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A bold and exciting new approach to Bertolt Brecht, making his theories and ideas about theatre accessible to a new generation of actors, directors, students and theatre-makers, and showing how they can be put into practice.

A smart, witty new musical by Chris Bush and Matt Winkworth about truth, celebrity and public outrage. A shocking crime divides the nation. Fingers are pointed, sides are drawn, facts are hard to come by. Why did this happen? How do we move on? What must we remember?

Two plays from the talented and award-winning Izzy Tennyson. Grotty is a dark exploration of lesbian subculture in London. Brute is a solo show based on the true story of a rather twisted, horrible schoolgirl.

'I want the world to change shape.''I'm not sure theatre can do that.''Well then where am I supposed to take that impulse because I'm very serious about the endeavour?' A young writer challenges the staus quo but discovers that creative gain comes at a personal cost.

Remember the moment you became an adult? Or did you miss it? Adults are the kids that survive school right? And what if some kids don't? Plastic is a charged, poetic, unflinchingly honest new play about time, memory and escape.

An urgent, moving and occasionally hilarious play about the migrant crisis and the politics of the Middle East.

Two plays from an exciting young writer and theatre director. Buggy Baby, a horror comedy about trying to build a normal life when nothing about life is normal and The Mikvah Project, a playful and poignant play about the limits of love.

Lynchburg, Virginia, fourteen-year-old Ruffrino is struggling to make sense of his place in an impoverished world filled with seemingly random killings of young black men. As his anger towards reality grows, he battles to prove by any means necessary that Black Lives Matter.

An award winning play. An intricately layered psychological thriller, exposing the startling mistreatment of those most vulnerable in our society, at the hands of those who are meant to protect them.

A radical re-imagining by playwright Evan Placey of Robert Louis Stevenson's classic tale, where civilised society meets seedy Soho in a thrilling collision of Victorian England with the here and now.

An extraordinary play that asks a simple question: is it ever possible to move on? Poison received its UK premiere at London's Orange Tree Theatre in 2017 following a critically acclaimed run in New York.

Inspired by the tapestries created when Mary Queen of Scots was imprisoned by her cousin Queen Elizabeth I, The Glove Thiefis part of Platform. Aimed at addressing gender imbalance in theatre, Platform comprises big-cast plays with predominantly or all-female casts, written specifically for performance by young actors.

Education, Education, Education is The Wardrobe Ensemble's love letter to the schools of the 1990s and asks big questions about a country in special measures, exploring what we are taught and why, and where responsibility lies. Winner of a Fringe First at the 2017 Edinburgh Festival.

A comic retelling of the story of Dracula, from John Nicholson and Exeter-based theatre company Le Navet Bete.

A witty and touching new play about class, friendship and absence.

In the ruins of a garden in rural England, in a house which was once a home, one woman searches for seeds of hope. Albion is a new play by Mike Bartlett, premiering at the Almeida Theatre, London, in October 2017 in a production directed by Rupert Goold.

A heartbreaking, powerful and bitterly comic account of what it is to be a woman in wartime.

A play for two actors - or many more - exploring just how much wild we're comfortable with.

A searingly powerful play about what one individual can do to effect change. Winner of the Judges' Award in the 2015 Bruntwood Prize for Playwriting.

Two plays by award-winning writer James Fritz, each asking urgent, pointed and complex questions of the times we live in.

A tender but truthful exploration of love and ageing, asking how we choose to live in the face of soaring life expectancies. Winner of the 2017 Papatango New Writing Prize.

Winner of the 2016 Theatre503 Playwriting Award, Andrew Thompson's debut play is about the adventures of three extraordinary women spanning 80 years, against the backdrop of humanity's journey to the stars.

A fascinating blend of dark hilarity and melancholy, woven from Patrick Hamilton's much-loved story about an improbable heroine in wartime Britain.

A backstage view of Ancient Rome at its most bloody and brutal, adapted by Mike Poulton from Robert Harris's bestselling The Cicero Trilogy.

An unflinching and bold exploration of the internal lives of young women. Part of Platform, an initiative aimed at addressing gender imbalance in theatre.

West End Producer, the masked man of theatreland, and author of Everything You Always Wanted To Know About Acting, But Were Afraid To Ask, Dear, returns with the ultimate guide to the theatregoing experience - for anyone who's ever been to the theatre, or who thinks they might like to try it one day.

A touching and funny new play about family, friends and fitting in. How To Be A Kid is ideal for seven - to eleven-year-olds to watch, read and perform.

The remarkable true story of a young trans man's journey from Egypt to Scotland, charting his progress across borders and genders in his search for a place to call home.

The internationally renowned team of Peter Brook, Marie-Helene Estienne and Jean-Claude Carriere revisit the great Indian epic The Mahabharata, thirty years after Brook's legendary production took world theatre by storm.

A dazzlingly funny and original drama about identity, guilt, contemporary culture and the second coming of Kanye West.