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MAKE IT COUNT asks: could you survive reliving your marriage?A time-twisting, darkly funny love story of second chances and fate’s fine print.When Jonas dies by mistake,...
‘You talk about death as if it’s a problem to be solved.’‘It is a problem to be solved.’ ‘But I don’t think it can be solved.’ ‘And that’s the problem.’Simultaneously a riotous laugh-a-minute...
The Monday Night Dance Club Reunion is off to a rocky start with a poor turnout. Ex-cruise ship dancer Pippa arrives, ready to show off...
Winner of the 2026 VCA Playwriting Award“I’m not going to die happy, I’m going to die really fucking angry and I want people on Radio...
“I am the altar and the ashtray of these men’s desires.” Award-winning playwright Chris Thompson and RSC Associate Artist Owen Horsley unite for the UK premiere...
In this tale of friendship, love, and authenticity, four friends reunite at a hot pot restaurant after the pandemic, reminiscing about their past while navigating...
Inspired by theEnglandfan who went viral for putting a lit flare in his buttocks before the European Football Championships Final in 2021, Why I Stuck A...
Written & Produced by: Katherine TempanyPerformed by: Zandalee Clarke She has told this story for fifteen years. Tonight, she is not sure she believes herself.It Wasn’t...
After a successful run with Gilded Balloon at the Edinburgh Fringe 2025, Kidnap, “a must-see show” (The Scotsman), by “a superb storyteller” (Get Your Coats On),...
If you love comedy or murder mysteries, then this is the show for you!Welcome aboard Locomotive for Murder: The Improvised Whodunnit, the totally improvised, totally hilarious...
By Mauro Fazion"It's 1984 meets Waiting for Godot!"Rooney and Ingmar are seasoned hangmen doing their best to survive a job that no longer makes sense. When...
Someone sneezes. Someone can’t get a signal. Someone won’t answer the door. Someone put an elephant on the stairs. Someone’s not ready to talk. Someone...
Man-meat meets mental health in this dark comedy. In a dark corner of the internet, two men find each other. They meet in a coffee...
A 99-year-old sugar daddy.IVF for your bestie.Your year two teacher. On Grindr. Tonight.Presented as part of the Divine's innaugural fringe festival,Très Gay Plays is a mashup...
Four boarding school alumni gather in a secluded country house to divide a dead friend’s inheritance over dinner, but the evening soon begins to unravel....
Highly-respected jazz musician Harry Sumner's world is turned upside down when Lorraine Tait, a complete stranger, arrives in his life. From the very moment she...
d'après Bertolt BrechtEditée et mise en scène par David FurlongBrecht, le dramaturge allemand le plus populaire, transpose les mécanismes de l’ascension d’Hitler dans le Chicago...
From the mind, and true lived experience, of Bonnie Oddie, That's Why Mums Go to Switzerland (Winner: Best Solo Show at Riverside Studios Bitesize Festival) is a blazing,...
When David’s phone rings, the voice on the other end is one he never expected to hear again. As old emotions reignite he and Amy...
The Niger Delta, the late 1950s. The land is disappearing. A community stands on the edge. A Nigerian family living in a hut built on...
After sold-out performances at the 2025 Bath Jane Austen and Chawton Pride and Prejudice Festivals, the Cohen-Wingfield Duo — creators of the acclaimed Einstein's Violin — bring Pride...
A theatrical occult ritual exploring intimacy, trauma, and the Devil.
Clothes, cats and counter-culture.Sheffield, 1989. Loveable, eccentric 71-year-old, Hilda, has run a second-hand clothes shop for decades. She does it to make money to feed...
Pearls Recommended is a witty romantic drama about two characters' struggle between duty and desire as they navigate debutante culture in the American South. This one-act...
By Joanna OrlowskaOff Script is a solo drama about a migrant journalist reporting live from an anti-immigration protest in London.As Anna delivers the carefully prepared broadcast, the...
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by Franco Milazzo - June 14, 2026
Death, it turns out, is an excellent alibi for a party, even one being held in your honour. Legendary magician, beloved family man and complete fiction Dieter Roterburg has sadly died and his wake is being held nightly in the tunnels beneath Waterloo train station....
by Cheryl Markosky - June 13, 2026
Vivaldi's Four Seasons is one of the most recognised tunes going, thanks to its ubiquity in advertisements, as lift music and hold music (which this piece wittily refers to), so it's difficult to hear it afresh. That's what makes this reinterpretation of it, through an electronic remix by DJ Walde a...
by Matthew Paluch - June 12, 2026
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by Aliya Al-Hassan - June 12, 2026
Puccini's tear-jerker La bohème is always a crowd-pleaser for any opera festival. This production at The Grange Festival is the first opera from French actor-turned-director David Geselson who created it for Opéra National de Nancy Lorraine in 2025. Featuring some strong singing and exquisite play...
by Mica Blackwell - June 11, 2026
Whether you grew up with the 1968 film or are learning about it for the first time, this Chitty Chitty Bang Bang proves that with some imagination, theatrical magic can come from the simplest things....
by Clementine Scott - June 09, 2026
“It’s like vultures circling a carcass,” one character in Driftwood says of the uneasy situation in Trinidad a few years shy of independence. This is the febrile setting for Casualty actress Martina Laird’s debut play, a portrait of a nation told entirely within the walls of one Port of Spai...
by Clementine Scott - June 08, 2026
On her deathbed, US playwright Joshua Harmon’s grandmother granted him permission to write a play about their family, on the condition that it be as “brutal and vitriolic” as possible. The result is We Had A World, a Pandora’s Box of generational trauma – indeed, the actor playing Harmon b...
by Aliya Al-Hassan - June 08, 2026
A new version of Handel's 1724 opera Giulio Cesare is always an exciting prospect. The love story between Julius Caesar and Cleopatra, with the backdrop of war with Egypt, political ambition and domestic unrest is ripe for reinterpretation. Indeed, Handel and his librettist the librettist Nicola ...
by Louise Penn - June 08, 2026
The Lilian Baylis Theatre and associated spaces next door to Sadler's Wells is full of chatter and excitement on day 2 of the Dance Digital film festival. With short films, documentaries, social media pieces, and VR experiences, alongside networking and mentoring opportunities for professionals, thi...
by Franco Milazzo - June 06, 2026
Mae West famously asked, 'Is that a gun in your pocket, or are you happy to see me?' Well, at the beginning of the relationship, he will no doubt be very happy to see you. But, at the end of the relationship…
And that, my friends, is as good a summary of Mozart’s The Marriage Of Figaro as any....
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