A married couple live in what appears to be an ideal neighbourhood, protected from the dangers of the outside world. But what happens when this utopian world becomes a new form of prison?Falk Richter
In classical mythology, Phaethon is the child of the sun god Helios, who tries to drive his father's chariot and is killed in the attempt. Euripides explains how this happened: Helios had seduced Pha
May 4, 1969: the battered body of a 38 year-old man is pulled from the River Aire. An internal police inquiry will follow, revealing how he had been the victim of horrific, systematic, police brutali
May is an idealist. She's fighting for a better world and has sacrificed more than most. So when the old regime is destroyed, she is rewarded with a job as a prison photographer. But as the enemy pas
In a remote and impoverished village in the Karoo, South Africa, a young girl, Thozama, struggles to survive. A violent and terrifying incident and a chance encounter with an escaped moose change her
Lady Barbara Skelton is beautiful, wild and truly wicked. Forced into a respectable marriage with a man she can't love, she soon becomes bored and embarks on a secret life of gambling, highway robbery
1962. Kenneth Halliwell and Joe Orton - RADA graduates, aspiring playwrights, and sometime lovers - plot their rightful place at the centre of London's literary scene. But while Joe becomes the greate
Settle back into the warmth of the theatre. Relax as the story unfolds. For you. With you. Of you. A story of hope and exploitation. Laugh with the actors, tap your feet to the music, turn to your ne
Three exciting European plays from Theatre cafe, the European theatre project curated by Company of Angels.Swedish writer Jonas Hassen Khemiri's deeply subversive play Invasion! is a tornado of words,
Two of the finest comedies from a giant of Spanish theatre. Drawing on everything from street life to lives of the saints, Lope de Vega was a prolific and compelling writer who treated an enormous ran
An unruly comedy asking if age equals maturity. Dana, Ruth, and Jess down shots to console the heartbroken, to comfort the anxious, and just to pass the time. Jess's dad, Jim, invades the party with j
Dominic Cavendish's monologue adaptation of George Orwell's Coming Up For Air forms the first half of a theatrical homage to Orwell created to coincide with the 70th anniversary of the novel and the 6
A powerful and moving drama that shares the true stories of women whose everyday lives have been touched by the recent conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan. These women, who live in our street and drink
A fiercely intelligent young girl rejects the establishment by burying her head in books, while her parents maintain a cocoon of domesticity around her. When the well-oiled machine of daily life is di
April 1642. Sir John Hotham, Governor of Hull, is charged by Parliament to secure the arsenal at Hull and deny entry to King Charles I. If only it were that simple. With a Royalist siege outside the c
Seventeen is set in that time after the end of the last day of school, but just before everyone moves on. It’s about the cusp of adulthood, the cusp of complete change.Funny, immature, wise and a litt
A story about a male photographer and a female celebrity. A question about how far we'll go, how much we think we're in control. Playfully manipulating narrative expectations to reveal the seductive
