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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.

The Secret Garden
Frances Hodgson Burnett Adapted by Holly Robinson, Anna Himali Howard

At Misselthwaite Manor, a brokenhearted house full of secrets and strange noises, Mary discovers a garden as lost and neglected as she is. If she can learn to make friends with robins, grumpy gardeners and a boy who speaks to animals, Mary might be able to bring more than just the garden back to life…

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.

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.

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. 

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.

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.

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.

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 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.

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