A new Christmas show adapted from the classic German children's novel, first published in the UK in 1931.
Two plays, companion pieces, portraying two different realities of a British White male and a British Asian male.
This powerful and moving drama shares the stories of women whose everyday lives have been touched by the recent conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan. Winner of The Stage's Best Ensemble at the 2008 Edinburgh Festival.
Written by one of Poland's leading playwrights, Tadeusz Slobodzianek. Based on a tragic, historic event that happened in the town of Jedwabne , Poland in 1941, Our Class chronicles the lives of ten classmates from their childhood in the 1920s to the beginning of the new millennium. Translated by Ryan Craig
Good for youth theatre. "Dynamo of a play-an exuberant tragedy."--Kate Kellaway, The Observer
A riotous journey through four waves of immigration from the seventeenth century to today.
Meet Elling and Kjell Bjarne, the Odd Couple of the dysfunctional world. Given a flat in the centre of Oslo by social services, their mission is to re-assimilate themselves back into society. It's that or return to the asylum. All they have to do is convince their social worker, Frank, that they really are 'normal'.
It is Cambridge, 1915, and Tom, an awkward American graduate, meets Viv. Enchanted with each other, the couple are sucked into a whirlwind romance. But as Tom begins to become successful in the field of literature, Viv's volatility becomes a problem rather than a quirk. Their swift marriage turns into an impossible love story.
Set amidst a contemporary British community, Gurpreet Kaur Bhatti's new play about a group of working-class friends dreaming of a better life for their children questions the dream of class mobility, and what happens when the odds are stacked against you.
The 14th Tale is a beautiful mellifluous narrative that tells the hilarious exploits of a natural born mischief.
The spirit and atmosphere of Herman Melville's masterpiece - romantic, ambiguous, characterful and rich with allegory is captured onstage.
Decky Does a Bronco is the tragi-comic story of a gang of nine-year-old boys who spend the summer of 1983 'Broncoing swings' in Girvan, on the west coast of Scotland. Broncoing (kicking the swing over the bar) is the social bench mark and a dangerous mixture of vandalism and sport.Decky is the smallest of the group and the only one who cannot Bronco. His friend David remembers the event of that summer, which at first seem hilarious but ultimately remain painful, as the boys are faced with an unthinkable tragedy and are thrown into a restless adulthood.
Arabian Nights, translated by David Tushingham is a story of intertwining lives, neighbours, lovers and friends. A story of strangers, setting out on different paths, some find peace and others tragedy.
Critically acclaimed dark comedy The Ridiculous Darkness, by award-winning German playwright Wolfram Lotz, is a surreal, hilarious and powerful response to Heart of Darkness and Apocalypse Now that invites us to rethink colonial narratives, confront our ideas of each other and question what we imagine is in the darkness.
The harvest is ripe in a Black Country pear orchard. Seasoned hands settle to familiar tasks and the ritual education of newcomers. But corrupted lands yield a bitter crop. The weather turns, friction mounts, and pesticide begins to fall.
Strange Fruit by Caryl Phillips (winner of the Commonwealth Writers' Prize) is the powerful and compelling story of a Black British family caught between two cultures, and the uncrossable no man's land that can come between parents and their children.
Combining play text with experimental book design, the accident did not take place dissects the broadcast of a plane crash to explore the way we consume information, and the way information consumes us.
At their stylish country retreat, Freda and Robert Caplan host a dinner party for their colleagues and friends, all executives at a transatlantic publishing company. Young, beautiful and successful they have the world at their feet.Then a cigarette box and and an ill-considered remark spark off a relentless series of revelations and other, more dangerous secrets are painfully exposed. As the truth spills out about the suicide of Robert's clever, reckless brother, and the group's perfect lives begin to crumble, the cost of professional and social success becomes frighteningly plain.
Zawe Ashton's awaited playwriting debut for all the women who thought they were Mad is an urgent piece of theatre examining the myriad of forces that collide and conspire against women of colour in Britain today.
Maria Ferguson explores what it's like to be an Essex Girl through the eyes of a sixteen-year-old girl growing up in '00s Brentwood.
A humorous and heartfelt look into the lives of the youth of one northern new town, where the weight of identity, place, and masculinity threaten everything they've ever known.
True stories (and wild speculations) about the lives and deaths of homeless people, uncovered by the UK's leading homelessness theatre company.
Third Angel brings you a conspiracy theory documentary-exposedetective story for the 21st century that asks: What aren't youlooking at? #TheDepartmentOfDistractions
A true story about the aftermath of sexual assault, dressed. celebrates the power clothes have to define us, to liberate us, to hide us and to embellish us.
Set in the Canadian wilds, The Monstrous Heart is a play about motherhood, the cycle of trauma, and how you can never really leave your past behind.
A darkly comedic coming-of-age solo play, Before I Was A Bear is a modern myth about the power dynamics of sexuality and shame, women's relationships with each other, and an affair with a hot TV detective.
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