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OverviewThe Falkland Islands, July 2002. Jane has been keeping a secret for 20 years, and amidst the grip of patriotism as the islanders celebrate the Queens Golden Jubilee, Jane returns to pack up the family home following the death of her mother.Jane takes the audience on a...
How do you repay someone who has given you everything? When Jane unexpectedly falls pregnant with her best friend Charlie, abortion seems like the best way forward. Charlie is gay (right?) and Jane is ambitious. Not the best combination for trouble-free parenthood. Until…Charlie...
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…
Perhaps the trickiest, most controversial work in Shakespeare’s arsenal, The Taming of the Shrew comes to the Lambeth Fringe in a peculiar rewrite. Zak Rosen and Paige Hann flip the script on coercive control and try to make the Bard kinkier: Petruchio becomes the submissive simp to Katherina’s …
James Graham's latest play, The Standard of Living opens with a smartly dressed, well spoken man trying (and failing) to address an audience about his economic theory. It's a wry wink to the fact that the subject matter may not be everyone's specialist subject. But this is Graham, a master of makin…
I suspect like most people, you have never come across the name of Noor-un-Nisa Inayat Khan before. A mixed-heritage British Indian and Special Operations Executive (SOE) agent in Nazi-occupied Paris who was the first woman to be parachuted into France to provide radio communication vital to the R…
Directed by the award-winning Rob Ashford, Tru is now open at the Menier Chocolate Factory, following the production’s New York run earlier this year. It's December 1975 and Truman Capote is alone in his New York apartment, reeling from a crisis that cost him friendship of the elite social circle …
In this dark comedy from vaguely acclaimed Playwright and Director Ben Blais, “ A Linguistic Genius ” – A Youngish Perspective, a young man named Charlie verbally spars with his critical mother (R.I.P.) and a scythe wielding Scouser in a hood (hot), as he struggles to accept the...
From the creator and original producer of the Above The Stag adult pantos Get ready for the funniest, filthiest, most wickedly fabulous pantomime you've always wished to see. In a scandalous twist on the classic fairy tale, it's time to swipe right on "Tinderella" - the...
Wet Feet is a new comedy drama that follows the unlikely events that unfold when two strangers meet at the local gay sauna. A place known for mystery, sex, and exploration; these two gentlemen find themselves in a journey of truth, love, and self-discovery. The story has been...
Phil Willmott’s new interpretation of Shakespeare’s classic thriller of jealousy, illicit passion and racial tension is set during the British Raj and commemorates the centenary of the Jallianwala Bagh massacre (also known as the Amritsar massacre). One of the most infamous and...
A new musical of Orpheus in the Paris underworld Music by Jacques Offenbach and his contemporaries Book by Arthur Wing Pinero Freely adapted, with lyrics by Phil Willmott Directed by Phil Setren Choreography by Adam Haigh A fun and frivolous new musical featuring the larger than...
Based on Ibsen’s drama of free speech and fake news Adapted from a play by Henrik Ibsen CAST: Darren Ruston, Janaki Gerard, Jed Shardlow, Angelo Leal, Mary Stewart, David Mildon, Emily Byrt, Seamus Newham, Mark Grindrod. Originally written by Ibsen in 1882 and then adapted by...
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