Possessing the wit of Wilde and the sexual frankness of a Restoration play, George Farquhar's The Recruiting Officer has been a firm favourite since its first performance in 1706. Jenny East…
Written by Charlotte Ryall and directed by Jenny Eastop, Indebted To Chance follows the life of Charlotte Charke (née Cibber), a forgotten 18th-century pioneer who showed that not only can …
Written by Reece Connolly and directed by Georgie Staight, Chutney is a black comedy that examines the 'less-civilised' aspects of human nature and whether we can " or should " curb our 'bas…
The work of Edgar Allan Poe wouldn't be the most obvious choice for such an innovation, but Christopher York has adapted Poe's short story The Pit & the Pendulum and transposed it to mo…
Devised by theatre company Tormented Casserole and directed by Kathryn Papworth-Smith, Gilded Butterflies looks at two women who are on death row in the United States.
The heart of Bury The Dead is the army using the loved ones to emotionally manipulate the soldiers to 'obey orders' " or at least try to.
Written by Jesse Briton and directed by Jessica Daniels, A Pupil explores what happens when someone who is 'broken' and the help they might need to find their musical 'voice'.
Written by Michael Head and directed by Adam Morley, The Greater Game has as its centre the friendship between Richard McFadden (James Phelps) and William Jonas (Steven Bush).
Written and directed by David Morton, The Wider Earth looks at the early years of Charles Darwin and how a fateful voyage to the Southern Hemisphere became the catalyst for On the Origin of …
The first production of Ella Hickson's play since its revival in 2009, Precious Little Talent (which is directed by Brock Elwick) makes a timely appearance in the run-up to the close of the …
In the first half of the 20th century, many of the great American playwrights such as O'Neill, Miller and Williams dealt with the fraught relationships between fathers and sons. In James Pur…
Inspired by the adaptations of Welles and Polanski, Paper Cinema's Macbeth is as much a love letter to 'The Scottish Play' as Citizen Kane is to the language of cinema itself.
Bryony Kimmings' latest show I'm A Phoenix, Bitch is autobiographical in nature in which she gives a very frank account of what it is was like for her a couple of years ago, where after a pe…
Written by Halley Feiffer and directed by Bethany Pitts, it's fair to say that A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Gynaecologic Oncology Unit at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center o…
Intimacy: letting oneself be vulnerable to 'baggage', words and actions of another. Perhaps not a textbook romantic/sexual definition of the word, but in Hedgehogs & Porcupines, 'hearts…
Watching Jekyll & Hyde, one releases that its core, it is about a man who is falling apart because he's lost his sense of identity and everyone he knows is powerless to help him. A para…
Written as a response to their previous play Tanja, which explored life in immigration detention centres such as Yarl's Wood, Stand and Be Counted Theatre's latest show Where We Began looks …
Semi-autobiographical in nature, Danusia Samal's Busking It is inspired by the 10 years she spent as a London Underground busker.
Written by Rib Davis and directed by Brian Woolland, The Sword of Alex examines through a fictional scenario the inherent contradictions in 'independence' and 'keeping the status quo'.
Written by Lydia Rynne and directed by Kay Michael, Hear Me Howl looks at Jess (Alice Pitt-Carter) a young professional whose life mirrors many women in Britain.
Written by Abi Zakarian and directed by Hannah Hauer-King, Fabric looks at one woman's experience of sexual assault.
Written and directed by Jody Medland, The Unspoken is a distinctive play whose subject matter is seldom tackled in a theatrical context.
In this latest production of Blood Wedding which is adapted and directed by George Richmond-Scott, the play has been updated to present day Britain, but retains the crucial and distinctive S…
Written by Tony Harrison and directed by Jimmy Walters, Square Rounds examines the dichotomy of science and the ambivalence (in the truest sense of the word) regards its capacity to facilita…
Playing 'herself', That Girl (which is directed by Tim Cook) is a metaplay that chronicles Hatty Jones' life post-Madeleine and by the same token life for young women in the 21st century.