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?
Continue reading...Love's Labour's Lost
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...
Continue reading...The Importance of Being Oscar
By Micheál Mac LiammóirThe 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...
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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 4 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.
See cast, creatives, and 3 reviewsAtlantis
By Emily WhiteChichester Theatre - Minerva Theatre, Chichester
& touring
In a small coastal village in Wales, Bryn and Gwen learn they will be forced to abandon their cherished home in the face of rising seawater. Their crisis rekindles Gwen's crusading spirit, cradled at the Greenham Common protests in the 1980s – a commitment inherited by her granddaughter Rhiannon. But as the years pass, their passionate activism threatens to divide mother from daughter, sister from brother, husband from wife.
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