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It's 2009; Max is unemployed, her house is falling apart, and her ex, Lisa, is on the loose. On top of all that, she has no clue how to nurse her newborn baby. Can Goldie, an Orthodox Jewish lactation consultant, guide Max into motherhood? Or will conflicting family values get the better of them both? Goldie, Max & Milk is a play about cultural differences, motherhood, and the many ways to love children.

A gripping journey from the fur trade of the 1600s to the stock trade of today, Mary Kathryn Nagle's Manahatta tells the story of Jane Snake, a brilliant young Native American woman with a Stanford MBA. Jane reconnects with her ancestral homeland, known as Manahatta, when she moves from her home with the Delaware Nation in Anadarko, Oklahoma to New York for a job at a major investment bank just before the financial crisis of 2008. Jane's struggle to reconcile her new life with the expectations and traditions of the family she left behind is powerfully interwoven with the heartbreaking history of how the Lenape were forced from their land. Both old and new Manahatta converge in a brutal lesson about the dangers of living in a society where there's no such thing as enough.

Four people. 2,000 years. The feeling of being hunted. A horn sounds in the clearing, a factory explosion, a rush of blood. Can you truly escape the destiny set out for you? From selling out, to leaving home, to returning to a place of regret, Tachwedd charts a family's journey as they try to reconcile the inescapability of the past with the weight of the future.Embark on an exhilarating journey through time, myth, and legacy with Tachwedd, a captivating play that unfurls the intricate relationship between history, land, and consequence. Seamlessly transporting you between the eras of Bethesda, North Wales, Tachwedd weaves together the agricultural to the industrial, and all the way to the contemporary. Tachwedd turns the notion of a 'state-of-the-nation' on its head, intertwining religious fervour, royal hunting parties, and palpable national angst to create an evocative, searing piece of contemporary theatre. At once enigmatic and blisteringly direct, this beautiful play invites you to question the past, challenge the present, and bear witness to the forces that shape our collective destiny.

Axoloris is set in an imaginary future in which humans rely heavily on virtual reality and robots. Five young friends are preparing for Earth Day, which is now also a celebration of Axoloris - a spiritual messenger said to visit people in their dreams and inspire them to protect the planet. The night before Earth Day, all five have a shared vision of Axoloris, which leads them on an environmental adventure; while simultaneously, the youths come to terms with how they relate to one another and to the world at large, and make changes for the better.

Jeanine is determined to improve her life. With sex. With dance. With new hobbies, like horticulture. But self-improvement is hard. Reclaiming your dreams is hard. And personal hygiene is really, really hard.

Don Murphy is a proud Irish man, a hopeless ketamine addict and one of his generation's greatest actors. He also happens to be a chicken. A Kerry cock to be precise. Across one fateful night, the feathered Oscar winner shares his star-studded story with an intimate audience - from getting his big break, to his first bird-on-bird sexual experience, to navigating life in the (human-dominated) celebrity spotlight. But along the way Don will be confronted with some harsh truths about himself, chickenkind and humankind.Sell out run at the Edinburgh Fringe 2023. Winner of the Summerhall Lustrum Award and the Filipa Bragança award for best female-identifying solo performer at the Edinburgh Fringe 2023.

Based on the Photo Memoir Pictures from Home by Larry SultanIn the 1980s, Larry Sultan spent a decade photographing and interviewing his parents, Irving and Jean Sultan, and unearthing the memories behind their home movies. The result is a deeply intimate and comic portrait of a mother, a father, and their inquisitive son. Playwright Sharr White has transformed this landmark photo memoir into a poignant three-character play that turns its lens on family mythologies, and the truths that may or may not lie beneath the surface.

Miss Kinross has taken the Banqueting Hall, Dallochry House, Dallochry, Scotland for the wedding of her daughter Nancy but all is not as it seems. A mystery play in three acts for thirteen women.

"Last twenty nine years... You haven't had to make any decisions. I've paidevery bill, made every sacrifice... But now... You made a choice. You're gonnahave to face the consequence."Anne is tired. Tired of menopause. Tired of working in a dying NHS. And tired of her lazy sexist husband Don. But they've been together twenty-nine years. They know each other inside out. They've survived so much. Then COVID-19 plunges the country into lockdown, forcing them to isolate together. After all, the home is a place of safety... isn't it? As the world falls apart outside, Anne and Don's marriage slowly falls apart inside. But soon there will be a solution. Won't there?Inspired by true events, Jab is a black comedy drama exploring power, gender, domestic violence, conspiracy theories, ignorance, and the limits of love.

This ground-breaking production - adapted and directed by multi award-winning Kip Williams, Artistic Director of the acclaimed Sydney Theatre Company - delivers an explosive interplay of live performance and video in an astonishing collision of form.Sent to the island for 'behaviour modi cation', some of the pupils have staged a rebellion sparked by a singular dramatic event, while others simply wanted to keep their heads down and leave after they have gone through 'the programme'.This text will spark not only strong performances from teenagers, but also debates about the rights and wrongs in the script - it will see readers and performers asking the question 'what would I have done?'

Ace is twenty-two, trans, queer and sofa surfing - currently - just for now - only at the moment. They've actually just sorted out sofa number thirteen. To keep a sofa requires you to act small, smiling, and polite. But no one is perfect and eventually everyone messes up - which would be a lot easier for Ace if they weren't also unexpectedly growing extra ears, and a tiny tail! It turns out people pleasing has a price and there's only one place left for Ace to go...

A genius with language, but convinced of his own ugliness, Cyrano secretly loves the radiant Roxane. While Roxane is in love with the beautiful but inarticulate Christian.Cyrano's generous offer to act as go-between sets in motion a poignant and often hilarious love-triangle, in which each character is torn between the lure of physical attraction and the seductive power of words.Martin Crimp's adaptation of Edmond Rostand's Cyrano de Bergerac premiered at the Playhouse Theatre, London, in November 2019.

Christopher, fifteen years old, stands beside Mrs Shears' dead dog. It has been speared with a garden fork, it is seven minutes after midnight, and Christopher is under suspicion. He records each fact in the book he is writing to solve the mystery of who murdered Wellington. He has an extraordinary brain and is exceptional at maths, but he is ill-equipped to interpret everyday life. He has never ventured alone beyond the end of his road, he detests being touched and he distrusts strangers. But Christopher's detective work, forbidden by his father, takes him on a frightening journey that turns his world upside-down.Simon Stephens' adaptation of Mark Haddon's bestselling, award-winning novel, The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time offers a richly theatrical exploration of this touching and bleakly humorous tale.

When all communications are lost with an offshore privately run youth correction facility, two educational inspectors head off to work out what has happened. They get more than they bargained for in this tale which explores big issues for young people. Sent to the island for 'behaviour modification', some of the pupils have staged a rebellion sparked by a singular dramatic event, while others simplywanted to keep their heads down and leave after they have gone through 'the programme'. This text will spark not only strong performances from teenagers, but also debates about the rights and wrongs in the script - it will see readers and performers asking the question "what would I have done?" This version of Hope Springs is adapted for younger actors; it touches on some big themes but addresses them more obliquely than the more hard-hitting original.

When all communications are lost with an offshore privately run youth correction facility, two educational inspectors head off to work out what has happened. They get more than they bargained for in this tale which explores big issues for young people.Sent to the island for 'behaviour modi cation', some of the pupils have staged a rebellion sparked by a singular dramatic event, while others simply wanted to keep their heads down and leave after they have gone through 'the programme'.This text will spark not only strong performances from teenagers, but also debates about the rights and wrongs in the script - it will see readers and performers asking the question 'what would I have done?'

A delightful adaptation of four Beatrix Potter stories suitable for the entertainment of younger children. In The Story of Miss Moppet the kitten tricks the mouse by playing ill, but is outwitted in the end. The Tale of Two Bad Mice finds Tom Thumb and Hunca Munca thrown into tempers by the inedible model food in Jane's and Lucinda's doll's house. ¿The Story of a Fierce Bad Rabbit features a rabbit with savage whiskers and a turned-up tail who steals a carrot from Nice Rabbit, but meets his match in the Man with a Gun. In The Tale of Tom Kitten mother cat Tabitha discovers to her disdain that kittens will be kittens in any clothes.

In 1888, three experienced, nineteenth-century American lady adventurers, armed with umbrellas, a picnic and pith helmets, set out to explore "Terra Incognito", eagerly embracing cultures and replicas of distant civilizations(such as an eggbeater which they deduce must be "a marsupial's unicycle").Caught in a time warp, they find them selves in Eisenhower's 1950s America where they sample rock 'n' roll and discover artefacts which include "I like Ike" badges and yet more eggbeaters! The trio split when two decide to remain in 1955: Alexandra becomes an expert rock 'n' roller and Fanny falls in love with a cocktail-bar owner. It is left to Mary to continue the journey of exploration, but not before she has shed her Victorian garb for a pair of trousers!Eric Overmyer's witty, surreal play has played to acclaim through out America and was seen at the Lilian Bayliss Theatre, London, in 1989, starring Paola Dionisotti, Juliet Stevenson, Gerda Stevenson and George Irving, anddirected by Anna Furse.

Moscow, August 2018. The World Cup has just ended, and it has been aroaring success. Free metro travel. Parties in the square. The police, the oneswith guns, they were smiling! People finally saw that yeah, it's okay over hereand no, it doesn't snow in the summer, it's actually very warm. And wait, didwe mention it was an incident-free event?But when an old woman walks into a bank, she is conned into taking out ahigh-interest loan, which she immediately forgets all about. A catastrophicseries of events are set in motion...with only her cat Sally to bear witness.Winner of the 2023 Theatre503 International Playwriting Award, A WomanWalks Into a Bank is a powerful portrayal of a country in crisis. Inspired bychildhood fairytales, Roxy Cook's vibrant debut play uses biting humour tointerrogate the social apathy tearing Russia apart. How did we get here? Howcan we get out?