Telstar is the story of the world's first independent record producer, Joe Meek. He was a maverick genius who enjoyed phenomenal early success with Telstar, the biggest-selling record of its time, before bad luck, depression, heartbreak, and paranoia forced him to murder and suicide. This stranger-than-fiction true story is a brilliantly sharp and beautifully observed satirical comedy.

Fifty years ago Sir Peter Hall directed the English world premiere of Samuel Beckett's Waiting for Godot. Now he has returned to this quintessential absurdist piece that has become one of the most important works of modern drama. Jonathan Croall combines an account of this theatrical journey with an informative history of the play.

Standing on the shore of Lake Geneva, young writer Frederick Winterbourne is drawn to Daisy Miller. As disdain about her recklessness with men resonates around the aristocratic circles, he continues to defend her, but at what cost? As an intriguing tale of passion and romance unfolds, he is confronted with a tragedy that will haunt him forever.

A stunning debut from Derry writer Andrew Doyle

inspired by -Into the Silent Land- by Paul Broks

Gregory Motton's new play is an absorbing exploration of love and mortality.

Autumn, and the orchard is full of cider apples: Beauty of Bath, Kingston Black, and Glory of the West. Inside the farmhouse, the rule of the matriarch Irene is challenged when her estranged daughter returns and her middle-aged son, beginning to tire of being tied to the unprofitable farm, grows restless. A richly evocative tale about life in our changing rural landscape.

A community play for a large cast and a wide audience.

Inspired by the Guardian dossiers of interviews at Guantanamo Bay, this illuminative and daring play looks at how the global -war on terror- has rocked our perceptions of national and religious identity. Mixing fact and fiction, horror and dark humor, The Hot Zone boldly addresses the political abuse of human rights today.

Arguably Bronte's most refined and deeply felt work, Villette draws on her experiences as a student in Brussels as well as her profound loneliness following the deaths of her three siblings. Lucy Snowe, the narrator of Villette, flees from an unhappy past in England to begin a new life as a teacher at a French boarding school in the great cosmopolitan capital of Villette. Soon Lucy's struggle for independence is overshadowed by both her friendship with a worldly English doctor and her feelings for an autocratic schoolmaster. Bronte's strikingly modern heroine must decide if there is any man...