by Steven Berkoff; adapted from Franz Kafka Kafka’s parable of the human condition is retold in Berkoff’s startlingly original, challenging and continuously surprising play. This darkly metaphysical tale employs theatrical language and exaggerated physicality to create outlandish and ever-changing environments. The ensemble cast escort Joseph K through a series of surreal situations that are at… Read more

Dion Boucicault; revised by Richard Bean It is 1840 or thereabouts. In this Restoration style comedy, Sir Harcourt Courtly is a martyr to fashion, and a self-important, if rather over-the-hill, member of London's elite. He reluctantly leaves the capital to visit Gloucestershire, ‘the country', to court his bride-to-be, Grace. Delightful as she is, he finds… Read more

by Lucy Kirkwood A remote coastal house. Three adults. And something quietly, deeply wrong. In The Children, Lucy Kirkwood crafts a taut, unsettling portrait of lives lived in the shadow of an unnamed disaster. Old friends reunite under strained circumstances, their shared past crackling with unresolved choices and unspoken guilt. As the outside world feels… Read more

by Noël Coward In order to research the occult for his next book, successful novelist Charles Condomine and his second wife Ruth have invited the eccentric medium Madame Arcati to a dinner party. All is going well, until the sudden and unexpected arrival of Charles' first wife, the incredibly attractive, and very much deceased, Elvira.… Read more

by Harold Pinter Stanley lives a quiet, uneasy life in a rundown seaside boarding house run by Meg and Petey. Their routine is disrupted by the arrival of two mysterious strangers, Goldberg and McCann, whose purpose remains unclear. What follows is a seemingly innocent birthday celebration that quickly turns strange and unsettling, as Stanley is… Read more

by Moira Buffini Life's pretty tough for Semyon. The revolution has just made life worse. He's unemployed, he's hungry and he's proper fed up. His wife and mother-in- law certainly don't help the situation. Will topping himself solve anything? Give his pathetic existence meaning? Will a black pudding? Will a tuba?? Or what if his… Read more

by Jean Genet Jean Genet's 1947 The Maids is set in post-war France and is loosely based on the real-life 1933 Papin sisters' murder case. The two main protagonists, a pair of live-in maids, engage in a sadomasochistic, ritualistic role-playing game in which they take turns brutally demeaning each other while impersonating their wealthy, haughty… Read more

by Leonard Gershe Don is an aspiring musician. He’s moved out of his mother’s place and she’s not happy about it. She simply worries about Don living independently, him being blind and all. Jill has just moved into the flat next door. She’s kooky, confident and very attracted to Don. A hilarious story of young… Read more

by Ray Cooney Henry Perkins has had a very interesting day. He went to work, came home, and somewhere in between managed to acquire a briefcase stuffed with somebody else's money. Perfectly reasonable things happen after that. Dinner is served, guests arrive, and absolutely nothing spirals catastrophically out of control. Funny Money is Ray Cooney… Read more

by John Pielmeler Psychology and religion intertwine in this moving moral drama that touches on how past traumas can affect present beliefs. When Agnes is found with a dead newborn in her room and no answers as to what happened, a psychiatrist is sent to assess her mental competency to stand trial for the child’s… Read more