Rent
By Jonathan LarsonThirty years after it redefined musical theatre, Jonathan Larson's groundbreaking musical RENT returns to the West End in a new production directed by Luke Sheppard. Set in New York's East Village, RENT follows a group of young artists, musicians and friends, navigating love, ambition and creativity while trying...
Continue reading...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...
Continue reading...Some Woman
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...
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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 Penelopiad - The Odyssey: Her Story
By Margaret AtwoodTheatre Royal, York
As portrayed in Homer's Odyssey, Penelope - wife of Odysseus and cousin of the beautiful Helen of Troy - has become a symbol of wifely duty and devotion, enduring twenty years of waiting when her husband goes off to fight in the Trojan War. As she fends off the attentions of a hundred greedy suitors, travelling minstrels regale her with news of Odysseus' epic adventures around the Mediterranean - slaying monsters and grappling with amorous goddesses. When Odysseus finally comes home, he kills her suitors and then, in an act that served as little more than a footnote in Homer's original story, inexplicably hangs Penelope's twelve beloved maids. Now, Penelope and her chorus of wronged maids get the chance to tell their side of the story, through song, dance and storytelling in a new stage version by Margaret Atwood of her own wry, witty and wise novel.
See cast, creatives, and 5 reviews