I remember the first time I met her. By her you know who I mean
Tired of her highly paid sales job, Rachel makes a move into social work only to find herself involved in a controversial case bringing her into the media's unforgiving gaze. Villain tells the story of a woman who wants to make a difference, a tragedy of trying to help innocent victims but ending up looking like the villain.
Villain premiered at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2016, to critical acclaim. This edition was published to coincide with the first revival at the King's Head Theatre,...
I remember the first time I met her. By her you know who I mean
Tired of her highly paid sales job, Rachel makes a move into social wo...
These two plays - the winners of Synergy Theatre Project's Prison Writing Competition - tell the tense but often funny stories of drug users and the stress their habits place on their relationships.
In Glory Whispers, we see Mina visited by Glory after many years away. Hopeful of seeing Glory's little boy, Mina overlooks Glory's drinking and possible drug use. But when Mina's boyfriend Jonno returns unexpectedly, the troubles and pressures of their relationships see the illusion fall away.
The Monkey sees Terry on a rampage trying to reclaim the 500 his friend...
These two plays - the winners of Synergy Theatre Project's Prison Writing Competition - tell the tense but often funny stories of drug users and th...
How unbelievably dull my life was. I did everything I was supposed to. I was such a good girl. I lived in the house he chose and cleaned a dead woman's furniture. I bought hats, who the hell wears a hat? And all the time I wanted to scream because I was so bored.
On one dark and stormy night in the upper day room of the Silver Retirement Home, five elderly women are trading stories of their remarkable (or sometimes unremarkable) lives. With the storm floods rising and no rescue team in sight, the ladies are faced with the sudden realisation that in order to survive...
How unbelievably dull my life was. I did everything I was supposed to. I was such a good girl. I lived in the house he chose and cleaned a dead ...
The one thing we realised, very early on, was not to get attached. Feel pride in your work, yes, but keep. It. Practical.
Dan has a troubling past and needs help to leave it behind. Amy is employed to support him, and she's determined to succeed - by whatever means necessary
Experience is a stirring exploration of the moral implications of helping others how far is too far and can we really never expect anything in return?
A compelling and tense examination of the attachments that can form through sexual surrogacy, Experience was...
The one thing we realised, very early on, was not to get attached. Feel pride in your work, yes, but keep. It. Practical.
Beau, a pianist expat living in London, meets Rufus, an eccentric young lawyer, at the dawn of the internet dating revolution. After a life spent recovering from the disappointment and hurt of loving men in a world that refused to allow it, Beau is determined to keep his expectations low with Rufus.
But Rufus comes from a new generation of gay men who believe happiness is as much their right as anyone else's, and what Beau assumed would be just another fling grows into one of the most surprising and defining relationships of his life.
A remarkably moving, brilliantly funny...
Beau, a pianist expat living in London, meets Rufus, an eccentric young lawyer, at the dawn of the internet dating revolution. After a life spent r...
But you can't do this to us - my partner is about to have a baby and we need to eat and pay rent - and we need to eat - how is this legal
In the run-up to Christmas, three families are placed into cramped temporary accommodation.
A middle-aged man and his elderly mum, a young family with a baby on the way, a newly arrived woman from Sudan. Strangers. Forced together. No space is personal.
In this play by Alexander Zeldin, written through a devising process, the audience are invited to bear witness to an intimate story of family love for our...
But you can't do this to us - my partner is about to have a baby and we need to eat and pay rent - and we need to eat - how is this legal ...
Martyn Wallace awoke in his boarding house and held his aching head. His room was brown and dirty and bare. He called it Reading Gaol.
Amidst the filth and fury of Dublin 1904, the theatrical event of the century is about to explode Fading stars, rebels, whores and romantics irreverently expose the strange and lurid world of Dublin by Lamplight.
An instant hit when it first opened in 2004, this hugely entertaining and anarchic production is a night to change a nation's destiny Unless it all goes horribly wrong . . .
Written by Michael West in...
Martyn Wallace awoke in his boarding house and held his aching head. His room was brown and dirty and bare. He called it Reading Gaol.
I can still hear them, I hear them in my head all the time. Those songs I sang. But I don't sing them anymore.
Alfie keeps hiding Beth's gardening gloves. She's got lots to do and it's just not funny anymore. Why won't he realise that gardening is helping her forget everything? Why can't he see she's still not over her divorce? Why can't he just be nice?
Based on a true story of a woman who struck up an unlikely friendship with a wounded crow, As the Crow Flies is a heart-warming story of friendship, healing and kindness from...
I can still hear them, I hear them in my head all the time. Those songs I sang. But I don't sing them anymore.
Men in this town were born with mouths that can right wrongs with a few words. Why are you too timid to speak?
As she is about to be executed for a murder she didn't commit, young widow Dou Yi vows that, if she is innocent, snow will fall in midsummer and a catastrophic drought will strike.
Three years later, a businesswoman visits the parched, locust-plagued town to take over an ailing factory. When her young daughter is tormented by an angry ghost, the new factory owner must expose the injustices Dou Yi suffered before the curse destroys every living thing.
A...
Men in this town were born with mouths that can right wrongs with a few words. Why are you too timid to speak?
