Medea’s marriage is breaking up. And so is everything else. Testing the limits of revenge and liberty, Euripides’ seminal play cuts to the heart of gender politics and asks what it means to be a woman
The world would come to know him as Muhammad Ali, but on 25 February 1964, a twenty-two-year-old Cassius Clay celebrated his world heavyweight title not by hitting the town, but in a hotel room w
Outside a South African town a silent woman, Ruth, goes through her self-imposed rituals, a child's crib strapped to her back. An observer, Simon, who has loved Ruth since childhood, tells her story.T
Charlie isn’t sleeping. His neighbor’s cat has been dismembered. And worse, he’s being haunted by an urban fox. In a haze of neon-soaked insomnia, lines blur between reality and fantasy.An exhilaratin
Outrageously zany and filled with non-stop surprises, Simon Reade’s theatrical adaptation ofThe Scarecrow and His Servant (a children’s tale by renowned author Philip Pullman), is an enchanting play f
Two queens. One in power. One in prison. It's all in the execution.Schiller's political tragedy takes us behind the scenes of some of British history's most crucial days. Playing both Elizabeth I and
Pretending to do Hajj, Zamurrud and Hussain elope, but Zamurrud is kidnapped by The Assassins ? an extreme sect whose members will leap to death for the reward of paradise.Zamurrud visits Hussain in w
A loophole in the Postal Services Act says you can open other people’s mail under certain circumstances. This is that certain circumstance... Songs, politics, dodgy landlords and detective work: the h
The three plays Missing, Crossing and Miracle are folkloric and ostensibly native pieces of Afrikaner storytelling. All plays deal with the liberation of a character from an oppressive, matriarchal or
A new translation of Hoghe’s original rehearsal diary that documented the legendary Tanztheater Wuppertal’s work on Bandoneon (1980). This unique book records the method Pina Bausch developed and used
In 1961, Peter and Helen Kroger, two Americans living in a London suburb, were convicted of spying for the Russians and sentenced to twenty years' imprisonment. From these true facts Hugh Whitemore ha
Howard Barker is one of the most significant and controversial dramatists of his time. His plays challenge, unsettle and expose. These plays are among his best-known works, and their energy, poetic la
The Games spells eviction for the Romany Gypsies. 17 year-old Pearl Penfold is one of them. As the bulldozers close in, Pearl falls in love with Joe, a boy from the local estate. Can Joe prove himsel
