Trainspotting - The Musical
By Irvine WelshCult heroes of youth culture; Renton, Sick Boy, Begbie, Spud, Tommy, and Kelly are back, alongside an ensemble cast and a live band. Featuring some of the electrifying tracks from the film that defined a generation, together with catchy, confrontational and celebratory original songs, set to become singalong, dance-along classics,...
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By Anton Chekhov in a new version by Laura WadeRanyevskaya and Lopakhin are giants at war over a cherished estate. Madame Ranyevskaya returns from five years in Paris to find her house crumbling under the weight of debt and memory and her beloved cherry orchard under threat. Attempting to mend her extravagance, Lopakhin, the son of a serf, insists...
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By Mollie SempleIris is broke, exhausted, and running out of time. She's spent years chasing a version of success that always seems just out of reach, haunted by the belief that if she stops she'll disappear entirely. Between humiliating auditions and obsessive doomscrolling (mostly stalking a girl from school who somehow got...
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Atlantis
By Emily WhiteChichester Theatre - Minerva Theatre, Chichester
& touring
In a small coastal village in Wales, Bryn and Gwen learn they will be forced to abandon their cherished home in the face of rising seawater. Their crisis rekindles Gwen's crusading spirit, cradled at the Greenham Common protests in the 1980s – a commitment inherited by her granddaughter Rhiannon. But as the years pass, their passionate activism threatens to divide mother from daughter, sister from brother, husband from wife.
See cast, creatives, and 2 reviewsMidnight at the Never Get
By Mark SonnenblickMenier Chocolate Factory, London
UK premiere
1965, New York City. Trevor Copeland and Arthur Brightman's love is against the law. In their secret nightclub act, ?Midnight?, they perform love songs in an act of defiance of a world that demands they stay hidden. As tensions rise at the start of a historic movement, Trevor and Arthur are torn between their own surreptitious romance, and the oncoming storm of social revolution.
See cast, creatives, and 14 reviewsHole!
By Jake Brasch & Nadja Leonhard-HooperSoho Theatre, London
Plug up thy hole! A religious sect in Nebraska wears butt plugs at all times because they believe a wrathful God shall suck the unplugged up, ass-first, to burn on the face of the sun. The crazy thing is… they're right. HOLE! is an epic love story set in the apocalyptic aftermath of The Great Sucking, when the only people left on Earth are the fanatical Nebraskans – and anyone else who happened to be doing butt stuff at the time.
See cast, creatives, and 4 reviews