Plays with Music

A vivid, emotional stage version of Mary Webb's novel of rural passion, premiered by Shared Experience Theatre Company.

A comic two-hander about the irresistible allure of showbusiness, from the author of Be My Baby.

García Lorca's blood-soaked story of doomed love, in a version by playwright Tanya Ronder.

A poignant drama about attitudes to teenage pregnancy in 1960s Britain.

A heartbreaking tale of orphans, angels, murder and music - dramatised from the Whitbread award-winning novel set in 18th-century England.

An acclaimed dramatisation of Dickens' well-loved Christmas story - more faithful to the original than any other published version.

A pitch-black comedy complete with wickedly entertaining songs, from the Edinburgh Fringe First-winning writer of Food.

A large-scale historical romp in the terrain between Jane Austen and Charles Dickens.

The world's first ever musical, The Beggar's Opera, is performed on board a creaking convict ship bound for Australia.

An adaptation for the stage of Jacqueline Wilson's popular novel.

A smouldering adaptation of Thomas Hardy's enduring novel about a spirited and feisty young woman who finds herself playing mistress in a man's world.

A simple and delightfully inventive re-telling of the stories from the Arabian Nights.