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A living-room Elsie, an elderly widow, lives alone and avoids socialising, believing "it doesn't do, to get involved". Then a new couple, Kate and Adrian, move in across the road and their young son Jamie invites Elsie round for tea. Soon the pair is inseparable, with Elsie being drafted in as babysitter whenever Kate and Adrian are out.

When Andy, an idealistic young graduate, gets a job in a wet house, a homeless hostel where residents can drink alcohol, he is plunged into a twilight world where the rules about what is right and what is normal have become a little blurred. And that's just among the other staff. Based on his own first-hand experience working in a wet house, Paddy Campbell's award-winning debut full length play asks who will look after the people that no one else will look after?

They said it was unachievable!They said it couldn't be done!But now the greatest book ever penned is brought to the stage by a towering team of just four actors - turning a theatre near you into one of the most authentic versions of Ancient Rome ever seen. Complete with... Stunning combat (featuring the latest 3D technology)! A 103% bona fide chariot race (with REAL chariots)! An authentic sea battle (with REAL water)! A decadent and unexpurgated Roman orgy (suitable for all ages)!Ben Hur is the epic set to stir your very soul.Brought to you by the writer of the Olivier nominated A Christmas Carol and Olivier and Tony Award-winning comedy The 39 Steps.

Sue and Rachel have not spoken since the miners walked out. Under the strain of politics, pickets and principles, can the women find a voice to save their relationships and their way of life?

A new play for young people by Satinder Chohan commissioned as part of a pioneering collaboration between Tamasha and the Centre for Family Research (CFR) at University of Cambridge. "...do you know how hard it is To look in the mirror each day See a stranger in your face?" Areia grows up with a thousand unanswered questions. "Where did I get my eyes? My wavy hair? My scholarly air?" When she finally discovers the truth to her burning questions she embarks on a life-changing trip to find out who she really is. Will she become whole and fix her broken heart? And is family really more than genetics and blood?

A family's package holiday to Spain proves to be an even greater change from Blackpool than expected.7 women, 4 men

Green FormsDoris and Doreen are comfortably installed in an obscure department of a large organization. On a normal day they keep busy by flirting with nice Mr Tidmarsh in Appointments or pursuing their feud over a plug with Mr Cunliffe in Personnel. This is not a normal day. Someone has an eye on them and a shadow is falling across their tranquil lives. Are they about to be fired?A Visit From Miss ProtheroMr Dodsworth has recently retired. Sitting at home, he is contemplating his life and achievements with quiet satisfaction. There is a sharp ring at the door. His former secretary has come to ruin it all. Ironic wit and compassion mark this touchingly real story.

Craiglockhart, Scotland, 1917. In a hospital for shell-shocked officers, a brilliant doctor provides the cures required to send his patients back to War. Under his tolerant reign, two young officers form a passionate comradeship. Each is a poet, one unknown, the other privileged and successful. Mentored by the older man, the younger falls in love; his genius flowers and he becomes the greater writer. But as his health is restored, he must face a return to battle.**"Nicholas Wright's deeply moving play stays true to Barker's vision while highlighting its own chosen themes of companionship, guilt and inequality" Michael Billington, Guardian "I was raptly absorbed throughout by this superb stage version of Pat Barker's award-winning First World War novel...gutting and unmissable" Paul Taylor, The Independent

Lord Arlington is dead, poisoned. His daughter, obsessed by Hamlet, is convinced that her mother and a family friend are responsible and so sets out to exact a terrible revenge. Madness, murder, passion, and retribution are themes of this play, set in the Edwardian era, but with modern sensibility.

"I have read the play, Evelyn! I keep reading the play but the play keeps on changing!" Five neurotic actors, one stressed Stage Manager, a crazed director, an invisible playwright and an escaped monkey are desperately rehearsing the world's worst play, which keeps being rewritten. And every rewrite is more hilariously terrible than the one before. And although It really shouldn't, somehow, the show manages to go on. "Stop! ...The Play is a fist-bitingly funny send-up of everything bad about bad theatre. A roar-out-loud gem of side-splitting brilliance" Grumpy Gay Critic *****

Now in her mid-forties, Kathleen sits anxiously waiting for the arrival of the man whom she gave up for adoption thirty years before. Years spent insulating herself against the pain of separation and loss fall away 'like bricks in a flood wall' as she allows herself to recall the events of that time with a clarity that brings each of her story's characters to life. Central to the play is Kathleen's relationship with her son - the baby whom she only knew "...for six short weeks" and the grown man, "...parking somewhere now, I expect. Getting out of his car, looking at the houses. Looking at this house". You is about loss and the way it has shaped Kathleen's life. It is also about its impact upon her family and everyone else who found themselves a part of her story.

WHO will the handsome Wickham seduce next?HOW will the Bennet sisters live with no income or home after their father dies?WILL anyone ever mention there’s a war on?The Bennet family has more daughters than income and more income than sense. When an eligible bachelor moves to the neighbourhood Mrs Bennet froths over with frenzied attempts to get her daughters married at any cost – well not *cost*, they haven’t any money, but no man is too rude, no soldier too untrustworthy, no cousin too annoying to be below consideration.Beautiful Jane likes Bingley but has no way of letting him know. Lizzy hates Darcy and doesn’t mind who knows it. Lydia and Kitty like soldiers and red jackets and the soldiers who are wearing them. Mary likes stationery.

The play Mistress o f Novices recounts the story of Bernadette and themiraculous vision she claims to have been granted, and also the conflict that this assertion causes in her relationship with the sceptical and strongwilled Mother of Novices. Set mainly in the convent of St Gildard, Nevers, it follows the life of Bernadette until its agonized end, moves to Lourdes for a final scene when the Mistress of Novices is an aged woman and closes with the announcement of Bernadette''s canonization.|14 women, 3 men

It's the mid-1950s and 'innocent abroad' Steven Flowers has travelled to Florence to teach English in a chaotic language school, Lingua Franca. He is soon adopted by fellow Brit, Peggy, but is more interested in Heidi, a newcomer from Munich.

Jazmin feels different. She doesn't want to stay in the village. She doesn't want to have a baby. She doesn't want to laugh at racist jokes in the local pub. She's got to get out. And when her Gran signs her up for a drama school audition in London without telling her: "my brain is just as confused as my skin. Should I stay here? Or should I try move to London. Stay.Go.Stay.Go.Stay.Go.Stay..."

"...a lot of these things, these impulses, are healthy things, but they just get distorted. Or maybe it's the world that gets - is - distorted, but you see, it's my job to get people to fit in with the world, distorted or not, so that they feel happy. Or, not sad. Or...functioning."Tessa is a psychotherapist who has been instructed to provide a medical report on one of her patients for the criminal court. This has been Tessa's most exceptional case in all her twenty years of practice. As treatment progresses she finds herself asking deeper, more far-reaching questions, not just about her patient, but the world and its motives. The B*easts is a chillingly relevant tale of the pornification of culture and sexualisation of our children, and how far one mum will go to put what her child wants first.

This beautiful and moving play confronts the basic question of how successfully two blind people can live in a world made for the sighted. Working on two levels, the play is a sharp study of the experience of blindness, and a picture of love trying to shut out the dark.|2 women, 1 man

Duncan and George feel far from comfortable attending a Weight Busters meeting, surrounded as they are by women. Waiting for the meeting to start, they meet an old flame of George''s - who bore him a child many years earlier - and Duncan strikes up an affecting romance with a sign language teacher. Line dancing and snatches of Gilbert and Sullivan enhance the jolly mood of this touching comedy-drama.|5 women, 3 men

Letitia, presenter of the hit TV show "Mind Your Own Business", wants to interview Myrtle Banbury in her own home and Lenny has a problem - how can he conduct the interview without having to appear to the British public in drag? An additional complication arrives in the form of Fran, Lenny's ex-wife. This title is a sequel to "Nobody's Perfect".

June Evening was originally a radio play, broadcast in 1958.  It was televised in July 1960 and proved very influential, causing a sensation as one of the first ''kitchen sink'' TV plays, nine months before Coronation Street was first aired. Naughton contended that Granada lifted his idea, the story being set around one Lancashire Street with a corner shop.  Set in Holdsworth Street, Bolton in 1921, we watch the Street''s inhabitants argue, love and gossip the evening away.|8 women, 5 men

Hugo, a PR consultant on his way to an important meeting, and Martha, a Museum Education Officer with a case full of liberty bodices, are trapped in an overturned railway carriage following a rail crash, waiting tensely to be rescued. A touching relationship begins to develop between them, but they are torn apart by tragedy.|1 woman, 1 man

On the eve of Queen Elizabeth II's Golden Jubilee celebrations, a papier-mache statue of Her Royal Highness stands in Margaret Chivers' living-room in preparation for the Jubilee parade. Two factions converge on the house with the aim of vandalizing the statue.

This take on the National Health Service sees chaos erupt as patients, agency nurses, doctors and sisters battle it out at the start of another busy weekend on the under-funded and under-staffed mixed ward at St Christopher's Hospital.

For Services Rendered sheds a harrowing light on provincial middle-class England after the First World War. The play was first performed at the Globe Theatre in London in 1932. 

The Whooperdink is a rare fantastical bird with hidden magic powers, seen only by the Urgles who reverently feed it on strawberry jam. So when Professor Potterton is informed by a fellow scientist of a sighting in Urgleland he eagerly sets off with his daughter Crystal. Along the way they encounter Salmonella, a wicked witch in disguise, her son Seth, cursed into idiocy twenty years earlier by a spell, and the Snowfl ake Maker, doomed to travel about creating snow and all the while dreaming of sun-kissed beaches.|2 women, 3 men

Raymonde suspects her husband, Victor Emmanuel, of infidelity and she turns to her best friend, Lucienne, to help her gain proof. They concoct a play-based on a perfumed letter-to trap him at the Hotel Coq d''Or in Montretout.|5 women, 9 men

Apart from a surprising change of heart and bid for sympathy at the final momen''s of this version of the classic story, Todd glories in his villainies throughout and gleefully slaughters right and left until the cast is almost eliminated. Commendably, the''story is treated seriously and ''guying'' is discouraged.|3 women, 8 men, 2 boys