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Three not-so-alpha males are AWOL in Iceland. Then the Vikings arrive. Mountains, myths and middle-class angst, in a new play about friendship and modern masculinity. And the weather. ‘Warm, funny, spot-on comedy with dark undertones – very entertaining’ – Whatsonstage.com ‘An...

Purge is the story of the world’s most brutal game of friendship maintenance. Over 5 days, Brian Lobel gave strangers 1 minute to decide which of his Facebook friends to keep or delete. The deleting was real, the pace was maniacal, the results were final. 50 hours of performance, 800 emails...

On holiday with her streetwise son in Lagos, a British-Nigerian mother is in turmoil. Should she leave her only child in a strict Lagos boarding school, or return him to the battlefields of inner London? A family spanning three generations and two continents meet in Lagos for the first time in over...

Worlds Apart is a devastating play about political asylum, even more relevant today than when it was written ten years ago. In Crusade a bus-load of very different individuals are stranded in the Israeli-occupied West Bank and its not long before the tensions overflow. This Other Eden examines a mismatched...

A contemporary retelling of a classic gothic story, inspired by Edgar Allan Poe’s The Fall of the House of Usher, set against a background of cuts to our 70-year-old NHS. Alison is heading to her first shift at St Nicholas’s Hospital in Gosforth. She’s nervous. It’s a night shift on...

‘It’s a very sore subject around here. There are raw wounds.’ 2015 saw thirty years since the ‘Battle of the Beanfield’ – a brutal crackdown on the annual Stonehenge Free Festival. Called away from policing the miners’ strike, officers enforced an injunction around the ancient...

Three plays by multi-award-winning Australian writer Lachlan Philpott, including M. Rock, Little Emperors, and The Trouble with Harry. M. Rock is based on a true story about the enduring joys of music, dancing and self-discovery, and charts the fortunes of 18-year-old Tracey and her grandmother...

M.Rock is a magical new play, inspired by a true story, about the enduring joys of music, dancing and self-discovery. The generation gap just got tighter. In his distinctive language, Philpott charts the fortunes of 18-year-old Tracey and her grandmother Mabel. Tracey has just...

‘I’m going to try and tell you everything. I’m going to try.’ Every teenager thinks they’re the only one not having sex. But for Alana, it may well be true. She really wants to, but every time she gets close to doing it something just seems to get in the way... Soon she can’t...

Adapted for The National Theatre by Carl Heap 'The world to me is like a lasting storm'An exciting tale of shipwrecks and magic, villains and heroes, and a child's fight for survival in a foreign land. Join Pericles on his epic travels of adventure and discovery. Primary Classics,...

An evocative, heart-warming story of unfulfilled dreams and unrequited love. Based on the hit film screenplay by Charles Dance starring Judi Dench and Maggie Smith, and on the original short story by William J. Locke, Ladies in Lavender tells the tale of two sisters Ursula and Janet who live...

‘She’s been coming here every Sunday for the past fifty years and he still hasn’t turned up.’ Morna Young’s Smite is inspired by Coward’s The Astonished Heart. It is a story of buried answers, blind hearts, and life after loss. Emma Harding’s The Thing Itself reacts to...

There’s a shadow coming, across the sea. Long and terrifying. The vultures are circling, the wolves are howling… how can we weather this storm? The global economy is a mess. The crash has landed, the tide’s swept out, and it’s taken our hope with it. There’s less in our pockets and...

“YOU KNOW THAT FEELING WHEN YOU WAKE UP AND YOU DON’T KNOW WHERE YOU ARE, YOU DON’T KNOW WHAT YOU’VE DONE, YOU’RE NOT SURE IF YOU MIGHT HAVE COMMITTED SOME AWFUL CRIME…AND SOMETIMES IT STAYS WITH YOU ALL MORNING…” A narrative that crosses time and territory to fi nd answers...