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Category: Plays
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Nosferatu
Keziah Warner

Welcome to Bluewater, Tasmania—a mining town with no mine, where the population is ageing or leaving, and the future is a tenuous daydream. If something doesn't change soon, there'll be no town left to stay for. So when a rich and charming count appears wanting to turn Bluewater's fortunes around, it makes sense to invite him in, doesn't it? And when strange accidents happen, vines grow healthy in barren soil and people start disappearing, that's all fine too. Isn't it?

Orlando
Virginia Woolf Adapted by Neil Bartlett

Neil Bartlett's sparkling adaptation of Virginia Woolf's famous fantasy Orlando finds powerful contemporary relevance in her vision of equal rights to love for bodies of every kind. 

John Gabriel Borkman
Henrik Ibsen Adapted by Lucinda Coxon

John Gabriel Borkman, once an illustrious entrepreneur, has been brought low by a prison sentence for fraud. His estranged wife plots the restoration of the family name. 

Othello
William Shakespeare Adapted by Scott Graham, Steven Hoggett

Frantic Assembly's electrifying take on Shakespeare's tragedy of paranoia, sex and murder, firmly rooted in a volatile twenty-first century.

Laurinda
Diana Nguyen with Petra Kalive

When 15-year-old Lucy Lam wins the inaugural Equal Access Scholarship to a prestigious private school, she is not prepared for the new world she's propelled into. It's overseen by The Cabinet—a trio of girls who wield power over everyone. When The Cabinet turn their attention to Lucy she has to make a choice: fit in and succeed, or stay true to herself. 

Little Women
Louisa May Alcott Adapted by Anne-Marie Casey

Christmas Eve, 1862. With their father away on the frontline of the American Civil War, the four March sisters – Meg, Jo, Beth and Amy – journey into adulthood, each determined to pursue a life on their own terms. But growing up means contending with love and loss, as well as the myriad twists of fortune that shape a life.

Jane Eyre
Charlotte Brontë Adapted by Chris Bush

Chris Bush's witty and fleet-footed adaptation lays bare the beating heart of Charlotte Brontë's classic novel, whilst staying true to its revolutionary spirit.

1912. In an isolated house on the Sussex salt marshes, Connie Gifford lives with her father. Robbed of her childhood memories by a mysterious accident, she is haunted by fitful glimpses of her past – whilst her father has become a broken man, taking refuge in the bottle, since the closure of his once-legendary Museum of Avian Taxidermy.

The Parricide
Diane Stubbings

In a small flat in Russia 1866, Fyodor Dostoyevsky grafts out a novel for an unscrupulous publisher. All the time, though, he is haunted by a story from his past

Small Island
Andrea Levy Adapted by Helen Edmundson

Hortense yearns for a new life away from rural Jamaica. Gilbert dreams of becoming a lawyer. Queenie longs to escape her Lincolnshire roots. Three intimately connected stories, tracing the tangled history of Jamaica and Britain.

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