 | |  | | | When Doctor Faustus' desire for power and knowledge leads him to conjure up the demon Mephistopheles, he finds himself offered the ultimate bargain: he will be granted everything he desires for 24 years, but at the end of that time will have to hand his soul over to the devil. So begins a hedonistic journey in time and space as Faustus turns the world into his playground. But wherever he goes the clock ticks down to his final damnation, and he is followed by the shadow of his infernal bargain in Christopher Marlowe's STUNNING and SAVAGE tragedy. « back to top » « close panel » | doctor faustus | | | | 0844 815 4873 | | |  | |
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When the lighthouse keeper's daughter Ellida meets the widower Dr Wangel, she tries to put her long-lost first love far behind her and begin a new life as a wife and stepmother. But the tide is turning, and English ship is coming down the fjord, and the undercurrents threaten to drag a whole family beneath the surface in this PASSIONATE and SWEEPING drama. « back to top » « close panel » | the lady from the sea | | | | 0844 815 4873 | | |  | |
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When a new god - the god of the life force, the god of sensuality, wine and the dance, the god that other religions fear - arrives in a buttoned-down world, he finds a leader who no longer believes in a power higher than himself, who will do whatever it takes to preserve the status quo. But this society is a ticking time bomb, revolution is in the air and the people are desperate for change. A band of sisters are ready to explode and destroy everyone and everything that gets in their way in Mike Poulton's all-new version of this DARK and LIBERATING play, co-conceived with choreographer Mark Bruce and director Braham Murray. « back to top » « close panel » | the bacchae | | | | 0844 815 4873 | | |  | |
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When her wealthy, unmarried niece Virginia comes to stay, Mrs Munning is desperate to show that her golden boy, son Paul is prime husband material, and turn the family's fast-developing money worries into a thing of the past. But for their increasingly elaborate scheme to have any chance of success, they must keep Paul's unconventional, underachieving younger brother Zack out of the way and out of trouble, and that proves to be anything but easy in Harold Brighouse's TENDER and HILARIOUS comedy classic. « back to top » « close panel » | zack | | | | 0844 815 4873 | | |  | |
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When white secondary school teacher Amanda is pushed to the ground by black student Jason, she's reluctant to report it as she knows exclusion could condemn him to a future as troubled as his past. Once the boy and his peers have decide to protect themselves by spinning a story of their own, Amanda finds herself sucked into a vortex of lies in which victim becomes perpetrator. With the truth becoming less clear and more dangerous by the day, it isn't long before careers, relationships and even lives are under threat in Vivienne Franzmann's GRIPPING and URGENT play. « back to top » « close panel » | mogadishu | | | | 0844 815 4873 | | |  | |
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