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Acclaimed Chilean playwright Guillermo Calderon explores what it takes to trigger social change

A biting new topical comedy about the perils of a capitalist world - payday loans, debt & bureaucracy

Barrel Organ's new play about the long-lasting trauma of debt and eviction.

Love Song to Lavender Menace is a beautifully funny and moving exploration of the love and passion it takes to make something happen and the loss that is felt when you have to let it go.

It's the future. But only slightly. There are blackouts. No one knows what's causing them, but that doesn't stop people going missing in them. Now Steph and Bell, a schoolgirl and barmaid, have to search for their missing friend, until the outside world starts infecting the theatre that stands around them.

A joyous and imaginative new play for families. An extraordinary Easter Holiday show for everyone who has ever wanted to be understood.

On a stage that might be a painting or a page torn from a book, award-winning live art and experimental theatre group Sleepwalk Collective present Domestica: a woozy, deadpan, and extensively-annotated dismantling of high art and classical posturing that asks where exactly we might be going in this ever-louder, ever-accelerating new century.

At a boy's boarding school in the late 1950s, a pupil accepts a challenge to seduce a younger student, setting in motion a dangerous game of manipulation and corruption.

The Claim gently invites you into the most British of interviews, then morphs into a dizzying onslaught of bureaucracy and prejudice. A bold, imaginative response to the stories of those seeking refuge in the UK, this play asks what happens when your life is at stake and all you have to save it are your words.

Inspired by the housing crisis and the reality of life on the North Cornish coast, Booby's Bay is a passionate, comic fable about the lengths one man will man go to have his voice heard.

A haunting drama of self-revelation from the writer of Peter Pan. Darkly comic, and presented in a sumptuous production for the play's centenary year, Dear Brutus is J. M. Barrie at his most magical.

One girl's funny, frank account of losing her Mum to a cult.(As if growing up wasn't hard enough already...)

Collective Rage is an outrageous comedy that packs the punch to shatter lacquered femininity into a thousand glittering pieces. Strongly influenced by cabaret and female drag, this exquisite rejection of shame and stereotype will punch you in the gut, break your heart and then take you dancing.

The Believers Are But Brothers envelops its audience in the digital realm, weaving us into the webs of resentment, violence and power networks that are eating away at the structures of the twentieth century. This bold one-man show explores the smoke and mirrors world of online extremism, anonymity and hate speech.

One woman attempts to articulate her experience of physical pain.

Vira hasn't seen her sister Deesh for years. Deesh's kids, Amy and Bill, want to know why but nobody's telling them anything. Is it possible to forgive and forget? And when a family is built on lies, will it be destroyed by the truth?

A humorous and moving response to the elders who leave the next generation uncertain of what is expected of them, Yomi Sode's hit show COAT tackles immigration, identity and displacement.

A new imaginative play for young people from award-winning writer Kieran Lynn, winner of the Alpine Fellowship Theatre Prize 2018.

A devastating school shooting changes one woman's life forever in Martin Zimmerman's 'startlingly original' (New York Times) examination of American gun violence.

Jean Cocteau's iconic play explores our desperate need for human relationships - and the machine that has changed them forever. A brand new version of this classic text is translated by Daniel Raggett and staged at the Gate Theatre 34 years since it was first produced there.

Mother and Father are in the bedroom, preparing for parents' evening. This rare opportunity to check in triggers a volatile, passionate and surprising confrontation. A painfully witty, perceptive exploration of the landlines of parenting in modern marriage.

A new one-woman play from award winning playwright Matthew Bulgo collaborating with the multi-award winning The Other Room for the first time since their critically acclaimed production of Constellation Street.

A new live literature experience by award-winning poet Nick Makoha, retelling his childhood escape from the Ugandan civil war.

"Magnificent pure theatre at its astonishing best." - Whats on Stage

A powerful teleplay by one of Britain's best-known and most-acclaimed living playwrights.

Stella Kirby spent nine years running away; leaving home to find her freedom as an actress. Now she has decided that the only role left to play is the prodigal daughter returned, hoping to rediscover herself amongst the familiar surroundings of her childhood home, Eden End.Priestley has a special tenderness for Eden End and for it he created some of his most fragile, gentle characters. The stoical Dr Kirby, his younger son Wilfred, desperate to prove himself a man of the world, and Lilian, the daughter who stayed at home, are a sharply observed and instantly recognisable family, with all its dreams and disappointments.

Ben, Howie, Jude and Tariq. Four guys caged in a hospital ward in the name of medical research. Take tablets, give blood, get paid, go home. And with no drink, no caffeine & no smokes, they're guinea pigs guzzling pills for a fast buck, happy to blank the consequences. All that time to think, and bounce off the walls - and each other. What's more, you couldn't find four lab rats more different. At least, that's what they think - but, deep down, they suspect they're all surplus to requirements, as obsolete as Betamax. Yet still holding on and still trying to control an uncertain world.

Production at the Birmingham Rep

The loss of faith and cynical corruption of the few priests left at the Abbey of Calcetto is unexpectedly challenged by the arrival of a young man with an unsullied and passionate belief in God. The boy Loftus gradually acquires a huge moral ascendancy through the intensity and purity of his faith, but he is then brutally punished by the priests.

An ambitious, poetic reworking of the story of Myrrah from Ovid's Metamorphosis, Poor Beck is a rich exploration of love, language and the senses. Poor Beck is Laurens' third play. The Three Birds, won her the Critics' Circle Most Promising Playwright Award and the Time Out Award for Most Outstanding new talent, and Five Gold Rings opened at the Almeida Theatre in December 2003.