In an attempt to spend the remaining years of his life unburdened by the pressures of monarchy, King Lear decides to pass his lands and responsibilities to his three daughters. When he tells them they must secure their inheritance by proving how much they love him, his eldest daughters make dramatic speeches. The youngest, refuses and is banished by her father. Once in control of their father's kingdom, Lear's remaining daughters trade declarations of love for cold hearted treachery, ejecting the former king from their homes, and stripping him of his authority, his dignity, and ultimately, his sanity.

In 1981, playwriting legend Arnold Wesker (the Roots trilogy, Chips With Everything, The Kitchen) wrote Annie Wobbler especially for his friend, Olivier Award winner Nichola McAuliffe. Two years later, it was produced in Birmingham, on the London Fringe and transferred to the West End. And now 45 years later, Nichola McAuliffe returns with Annie Wobbler (Revisited), a new version of the original play cycle for the 21st century. In three short plays, Nicola McAuliffe's tour de force performance presents us with three very different Annies: Anna – a Gen Z graduate battling her anxiety… Annabella – the fey hit novelist who becomes an uncompromising cougar… Annie – a homeless geriatric revisiting her past late at night in a railway station. Without natural or constructed beauty to smooth the way, each Annie constructs a mask to present to the world, confronting their ‘Imposter Syndrome' with defiance, courage and, above all, humour…

His music made him. It could destroy him. At the height of Stalin's brutal regime, celebrated composer Dmitri Shostakovich finds himself struggling to accept that his music must be a tool of the state. Under constant threat of torture and death, he's forced to publicly conform while privately resisting. He walks a perilous line between obedience and defiance?creating work that must comply while all the while subtly resisting. Holy Fool is a tense, darkly witty exploration of the absurdity of tyranny, the bravery of resistance and the triumph of the human spirit.