The Cherry Orchard
By Anton Chekhov. Adapted by Conor McPhersonWhen Lyubov Ranevskaya (Kristin Scott Thomas) returns to her childhood estate after years abroad, she finds her family home and beloved cherry orchard under threat. As old loyalties falter and new ambitions rise, a world of privilege begins to crumble. Can Lyubov embrace the future, or will the pull of...
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By Helen EdmundsonJulie Robson is used to being overlooked. At work, at home, everywhere in between. But when an encounter on a station platform goes wrong and all eyes are suddenly on Julie, something shifts within her and she feels compelled to make a stand. What happens when an ordinary woman pits...
Continue reading...The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie
By Muriel Spark — Adapted by David HarrowerAt the Marcia Blaine School for Girls, junior-school teacher Miss Jean Brodie is famously in her prime. Each year, Brodie selects her 'set'. The crème de la crème of girls whom she will shape through art and politics, stories of sexual liberation and titillating glimpses of the women...
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Sylvia
By Kate Prince & Priya Parmar — Music by Josh Cohen & DJ WaldeFestival Theatre, Edinburgh
& touring
The remarkable story of suffragette Sylvia Pankhurst's life. Activist. Rebel. Icon. Sylvia Pankhurst – fearless, flawed, and unforgettable. The untold story of the rebellious middle child of Emmeline Pankhurst takes centre stage in this hip hop, funk and soul musical. Whilst her mother and sister battled for women's suffrage, Sylvia ignited a revolution for the forgotten: working women, the impoverished, the silenced. Caught between her family and her beliefs, Sylvia risked it all to bring change to millions.
See cast, creatives, and 4 reviewsGhosts
By Henrik Ibsen — Adapted by Richard EyreJermyn Street Theatre, London
Classic drama about a woman's struggle against prejudice and fear written in 1881. On her country estate, Mrs Alving is building an orphanage in memory of her dead husband. As her son Oswald, a successful artist living in Paris, returns home and the Pastor arrives to dedicate the orphanage, it seems she can finally bury the painful memories of her past. But over the course of one day, the dark secrets and unresolved tensions of the past are brutally exposed. The strange and complex relationships that bind Mrs Alving and her son to their maid Regina, her father Engstrand and to the priest Manders come to light - and we discover the shocking truth about her dead husband.
See cast, creatives, and 4 reviewsThe Hollow - Agatha Christie's The Hollow
By Agatha Christie — Adapted by Tamsin OglesbyMarlowe Theatre, Canterbury
& touring
Hercule Poirot's quiet break in the country is disturbed. At The Hollow, an elegant country estate, a glamorous circle of guests gather one summer evening. But beneath the sunlit charm, something darker coils: old passions refuse to die, new rivalries ignite, and dangerous infatuations take hold. Then a shot rings out. A body is discovered, a smoking revolver in an unsteady hand, the scene appearing almost staged — a shockingly straightforward crime that is anything but. Poirot must unravel a web of long-buried family tensions, sibling rivalries and romantic obsessions in this new adaptation by Tamsin Oglesby.
See cast, creatives, and 3 reviews