On a ship bound for Australia, a group of convicts are ordered to put on a show set in the criminal underworld of London that they’ve left far behind, never to see again–a world packed with such larger than life characters as highwayman Macheath and his lover sweet Polly Peachum. Cue stormy seas (and stormy […]
11 Feb 2008
The handsome young heir to the throne is in love. His fiancee is attractive, intelligent, cultured – and a Muslim. Suddenly it’s not only the future of the Royal Family under question but the very identity of Britain itself, as a panicked Prime Minister grapples with the possibility of a Muslim monarchy. In Alistair Beaton’s […]
11 Feb 2007
Jonathan’s eighteen. Bright boy. Great future. People expect things – especially now that his dad’s walked out, his mum’s got her career and Danny needs looking after. Danny – his brother with Down’s syndrome and a love of creative swearing. But Jonathan’s best friend needs him too. It’s hard work burgling houses all on your […]
11 Feb 2007
1994: An American family arrive in beautiful, tiny Rwanda and find themselves out of their depth. Struggling academic Jack Exley makes enemies when he tries to solve a mysterious disappearance. His teenage son finds adult trouble in Kigali’s nightclubs. And his ambitious new wife goes on a sightseeing trip that not even her Detroit childhood […]
11 Feb 2006
‘You were supposed to love me. You said it in front of sixty of our friends and family – Even my father cried.’ Neil’s come a long way from The Evening Press. But he’s still restless. Back from Sudan with a head full of nightmares, he takes a hammer to his life. Is Sarah the […]
11 Jan 2006
Talking to Terrorists is a play commissioned by the Royal Court and Out of Joint. The writer, director and actors interviewed people from around the world who have been affected by or involved in terrorism. They wanted to know what makes ordinary people do extreme things. Peacemakers, journalists and hostages. Significant figures from recent history. […]
11 Feb 2005
Macbeth takes place in a brutalised country torn apart by civil war, tyrants become kings; women, warriors. The ‘Scotland’ of our modern era becomes influenced by images from recent events in central Africa, where whole sections of the population have been massacred; brutal maiming and rapes have become accustomed weapons of war and where child […]
11 Feb 2004
Drag Queen Bernice Hindley – “Myra’s niece” – pulls you into a secret city. Meet her fucked-up friends and family: Violent trannies, self-combusting grannies, Jack Russells driving cars… At its heart, there’s a sickening crime story from Glasgow’s gay underworld. But it’s just part of Russell Barr’s funny, touching show about a young man blowing […]
11 Feb 2004
Cat’s got big feet so her boyfriend calls her Duck. Cat’s also got a middle-aged lover who drinks and writes books, a best friend with brains and a psychotic mum, a boyfriend with a nightclub, a gun, and some unfinished business… But which of these unravelling threads will she follow? Cat and Sophie are teenagers on the brink, growing […]
11 Feb 2003
Premiered in 1773, She Stoops to Conquer broke the mould with its satirical swipe at polite society. It tells the story of young Charles Marlow and his search for the perfect wife. Inept in the art of love, he’s unable to woo ladies of the upper class, but when he falls for the barmaid he […]
11 Feb 2002
