Set during the early noughties, Good Dog chronicles growing up in a multicultural community, and the everyday injustices that drive people to take back control. Because even the most patient among us
Welcome to Paris at the time of Louis XIV. Come backstage and meet the King’s theatre company - a troupe of, grande dames, old hams, ingénue’s and of course, their leading man. Right at the centre, au
The Royal Shakespeare Company's 2002 season presented five classical works, rarely seen in the theatre but ripe for rediscovery by a new audience.These five plays constitute a body of work written by
“We should have brought a gift.”“We’ve brought a gift. It’s called twenty-two thousand pounds.”Purchased from Russia. Developed in India. Delivered to the UK. A global transaction over nine months tha
The present day. A residential street in South East London. The house where reclusive siblings Peppy and Daniel were born is now stuffed full of everything they have ever owned. This hoard, their ecce
Martin Crimp's razor-sharp satire, The Treatment, was first seen at the Royal Court Theatre in 1993. It was revived at the Almeida Theatre, London, in 2017, in a production directed by Lyndsey Turner.
1702. William III is on the throne and England is on the verge of war. Princess Anne is soon to become Queen, and her advisors vie for influence over the future monarch. Who can Anne turn to when even
Following his stunning RSC adaptation of Hilary Mantel's Wolf Hall and Bring Up the Bodies (2013/14), Mike Poulton turns his pen to the thrilling world of Ancient Rome with a brand new version of Robe
Anthony Burgess's translation of Rostand's 19th-century French classic about the swordsmen-poet with a nose too large to be taken seriously was first acclaimed in the famous RSC production of 1985 wit
Lulu is a walking, talking object of sexual desire. Each of the first four acts of the play sees her married to a different man, each of whom dies at the end. In the fifth act, Lulu has become a prost
Condemned and banned for five years in Moliere’s day, Tartuffe is a satire on religious hypocrisy. Tartuffe worms his way into Orgon’s household, blinding the master of the house with his religious "d
Why didn’t Shakespeare write more roles for mature women? For Harriet Walter, the solution was to ignore the dictates of centuries of tradition, and to begin playing the mature male characters.An expl
Set in 1945 during the hundred days that elapsed between victory in Europe and victory in Japan, this work follows the fortunes of a group of women in a working-class suburb of Nottingham.
