The Oresteia
By Simon Stone after Aeschylus & OthersA man is faced with the choice of killing his daughter or losing a war. Driven by personal ambition, he brutally murders his child and, in doing so, unleashes a chain of vengeance that rips through his family and community. When he returns home victorious, his wife murders him, and...
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By William Shakespeare. Imagined & adapted by Finn Den HertogIn this bold new imagining of Shakespeare's classic tragedy, Scottish theatre legend Maureen Beattie takes on the towering role of the monarch whose decision to test her daughters' love unravels both family and kingdom. A thrilling story of pride, folly and misplaced trust. A powerhouse of Scottish talent breathes...
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By Jonathan CarenHit Machine is an emotionally charged collision between two estranged brothers whose reunion spirals into a wild fight over family, memory and who gets to control the narrative of their shared past. Bound by the same bruised childhood and divided by success, they're dragged into a final, desperate collaboration –...
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Here Comes J Edgar! - A Comedy Musical
Book and Lyrics by Harry Shearer & Tom LeopoldKing's Head Theatre, London
As Director of the FBI for almost 50 years, Hoover was the most powerful man in America. Yet behind all the machismo and homophobia was his concealed sexuality, his secret partying and his lifelong love affair with his deputy, Clyde Tolson. Here was a man who stopped at nothing to exert his control - yet underneath the petticoats of power lay his own secrets...
See cast, creatives, and 7 reviewsI Can Die Too
By Frances Ruffelle, Sally George & Alan CummingPitlochry Festival Theatre, Pitlochry
“If you think I'm doing the rest of this in French you've got another thing coming!” A rehearsal from hell. An actress who's way too into her feelings about the role she's playing. And a complete spiral into doubt, defiance, and the uncontrollable urge to sing about it. I Can Die Too is giving fourth-wall-breaking, tragicomedy, musical theatre chaos, all at once. Come and watch something fall apart in real time. It's fine. It's totally fine.
See cast, creatives, and 4 reviewsFirebird
By Phil DaviesSouthwark Playhouse Borough - The Little, London
World premiere of this new version
Tia has been in care since she was three. She can't stand her foster mum, and her friends keep letting her down. But when she meets AJ, a charismatic older man, he seems like the answer to all her problems. At first, he is. But AJ has done this before, and after the gifts and compliments come the threats and abuse. When fourteen-year-old Katie moves to town, a chink of light appears in the darkness that's threatening to swallow Tia. Firebird is a gripping, unflinching drama about grooming and exploitation, exposing the catastrophic failures of the systems designed to protect children in the UK.
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