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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.
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).
From the writers of Alice in Funderland, Town is Dead is a living room musical, an ode to Dublin and an exploration of how Ireland treats its people. It looks at the future of the city through the eyes of one older citizen.
Olivier Award nominee Matthew Dunster's ambitious new play exposes the business of today's Government.
A verbatim play tackling the urgent social and cultural issue of FGM (female genital mutilation)
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