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Category: Plays
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Little Platoons
Steve Waters

Moving from satiric comedy to poignant family drama, Little Platoons explores what the retreat of the state and the growth of people power really means for society and its youngest citizens.

Waltzing the Wilarra
David Milroy

Charlie, Elsa and Fay take you on a musical journey, reflecting upon loves lost and found, old arguments and resurfacing alliances. Dark secrets and ghosts that have lingered for more than half a century are revealed, and we discover that reconciliation is more than saying sorry.

Yerma
Federico García Lorca Translated by Jo Clifford

The tale of an impassioned, childless woman living with her husband in rural Spain. Tortured by her incessant longing to conceive a child, Yerma is driven by madness to commit a heinous crime.

Shafana and Aunt Sarrinah
Alana Valentine

At the heart of Shafana and Aunt Sarrinah is the relationship between an aunt and her niece. Both devout Muslims, the younger woman wants to put on a headscarf, the older woman tries to dissuade her. 

The Railway Children
E. Nesbit Adapted by Mike Kenny

Mike Kenny's imaginative stage adaptation of E. Nesbit's much-loved children's classic.

Famously filmed, this story of a prosperous Edwardian family - mother and three children - forced into near-penury in the rural north of England captures the anxieties and exhilarations of childhood with great tenderness and insight.

Sappho ... in nine fragments
Jane Montgomery Griffiths

Sappho was the world’s first love poet, the inspiration for every lovelorn writer and songster since. As centuries have passed, her tale has become a gap in time for generations to pour their desires into. What is the truth behind her own story?

Anne Boleyn
Howard Brenton

Rummaging through the dead Queen Elizabeth's possessions upon coming to the throne in 1603, King James I finds alarming evidence that Anne was a religious conspirator, in love with Henry VIII but also with the most dangerous ideas of her day. She comes alive for him, a brilliant but reckless young woman confident in her sexuality, whose marriage and death transformed England for ever.

Penelope
Enda Walsh

A savage, tragicomic take on the classic Greek myth of Penelope, wife of Odysseus, whose story is recounted in Homer's Odyssey. It's 11.30 a.m. and already it's thirty-three degrees Celsius. At the bottom of a drained swimming pool, four ridiculous men face their inevitable deaths, and play for an unwinnable love.

The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists
Robert Tressell Adapted by Howard Brenton

Passionate, highly entertaining and gloriously funny - Robert Tressell's classic pre-First World War account of the working lives of a group of housepainters and decorators is vividly adapted by Howard Brenton.

Love the Sinner
Drew Pautz

A tense and provocative play offering a remarkably fresh and painful take on our perpetual guilt in the face of poverty and brutality in the developing world.

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