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Category: Plays
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When forgetting the crimes of the past is enshrined in the law, what does it take for a family to reckon with generations of secrets?

 

Sting
Sophie Swithinbank

Ash is off the rails, going straight from a sweaty night out to the first day of a new job. Her boss Lily is unimpressed. They need to focus on their assignment: cataloguing historic cases of women accused of witchcraft. After an incident at work, Ash's boyfriend Dom seems keen to look after her at home. But as the women continue their research into ritualistic murders, Lily starts to worry that something is wrong with Ash.

45 Years
Andrew Haigh Adapted by Hannah Patterson

It's the week leading up to Kate and Geoff's wedding anniversary, and preparations for the party are in full swing. As they choose the music for their first dance, a letter from Switzerland arrives and quietly shatters their world. Buried for decades, the body of a young woman has been found in the melting ice. Is the past another country, or is it just beneath the surface?

Losing Face
Marieke Hardy

Travel writer Jo is turning 50 and has invited her two ride-or-dies along for an unforgettable celebration: an all-expenses-paid visit to flashy new wellness resort. But when a medical mishap turns disastrous, the women are left with some wild side effects.

Under the Shadow
Babak Anvari Adapted by Carmen Nasr

Iran. 1980s. When Shideh's husband is conscripted to serve on the frontline, she is left alone with her young daughter in Tehran as the city is bombed. The missile strikes bring terror and destruction, but there is also something ancient and malevolent, carried on the wind.

The P Word is Waleed Akhtar's sharp-witted and devastating play charting the parallel lives of two gay Pakistani men as they negotiate everything from casual hook-ups to the UK's hostile environment.

Mackenzie
Yve Blake

What if Macbeth was a 13-year-old child star? And what if Lady Macbeth was her ruthless stage mum?

Party Season
The Wardrobe Ensemble

Three parties, one weekend: it's Party Season. Xander is back in town, and this weekend he's on parenting duty. The kids are in the ball pit; the entertainer is blowing bubbles; the adults gobble Perelló olives and pretend to like each other.

Is Shakespeare in this Movie? is an ode to the English teacher – a verbatim play that celebrates the complex work of teaching and the power of imagination to transform lives.

The Drowning Girls and Comrades
Beth Graham, Charlie Tomlinson, Daniela Vlaskalic

Two startling Canadian plays, both based on real-life events.

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