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Two adult siblings fall down the “rabbit hole” of the modern healthcare system. Mary Ann has given up her life to become a full-time caretaker for her brother as he progressively loses control of his body and looks for a way out. Darkly comedic with a surreal edge, the play...
‘There’s a monster in the garden and it’s going to eat me.’ Bernard’s got a problem. There’s a monster in the garden… but his mum and dad are too busy to notice. So Bernard does what any sensible child would do — he tries to befriend it. That doesn’t quite go to plan. A wildly...
Unsettling, darkly comic and full of surprises, the stage is set…for terror. Following a sell-out UK tour, the award-winning ThickSkin present this chilling new play by Tim Foley (former Bruntwood Prize-winner). A ThickSkin production supported by Queen’s Theatre Hornchurch...
Affliction and Pestilence are running amok across the land, with bodies piling up quicker than the departure of their last exhaled breath. Amongst them hill dead fleshes, a dark aged romance stirs between Corvin, a body collector, and Mortalia, a holy man’s daughter. Narrated...
All families have secrets. This one has a contract.
‘There’s a monster in the garden and it’s going to eat me.’
A ghost story by Tim Foley · Directed by Neil Bettles Following a sell-out UK tour, the award-winning ThickSkin present this chilling new play by Tim Foley (former Bruntwood Prize-winner). When an out-of-work actor takes a job playing a ghost at an old countryside manor, he...
Returning to the once-glittering Clacton-on-Sea, washed-up magician Bazza Cadabra is ready for a final comeback, determined to reclaim the spotlight and prove he’s still got what it takes 20 years on. But every trick has a price. This comeback isn’t just about applause. At the...
A Halloween night of whispers, secrets and mounting unease, where a search for answers becomes something far more dangerous.
Let the Wind Have It is a collection of three short plays by Tennessee Williams. These mini plays hold some of his most touching and adventurous writing, and often inspire his major works. Enjoy individual stories that speak to one narrative of loss and abandonment. In This...
“Sometimes I think I could be f*cked into enlightenment.” Molly MacAskill’s debut play “coming to conclusions” is a queer coming-of-age comedy about sex, relationships and how we figure out who we are. A bisexual uni student is dead set on finding herself through f*cking other...
A ghost story by Tim Foley · Directed by Neil Bettles Following a sell-out UK tour and London run, the award-winning ThickSkin present this chilling new play by Tim Foley (former Bruntwood Prize-winner). When an out-of-work actor takes a job playing a ghost at an old countryside...
Inspired by the legend of forty maidens who chose death over slavery, Legend of Kaliakra explores the hidden emotional lives of the women behind one of Bulgaria's most enduring stories. Blending poetic text and music, the production explores what remains unseen in history: the...
It’s 1769 and everyone is flocking north, every ale house is packed with the great and the bad. Yorkshire is the place to be; a region drunk on making money, social climbing, gambling and gin, but with wealth in abundance, the temptation is great… The Highwayman is a new...
'It confuses me, sometimes. I just wanna be and say and do without having to go in the maze where people wave madly at each other and smile, while following their own secret routes.' Frances and Jonah are the happiest they've ever been. With changing friendships, doubt-inducing...
A ghost story by Tim Foley · Directed by Neil Bettles Following a sell-out UK tour, the award-winning ThickSkin present this chilling new play by Tim Foley (former Bruntwood Prize-winner). When an out-of-work actor takes a job playing a ghost at an old countryside manor, he...
Funded by National Lottery through Arts Council England Co-commissioned by London International Mime Festival, The Point and South Hill Park Supported by Shoreditch Town Hall and Haringey Council ‘A phenomenal example of true theatrical magic’ TheatreReview NYC Following more...
Following more than 200 performances worldwide, Theatre Re brings its explosive, powerful and joyous piece about what is left when memory is gone back to the UK for its landmark 10th Anniversary Season. Since its 2017 premiere, The Nature of Forgetting has moved audiences from...
A ghost story by Tim Foley · Directed by Neil Bettles Following a hugely popular sold-out performance earlier this year, It Walks Around The House At Night returns to haunt audiences once again! When an out-of-work actor takes a job playing a ghost at an old countryside manor...
“Every asset must be profitable, even a child”. Euthanasia has just been legalised for terminal mental illness. The nation is facing unprecedented economic uncertainty. And the Evans family are close to ruin. When desperation hits, they must consider where they’re investing...
Every day, thousands of migrant construction workers raise homes, offices, theatres and hospitals — spaces where other lives unfold — while often living in temporary rooms, on unstable contracts, with families far away and futures on hold. Three Little Pigs is a new theatre...
The fruitful but fractious partnership between W.S. Gilbert and Arthur Sullivan When the play opens, we are in W.S.Gilbert's study in Grim's Dyke, his home in Harrow. The year is 1911, and Sir Arthur Sullivan, Gilbert's partner for a quarter of a century, has been dead for just...
Brewtopia is an intimate two-hander fusing absurdist tradition with emotional realism to ask: how much of our happiness lives in the smallest, most ordinary things? On the streets of London, Arjun, a homeless tea connoisseur, has built his world around one simple daily pleasure...
Presented by Howling Fel Productions A sensorial, timeless two-hander that takes inspiration from folktale horror and classic literature via a contemporary lens. The story follows a girl trapped in a cycle of trials, where she must face her innermost fears made manifest in the...
Written & Directed by Ella Kendrick On Christmas Eve, bartenders Kat and Tom endure a night of bad music, difficult guests and endless Pornstar Martinis. When a male guest harasses Kat, tensions rise, forcing them to confront gender dynamics in hospitality and their impact on...
Halloween is the season when London’s theatres let the bats out of the belfry, and any venue with a draughty corridor suddenly has a ghost story to sell. Battersea Arts Centre has gone one better. It has cast itself as the haunted house, and in Immersive Octopus’s latest stab at a scare, the bui…
London City Ballet (LCB) is a company on the rise. Christopher Marney’s rebirth of the company was only three years ago. Now they are filling the house at Sadler’s Wells with the great and the good of the ballet world present for opening night.…
After being taken on a lengthy tour of the UK and Ireland, Only Human comes to the West End as Brown’s first appearance since 2022’s Showman, a post-pandemic show filled with highly personal insights. Its follow-up Unbelievable saw Brown remain backstage as co-creator, writer and co-director (al…
While both the film and the autobiography have entered our cultural heritage as testimonies of the Nazi era – the poverty it brought, its violence, its misery – this new rendition inhabits a different realm. Thom Southerland debuts Szpilman’s own compositions in an invariably morose piece of t…
It’s Les Mis if you squint. A musical based on turbulent French history, doomed love, and flags brandished like a crusaders’ Warhammers. Except this is not the longest running musical in West End history. This is its weird cousin Martin Guerre.…
Though the originating Disney team doesn’t seem to be involved, the vibe of the film is perfectly maintained. Bryan Louiselle takes over the musical aspect, adapting and producing the soundtrack as well as writing new songs. David Simpatico writes the book: his script can be a bit cheesy and strai…
Coming-of-age plays are not new, but they vary hugely in quality and impact. Danny Lee Wynter's new work, Ilford Boy is a witty, sensitive and beautifully performed piece of theatre that will warm your soul and break your heart…
The Orange Tree's Tom Littler is not afraid of variety. After staging a delightful and clever version of Love's Labour's Lost and Much Ado About Nothing, set in the grounds of a Richmond school, he has turned to T.S. Eliot’s 1936 verse drama, Murder In The Cathedral, set in the church opposite …
The idea that “art is not a mirror but a hammer” has been attributed to Bertolt Brecht, deployed by Leon Trotsky and could serve as the epitaph for Sarah Kane’s repertoire, not least her final work.…
Whether intentionally or not, London’s opera houses have leaned hard into the Halloween season with an unspoken theme of “go bleak or go home”. Over in Covent Garden, there’s a revival of Philip Venables’s 4.48 Psychosis (adapted from Sarah Kane’s final play, completed shortly before she…
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