Cleansed
By Sarah KaneTwo lovers and two siblings. How far are they prepared to go to prove their devotion? And will their love survive when subjected to the most extreme violence?
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By William ShakespeareSelf-denial is in fashion at the court of Navarre where the young king and three of his courtiers solemnly forswear all pleasures in favour of serious study. But when the Princess of France and her entourage arrive, it isn't long before the all-male ?academe' have broken every one of...
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By Phelim McDermott & Philip GlassComposer Philip Glass and performer-director Phelim McDermott (Improbable) have worked together on acclaimed opera productions in London, New York and beyond, and Tao of Glass is their most personal collaboration yet. Inspired by a dream, this West End premiere marries ten meditations on life, death and Taoist wisdom with ten...
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A World Elsewhere
By Ben Hales & Kerry FramptonShakespeare's Globe - Sam Wanamaker Playhouse, London
Cass is a boy who finds real life tricky. Luckily, he can take refuge in his imagination – a place where stories burst out effortlessly, and he can be whoever he wants. Inspired by tales from Shakespeare, read to him by his Gran, Cass and his band of imaginary friends have fought with kings, flown with witches, faced shipwrecks, ghosts and monsters, and dived into adventures of every kind. But something is going wrong. The stories have stopped making sense, the adventures aren't adventurous, and a strange darkness is creeping in. Finding himself lost in a Shakespearean Shadow Land, Cass must work out if he's in a tragedy like Hamlet, a Comedy of his own Errors, or another world altogether? Wherever he is, escaping is going to be a whole other story… Bring all the family together for this funny, moving, and gloriously inventive celebration of storytelling, and revel in the worlds waiting to be told.
See cast, creatives, and 5 reviewsThe Importance of Being Oscar
By Micheál Mac LiammóirPark Theatre - Park200, London
& touring
UK premiere Apollo Theatre London, 1960
The Importance of Being Oscar is Micheal MacLiammoir's magnificent tribute to the genius of Oscar Wilde. Material ranges from Dorian Gray to De Profundis, from The Importance of Being Earnest to Reading Gaol. But it is by the addition of a commentary - cunningly disguised as comedy - that Oscar weaves a tapestry, which, as it unfolds upon the stage, reaffirms Wilde as a master of English letters and the greatest wit of his generation.
See cast, creatives, and 6 reviewsThe World is Full of Married Men
By Jackie Collins. Translated by Lulu RackzaThe Yard Theatre, London
David and Linda are married. Linda sees to the house. David sees to business. Business being Claudia, an aspiring actress who'll do anything, and anyone, to get what she wants. London, the sixties. In hotel rooms, nightclubs and film studios, a world of millionaires, models and Hollywood directors play out their desires. Careers. Parties. Sex. Power. The set: dollshouses. The performers: dolls. This is Malm? Stadsteater's lustful, farcical and outrageous production, translated from Swedish by Lulu Raczka.
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