaside for the Summer to clear her head and figure out what her next step should be. When she bumps into Violet, her world slows downs and begins spinning again at a different speed.

Part of VAULT Festival and performed at the Network Theatre, Ringmaster is introduced as being vaguely based on La Ronde. Schintzler's subversive 1900 play, banned and censored by his contemporaries, presents an analysis of the sexual costumes of the time.

Tom dreams of being a famous actor. But it's hard to break into the industry and a day-job waiting tables takes its toll. Then, while cast in a fringe play he's met with a huge opportunity that goes against his beliefs and borders the inappropriate. The next step is up to him.

Sally (Madeleine MacMahon) is celebrating her 16th birthday seeing her favourite band playing live. Everything seems to be going well in her life and she looks happy as she can be, especially on that night. Except that she's not feeling that great on the inside. Olivier Award winner Jon Brittain writes a playful epic about navigating depression.

Mark and Marichka Marczyk fought in the Kiev Uprising in 2014. They witnessed life and death, injustice and dictatorship first hand before they decided to tell their story.

Christopher Adams and Timothy Allsop draw on their real-life experience to paint a vivid picture of an open couple. They tell their tale aided by the audience, who are called on multiple times to read transcripts from their conversations, Grindr messages, and personal texts from the pair.

A man and his daughter move into Ann's block of flats, except that he says there's no little girl with him. The woman, addicted to watching people's lives through her window, grows an obsession with the mystery. A vision that's too-quickly deteriorating and a penchant for seclusion lead her to go a step too far.

Written by David Thame, Kompromat was inspired by the still-unsolved murder of a GCHQ agent and sees young Zac (Max Rinehart) coming to terms with his action. Arriving to London from a sex-trafficking circuit based in Budapest, his only goal is to either get cryptographer Tom to work for the mob or to get rid of him.

Anima Theatre Company present Blue Departed, a show marketed as a re-imagination of Dante's Inferno. On paper, it sounds interesting but on stage it becomes a vague exploration of love and drug abuse.