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Rapture

Rapture

By Lucy Kirkwood

A slippery thriller for the stage, about love, power and belief. In a modern world where reality is whatever we imagine it to be, how do we know the stories we tell ourselves are true?

Raging: Wild Sky

Raging: Wild Sky

The Rising

By Deirdre Kinahan

A play exploring the extraordinary energy and complexity of events in Ireland in the lead up to the Easter Rising of 1916.

Raging: Outrage

Raging: Outrage

The Civil War

By Deirdre Kinahan

A play exploring women's roles in the Irish revolutionary wars, part of Deirdre Kinahan's trilogy of landmark plays commemorating seven years of warfare in Ireland.

Raging: Embargo

Raging: Embargo

The War of Independence

By Deirdre Kinahan

A poetic, bloody and heroic tale of industrial action and civic resistance, part of Deirdre Kinahan's trilogy of landmark plays commemorating seven years of warfare in Ireland.

Queen Margaret

Queen Margaret

By William Shakespeare Adapted by Jeanie O'Hare

Using Shakespeare’s orginal lines, alongside new text, Jeanie O’Hare retells The Wars of the Roses through the eyes of the extraordinary Margaret of Anjou.

Queen Anne

Queen Anne

By Helen Edmundson

Helen Edmundson's gripping play tells the little-known story of a monarch caught between friendship and duty.

Pussycat in Memory of Darkness

Pussycat in Memory of Darkness

By Neda Nezhdana Translated by John Farndon

A powerful play about the shattering impact of war, and the astonishing resilience of those living through it, written by one of Ukraine's leading playwrights.

Published in volume Voices from Ukraine: Two Plays
    Purple Heart

    Purple Heart

    By Bruce Norris

    A deeply moving meditation on love, loss and grief, from the author of Clybourne Park.

    The Pull of Negative Gravity

    The Pull of Negative Gravity

    By Jonathan Lichtenstein

    Shocking and beautiful, a powerful play about the impact of a soldier's injury in a foreign conflict on his family back home.

    The Prisoner's Dilemma

    The Prisoner's Dilemma

    By David Edgar

    An urgently topical account of a bloody conflict on Europe's Eastern borders. The third in David Edgar's post-Cold War trilogy.

    The Prisoner

    The Prisoner

    By Peter Brook and Marie-Hélène Estienne

    A provocative study of what it means to be free, by the internationally acclaimed theatre director and his long-time collaborator.

    Princess & The Hustler

    Princess & The Hustler

    By Chinonyerem Odimba

    A play about a cheeky 10-year-old with a plan to win the Weston-super-Mare Beauty Contest, against the backdrop of Black British Civil Rights marches in 1960s Bristol.

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    Olivia Hirst & David Byrne
    Amanda Whittington

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    13–18 May 2024
    Wharf Theatre, Devizes