"All is yours, everywhere is open to you - except the lock that the single key fits. You must promise, if you love me, to leave it well alone."When a 17 year old virgin marries a mature and charismatic Marquis it seems like a fairy tale. But when the Marquis is called away on their wedding night, leaving her only her only his keys and a single instruction, her curiosity leads her to uncover a dark secret.Bryony Lavery's new stage adaptation of Angela Carter's story opened as a Northern Stage production in September 2008.
Obsessed by his lifelong erotic fantasies of silent movie icon Louise Brooks’s amoral character Lulu in the 1928 film Pandora’s Box, legendary theatre critic Kenneth Tynan spent three days with the th
When you're alone in a big city, how far would you go to make a new friend?Two men live in the same apartment block. One likes long walks, Greek myths and foreign langauages. The other likes making l
Looking for relief from boredom, seven young fathers in prison sign-up for an education program. They try to use the workshops to settle scores and to rise up the prison pecking order. But they’re con
Prize-winning adaptations of four seminal Russian plays collected together for the first time. Includes Satan's Ball, an adaptation of Mikhail Bulgakov's Master and Margarita; Vanity, a response to Al
Oberon presents a collection of subversive domestic dramas from ?the unique outsider in British Theatre’, Arnold Wesker. Includes: The Friends (1970), Bluey (1993), Men Die Women Survive (1990) and Wi
Arnold Wesker's perennially popular play. The central story tells of a frustrated love affair between a high-spirited, young German chef, Peter, and a married English waitress, Monique.
For 60 years Helena has been Queen of Maurice's heart, but his Great Love is another Queen: the Queen Helena says he's never met. Maurice's Jubilee, a new play by award-winning actress and writer Nich
When a country's new border is drawn, a couple are divided by the line. Under the rigorous eyes of a brand new border guard, they are trapped in an increasingly absurd nightmare, stuck in between two
The country's in turmoil. There's about to be a coup. A woman has been found murdered, her unborn child stolen from her womb. Things seem as though they can't get any worse, but just wait until Peter
"Three Irishmen. Digging. Telling tales to put down the day. But as they dig down, long buried secrets begin to emerge and the story they tell is as dark as the earth itself. It's a tale full of rich
The Story of an African Farm is a new and original adaptation of Olive Schreiner's astonishing novel published in 1883, which broke the grounds of Victorianism and brought overnight fame to the brilli
Sour Lips takes the story of Amina Arraf, a gay, female Damascus blogger purportedly kidnapped in Syria in 2011, but revealed to be a hoax by an American, and imagines how it might have unfolded had i
Andy and Jen have just moved onto a farm in the village they grew up in. The plan is to plant parsnips, breed pigs and live off the land. But escaping their shared demons was never going to be easy. D
In a surreal future in which nature has gobbled up the high street, an old woman named Moll waits in her flat for the Ocado man. But when the ruthless trees and branches threaten to cut her off from t
The world premiere of an important new piece of political theatre. The team behind the international hit The Fear of Breathing (4 Stars Telegraph, Metro, Independent, Time Out Critics' Choice) chroni
Set in a house on the Florida coast in the early sixties, Sad Hotel is a fictionalized account of Tennessee Williams' relationship with his lover, Frank Merlo. The play traces the dissolution of a fif
