Riot Act is a powerful brand-new verbatim theatre piece created especially for the King's Head Theatre Queer Season. Playwright and performer Alexis Gregory interviewed one of the only remaining Stonewall survivors, a radical drag icon from 1970s London and a 1990s London ACT UP AIDS activist to channel six decades of queer history.
A new play exploring the gay chem-sex scene, The Chemsex Monologues is a funny, moving examination of the chillouts and the people who know them.
Multi award-winning Theatre Ad Infinitum presents the powerful story of one Mexican woman's fight for justice. Bucket List tells the story of the fight for justice against the effects of the corrupt capitalist regime in Mexico affecting some of the world's poorest and most defenceless people.
This portrait of the human need for another boldly reimagines the infamous original to interrogate modern attitudes to gender, sexuality, and social status. With four actors to play the cast of ten and roles selected with a roulette, which of over three thousand different versions of the show will you see?
A bitter sweet, dark political comedy based on one man's true story and his odyssey in search for identity.
In January 2017, a fierce fight erupted in the Senate between Republicans & Democrats over the confirmation of key figures for President Trump's cabinet. These gripping & dramatic verbatim Senate sessions probed their fitness for office, & give us a vital insight into the future policies and direction of a Trump Presidency.
An examination of the underclass in society and the culture of blame that followed the riots in 2011.
A lost village, star-crossed lovers, mysterious wolves and the extraordinary story of a community trying to save what is most precious to them, before it is too late.
From the vibrant colours of Barbados to the grey skies of Leytonstone, this bittersweet play follows one family's struggle to reconcile their faith in God with faith in one another.
A single play edition of The Dead Dogs, translated by May-Brit Akerholt written by Jon Fosse, Europe's most performed playwright. In The Dead Dogs, lives are shockingly disrupted by an event that changes the directions of their future.
The Seven Pomegranate consists of seven contemporary monologues for female speakers based on Euripides' plays. Each one looks at an aspect of mother/child relations. There is a unified structure which relates to Demeter and Persephone and the Moors Murders.
The Great War is over. It is the summer of 1920, in rural France. A unique emotional landscape of beauty and longing, desire and disappointment.
Two plays in one. BigMouth was the sell-out hit of the 2012 Edinburgh Festival Fringe from one of Europe's hottest theatre companies to explode out of Belgium since Ontroerend Goed
An anthology of five plays, celebrating the tenth anniversary of the internationally acclaimed ensemble The TEAM.
A site-specific performance event staged in a boxing gym, based on interviews with Muslim Female Boxers. Winner of a Fringe First award, Edinburgh 2014.
Stuck in the city, in a life he hates, Tom is to return home for Christmas and confronted with his past. Forced to face his demons, loss and the unstoppability of time, he attempts to rescue his family and his future. Will Tom be able to save it all in time?
Christianity's key figures speak in plays for one actor in a secular re imagining of figures from the Old & New Testaments. Excellent monologue / audition pieces
And there is another planet, like ours. They can't see the sky, on that planet. Because their atmosphere is like a mirror. They look into the sky and see only themselves and the things they've made. So everything in their world can easily be understood. All they want is to be safe and comfortable. They fatten themselves on poison food. And when they look into the sky, they are struck dumb. By the greatness of their works.At the height of the Cold War, dissident writer Gavriil is detained in a Soviet mental prison as a punishment forprotesting against the government. His only escape is the prison library, a treasure store of banned literature available to the patients, but off-limits to the prison staff. His interrogator, Yurchak, offers to protect him from torture in exchange for sharing the forbidden stories. Their agreement will help them both find a kind of freedom, at the risk of their lives.Inspired by an incident in the life of writer, activist and neurophysiologist Vladimir Bukovsky, Silent Planet is a love story about our love of stories, a passionate and poetic fable about the power of literature in a world in which the wrong words can get you killed.
Boa tells the story of a relationship inconvenienced by death. The new play from Fringe First Winner Clara Brennan.
Horniman's Choice brings together four plays by the leading figures of the 'Manchester School' of playwrights - Harold Brighouse, Stanley Houghton and Allan Monkhouse, all originally championed by Annie Horniman, owner of Gaiety Theatre, Manchester, the first regional repertory theatre in Britain.
When highly decorated war hero, Colonel Tariq joins the intelligence agency, his rise to the top seems assured. But in his first case he discovers a CIA agent has killed a young prostitute and a diplomatic crisis erupts.
Nina Segal's In the Night Time (Before the Sun Rises) takes a hallucinatory look at one couple's experience of having their first baby.
The Iphigenia Quartet sees four of the UK's most exciting and radical playwrights - Caroline Bird, Suhayla El Bushra, Lulu Raczka, and Chris Thorpe - create explosive responses to Iphigenia at Aulis by Euripides.
P'yongyang tells the epic love story of two North Korean childhood sweethearts spanning three decades.
A new play from acclaimed experimental company Ridiculusmus about MDMA assisted therapy for Post Traumatic Stress.
With over 4 million views on Channel 4 News online and a critically acclaimed run at the 2015 Edinburgh Fringe Festival, multi-award nominated Whiskey Tango Foxtrot is based on the true story of ex-Airwoman Crookshank and her time serving in the Royal Air Force protecting the UK Air Defence Region.
The 306: Dawn is a new piece of music theatre from the National Theatre of Scotland. Based on real events, it charts the heart-breaking journey of three of the three hundred and six British soldiers who were executed for cowardice, desertion and mutiny during World War I (1914-18).
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