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Desperately hilarious and achingly bleak, this is an intricate and tender question mark around our attempts to encounter each other in a technologized world.

Tartuffe, or The Impostor (pronounced: [taRtuf]; French: Tartuffe, ou l'Imposteur), first performed in 1664, is one of the most famous theatrical comedies by Moliere, and the characters of Tartuffe, Valere, and Dorine are considered among the greatest classical theatre roles. This is a translation for the stage by Ranjit Bolt.

A Story of Friendship, Migration and Karaoke.

In summer 1988, young BBC World Service reporter Christopher Gunness found himself at the centre of Myanmar's `Students' Revolution. His main source was lawyer U Nay Min, the chief architect of the Revolution. At the anniversary of the uprising decades later, a difficult and painful encounter, fraught with guilt and recrimination, takes place.

"Mother died today. Or was it yesterday, I can't be certain."Albert Camus' classic existentialist masterpiece, adapted by Booker Prize-winning author Ben Okri.

Touching on themes of addiction, survival, poverty, joy and ecstasy in the city, and a homage to her childhood ends of SE20, Dennis of Penge, loosely based on Euripides' The Bacchae, combines Annie Siddons' raw poetry with music and performance to create an urgent, vital and uplifting new show.

A big, bawdy tangle of theatrical joy and heartbreak, Wise Children is a celebration of show business, family, forgiveness and hope, adapted by Emma Rice from the novel by Angela Carter.

From new playwright Bebe Sanders, VIOLET is a new play about human connection and inter-generational friendships, exploring themes of mental health, dementia and loneliness without forgetting the often funny and absurd moments of ordinary life.

Inside Bitch questions what is lost when we try to tell a story.

Typical uncovers the man and the humanity behind a real-life story: a Black ex-serviceman who spent his life fighting for his country and ends up fighting for his life in police custody.

A searing, tender look at queer Black womanhood by award-winning writer and Scots Makar Jackie Kay.

In 1970s Scotland, an adopted mixed race woman sets out to find her birth parents. Red Dust Road takes you on a journey full of heart, humour and deep emotions.

From Ushuaia, the southernmost town in the world to the edges of the great Paraná river, and from the city of Buenos Aires to its fertile plains and the estuaries of northern Argentina, The Oberon Anthology of Contemporary Argentinian Plays provides a unique insight into the preoccupations and the creative responses of one of the major theatre-producing countries in Latin America.Includes the plays:La vida extraordinaria (Extraordinary Life) by Mariano Tenconi Blanco, translated by Catherine BoylePato verde (Green Duck) by Fabián Miguel Díaz, translated by Gwen MacKeithFonavi by Leonel Giacometto, translated by Rosalind HarveyNou Fiuter (No Future) by Franco Calluso, translated by William GregoryPoema ordinario (Poor Men's Poetry) by Juan Ignacio Fernández, translated by William GregoryFuego de dragón sobre dragón de madera (Dragon Fire over Wood Dragon) by Candelaria Sabagh, translated by Kate Eaton

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.

Funny, provocative, and deeply moving, this new play by Judith Burnley explores the lives of refugees and what it means to be a 'citizen of nowhere'.

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.

A brand new piece of gig theatre by Ellen Brammar, with music by James Frewer, and in association with Middle Child.

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.