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A Yorkshire hospital faces closure in an NHS efficiency drive. As patients and staff struggle to keep the geriatric ward running, a documentary crew follows their campaign and the hospital choir, bringing the everyday lives of the elderly into view.
A monologue play drawing on David Hare’s experience of catching COVID-19.
A son speaks with his dead father while his mother longs for a different life.
Set in Bethnal Green, East London, the play depicts four waves of immigration—French Huguenot, Irish, Jewish, and Bangladeshi—over three centuries.
After Roald Dahl's 1983 review of God Cried, a picture book about the siege of West Beirut, was deemed antisemitic, he faces the consequences of his public comments and his conflict with publisher Tom Maschler.
Lyra Belacqua and Will Parry travel through parallel universes amid conflicts involving witches, armoured polar bears and other beings. The two-part stage adaptation follows their coming-of-age adventures across the epic events of Pullman’s trilogy.
In a deteriorating Yorkshire country estate, Lady Dorothy Stacpoole resists transferring the property to the National Trust. To raise money for its upkeep, she considers selling its contents or allowing films to be shot there, proposals opposed by her more conventional sister.
Across the 1920s to the 1960s, Robert Moses uses political influence to build parks, bridges and expressways in New York. As residents organize against his later schemes, the play examines his power and the competing visions of the city.
Set twelve years before His Dark Materials, two young people and their dæmons find themselves in a terrifying manhunt while caring for the infant Lyra Belacqua. As floodwaters rise, powerful adversaries pursue control of Dust, which some regard as salvation and others as a source of corruption.
Actors rehearse Caliban’s Day, a fictional 1972 meeting between W. H. Auden and Benjamin Britten. Britten, composing Death in Venice, wants to discuss the opera’s troubling themes, while Auden assumes he has come for a libretto; the rehearsal’s actors and stage manager repeatedly break character to debate the play, artistic craft and the failings of its famous subjects.
Psychology student Hilary, who prays for the daughter she gave up for adoption, debates consciousness and altruism with her tutor Spike and fellow researcher Amal. At a brain-science institute, Hilary and her assistant Bo test children's compassion, but Bo's manipulated data complicates Hilary's belief that goodness can be objectively demonstrated. Hilary later discovers that the institute founder's adopted daughter is her own child.
A fictionalized biographical study of the latter half of George III's reign, focusing on the king's struggle with mental illness and his court's inability to manage his condition.
Vicar David Highland’s firm response to a grieving parishioner turns his coastal community against him. As his family also begins to fracture, he faces the loss of his parish position and the convictions that have shaped his life.
In 1850 Soho, a broke and restless Karl Marx faces creditors, spies, rival revolutionaries and would-be seducers of his wife. With his writing blocked and marriage under strain, his only hope appears to be a railway job, while his friend Friedrich Engels despairs at his wasted talent.
A Yorkshire hospital faces closure in an NHS efficiency drive. As patients and staff struggle to keep the geriatric ward running, a documentary crew follows their campaign and the hospital choir, bringing the everyday lives of the elderly into view.
A monologue play drawing on David Hare’s experience of catching COVID-19.
A son speaks with his dead father while his mother longs for a different life.
Set in Bethnal Green, East London, the play depicts four waves of immigration—French Huguenot, Irish, Jewish, and Bangladeshi—over three centuries.
After Roald Dahl's 1983 review of God Cried, a picture book about the siege of West Beirut, was deemed antisemitic, he faces the consequences of his public comments and his conflict with publisher Tom Maschler.
Lyra Belacqua and Will Parry travel through parallel universes amid conflicts involving witches, armoured polar bears and other beings. The two-part stage adaptation follows their coming-of-age adventures across the epic events of Pullman’s trilogy.
In a deteriorating Yorkshire country estate, Lady Dorothy Stacpoole resists transferring the property to the National Trust. To raise money for its upkeep, she considers selling its contents or allowing films to be shot there, proposals opposed by her more conventional sister.
Across the 1920s to the 1960s, Robert Moses uses political influence to build parks, bridges and expressways in New York. As residents organize against his later schemes, the play examines his power and the competing visions of the city.
Set twelve years before His Dark Materials, two young people and their dæmons find themselves in a terrifying manhunt while caring for the infant Lyra Belacqua. As floodwaters rise, powerful adversaries pursue control of Dust, which some regard as salvation and others as a source of corruption.
Actors rehearse Caliban’s Day, a fictional 1972 meeting between W. H. Auden and Benjamin Britten. Britten, composing Death in Venice, wants to discuss the opera’s troubling themes, while Auden assumes he has come for a libretto; the rehearsal’s actors and stage manager repeatedly break character to debate the play, artistic craft and the failings of its famous subjects.
Psychology student Hilary, who prays for the daughter she gave up for adoption, debates consciousness and altruism with her tutor Spike and fellow researcher Amal. At a brain-science institute, Hilary and her assistant Bo test children's compassion, but Bo's manipulated data complicates Hilary's belief that goodness can be objectively demonstrated. Hilary later discovers that the institute founder's adopted daughter is her own child.
A fictionalized biographical study of the latter half of George III's reign, focusing on the king's struggle with mental illness and his court's inability to manage his condition.
Vicar David Highland’s firm response to a grieving parishioner turns his coastal community against him. As his family also begins to fracture, he faces the loss of his parish position and the convictions that have shaped his life.
In 1850 Soho, a broke and restless Karl Marx faces creditors, spies, rival revolutionaries and would-be seducers of his wife. With his writing blocked and marriage under strain, his only hope appears to be a railway job, while his friend Friedrich Engels despairs at his wasted talent.