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Blending theatre, storytelling and killer moves, spoken word artist Maria Ferguson explores her relationship with the F-word (food) with the help of her first love (dance). Fat Girls Don't Dance takes us in to the world of performance, where three meals a day is up for compromise and skinny sells well. NB: There will be cake

A funny, lyrical, booze-soaked odyssey by acclaimed Scottish playwright Douglas Maxwell.

The 306: Day is the second part of Oliver Emanuel and Gareth Williams' powerful new First World War trilogy, charting the heart-breaking journey of the 306 men executed for cowardice and desertion during the conflict and the devastating consequences for those they left behind.

A funny, frank, and occasionally explicit insight into heterosexual female desire, read out loud by a man.

"Come right out with the English, Peter. Don't even think in your own language. English, all the time!" Inspired by Margaret's time with Peter in the Dolphin House, TANK will explore the politics of language, the power of culture - and what happens when you inject a cetacean with LSD.

Love, duty, death and dominoes make for an intoxicating cocktail in Chigger Foot Boys. Based on true events in the lives of Jamaicans who fought in World War One and set amid the banter in a rum bar near Kingston Harbour, four young men tell their stories of death and glory as the end of the British Empire looms.

Ryan Craig's fiery new family comedy takes a closer look at the entrepreneurial outsiders who became part of the beating heart of modern Britain.

A funny, moving, and thought-provoking existential comedy.

A play about violence, a society living in fear and the moment just - before.

Set in a world where how British you are is determined by the state, three women have been called in for interview. An anarchic new comedy about Britishness and whether anybody knows what it is.

Would the world be a better place if we were all honest? In this comic exploration of her past mistakes and inevitable future disasters, Katie unpicks how everyday lies can lead to a world of Trump and Brexit.

An anarchic new comedy about Britishness and whether anybody knows what it is. Set in a world where how British you are is determined by the state, three women have been called in for interview. Sara looks kind of Asian. Scheherazade kind of Middle Eastern. And Sarah is kind of white and has no idea why she's here.

Eddie and Carol were lovers once, but their lives went in different directions. Now they meet again on a park bench in a town full of memories, and find something still burns between them.

Two women play two women playing two men. RashDash return with a playful new show about gender and language. A story of power with a strong theme of love running through the narrative.

Riot Act is a powerful brand-new verbatim theatre piece created especially for the King's Head Theatre Queer Season. Playwright and performer Alexis Gregory interviewed one of the only remaining Stonewall survivors, a radical drag icon from 1970s London and a 1990s London ACT UP AIDS activist to channel six decades of queer history.

A new play exploring the gay chem-sex scene, The Chemsex Monologues is a funny, moving examination of the chillouts and the people who know them.

Multi award-winning Theatre Ad Infinitum presents the powerful story of one Mexican woman's fight for justice. Bucket List tells the story of the fight for justice against the effects of the corrupt capitalist regime in Mexico affecting some of the world's poorest and most defenceless people.

This portrait of the human need for another boldly reimagines the infamous original to interrogate modern attitudes to gender, sexuality, and social status. With four actors to play the cast of ten and roles selected with a roulette, which of over three thousand different versions of the show will you see?

A wily servant and a pair of wronged young lovers team up to bamboozle a pompous general in this riotous new farce. Dodgy disguises, comic capers and a talking monkey create pandemonium as the tricksters try to save the girl, free the servant and live to tell the tale!

A bitter sweet, dark political comedy based on one man's true story and his odyssey in search for identity.

In January 2017, a fierce fight erupted in the Senate between Republicans & Democrats over the confirmation of key figures for President Trump's cabinet. These gripping & dramatic verbatim Senate sessions probed their fitness for office, & give us a vital insight into the future policies and direction of a Trump Presidency.

An examination of the underclass in society and the culture of blame that followed the riots in 2011.

A thrilling and fascinating psychological play from Geraldine Alexander.

An explosive play about love, jealousy and a woman's right to choose.

A lost village, star-crossed lovers, mysterious wolves and the extraordinary story of a community trying to save what is most precious to them, before it is too late.

From the vibrant colours of Barbados to the grey skies of Leytonstone, this bittersweet play follows one family's struggle to reconcile their faith in God with faith in one another.

A single play edition of The Dead Dogs, translated by May-Brit Akerholt written by Jon Fosse, Europe's most performed playwright. In The Dead Dogs, lives are shockingly disrupted by an event that changes the directions of their future.

The Seven Pomegranate consists of seven contemporary monologues for female speakers based on Euripides' plays. Each one looks at an aspect of mother/child relations. There is a unified structure which relates to Demeter and Persephone and the Moors Murders.

The Great War is over. It is the summer of 1920, in rural France. A unique emotional landscape of beauty and longing, desire and disappointment.

Two plays in one. BigMouth was the sell-out hit of the 2012 Edinburgh Festival Fringe from one of Europe's hottest theatre companies to explode out of Belgium since Ontroerend Goed