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Category: Plays
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By Jane's Hand
Emma O’Brien

Jane Austen's life was censored by the patriarchy and romanticised by popular culture. Created/curated from an intergenerational feminist perspective, this work from old collides elements of music and verbatim theatre within a dreamscape.

swim
Ellen van Neerven

Genderfluid protagonist E negotiates the space between the men's and women's change rooms. They flex in front of the cute pool attendant. As they step onto the diving blocks, the words of their Aunty come to them—and suddenly, the crystalline blue tiles give way to much deeper water.

Surrender
Sophie Swithinbank With Phoebe Ladenburg

Mother is in prison. Daughter has come to visit. Closely watched by security, they have one hour to undo the damage of eleven years of separation. Surrender explores what it takes to survive in a punishing and dysfunctional penal system when your child is on the outside.

My Father's Fable
Faith Omole

Faith Omole's play My Father's Fable is a gripping story of grief, belonging, and a family on the edge.

Bindweed
Martha Loader

Four men convicted of domestic abuse offences meet each week to undergo a perpetrator programme. But as Jen, the new group facilitator, starts to make progress with the men inside the room, life outside begins to buckle.

The Sugar Wife
Elizabeth Kuti

Dublin, 1850. The delicate balance at the heart of an affluent couple's marriage and family business is challenged when two visitors – a former enslaved woman and her emancipator – come to Ireland to speak to the public about trade, money and the abolition of slavery.

Some Demon
Laura Waldren

Sam's eighteen and her life's about to start. Zoe's forty-something and hers never did. They don't have much in common. Just a love of '80s new wave, and an illness that wants them dead. Thrown together in an eating disorder unit, their most intimate secrets exposed, they form a complicated bond. 

Darwin's Reptilia
Charlie Falkner

In Charlie Falkner's darkly absurdist comedy, a motley crew of five find themselves trapped by a once-in-a-lifetime crocodile infestation. With the reptiles closing in and the humans losing grip, who is the real threat here? The encroaching reptiles, or each other?

A Child of Science
Gareth Farr

Gareth Farr's play A Child of Science is a fictionalised account of this true story of ambition and courage, based on extensive research and interviews with embryologists and fertility doctors, as well as those affected by and enabled by IVF

Fanny
Calum Finlay

Meet Fanny Mendelssohn. You'll probably know of her younger brother Felix, who was such a huge star that Queen Victoria requested a private concert, during which she sang her favourite of his compositions, a song called 'Italien'.The only problem is, that particular piece was actually composed by Fanny, though it was published under her brother's name. When Fanny intercepts the letter inviting Felix to play for the queen, she decides to hide it away, don her brother's clothes, and take his…

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