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Elizabeth I is the only unmarried woman to have ever ruled England. And she reigned for forty-four years. Mastermind. Seductress. Survivor. Swive [Elizabeth] shines a light on the ways and means by which women in power negotiate patriarchal pressure in order to get their way.

Two plays, both set in contemporary inner-city London, showcasing the remarkable poetic and theatrical imagination of writer/performer Arinze Kene.

A new play about sisterhood and survival.

An innovative festive drama, The Last Noël is a funny, moving, uplifting play with original songs.

A reinvention of the timeless classic. Ebenezer has died and his sister Fan has inherited his money-lending business. A legendary misanthrope, lonely, and despised by all who cross her path. This year, on Christmas Eve, Fan Scrooge will be haunted by three spirits. They want her to change. But will she?

Germ Free Adolescent is a fierce, funny and irreverent OCD love story that asks: what exactly is "normal" anyway?

Ella is from Yorkshire. Haseeb is from London. They order a pizza. House red for Ella. Hot chocolate for Haseeb. People and playlists. Christmas and Eid. Travelcards and Megabuses. London to Leeds. Love is more than just a game for two. Especially when there's an elephant in the room.

Instead of GCSEs, Cain, Riyad and Jonjo got sentences. Locked up in a young offender institution, they trade sweets, chat, kill time - and await fatherhood. Grace's job is to turn these teenagers into parents, ready to take charge of their futures. Shook is a tender and honest play examining the young men society shuts away.

Jack is proud of his work at the Clyde shipyards. His wife, Beanie, who is nursing him through asbestosis, thinks he's a fool. But the real test of their marriage comes when they discover that the dusty overalls Jack brought home for Beanie to wash have poisoned her too. A big-hearted play about what it means to entwine our lives with another.

Mike Bartlett's savagely funny adaptation of Maxim Gorky's Vassa Zheleznova. It's 8 a.m. and a revolt is underway. The father is dying. The son is spying. The wife is cheating. The uncle is stealing. The mother is scheming. The dynasty is crumbling. One house. One fortune. One victor.

A group of people sit around a table theorising, categorising and telling stories. Their real purpose is never quite clear, but they continue on, searching for the monstrous. Part satire, part sacred rite, Annie Baker's play The Antipodes asks what value stories have for a world in crisis.

A play about the end of an era as a London boozer closes its doors one final time.

In this collection of new essays, the world-renowned director Peter Brook offers unique and personal insights into sound and music - from the surprising impact of Broadway musicals on his famous Midsummer Night's Dream, to the allure of applause, and on to the ultimate empty space: silence.

Idi Amin is the self-declared President of Uganda. When Scottish medic Nicholas Garrigan becomes his personal physician, he is catapulted into Amin's inner circle. A useful asset for the British Secret Service, is Garrigan the man on the inside, or does he have blood on his hands too? Adapted from Giles Foden's multi-award-winning novel.

Between the years of 1975 and 1980, the women of Leeds lived in fear. With no clue as to who was responsible for the sustained attacks and murders across the city, the authorities urged women to stay at home. From the fear and fury, a steadfast solidarity arose, birthing the Reclaim the Night movement and echoing down the generations to this day.

Anupama Chandrasekhar's play When the Crows Visit is a tragedy that transposes the themes of Ibsen's Ghosts into modern-day India.

A mysterious accident. A dead husband. People are talking. Secrets are resurfacing from the depths. Is the past ever truly dead?

Keep your enemies close, and your wives closer. As their husbands clash over an international crisis, the first ladies of France and America find themselves alone together in a side room. Friends, or enemies? When the stakes are so high, can they trust each other? Can they trust their husbands?

A deeply moving and unflinching journey into Australia's dark history, telling the story of two families divided by culture and land. Adapted for the stage by Andrew Bovell from Kate Grenville's bestselling novel.

The essential guide for anyone wanting to know how to make a successful career as a film actor.

Nell and Oscar meet on a beach in Dorset. It's 1595... or maybe 1610. Oscar has returned from university and Nell is doing f**k-all. They will meet here, again and again, on this beach for the next four hundred years. Stuff will change. As it does with time. They will try to keep up. The debut play from Marek Horn

A doting husband. A troubled writer. A loaded gun. It's 2019 and Hedda Tesman returns to a life she can't seem to escape from.

Sophie Ellerby's play LIT explores the turbulent teenage years of a girl looking for love in all the wrong places.

Nyri's woken up hungover with a younger man. Clara is dodging signs telling her - rather rudely - to kill herself, so she can get cracking with her shoplifting list for The Devil. Unexpected connections collide in this fast-moving, touchingly funny one-woman show by Alan Harris.