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The Oresteia

By Simon Stone after Aeschylus & Others

A 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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Lear

By William Shakespeare. Imagined & adapted by Finn Den Hertog

In 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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Hit Machine

By Jonathan Caren

Hit 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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Recent Openings

Here Comes J Edgar! - A Comedy Musical

Book and Lyrics by Harry Shearer & Tom Leopold

King's Head Theatre, London

Previews10 July 2026
Opens/Press Night16 July 2026
Closes16 August 2026
Running Time2 hours 20 minutes
First PerformedWorld premiere
Presented ByJ. Edgar Theatre Productions

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...

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I Can Die Too

By Frances Ruffelle, Sally George & Alan Cumming

Pitlochry Festival Theatre, Pitlochry

Previews11 July 2026
Opens/Press Night16 July 2026
Closes02 August 2026
Running Time1 hour 20 minutes
First PerformedWorld premiere
Presented ByPitlochry Festival Theatre, Lovechild/Evan Sacks & Les Théâtres de la Ville de Luxembourg

“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.

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Firebird

By Phil Davies

Southwark Playhouse Borough - The Little, London

Previews09 July 2026
Opens/Press Night15 July 2026
Closes01 August 2026
Running Time1 hour 30 minutes
First PerformedHampstead Theatre London, 2015
World premiere of this new version
Presented ByDouble Telling

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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