In 1970s Scotland, an adopted mixed race woman sets out to find her birth parents. Red Dust Road takes you on a journey full of heart, humour and deep emotions.
From Ushuaia, the southernmost town in the world to the edges of the great Paraná river, and from the city of Buenos Aires to its fertile plains and the estuaries of northern Argentina, The Oberon Anthology of Contemporary Argentinian Plays provides a unique insight into the preoccupations and the creative responses of one of the major theatre-producing countries in Latin America.Includes the plays:La vida extraordinaria (Extraordinary Life) by Mariano Tenconi Blanco, translated by Catherine BoylePato verde (Green Duck) by Fabián Miguel Díaz, translated by Gwen MacKeithFonavi by Leonel Giacometto, translated by Rosalind HarveyNou Fiuter (No Future) by Franco Calluso, translated by William GregoryPoema ordinario (Poor Men's Poetry) by Juan Ignacio Fernández, translated by William GregoryFuego de dragón sobre dragón de madera (Dragon Fire over Wood Dragon) by Candelaria Sabagh, translated by Kate Eaton
Acclaimed Chilean playwright Guillermo Calderon explores what it takes to trigger social change
A biting new topical comedy about the perils of a capitalist world - payday loans, debt & bureaucracy
Barrel Organ's new play about the long-lasting trauma of debt and eviction.
Love Song to Lavender Menace is a beautifully funny and moving exploration of the love and passion it takes to make something happen and the loss that is felt when you have to let it go.
Funny, provocative, and deeply moving, this new play by Judith Burnley explores the lives of refugees and what it means to be a 'citizen of nowhere'.
It's the future. But only slightly. There are blackouts. No one knows what's causing them, but that doesn't stop people going missing in them. Now Steph and Bell, a schoolgirl and barmaid, have to search for their missing friend, until the outside world starts infecting the theatre that stands around them.
A joyous and imaginative new play for families. An extraordinary Easter Holiday show for everyone who has ever wanted to be understood.
On a stage that might be a painting or a page torn from a book, award-winning live art and experimental theatre group Sleepwalk Collective present Domestica: a woozy, deadpan, and extensively-annotated dismantling of high art and classical posturing that asks where exactly we might be going in this ever-louder, ever-accelerating new century.
A brand new piece of gig theatre by Ellen Brammar, with music by James Frewer, and in association with Middle Child.
At a boy's boarding school in the late 1950s, a pupil accepts a challenge to seduce a younger student, setting in motion a dangerous game of manipulation and corruption.
The Claim gently invites you into the most British of interviews, then morphs into a dizzying onslaught of bureaucracy and prejudice. A bold, imaginative response to the stories of those seeking refuge in the UK, this play asks what happens when your life is at stake and all you have to save it are your words.
Inspired by the housing crisis and the reality of life on the North Cornish coast, Booby's Bay is a passionate, comic fable about the lengths one man will man go to have his voice heard.
A haunting drama of self-revelation from the writer of Peter Pan. Darkly comic, and presented in a sumptuous production for the play's centenary year, Dear Brutus is J. M. Barrie at his most magical.
One girl's funny, frank account of losing her Mum to a cult.(As if growing up wasn't hard enough already...)
Collective Rage is an outrageous comedy that packs the punch to shatter lacquered femininity into a thousand glittering pieces. Strongly influenced by cabaret and female drag, this exquisite rejection of shame and stereotype will punch you in the gut, break your heart and then take you dancing.
The Believers Are But Brothers envelops its audience in the digital realm, weaving us into the webs of resentment, violence and power networks that are eating away at the structures of the twentieth century. This bold one-man show explores the smoke and mirrors world of online extremism, anonymity and hate speech.
Vira hasn't seen her sister Deesh for years. Deesh's kids, Amy and Bill, want to know why but nobody's telling them anything. Is it possible to forgive and forget? And when a family is built on lies, will it be destroyed by the truth?
Lands is a playful, intimate dissection of a relationship teetering on the edge of collapse by award-winning team Antler, exploring the impossibility of relationships, our inability to understand one another and the hills we're willing to die on.
A humorous and moving response to the elders who leave the next generation uncertain of what is expected of them, Yomi Sode's hit show COAT tackles immigration, identity and displacement.
A new imaginative play for young people from award-winning writer Kieran Lynn, winner of the Alpine Fellowship Theatre Prize 2018.
Jean Cocteau's iconic play explores our desperate need for human relationships - and the machine that has changed them forever. A brand new version of this classic text is translated by Daniel Raggett and staged at the Gate Theatre 34 years since it was first produced there.
Mother and Father are in the bedroom, preparing for parents' evening. This rare opportunity to check in triggers a volatile, passionate and surprising confrontation. A painfully witty, perceptive exploration of the landlines of parenting in modern marriage.
A contemporary retelling of a classic gothic story, inspired by Edgar Allan Poe's The Fall of the House of Usher, set against a background of cuts to our 70 year old NHS.
The acclaimed company behind the Olivier Award nominated production of La boheme present a radical reimagining of Verdi's La Traviata.
A new one-woman play from award winning playwright Matthew Bulgo collaborating with the multi-award winning The Other Room for the first time since their critically acclaimed production of Constellation Street.
A new live literature experience by award-winning poet Nick Makoha, retelling his childhood escape from the Ugandan civil war.
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