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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?

Mouthpiece is a harrowing, humorous, and heart-wrenching journey into the female psyche.

After Hurricane Katrina swept through her home town, Boo was determined to write a play about it. But she never imagined it would be this hard... Playful, funny, and fiercely emotional, Killebrew's acclaimed play explores what it means to be a father - or a daughter.

Performed in British Sign Language, English and Farsi, Summit is a new play written and directed by award-winning theatre-maker Andy Smith. Exploring equality and inviting action, Summit delves into ideas of language, rhetoric and how we communicate with each other, over three acts and in three different ways.

Sulayman Al Bassam's latest play UR is inspired by the ancient Sumerian tablet, The Lamentation for the Destruction of the City of Ur: a historical tablet that laments the destruction of the world's oldest city

Lands is a playful, intimate dissection of a relationship teetering on the edge of collapse by award-winning team Antler, exploring the impossibility of relationships, our inability to understand one another and the hills we're willing to die on.

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 fresh, thrilling adaptation of Henry James' much-loved and genre defining classic ghost story Turn of the Screw.

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

Set in the shadow of the Great War, its after-effects and the Suffrage movement, Not A Game for Girls is based on the true story of the Dick Kerr Ladies.

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 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.

The acclaimed company behind the Olivier Award nominated production of La boheme present a radical reimagining of Verdi's La Traviata.

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 Brexit satire by Robert Khan and Tom Salinsky.

In Oklahoma City on the morning of April 19th 1995, Timothy McVeigh detonated a truck bomb outside the Alfred P Murrah Federal building, killing one hundred and sixty-eight people. Through interviews, In the Middle of the West gathers revealing and surprising first-hand accounts from those most intimately involved.

Still No Idea is part verbatim theatre, part improv, part comedy sketch show. A raucous and mischievous expose of good intentions gone bad and how sometimes no matter how hard we try, we still have absolutely no idea.

The world premiere production of acclaimed new Welsh theatre company Motherlode in their London debut following a Welsh tour, Exodus is set in South Wales. On the eve of the last factory in town closing, four neighbours hatch a plan that is literally pie in the sky...

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

Mari Izzard's debut bilingual play Hela is a dark and unsettling tale of dirty family secrets and vigilante justice, set in a futuristic dystopian Wales.

A London churchyard becomes a sanctuary for the gardener Kabir. When a photograph of an African church appears in this little Eden, a complex drama of morality and conscience unfolds.Sanctuary was part of the National Theatre's 'Transformations' season in 2002.

"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.