Reading Time: 3 minutesPatrick Merber’s After Miss Julie reimagines August Strindberg's classic tragedy on the eve of Britain’s 1945 election. With mass welfare reforms on the horizon, including the founding of the NHS, the story looks to interrogate the class structures of its time in light of this.
Reading Time: 2 minutesLost Atoms is the story of that love and their life together – the best of times and the worst of times. Told with Frantic Assembly’s brilliant inventiveness, this play is a beautifully tender look into a relationship.
Reading Time: 2 minutesThe latest work from award-winning theatre collective Bag of Beard Theatre, The Highgate Vampire is a parody/spoof retelling of the events surrounding a spate of demonic encounters which terrorised Highgate village in 1969.
Reading Time: 2 minutesDeadcrush is an unconventional romantic comedy by James Robertson (they/them). It follows a sweet, bubbly woman named Bron, who has fallen in love with David, a dead man.
Reading Time: 2 minutesDesert Thirsts and Jerusalem Winds is based on the real-life story of Muhammad Asad, born Leopold Weiss, an Austrian Jewish journalist who travelled across the Arab world in the 1920s, who interrogated the early Zionist movement, converted to Islam, and later became one of the most influential Muslim thinkers of the twentieth century.
Reading Time: 3 minutesWritten by Chris Bowers, a former British diplomat, the play has some great insight on the governmental process of diplomacy.
Reading Time: 2 minutesIn The Olive Boy, writer and performer Ollie Maddigan plays his 15-year-old self, grappling with his mother’s death, adjusting to a new school, and living with a father he barely knows.
Reading Time: 2 minutesUntil Spring Comes, written by Chen Tao Shen and directed by Shuyi Alice Wang, tells the story of an actor in rehearsal for a production of the myth of Phaethon after going through a surgery that leaves her with a colostomy bag.
Reading Time: 2 minutesWhen Max (Rob Pomfret) stumbles upon a universal cure, he firmly believes it should be freely accessible to everyone, for the good of humanity
Reading Time: 2 minutesAaron Sorkin’s riveting, award-winning stage adaptation of the seminal American novel, To Kill a Mockingbird, about racial injustice and childhood innocence became a Broadway and West End sensation has arrived at The Lowry, Manchester.