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...
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By Jay Presson AllenTruman Capote. Set in his New York apartment in December 1975, following the publication of an excerpt from his tell-all novel Answered Prayers - which alienated him from his high-society friends - the play depicts him alone, reflecting on his life, career and the fallout from the book, while dealing with...
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By Andy SandbergPrivilege is inherited. So are the consequences. When a teen's drunken car ride ends in devastation, the verdict comes down to one question - is it possible to be too affluent to know the difference between right and wrong? Inspired by true events surrounding a shocking legal defence, Affluenza...
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The Hungry Ghost
By Mei Leng YewBush Theatre, London
"I feel like a newborn out in the world for the first time. I feel... ravenous." Tonight's the night. She's got a plan. And it involves her (secret) girlfriend, and the house they're about to move into together. And it doesn't matter to her that her mum warns tonight is the first night of the ghost month. Because parents will say anything to keep you home. Swiping an orange from the family altar and pocketing a coin she finds on her way over to the new place, she steps through the doorway - and unwittingly invites a hungry ghost into both of their lives. As the ghost starts to take over and she wrestles for control of her own body, her carefully constructed house of lies comes tumbling down around her. A sexy horror rom-com exploring what takes root in the space between superstition and rationality.
See cast, creatives, and 8 reviewsBerliner Ensemble: De Profundis
By Oscar Wilde — Translation by Mirko BonnéThe Coronet Theatre, London
In 1895, Oscar Wilde was sentenced to two years in prison – for being provocative; for loving men, for not hiding his true self and for defying convention. His trial was meant to be a warning to others – against the crime of homosexuality and his irrepressible drive for freedom and recognition. While imprisoned, he wrote a long, impassioned letter to his estranged young lover, Lord Alfred Douglas. Later published as De Profundis, Wilde's letter describes the unbearable pains and blissful pleasures of his love, as well as his views on art, Christianity, and incarceration, and a society that doesn't tolerate what it doesn't understand. De Profundis is the last outcry of a broken but untamed spirit. Bankrupt and shunned by society, Wilde writes with literary mastery about contempt and loneliness, about pride and pain. What remains when everything that a person once was is taken away from them? From the Berliner Ensemble, award-winning German actor Jens Harzer performs Oscar Wilde's De Profundis, directed by Berliner Ensemble Artistic Director Oliver Reese. In German with English surtitles.
See cast, creatives, and 5 reviewsBull
By Mike BartlettPark Theatre - Park90, London
& touring
Who gets to stay? Who is pushed out? And who decides? Four colleagues sit in a meeting room. Jobs are on the line. The rules are unspoken, but everyone knows them. Bull is a strained and unsettling examination of workplace bullying, power and survival. As pressure builds, alliances shift and cruelty surfaces, exposing a system where fear thrives and empathy disappears. Sharp, darkly funny and deeply uncomfortable, Bull lays bare the human cost of a working culture shaped by competition, hierarchy and silence. How far will people go to protect themselves? Presented in Deafinitely Theatre's distinctive bilingual style combining British Sign Language and creative captions.
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