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An anthology of five plays, celebrating the tenth anniversary of the internationally acclaimed ensemble The TEAM.

A site-specific performance event staged in a boxing gym, based on interviews with Muslim Female Boxers. Winner of a Fringe First award, Edinburgh 2014.

Stuck in the city, in a life he hates, Tom is to return home for Christmas and confronted with his past. Forced to face his demons, loss and the unstoppability of time, he attempts to rescue his family and his future. Will Tom be able to save it all in time?

Christianity's key figures speak in plays for one actor in a secular re imagining of figures from the Old & New Testaments. Excellent monologue / audition pieces

And there is another planet, like ours. They can't see the sky, on that planet. Because their atmosphere is like a mirror. They look into the sky and see only themselves and the things they've made. So everything in their world can easily be understood. All they want is to be safe and comfortable. They fatten themselves on poison food. And when they look into the sky, they are struck dumb. By the greatness of their works.At the height of the Cold War, dissident writer Gavriil is detained in a Soviet mental prison as a punishment forprotesting against the government. His only escape is the prison library, a treasure store of banned literature available to the patients, but off-limits to the prison staff. His interrogator, Yurchak, offers to protect him from torture in exchange for sharing the forbidden stories. Their agreement will help them both find a kind of freedom, at the risk of their lives.Inspired by an incident in the life of writer, activist and neurophysiologist Vladimir Bukovsky, Silent Planet is a love story about our love of stories, a passionate and poetic fable about the power of literature in a world in which the wrong words can get you killed.

Chimera is the story of Jennifer Saunders who learns of her rare medical condition, and the struggles to maintain a sense of self. Deborah Stein's critically acclaimed play is an ambitious, frightening and compelling take on timeless, pivotal issues of the human experience.

Boa tells the story of a relationship inconvenienced by death. The new play from Fringe First Winner Clara Brennan.

Horniman's Choice brings together four plays by the leading figures of the 'Manchester School' of playwrights - Harold Brighouse, Stanley Houghton and Allan Monkhouse, all originally championed by Annie Horniman, owner of Gaiety Theatre, Manchester, the first regional repertory theatre in Britain.

When highly decorated war hero, Colonel Tariq joins the intelligence agency, his rise to the top seems assured. But in his first case he discovers a CIA agent has killed a young prostitute and a diplomatic crisis erupts.

Nina Segal's In the Night Time (Before the Sun Rises) takes a hallucinatory look at one couple's experience of having their first baby.

The Iphigenia Quartet sees four of the UK's most exciting and radical playwrights - Caroline Bird, Suhayla El Bushra, Lulu Raczka, and Chris Thorpe - create explosive responses to Iphigenia at Aulis by Euripides.

Part game show, part love story, part lecture exploring modern friendships.

P'yongyang tells the epic love story of two North Korean childhood sweethearts spanning three decades.

A new play from acclaimed experimental company Ridiculusmus about MDMA assisted therapy for Post Traumatic Stress.

Twins Seth and Abby fly into New York to care for their ailing mother Anna. Determined that her children should remember her as something more than an unremarkable Long Island housewife, Anna reveals to them that she once had an affair.

With over 4 million views on Channel 4 News online and a critically acclaimed run at the 2015 Edinburgh Fringe Festival, multi-award nominated Whiskey Tango Foxtrot is based on the true story of ex-Airwoman Crookshank and her time serving in the Royal Air Force protecting the UK Air Defence Region.

An unsettling folktale for a modern age, Right Now explores the darker recesses of the human ability to normalise our traumas.

Analogue formed in 2007 to make ambitious new theatre inspired by real stories and contemporary ethical questions. They collaborate with a wide network of pioneering thinkers, bringing together research and invention to create performance that fuses the human with the scientific.

The 306: Dawn is a new piece of music theatre from the National Theatre of Scotland. Based on real events, it charts the heart-breaking journey of three of the three hundred and six British soldiers who were executed for cowardice, desertion and mutiny during World War I (1914-18).

Stone Face is Eve Leigh's second full-length play at the Finborough Theatre.

Schism is a stunning new play about two people finding each other, and what happens when their dream becomes unrealistic and out of date.

From the writers of Alice in Funderland, Town is Dead is a living room musical, an ode to Dublin and an exploration of how Ireland treats its people. It looks at the future of the city through the eyes of one older citizen.

Olivier Award nominee Matthew Dunster's ambitious new play exposes the business of today's Government.

A verbatim play tackling the urgent social and cultural issue of FGM (female genital mutilation)

This play from the experimental, award-winning Brooklyn ensemble The TEAM explores two archetypes of American masculinity through the personas of Elvis Pressley and Theodore Roosevelt.

A searingly funny contemporary look at one family and at Britain today from one of the country's most in-demand playwrights.

Adapted solely from real testimonies and interviews, The 56 and E15 are plays about modern injustice and tragedy which look at the housing crisis and the Bradford City football ground fire in 1985.

This brand new bilingual play by young playwright Alun Saunders is a coming of age story about two brothers raised apart, in different families speaking different languages.

Inspired by the scandalous true story of Ernest Boulton - the infamous Victorian cross-dresser - this original production from one of Britain's most individual theatre-makers is a highly personal meditation on the fine art of living dangerously.

A modern retelling of Greek myth of Thyestes, Blush of Dogs is a play about masculinity, repression and freedom. Also contains 5 out of 10 Men which premieres at the Edinburgh Festival Aug 5-27 2016 and deals with male suicide.