Betrayed by a husband she sacrificed everything for, Medea unleashes a horrific vengeance on her enemies, by murdering her own children.

It is wedding night in the palace of King Shahrayar. By morning, the new Queen Shahrazad is to be put to death like all the young brides before her. But she has one gift that could save her – the gift of storytelling. But will her silver-tongued stories be enough to enchant her husband and save her life?

Nicholas Wright's play about the controversial psychoanalyst Melanie Klein is a haunting and poignant study of mother-daughter relationships.

Renowned poet and dramatist Liz Lochhead tells the story of Frankenstein's creation.

A luminous journey exploring the life of Dijana Polancec: professional romantic, eternal optimist and accidental prostitute.

A classic from the Spanish Golden Age, Calderón's richly poetic, epic masterpiece explores illusion, reality, fate and destiny against the backdrop of a mythical Polish kingdom.

A darkly comic and freewheeling epic that gets to the heart of small-town politics and what it means to please all of the people all of the time.

On 23 October 2002, Chechen rebels stormed a theatre in Moscow, holding hundreds of theatregoers hostage. Three days later, in Newcastle, Australia, a young man staged an armed robbery in a bookshop.

Love, sex, birth, death and salsa classes. Three generations of women. One extraordinary year.

Two great artists - Robert Louis Stevenson and Paul Gauguin - confront their own mortality in the strange and supernatural Polynesian islands they made their home.