In March 2003, young American activist Rachel Corrie lost her life when she placed herself between an Israeli army bulldozer and a Palestinian home. Composed from her own diaries and e-mails by Alan Rickman and Katharine Viner, this eloquent, moving and deeply personal play...
A Halloween night of whispers, secrets and mounting unease, where a search for answers becomes something far more dangerous.
The eccentric Bliss family – Judith, a recently retired actress, David, a self-absorbed novelist, and their two unconventional children – live in a world where reality slides easily into fiction. Upon entering this world, the weekend guests – a proper diplomat, a shy flapper, an athletic boxer…
“A lot of dance is Disneyfied. But art has to be challenging.' These are the wise, and provocative words of choreographer Pam Tanowitz. Tanowitz returns to the Barbican with her latest work Pastoral. Premiered in June 2025, the piece uses Beethoven's 6th Symphony as inspiration, specifically ideas…
There is a reason why Noël Coward's comedies are still being revived a century after they were written: his rapid-fire dialogue, brimming with vigour and wit skewered the British class system and created vibrant comedy that still resonates today. When they are performed well, there is little to ri…
Deafinitely Theatre reiterate that creative captioning and BSL integration don’t only make theatre more accessible, they can also be brilliant artistic choices. After adapting Mark Bartlett’s Contraction in 2017, they’re now tackling his play about corporate bullying. Bull provides a multidime…
Actors start your engines. Edward Albee’s masterpiece for four lives and dies on the horsepower of its performers. Albee does not batter you with ideological interrogation. Its sparks fly from watching it performs bash into each other, lashing each other with venomous cruelty in one breath, then l…
The two face off as George and Martha, one of theatre's most notoriously dysfunctional couples in Albee's hilarious and provocative masterpiece. They are joined by Carrie Coon and Madison Dirks as the unwitting young couple invited over to George and Martha's for an unforgettable night of cocktails …
Anders Lustgarten’s play may have been written in 2017, but its core subject could be lifted off today’s newspapers. As right-wing propaganda gains more traction by the day, this is a revival of staggering relevance. Extremism sees a secondary school being rattled by the fallout of radicalisatio…
If you're in the mood for a cosy crime play in a cosy theatre this autumn, Murder Before Evensong will more than suffice. With plenty fans of the book will appreciate and enough newcomers will enjoy, you'll be in for a night of humour and intrigue.…
Olivier Award winner Rory Kinnear stars as John Maynard Keynes, the radical economist and member of the influential Bloomsbury Group who became the singular driving force behind arts funding in Britain and built a new and fairer financial model, that ultimately helped reshape the Western World in th…
An early tableau in Robert Chesley’s 1986 play Jerker involves a character masturbating to a generic message on his answering machine. It’s not the last masturbation scene in the play – which was once the subject of an obscenity-related censorship attempt on Californian radio – nor is it the…
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THE STRANGE CASE OF DR. JEKYLL & MR. HYDENick Lanes thrilling adaptation of Robert Louis Stevensons dark psychological fantasy, The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll And Mr Hyde .Prepare to be immersed into the myth and mystery of 19th century Londons fog-bound streets where love...
Do you have an imaginary friend? A little piece of mischief only you can see?Sophias imaginary friend is called Mr. Whatsit. No matter where Sophia finds herself living, hes always there with a new joke to tell and a new game to play.But when Sophia moves into her new foster...
Let me meet you a tree. What can you see beneath the blue sky as summer floats by?Meet me a Tree is an interactive first opera for 0-2 year olds and their carers with music by Schumann, Delibes and Handel as well as words and music created by the company. HurlyBurly invites you...
IMPROMPTU SHAKESPEARESad that Shakespeare hasnt written anything new for over 400 years? Well, hold onto your doublets, ruffs and trunk hose. The Bard is back!With story and verse improvised in the moment, enjoy a riotous new Shakespeare play every time performed by Impromptu...
Michael Frayns Alarms and Excursions takes a hilarious look at societys tortuous relationship with modern technology. Exposing how comically baffling new fangled machinery can be in its dealings with us, and the double-edged relationship we maintain with the tools which aim to...
A celebration of queerness and not fitting in.Harry explores their autism and their sexuality, and how these intersect with their class identity, growing up in a deprived area of Yorkshire. Harry has never been able to find a good male role model and examines how sex...
There is always one moment in childhood when the door opens and lets the future in. Graham GreeneChristine threads her remarkable journey in the world of French Song with the life and works of Edith Piaf. No glamour. No gimmicks. No pretence. Nothing but a voice, singing of...
Geneva. 1816. Victor Frankenstein obsesses in the pursuit of natures secret, the elixir of life itself. But nothing can prepare him for what he creates. So begins a gripping life or death adventure taking him to the ends of the earth and beyond.
The subject matter of each individual short play is deliberately diverse with their ensemble of performers taking on a number of roles on and off stage. South London Players brazenly lure and encourage new writers but are very selective (to pick 9 plays they often reject as...
Desperate to pass her Final Exams, Faina sets off on a perilous expedition to find the legendary Snow Beast. With help from her owl assistant Maude, they encounter extraordinary spectacles and mountainous obstacles as they battle through the wild, wintry wilderness in search of...
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