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When his friend becomes embroiled in a rape allegation, Chris Quinn offers his support. Only the rules keep changing, nothing is clear-cut, and Chris finds himself caught in a tussle between loyalty, love and doubt.
Sharp-witted Lola is diagnosed with a malignant brain tumour at just sixteen years old. She's promised herself two things before she dies: 1. She's going to get All The Sex and, 2. She'll definitively discover the Meaning of Life.
Nobody knows where the fish went, and nobody knows why the fish went – but ever since they did, things just haven't been the same.
Over the baby monitor, at 2:22 every night in their new home, Jenny and Sam hear footsteps around their daughter's cot. When the couple host their friends Lauren and Ben for a housewarming dinner, the party decide to stay up reliving their pasts until 2:22, to discover if the house is truly haunted.
Sisters Dolly and Esther grow up in ultra-conservative Harrogate in the 1960s. Fifty years later, following the death of their mother, Dolly comes to stay with Esther – now a successful novelist and living in Little Venice with her younger, inscrutable lodger, Jude.
Tunde's thirtieth birthday is fast approaching. So he's started therapy because he hasn't been able to get to the gym for weeks, and a recent one-night stand ended in tears – his.
Based on a true story: Summer, 1827. In a red barn in Suffolk, Maria Marten awaits her lover. A year later, hidden in a grain sack under the floor of the barn, Maria's body is found, barely identifiable - and the manhunt begins.
A highly practical, comprehensive guide to exploring Shakespeare with young people – ideal for directors, youth theatre leaders, workshop facilitators and teachers.
The myths of Metamorphoses reimagined for our world by three leading British playwrights, featuring anarchy, shape-shifting and a burning chariot of fire.
Dorian Gray – handsome, hedonistic, narcissistic – sells his soul for eternal beauty. Basil and Henry join him for the ride until it all goes too far, and the hangovers become murderous...
After escaping the rat race, Tom and Barbara Good set about turning their suburban home in Surbiton into a model of self-sufficiency. It's the good life for them – but not for Margo and Jerry Leadbetter, who live next door, and are desperately trying to maintain the Surbiton status quo
A slave girl on Jamaica's Amity plantation experiences the final turbulent years of slavery during the Baptist War of 1831. Adapted from Andrea Levy's award-winning novel.
Your partner's died — but could things have been different?
A young Jewish physicist and an activist poet meet at a party and fall in love. As society splinters around them, the couple's struggle to survive erupts into violence.
It's Presidential Election Night 2016. Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton are going head to head. Vera is in hospital, giving birth to a baby boy – and she has no idea that America has just lost its mind.
A teenage girl has something growing inside her. She doesn't know what it is, but she knows it's not a baby. It expands. It has claws. Eventually it takes over the entirety of her body.
It's 1935, and an eccentric English family – four children, their widowed mother, and Roger the dog – arrives on the sun-soaked shores of Corfu to start a new life. For eleven-year-old Gerry Durrell, Corfu's exotic fauna inspires a life-long fascination with the animal kingdom.
Helen, along with sixty-seven million other people, is in lockdown. Unfortunately, Helen's neighbour, Mrs Delgado, is not. A funny and poignant play for one actor tells a story of desire, control, raised blinds and lowered boundaries.
Emma has finally 'made it'. She is about to receive the Hans Christian Andersen Award—the 'Little Nobel Prize' of children's fiction. With her mother, Beth, by her side to share in the moment, Emma is ready to celebrate the pinnacle of her career in a luxury Copenhagen hotel. But an unexpected visitor disrupts Emma's plans and threatens to upend her future.
Mostar, Yugoslavia, 1988. Mostar, Bosnia, 1992. An epic love story exploring the impact of a war that Europe forgot, and the love and loss of those who lived through it.
This unique take on Jane Austen's beloved novel is an adaptation like no other, drawing on over two hundred years of romantic pop history, and featuring five young women with a story to tell.
Constructed almost entirely from dialogue taken from Orwell's original novel, this bold and powerful dramatisation restores the blazing heart of Orwell's work: a doomed love story, with the lovers at its centre.
It's Christmas Eve. As the cold, bleak night draws in, the penny-pinching Ebenezer Scrooge is confronted by the spirit of his former business partner, Jacob Marley. Bound in chains as punishment for a lifetime of greed, the unearthly figure explains it isn't too late for Scrooge to change his miserly ways in order to escape the same fate. But first he'll have to face three more eerie encounters...
Set twelve years before Philip Pullman's epic His Dark Materials trilogy, this stage adaptation follows two young people and their dæmons, who find themselves at the centre of a terrifying manhunt. In their care is a tiny child called Lyra Belacqua, and in that child lies the fate of the future.
One bitter Christmas Eve, a cold-hearted miser is visited by four ghosts. Transported to worlds past, present and future, Ebenezer Scrooge witnesses what a lifetime of fear and selfishness has led to, but can he be saved before it's too late?
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