The Last Ship
By Barney Norris & StingThe 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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By Jay Presson AllenTruman 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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By James GrahamCan you put a price on happiness, beauty and love? Husband to ballerina Lydia Lopokova. Lover to Duncan Grant. Friend to Virginia Woolf. Keynes moves between the corridors of power in Whitehall and the intoxicating freedom of a radical circle of artists, writers and lovers - all determined to live...
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a small and quiet light
By Stephanie StreetOrange Tree Theatre, Richmond
& touring
The current lifespan of an operator is six weeks. That's the most we can hope for your time out there. October 1943. In a small office on the Avenue Foch in Paris, a Gestapo interrogator is questioning a young woman who has been known by many different names: Babuli, Jeanne-Marie, Nora, Madeleine. As one of the secret agents of Britain's Special Operations Executive - and the first female radio operator to be sent undercover into France - she has evaded capture far longer than most. But now she has been betrayed. As she faces the fate she has dreaded so long, memories crowd in - a beloved father, a thwarted lover, a gruelling journey to war, and an endless longing for her childhood piano. What has led her here? a small and quiet light is based on the life of Noor-un-Nisa Inayat Khan (1914-1944), an extraordinarily courageous woman who paid the ultimate price for her heroic fight against fascism.
See cast, creatives, and 5 reviewsHappy Days
By Samuel BeckettPitlochry Festival Theatre, Pitlochry
UK premiere Royal Court Theatre London, 1962
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 reviewsI'll be Seeing You
By Martin ShermanPitlochry Festival Theatre, Pitlochry
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.
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