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Glengarry Glen Ross

By David Mamet

A fly-by-night office in Chicago. A brutal sales competition: Top dog wins a Cadillac. Second wins a set of steak knives. Third and fourth get fired. Four real estate agents cheat, fight and steal to come out on top — but can any of them win?

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Much Ado About Nothing

By William Shakespeare

Sharp tongues and savage gossip fuel a messy, magnetic attraction in this new production of Shakespeare's Much Ado About Nothing in the Globe Theatre. The war is over, but the battle for love is just beginning. Beatrice has sworn off men, but there's something about Benedick she just can't leave...

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A Fine Idea

By Christine Bacon

Without us here, though, can you imagine how much worse it would be? It's 2024. After years circling the globe delivering aid, Jo has built a career supporting those most in need – a good person doing good things. But 75 years after her grandfather got the idea of “international development” into...

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Recent Openings

45 Years

From the film by Andrew Haigh — Adapted for the stage by Hannah Patterson

Chichester Theatre - Minerva Theatre, Chichester

Previews12 June 2026
Opens/Press Night18 June 2026
Closes11 July 2026
Running Time1 hour 25 minutes
First PerformedWorld premiere
Presented ByChichester Festival Theatre

Buried for decades, the body of a young woman is found in the melting ice. A thousand miles and 45 years away... a crack forms in the crystal of a marriage. It's the week leading up to Kate and Geoff's wedding anniversary and preparations for the party are in full swing. As they choose the music for their first dance, a letter from Switzerland quietly shatters their world. Is the past another country? Or are the secrets in the attic of our memory destined to return?

See cast, creatives, and 7 reviews

Inexperience

By Douglas Maxwell

Pitlochry Festival Theatre, Pitlochry

Previews13 June 2026
Opens/Press Night18 June 2026
Closes04 July 2026
Running Time1 hour 55 minutes
First PerformedWorld premiere
Presented ByPitlochry Festival Theatre

Inexperience by award-winning playwright Douglas Maxwell is a witty and heartfelt romantic comedy about touch, memory, and the choices that shape a life. Robin doesn't do mess. Not in his house, not in his work, not in his heart. A meticulous Sheriff Clerk, he keeps himself apart—safe, orderly, untouchable. Until Iris walks back into his life. Iris is Robin's opposite: impulsive, passionate, always chasing the next cause or connection. Back in the 90s, when they were students, she made Robin a daring promise: they could only ever touch once. Just once, in their entire lives—in an attempt to preserve a spark that usually fades. Iris forgot. Robin never did. Now, decades later, that one perfect touch may finally be within reach. But can a single moment live up to a lifetime of anticipation? Inexperience is a moving, playful exploration of intimacy in a culture where physical contact is anything but simple. With humour, warmth, and emotional bite, Maxwell asks: what's the best way to live? Do you dive into life's chaos, or stay apart and unscathed?

See cast, creatives, and 6 reviews

Million Dollar Quartet

By Colin Escott & Floyd Mutrux

Barn Theatre, Cirencester

Previews15 June 2026
Opens/Press Night18 June 2026
Closes22 August 2026
Running Time1 hour 45 minutes
First PerformedBarn Theatre Cirencester, 2022
Presented ByBarn Theatre in association with TRW Production Ltd

The award-winning musical that tells the electrifying story of the night in 1956 when Elvis Presley, Johnny Cash, Carl Perkins and Jerry Lee Lewis came together to make music and ended up making history. It is inspired by the actual event that took place on 4 December 1956 at Sun Records in Memphis and features over 20 of the greatest rock 'n' roll, gospel, R&B and country hits ever written including: Blue Suede Shoes, I Walk The Line, Fever, Great Balls of Fire, Hound Dog, Folsom Prison Blues and Whole Lotta Shakin' Goin' On. The legendary meeting was masterminded by Sun Records' founder Sam Phillips, who discovered all four of the musicians, and brought Elvis Presley (and his then girlfriend) back to the recording studio that launched him to stardom. Together with Sun Records' fast-rising new superstar Johnny Cash and Carl Perkins, who was still chasing his next big hit after writing and recording Blue Suede Shoes, the fourth member of this impromptu "quartet" was Phillips' latest signing, Jerry Lee Lewis. Million Dollar Quartet is a story of fame, friendship, discovery, divided loyalties, professional jealousy and incredible music as four of the music industry's most extraordinary talents, all in their creative prime, made music together for the first and only time in their careers.

See cast, creatives, and 2 reviews
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