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The Last Ship

By Barney Norris & Sting

The Last Ship tells the story of a ship-building town and its people. Gideon Fletcher, a sailor, returns home from half-a-lifetime at sea to discover the ship-building life he left behind in chaos. The yard is closing and no one knows what will come next. With the engine fired and...

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Tru

By Jay Presson Allen

Truman Capote. Set in his New York apartment in December 1975, following the publication of an excerpt from his tell-all novel Answered Prayers - which alienated him from his high-society friends - the play depicts him alone, reflecting on his life, career and the fallout from the book, while dealing with...

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Catarina and the Beauty of Killing Fascists

By Tiago Rodrigues

Catarina and the Beauty of Killing Fascists follows a Portuguese family honoring a 70-year tradition of annually kidnapping and killing a fascist in rural southern Portugal. When the youngest member, Catarina, refuses to execute their captive, the group faces an intense internal conflict over the ethics of violence, the definition...

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Recent Openings

Happy Days

By Samuel Beckett

Pitlochry Festival Theatre, Pitlochry

Previews18 September 2026
Opens/Press Night26 September 2026
Closes10 October 2026
Running Time1 hour 40 minutes
First PerformedCherry Lane Theatre New York City, 1961
UK premiere Royal Court Theatre London, 1962
Presented ByPitlochry Festival Theatre

Everything is falling apart. She's buried up to her neck. Literally. And she's never been happier. Beckett's Happy Days is the original “main character refuses to give up” story. It's absurd, darkly comic, and oddly comforting. If existential dread is your vibe but you also want to laugh about it, Siobhán Redmond is about to make this your new favourite thing.

See cast, creatives, and 5 reviews

I'll be Seeing You

By Martin Sherman

Pitlochry Festival Theatre, Pitlochry

Previews22 September 2026
Opens/Press Night26 September 2026
Closes11 October 2026
Running Time1 hour 20 minutes
First PerformedWorld premiere
Presented ByPitlochry Festival Theatre

What if Liberace walked into a play about Liberace? That's the problem. Because when you're writing about the greatest showman of them all, what happens when the man himself turns up to check your work? Simon Russell Beale and Fra Fee go head-to-head in a gloriously bonkers, fabulously funny new play about Liberace: the rhinestones, the ego, the glamour, the scandal, the piano… and the man behind it all. He was flamboyant. He was outrageous. And he knew exactly how to put on a show. And, frankly, he still does. But somewhere behind the sequins, the furs and the forty rings was someone who spent a lifetime deciding exactly how much of himself the world was allowed to see. Come meet Liberace. Get ready for the glitter.

See cast, creatives, and 2 reviews

Application 39

By Ahmed Masoud

Bristol Old Vic, Bristol
& touring

Previews23 September 2026
Opens/Press Night24 September 2026
Closes26 September 2026
Running Time1 hour 20 minutes
First PerformedWorld premiere
Presented ByETT, Matthew Schmolle Productions & Theatre Royal Stratford East

In APPLICATION 39, two young IT workers in the municipality of Gaza hack the bid process for the 2048 Olympics as a prank - and win. Their "victory" becomes a surreal yet pressing journey through occupation, bureaucracy, absurdity, and reconstruction. Application 39 draws on real-life testimonies, including from Gaza itself, to pose a radical question: what if Gaza were no longer rubble and siege - but a site of global gathering, resistance and renewal?

See cast, creatives, and 1 review
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