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The White Bike
Tamara von Werthern

One Tuesday morning, Isabelle packs her lunch box into her pannier, kisses her young daughter goodbye, and sets off on her bike through Hackney. What happens along the way is at once shocking, inconceivable, and terrifyingly ordinary. Based on a true story, The White Bike is an affecting play about what happens when our world is turned upside down.

Ghosts
Eamon Flack, Henrik Ibsen

Since the death of her husband, Helene Alving has been treading water in a sea of empty days. She believes that salvation lies in telling her son the truth about his father. But the consequences of his father’s life have caught up with him…

Diving For Pearls
Katherine Thomson

With the town she grew up in changing all around her, Barbara is determined to change with it. Dreaming of a way out, she sets her sights on landing a job at one of the new resorts popping up all over town. Meanwhile, her partner Den is having change forced upon him. The arrival of Barbara’s daughter, Verge, just might be the thing that tips Barbara and Den over the edge.

Boudica
Tristan Bernays

The King of the Iceni has died and his widow, Boudica, has tried to claim her rightful throne. For her insolence in defying Rome, the queen has been flogged, her daughters have been raped, and they have been banished from their homeland. But now, Queen Boudica has returned. And this time she has an army.

Miss Julie
August Strindberg, Adapted by Howard Brenton

What begins as a flirtatious game gradually descends, over the course of a long and sultry night, into a savage fight for survival. Howard Brenton brings August Strindberg’s genius to life in this brilliant adaptation of Miss Julie.

Queers: Eight Monologues
Various/Created by Mark Gatiss

A young soldier returning from the trenches of the First World War recollects a love that dare not speak its name. Almost one hundred years later, a groom-to-be prepares for his gay wedding. Queers celebrates a century of evolving social attitudes and political milestones in British gay history, as seen through the eyes of eight individuals. 

Mosquitoes
Lucy Kirkwood

A play about families and particle physics.

Out of Love
Elinor Cook

Lorna and Grace do everything together. They share crisps, cigarettes and crushes. That's what happens when you're best friends forever. But when Lorna gets a place at university, and Grace gets pregnant, they suddenly find themselves in starkly different worlds. Can anything bridge the gap between them?

On a residential street in South East London, reclusive siblings Peppy and Daniel live in a house stuffed full of everything they have ever owned. With their eccentric appearance and their rampant garden hedge, they're not like others on their road. When young Ben from next door comes visiting, looking for friendship, what happens next challenges everyone's idea of neighbourliness.

Antigone
Damien Ryan, Sophocles

Antigone, daughter of Oedipus, is a child of war. Thousands of years ago she asked a question: What do we do with the body of the enemy when this enemy is our brother?

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