Broken Glass
By Arthur MillerBrooklyn, New York, 1938. Sylvia Gellburg reads about the violent attacks against Jewish communities carried out an ocean away in Germany. Most people look away, believing it will pass. Not Sylvia. Her obsession grows and soon she loses her ability to walk — a paralysis her husband, Phillip, believes is all in...
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By Nicolas Kent: with plays by David Edgar, Cat Goscovitch, David Greig, Jonathan Myerson & Natalka Vorozhbyt — Translated by Sasha DugdaleFive plays: A nation's fight for freedom. From the producer-director of the Olivier Award-nominated The Great Game – Afghanistan comes a powerful cycle of short plays about courage, truth and survival in the face of tyranny. Ukraine Unbroken charts twelve turbulent years of modern Ukrainian history, from the Maidan protests...
Continue reading...The Holy Rosenbergs
By Ryan CraigThe Rosenbergs of Edgware are a family in crisis. David is desperately trying to save a failing catering business; Lesley is trying to save a failing husband, and their daughter Ruth is facing public vilification for investigating war crimes in Gaza for the UN, is she failing her community? Will...
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Iron Fantasy
By Shamira Turner & Eugénie PastorSoho Theatre, London
Two confrontation-avoidant gentle beings finally decide to live out their 1990s TV fantasies and pump iron, strap on armour, and learn how to fight. Mixing interviews with children, teens, and elders, with their own personal stories and medieval gymcore beats they made up, She Goat set forth on a quest to get strong, stay strong and find out what “strong” even means. In search of assertiveness! In search of a six-pack! Armed with flute, autoharp, and a lot of cottage cheese… This is IRON FANTASY.
See cast, creatives, and 5 reviewsYentl
By Isaac Bashevis Singer — Adapted by Gary Abrahams, Elise Esther Hearst & Galit KlasMarylebone Theatre, London
UK premiere
Yentl follows a young woman forbidden from studying Jewish scripture who disguises herself as a man in pursuit of knowledge, love and self-determination, as faith, gender, desire and tradition collide.
See cast, creatives, and 10 reviewsAmerica The Beautiful: Chapter 1
By Neil LaButeKing's Head Theatre, London
& touring
UK premiere
In this sensational UK premiere from the writer of In The Company Of Men and The Shape Of Things comes an exclusive collection of savage short plays offering a uniquely skewed view of life and relationships in the modern world. Written over the past decade for the Labute New Theater Festival in the US, these shorts are here brought together for the first time and for a strictly limited run, produced by Greenwich Theatre for the King's Head. This unique, split-venue production unfolds across King's Head Theatre and Greenwich Theatre, presented as three distinct chapters at two venues. The first plays at King's Head Theatre from 9–21 March, before transferring to Greenwich Theatre from 31 March–4 April, inviting audiences to encounter a bold collection of short plays in contrasting spaces, each reshaping the emotional and theatrical impact of the work.
See cast, creatives, and 4 reviews