A driver picks up a young man crossing Europe. Two police officers work a surveillance case. A passenger directs her taxi to the edge of a bridge. Three conversations grow increasingly uneasy. From aw
Yusuf needs a break – his philosophy degree from NYU isn't opening any doors, but his new job would help him pay his overdue rent; Xiomara doesn’t want to settle for the marriage scenario her Dominica
Maureen Duffy’s double-bill tells the story of two remarkable women.The Choice is the story of a very unsaintly saint. Hilda of Whitby, who brought Christianity to the Anglo-Saxons, was a businesswoma
An unexpected meeting at an airport leads to an intense, passionate, head-over-heels relationship. Before long they begin to settle down, buy a house, juggle careers, have kids – theirs is an ordinary
A politically timely play about the struggle for Indian independence, Lions and Tigers is Tanika Gupta's most personal play yet. Based on the true story of her great uncle and freedom fighter Dinesh G
A bitter sweet, dark political comedy based on one man's true story and his odyssey in search for identity, And Here I Am is an epic voyage of identity and self-discovery based on Ahmed Tobasi's perso
A loner in foster care asks a girl out on an ill-fated date in a stolen car. One day, on the riverbank, the friends he never had narrate the story of his dramatic last day. Direct and honest, Burn and
Dust: Life, Alice thinks, isn't worth living. So, Alice kills herself. Sort of. Forced to watch the aftermath of her suicide and its ripple effect on her family and friends, Alice quickly learns that
A Palestinian actor learns there’s more to English girls than pure sex appeal. A Pakistani-born terror suspect figures out what’s wrong with his first novel. A British youth suspects all is not what i
This personal, political piece explores how possible the articulation of traumatic and private experience is. It spars across the heard and the unheard, the spoken and the unspoken, and contemplates w
A linguistic kaleidoscope of caustic cartoons, crackpot prophecies and demented erotica. A dense, poetic blend of the hallucinogenic and the hardboiled... dirty jokes, venomous poetry and tall tales t
Boo, Bo and Pickle have all made plans tonight. But someone has to stay home and look after Princess.People are waiting, start times are looming. No one’s budging and petty bickering soon spirals into
This play follows Bobby the Artist's rise to stardom and horrific drug psychosis, Johnnie's attempts to stop thieving and start pleasing Ellen in bed, and Alan Blunt, a forty-year-old truck driver who
It's 1899 and all of Europe is agape at the arrival of the new century. The world crackles with possibilities and people dance to the irresistible rhythms of money, sex, love and freedom. Swinging abo
“We have to make sure we make the right choices. If we do, we're ok and you'll have a career, be someone who is employable and commissionable. Get it wrong and it's 'like' all over.”Poet Bev Hemmings
Peer Gynt is a dreamer, a liar and a serial womaniser. Cast out from his hometown, Peer embarks on a wild and astonishing journey in search of fame and fortune that takes him from Norway to Africa an
Callisto is a swirling constellation of remarkable queer stories.Hurtle across time and space with this scintillating and extraordinary new play.In London, 1680, opera star Arabella Hunt has secretly
A bawdy, vibrant and tumultuous adaptation of James Joyce's classic.Leopold Bloom’s odyssey is a pandemonium of live music, puppets, dancing, clowning, bowler hats and kazoos. It’s Ulysses as you’ve n
Hampstead, 1936. In a shabby basement flat, aspiring playwright Clive Monkhams dreams of a West End hit and winning Francie’s heart.With opening night approaching and finances fast running out, everyt
Seanmhair(feminine: Scots Gaelic)GrandmotherA chance meeting between two children on the streets of Edinburgh leads to a terrible reckoning, leaving Jenny and Tommy forever bound together by blood and
Poor Michelle presents Harry – a play about friendship and fandom, exploring the impact on young people of a celebrity-obsessed, Twitter-fuelled culture where fantasy and reality are dangerously close
Set in Russia over the course of 90 years, this thrilling and epic new play tells the stories of a Russian writer, a KGB agent and a group of Polish politicians.
Society is fuelled by anger; dissatisfaction shapes Twitter feeds, online petitions and protest marches. But is that enough to bring about change?Alejandra and Marcela are planting bombs in the middle
The original story of Victorian London's most famous child. Oliver Twist created for everyone aged six and over. It will have you on the edge of your seat and wanting more.
Award-winning theatre company PLAY champion a new approach to new writing, with an emphasis firmly on collaboration. They bring together some of the industries’ brightest and best actors, writers and
Ismail, Bella, Krim and Yonathon are teenagers. They quarrel, have sex, smoke joints, love, hate, kill and die in Bierut, Hiroshima, Ireland, Iraq, Bosnia...Crossfire is a heartstopping play about tum
In a society where private lives become political and freedom of expression is not an option, Irene finds herself imprisoned. As tales of her incarceration spread overseas and her growing exposure bec
In 1982, two friends Bob and Sigrid opened their new radical lesbian, gay and feminist bookshop, ‘Lavender Menace on Edinburgh’s Forth Street.On the eve of the shop’s 5th birthday, sales assistants Pa
In BULLISH, ancient mythology meets modern gender negotiation. Inspired by Ovid’s Minotaur, a gender fierce ensemble of hopers and renegades try to pass, pack and blag their way out of the labyrinth.J
On a stage that might be a painting or a page torn from a book, award-winning live art and experimental theatre group Sleepwalk Collective present Domestica: a woozy, deadpan, and extensively-annotate
One woman attempts to articulate her experience of physicalpain. Pain with no apparent cause. Also, she’s met someone,and they want to make this work. Words, light and an original sound score collide
