Drama

It?s Dougie?s birthday. He just turned 50 and his family are throwing him a party. But it?s he who has a surprise for them. A bombshell proposal. He wants his ex-wife Arlene to back his new endeavour. He wants to serve a good cause, a global cause. He...

It's 1887 and Nancy Astley sits in the audience at her local music hall: she doesn't know it yet, but the next act on the bill will change her life. Tonight is the night she'll fall in love... with the thrill of the stage and with Kitty Butler, a girl...

Laura and Jake just want sex. Late Friday night drunken sex. Nothing more. No strings attached. But getting your leg over is sometimes more difficult than you think. Wendy Hoose is about two twenty year olds searching for love in all the wrong places...

Locker Room Talk is a provocative piece of event theatre. Inspired by Donald Trump?s leaked sexually aggressive comments, the show is a confronting exploration of the phenomenon the then presidential candidate later dismissed as ?locker room banter?. But...

London. 2016. A strange and unsettled time ? where men and the violence of gangs rules the streets. In a dangerous world we hear a new voice ? Imogen?s. Suffocated by her father's aggression ? her man kicked out of town, her life under threat, poisoned...

Madeline wants a baby, so a baby she will have. It doesn't matter that she is in a relationship with a woman, or that they can't afford the high private clinic fees, she'll go about getting this child whichever way she can. Together with her partner, the...

Maureen Duffy's double-bill tells the story of two remarkable women. The Choice is the story of a very unsaintly saint. Hilda of Whitby, who brought Christianity to the Anglo-Saxons, was a businesswoman, teacher and adviser to kings. In A Nightingale in...

Meet Leah and Chris; raised on Harry Potter, New Labour and a belief that one day they would be as ?special? as their parents promised. But what happens when those dreams don?t become reality? Follow Leah and Chris over these twenty years as they realise...

Michael hasn?t been home in almost twenty years. Having been kicked out of the seminary and exiled from his family home, he found himself in London, by accident rather than design. But now, the death of his mother sees him back in the small town where he...

Nikolai, an 86 year old retired Ukrainian engineer and tractor historian in Peterborough, has fallen in love with 36 year old Valentina. His daughters, Vera and Nadezhda, who have not spoken to one another since their mother's death, unite in horror to...

Partners in life and on canvas, Marc and Bella are immortalised as the picture of romance. But whilst on canvas they flew, in life they walked through some of the most devastating times in history. The Flying Lovers of Vitebsk traces this young couple as...

Place like this ? you know this ? place like this gets in your blood. Once it's in your blood, you can't get it out.' One night under Cardiff skies, four lost souls go looking for answers. After dark, when the world is quiet, their paths weave and...

Poor Michelle presents Harry ? a play about friendship and fandom, exploring the impact on young people of a celebrity-obsessed, Twitter-fuelled culture where fantasy and reality are dangerously close. Thick Skin is about millennials, but don't let that...

Raymondo and his brother Sparky have been locked in the cellar underneath their house for six years. An accident involving a pigeon enables their escape. But do the brothers have the requisite skills to survive a haphazard and cruel world? A play for one...

Rites is a powerful and provocative new play exploring the deep-rooted cultural practice of Female Genital Mutilation (FGM). This ritual of enforced cutting has been performed for centuries and millions of girls worldwide, often as young as five years...

Sad Little Man is a stand-up tragedy set performed by the mind of a young man in shock. Described as ?a stunning, bittersweet story? and ?theatrically beautiful? by Noises Off Magazine, a combination of performance poetry, physical theatre and projection...

Sam is a good person. But what makes someone a good person? How far would you go to convince others you are? When your mind can't differentiate between the truth and a lie, facts become irrelevant and the only thing that matters is the story you are...

Seanmhair (feminine: Scots Gaelic) Grandmother A chance meeting between two children on the streets of Edinburgh leads to a terrible reckoning, leaving Jenny and Tommy forever bound together by blood and fate. Brutal and beautiful, Hywel John's...

Set in a landscape of memory and dreams, The Inconvenience of Wings tackles the issues of friendship, dysfunction, addiction and angels. This dynamic new drama was inspired by author Abraham J Twerski`s book Addictive Thinking that examines the notion of...

Six months into their relationship, Bryony found out that Tim suffered from severe clinical depression. This was a secret Tim had kept for a very long time. Fake it ?til you Make it is Edinburgh Fringe First-winner Bryony Kimmings? new work about...

Surrounded by lies and deceit how do you work out who is telling the truth? When highly decorated war hero, Colonel Tariq joins the intelligence agency, his rise to the top seems assured. But in his first case he discovers a CIA agent has killed a young...

Ten Storey Love Song follows Bobby the Artist's rise to stardom and horrific drug psychosis, Johnnie's attempts to stop thieving and start pleasing Ellen in bed, and Alan Blunt, a forty-year-old truck driver who spends a worrying amount of time...

The 56 ?Nobody dies in football matches in fires. It doesn?t happen.? At 3.40pm on 11th May 1985, a small fire broke out in the main stand at Valley Parade football ground during the last game of the season. Within four minutes, the wooden structure was...

The U.S. Senate?s 2017 confirmation process for President Trump?s Cabinet. It forensically reveals the ethics, beliefs and philosophy behind four key Cabinet figures: Rex Tillerson, the former CEO of Exxon, now Secretary of State responsible for...

The world does not care. The world doesn?t even know. There are European tourists sipping cocktails right now on the beaches in the south, who have no idea what?s happening in the north. Sri Lanka, 2009. A 26-year civil war between the government and the...

This winter, JM Barrie's much-loved tale takes flight. Following the acclaimed Jane Eyre, director Sally Cookson brings her wondrously inventive Peter Pan to the NT after a sell-out run at Bristol Old Vic. Exploring the possibilities and pain of growing...

Two hapless understudies occupy their time backstage, trying to understand art, life, theatre and their precarious existence within it. Described as ?delectable? by The New York Times and ?gleefully absurd? by Time Out New York this hilariously witty...

Two women play two women playing two men. RashDash return with a playful new show about gender and language. A story of power with a strong theme of love running through the narrative. John and Dan keep hearing people say that men have all the power, but...

We're all starring in the movie of our life. Selfie after selfie, post after post. It's exhausting. So take a break. Bask in the glow of the big screen as someone else has a go. See the heroine all dewy-eyed as the camera zooms in. And in. And in. Get...

What are the odds of living an extraordinary life? This is the story of one boy?s granddad who won a fortune betting on the 1966 World Cup and, when diagnosed with cancer, gambled it all on living to see the year 2000. An intergenerational tale of what...