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Camden, 1985. Behind the door of a London terrace, a queer Irish household is cobbling together a life filled with humour, drag, and a freedom they could never have imagined back home. But their community is on the edge of their greatest challenge yet. Being Irish in the UK is...
“You’ve never seen Grease? Are you kidding? Ok. So there’s this guy and this girl…” In the beginning, there were stories. Stories of girls and women and men and Love. So when she meets him, she knows the script, and she’s ready. But things are starting to go wrong, and the...
A dark comedy in London's first assisted suicide clinic — where mountains of paperwork, bad luck and an irrepressible receptionist stand between a man determined to die and something neither of them expected. Written by Alejandra Chamorro, this tender and funny two-hander stars...
He's nervous, inexperienced, and stranded after a graduation booking mistake. She's confident, guarded, and no stranger to taking risks. When the two match online, they agree to meet for one simple reason: distraction. Neither expects the night to last very long.What begins as...
By William Shakespeare Viola is washed ashore in Illyria after surviving a shipwreck. Believing that her twin brother, Sebastian, has drowned, she disguises herself as a young man called Cesario in order to find employment. She soon becomes a servant to Duke Orsino, who is...
BAFTA award-winning Dame Siân Phillips leads audiences on a captivating journey through the drama, wit, and spirit of Ancient Greece, in two unforgettable performances presented together for the first time. Firstly, in Women & Troy, she is joined by Rachel Donovan (The Crown...
A new work of comedic historical fiction. The American Revolutionary war has been waging for several years with no end in sight. Sweet Victory, follows an American and British soldier as they spend the last days of the American Revolutionary War in the forests of New...
Who falls down the stairs whilst carrying their hamster's cage? Lianne. Lianne is angry that her boyfriend Dan is now spending more time with Squeak their hamster than her, mainly, because she is dead. Dan is just angry. Mandy and Roger mean well.. Squeak is romantic, tragic and...
On Betty’s 86th birthday, one candle revives an old pact: when creativity fades, can love choose its own ending? On Betty’s 86th birthday, a single candle on a carrot cake just isn’t good enough. While John has been outside digging up the last of the carrots and making her cake...
Fire Fire is a poignant two-hander that explores how class can affect climate protest and attitudes towards global warming. Today, Eddie is holding a memorial for his brother at a park near their council estate. Today is also the day Paige decides to close the road to this...
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 expects nothing more than a few cheap scares. But as night...
The acclaimed play by John Donnelly is coming to the East End. Sex. Football. Fame. Secrets. The Pass is a sharp, darkly funny and intensely gripping play about football, friendship, masculinity, desire and how much you’re willing to lose to win. What would you sacrifice to...
‘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 far 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...
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...
Tom is living with young onset dementia. We meet him as he prepares for his 55th birthday party and past memories come flooding back. Following more than 200 performances worldwide, Theatre Re brings its explosive, powerful and joyous piece about what is left when memory is gone...
The time is 1897. Mankind is on the cusp of vast technological change, scientific mastery and media innovation. Poised between traditional beliefs, the threat of the unknown and the shock of the new world, an altogether darker fear is emerging. As a new shadow looms large over...
When sixteen-year-old Abi tracks down the man she believes to be her father, she sets in motion a chain of revelations that will force two families to confront the past they thought they had buried. A compelling new play about family secrets, absent fathers, motherhood, memory...
“There are powers that bind the world together, softer than spirits yet stronger than stone, that tie the river to the tree, the tree to rain clouds, rain clouds to the land, and people to each other.” The award-winning Once Upon A Time In Sokoto tells the epic story of a...
England. A remote country house. A young governess, hired to care for two children. Desperate to protect them from what she believes to be malevolent spirits, she finds herself descending into a world of ambiguity, leading to one far-reaching question: are the ghosts real… or...
Dylan Ward is autistic. He has his own way of thinking and his own way of doing things, but no one seems to understand him. How do you navigate a world which operates on a completely different wavelength to the one that you’re on? Following its hugely successful and critically...
A new play about motherhood, giving birth, postpartum psychosis and stand-up comedy! A new mother, Cass, tackles her mental health crisis, with dark humour, bright wit, brutal honesty and dreams of becoming a comic. A ‘slightly true story’ starring BAFTA winner Kimberley Nixon...
‘Profoundly moving’ BBC Radio 4 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...
A man who speaks in verse is either trying to sell you something or hide a body. It’s 7pm and rehearsal is finished for the day. A janitor alone on stage finds himself possessed by minor Shakespearean characters unhappy with their lot in the original plays. No longer waiting in...
Unsettling, darkly comic and full of surprises, the stage is set… for terror. When an out-of-work actor takes a job playing a ghost at an old countryside manor, he expects nothing more than a few cheap scares. But as night after night unfolds, the role begins to blur with...
A secret marriage. The brink of war. Fact and fiction. It’s not just black and white. Fear, passion and paranoia bubble beneath the surface of Othello and Desdemona ’s newlywed life. Iago ’s manipulations begin in whispers – and end in ruin. Director Anthony Almeida ‘s new...
“It is difficult composing endings. Beethoven and Wagner could do it. Only great composers can do it. I can do it too.” It wasn’t just Richard Strauss’s death-embracing 'Four Last Songs' which fit this theme in the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra’s final Prom of the season, as Franz Schube…
New play that veers off in an unfortunate direction and loses much of its punch as a consequence…
At first glance, Night City appears like your classic boy meets girl – specifically, rideshare driver meets waitress, and takes her to see the dinosaurs at Crystal Palace in the morning light. What emerges from these foundations, however, is an unflinching love letter to London, and a candid illus…
A visually compelling Don Giovanni from Royal Ballet & Opera, with a superb set by Es Devlin and memorable star turn by Aigul Akhmetshina as Donna Elvira.…
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Adapting classical theatre for a new audience is an exciting task and Darren Raymond has relocated Molière’s farce to a Nigerian-Jamaican family living in England. We are all preparing for Adanna and Sinclair’s impending nuptials, with relatives from both sides gathering at her childhood home. …
Presented as part of a rep season, Flywheel's take on the Chekhov classic works well enough to honour its source…
What did our critic think of PREVIEW: INTO THE WOODS, LAUNCH EVENT at Noël Coward Theatre?…
The climate crisis abuses us of the notion that we’re invincible, and ultimately forces us to reckon with exactly how much time we have left on Earth. On a much smaller scale, the same can be said of getting older.…
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