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,...
Continue reading...Love's Labour's Lost
By William ShakespeareSelf-denial is in fashion at the court of Navarre where the young king and three of his courtiers solemnly forswear all pleasures in favour of serious study. But when the Princess of France and her entourage arrive, it isn't long before the all-male ?academe' have broken every one of...
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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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Cleansed
By Sarah KaneAlmeida Theatre, London
Two lovers and two siblings. How far are they prepared to go to prove their devotion? And will their love survive when subjected to the most extreme violence?
See cast, creatives, and 7 reviewsThe World is Full of Married Men
By Jackie Collins. Translated by Lulu RackzaThe Yard Theatre, London
David and Linda are married. Linda sees to the house. David sees to business. Business being Claudia, an aspiring actress who'll do anything, and anyone, to get what she wants. London, the sixties. In hotel rooms, nightclubs and film studios, a world of millionaires, models and Hollywood directors play out their desires. Careers. Parties. Sex. Power. The set: dollshouses. The performers: dolls. This is Malm? Stadsteater's lustful, farcical and outrageous production, translated from Swedish by Lulu Raczka.
See cast, creatives, and 3 reviewsAtlantis
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.
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