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Category: Plays
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Never Closer
Grace Chapple

Northern Ireland, 1987. Deirdre is stuck – between arguments, nations, and the lives she almost lived. But when her old schoolfriends gather in her kitchen yet again for Christmas Eve, their growing differences push to the surface a powder-keg, awaiting the tiniest spark. And then one of them turns up with her surprise fiancé.

Now, I See
Lanre Malaolu

Two brothers, long estranged, reunite at a ceremony to honour their lost sibling's life. As they seek to let go, they must confront the past whilst rediscovering the joy that binds them together. A powerful fusion of movement, song and text, Now, I See is an exploration of identity, forgiveness and nature's capacity to heal.

The Bounds
Stewart Pringle

The year is 1553, the true Golden Age of English football. It's the Allen Valley Whitsun Game, and men will die today. This is the big game, and it's been raging for hours. Percy and Rowan are out in the middle of nowhere, miles from the action, when a stranger joins them. Time passes. Night falls. The great chain of being collapses. And they're losing the bloody football...

Llanrumney plantation. Saint Mary Parish, Jamaica. 1765. Annie and Cerys are enslaved by the Morgan family from Wales. When Elizabeth Morgan is faced with the loss of her plantation, the slaves' future hangs in the balance. With a storm of rebellion brewing, Annie does everything she can to secure her future. But sooner or later she will have to face up to the horror and trauma all around her, including her own.

The Cake Man
Robert Merritt

On newly-declared terra nullius, a Priest, a Civilian and a Soldier watch an Aboriginal family.

This is a story told by those whom settler history has long spoken for; stretching from the violence of first encounter, to 'civil' captivity within the Aboriginal mission, to liberation on stage as the first professionally produced play written by an Aboriginal playwright.

The Roof is Caving In
Matilda Gibbs, with Belle Hansen and Jack Burmeister

Fresh out of school, fresh out of home and in their first-ever share house, Hester and Bronwyn desperately try to make the tiny share house a home. When several unforeseeable circumstances arise, they try to find a way to navigate these and constantly compromise to avoid confrontation and keep their 'home' together.

World Problems
Emma Mary Hall

A woman summons up her childhood with an intensity so visceral it seems to be playing out in front of us. But as her memories draw closer to the present, the space between the personal and the speculative grows ever more blurry. Where do you end, and everything else begins?

Laughing Boy
Stephen Unwin Original author Sara Ryan

Connor is, well, Connor. He loves buses, Eddie Stobart and Lego. He also has learning disabilities. When he dies an entirely preventable death in NHS care, his mum, Sara, can't get a straight answer as to how it happened. But Sara and her family won't stop asking questions and soon an extraordinary campaign emerges. Demanding the truth, it uncovers a scandal of neglect and indifference that goes beyond Connor's death to thousands of others.

Player Kings
William Shakespeare Adapted by Robert Icke

Adapted by award-winning writer and director Robert Icke, Player Kings brings together two of Shakespeare's great history plays, Henry IV Parts 1 & 2, in a visionary new version.

Here, in a London training centre, people prepare to help strangers on another side of the world. There, a city is burning. Here, Sarah gets a meal deal. There, people are in danger. Here, Khaled watches a training video. There, there are men with guns. Here, Sarah and Khaled flirt with each other. There, an aid worker looks after a refugee. Suddenly – here becomes there.

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