Plays

Two ex-lovers meet up after an 11-year gap for a nerve-jangling reunion.

A 15-minute play based on Restoration playwright Aphra Behn's tempestuous love affair with John Hoyle.

A 15-minute play about childhood, disability and spending time on trains.

The first part of Mike Poulton's two-part adaptation of Hilary Mantel's acclaimed novels Wolf Hall and Bring Up the Bodies. A thrilling and utterly convincing portrait of a brilliant man embroiled in the lethal, high-stakes politics of the Court of Henry VIII.

The second part of Mike Poulton's two-part adaptation of Hilary Mantel's acclaimed novels Wolf Hall and Bring Up the Bodies. A thrilling and utterly convincing portrait of a brilliant man embroiled in the lethal, high-stakes politics of the Court of Henry VIII.

A fast and furious comedy about the lengths we will go to when our backs are against the wall.

A one-act comic play about a reclusive young widow whose life takes a surprisingly romantic turn.

A brilliantly funny one-act play about a hypochondriac attempting to propose to an argumentative young woman.

A comic duologue about a civil servant sweltering in Moscow coping with the incessant demands of his family from their summer dacha.

A bittersweet monologue in which a scientific lecture is hijacked by thoughts of domestic misery.

The first collection from a major new voice in American theatre.

A one-act play by Chekhov in a translation by Chekhov expert Stephen Mulrine.

A comic duologue about a melancholy old actor perked up by memories of past glories.

A gripping but warm-spirited snapshot of life in a small southern Irish town.

In Fabulation, playwright Lynn Nottage reimagines Esther (the character from her companion play, Intimate Apparel) as Undine, the public relations diva of today, who spirals downward from her swanky Manhattan office to her roots back in Brooklyn.

The Shipment is a provocative look at African-American identity in today's not-quite post-racial society.

Young Jean Lee's Lear is an alternative re-working of Shakespeare's celebrated tragedy, focusing on the king's three daughters.

Part of The Middlemarch Trilogy, adapted from George Eliot's novel by Geoffrey Beevers. Three interconnected plays, telling the story of Middlemarch from the perspective of a different set of characters: from county, town and countryside.