Kategoria BISAC: Drama >> European - English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh

To liberate anyone, you must first overthrow
what you fear within yourself, Nkrumah.
(Beat) It was never going to happen over one
week in Manchester. (Beat) It is your life’s
work. (Beat) It is a marathon.

It’s 15 October 1945, Manchester. Africa’s freedom and future is in the hands of her descendants at the Fifth Pan-African Congress at Chorlton-on-Medlock Town Hall. Emerging African & Caribbean activists and scholars offer new radical ideas of liberation. However, the organiser, Trinidadian activist George...

I’d love to say it was Mum’s voice which rallied me on. But it wasn’t. It wasn’t even Miley Cyrus’. It was mine.

Growing up, Theo and Nancy had it all at their feet – the next generation of a Derbyshire climbing dynasty, with a mother who was somewhat of a legend in the mountaineering world. Until one day, their mother doesn’t make it home from an expedition.

The two siblings are left to pick up the pieces of a broken world. And as their life begins to take shape, they are faced with a decision: do they follow in their mum’s footsteps, risking...

You have to look at me now and tell me I’m
good, that this is good . . . That the bits of
you that I can’t see are changed, charged,
churned by the bits of me that you can’t see.

A moving and darkly comic remix of Shakespeare’s play told from the point of view of Joy, a person with dementia, who is living in an old memory of rehearsing King Lear.

Joy’s delicately maintained reality is upended by the arrival of her estranged son who,
being cast as Cordelia, must find a way to speak his piece from within the...

Through the magic of cinema, you are about to
witness The Greatest Spy Movie (n)Ever Made!

Agent Blonde has 24 hours to save the world.
The only things standing in her way are
dastardly villains, an outrageous plot, and...
a lack of funding.

When Hollywood rejects her script, a frustrated screenwriter invites you, an audience of producers, to a one-night-only presentation of SPY MOVIE: The Play!

From two of the minds behind The New Musketeers (Trinity Theatre) and stars of The Play That Goes...

You’re one of the lucky ones. Most people
don’t catch an Annie until it’s too late.

At twenty, Sam’s life is all forward motion—until the arrival of an unexpected companion changes everything. What begins as a normal day unravels into something stranger, darker, and impossible to ignore. Years later, Sam reconstructs the story: rewiring memories, retracing her past, and trying to find the place where everything fell apart. But Annie, her unwelcome counterpart, has another plan in mind.

Dear Annie, I Hate You is a bold, darkly funny...

This isn’t a story, this isn’t myth, nor legend,
this is my life, it is my people’s lives.

Strapped to a cannon, an Indian rebel finds themselves answering to a British officer for the crimes of Kanpur – an Indian uprising against British colonial forces.

Based on historical events, this new play comically satirises contemporary conflicts
around gender, colonial violence, and making art in times of crisis. But who is the hero and who is the villain? Whatever happens, it’s going to be explosive.

This edition of Kanpur:...