Desperately hilarious and achingly bleak, this is an intricate and tender question mark around our attempts to encounter each other in a technologized world.
Tartuffe, or The Impostor (pronounced: [taRtuf]; French: Tartuffe, ou l'Imposteur), first performed in 1664, is one of the most famous theatrical comedies by Moliere, and the characters of Tartuffe, Valere, and Dorine are considered among the greatest classical theatre roles. This is a translation for the stage by Ranjit Bolt.
A big, bawdy tangle of theatrical joy and heartbreak, Wise Children is a celebration of show business, family, forgiveness and hope, adapted by Emma Rice from the novel by Angela Carter.
On a stage that might be a painting or a page torn from a book, award-winning live art and experimental theatre group Sleepwalk Collective present Domestica: a woozy, deadpan, and extensively-annotated dismantling of high art and classical posturing that asks where exactly we might be going in this ever-louder, ever-accelerating new century.
Inspired by the housing crisis and the reality of life on the North Cornish coast, Booby's Bay is a passionate, comic fable about the lengths one man will man go to have his voice heard.
One girl's funny, frank account of losing her Mum to a cult.(As if growing up wasn't hard enough already...)
A new imaginative play for young people from award-winning writer Kieran Lynn, winner of the Alpine Fellowship Theatre Prize 2018.
A devastating school shooting changes one woman's life forever in Martin Zimmerman's 'startlingly original' (New York Times) examination of American gun violence.
Jean Cocteau's iconic play explores our desperate need for human relationships - and the machine that has changed them forever. A brand new version of this classic text is translated by Daniel Raggett and staged at the Gate Theatre 34 years since it was first produced there.
A new one-woman play from award winning playwright Matthew Bulgo collaborating with the multi-award winning The Other Room for the first time since their critically acclaimed production of Constellation Street.
A new live literature experience by award-winning poet Nick Makoha, retelling his childhood escape from the Ugandan civil war.
A powerful teleplay by one of Britain's best-known and most-acclaimed living playwrights.
Stella Kirby spent nine years running away; leaving home to find her freedom as an actress. Now she has decided that the only role left to play is the prodigal daughter returned, hoping to rediscover herself amongst the familiar surroundings of her childhood home, Eden End.Priestley has a special tenderness for Eden End and for it he created some of his most fragile, gentle characters. The stoical Dr Kirby, his younger son Wilfred, desperate to prove himself a man of the world, and Lilian, the daughter who stayed at home, are a sharply observed and instantly recognisable family, with all its dreams and disappointments.
Ben, Howie, Jude and Tariq. Four guys caged in a hospital ward in the name of medical research. Take tablets, give blood, get paid, go home. And with no drink, no caffeine & no smokes, they're guinea pigs guzzling pills for a fast buck, happy to blank the consequences. All that time to think, and bounce off the walls - and each other. What's more, you couldn't find four lab rats more different. At least, that's what they think - but, deep down, they suspect they're all surplus to requirements, as obsolete as Betamax. Yet still holding on and still trying to control an uncertain world.
The loss of faith and cynical corruption of the few priests left at the Abbey of Calcetto is unexpectedly challenged by the arrival of a young man with an unsullied and passionate belief in God. The boy Loftus gradually acquires a huge moral ascendancy through the intensity and purity of his faith, but he is then brutally punished by the priests.
An ambitious, poetic reworking of the story of Myrrah from Ovid's Metamorphosis, Poor Beck is a rich exploration of love, language and the senses. Poor Beck is Laurens' third play. The Three Birds, won her the Critics' Circle Most Promising Playwright Award and the Time Out Award for Most Outstanding new talent, and Five Gold Rings opened at the Almeida Theatre in December 2003.
An isolated house in a forgotten valley has only the litter and noise from the surrounding motorway above as company. A flash of lightning and a freak car crash leave three runaways stranded and seeking refuge. As society whizzes by all around, they enter a world of dreams and nightmares.This new play for our time is brimming with savage humour, touching humanity and visual invention. Lost Monsters was in production at the Liverpool Everyman Theatre Liverpool Everyman Theatre in May-June 2009.
During a heady hot summer, a young girl's sexual awakening is coloured by shadows of her early childhood. This work dramatises the unconscious world of instinct where the lives of humans, plants and eels are all ruled by the primal rhythms of the wetlands.
Part living-room gathering, part play, part gig session, Rantin draws on storytelling, live music and the Scottish folk tradition.
Seen from a British perspective, The Spalding Suite gets to the heart and soul of the gravity-defying game of basketball.
When reclusive crime writer Daniel Quinn receives a mysterious call seeking a private detective in the middle of the night, he quickly and unwittingly becomes the protagonist in a thriller of his own. As the familiar territory of the noir
While learning about stand-up comedy, Gary met a boy called Donald. This is Donald's story.
From Pride in Poland and Windass at Wembley, to City of Culture and Brexit Britain, Us Against Whatever is an electrifying cabaret about the places we keep in our hearts, with support from Hull's finest voices - you!
A gripping and revelatory drama based on interviews from the aftermath of the shooting of Michael Brown - Dael Orlandersmith journeys into the heart and soul of modern-day America.
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