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Available onlineDeborah Bruce's grief-stricken monologue Guidesky and I is the pick of the Orange Tree theatre's introspective bunch
Inside comprises three short studies of what it means to …
The minds behind Britain's oldest black theatre group discuss pulling out of Birmingham Rep when it became a Nightingale court " and their plans to conquer the West End
Britain's oldest blac…
Available onlineThe playwright takes us inside the mind of his late mother in a poignant audio play that dramatises her shifting sense of self
Anyone who has observed dementia at close quart…
Available onlineIan Hallard's entertaining romance is full of conversational crossed wires and social awkwardness
A pandemic drama that centres on two people in a Zoom conversation is a risk…
Home, presented by the Abbey theatre, shines a light on decades of abuse of unmarried women and children in Ireland
Ireland's Commission of Investigation into Mother and Baby Homes, which pu…
This online experiment uses live motion capture to bring the fairies and sprites of A Midsummer Night's Dream to vivid life
The opening moments of Dream contain all the enticements of an aug…
After drama school, the actor feared she'd made a terrible mistake until she had a run of acclaimed roles on stage, TV and in the hit film version of David Copperfield
Rosalind Eleazar remem…
Available onlineEternal youth and beauty exist only online in this thoroughly modern adaptation of Oscar Wilde's fable, which counts Stephen Fry and Joanna Lumley among its impressive cast
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The acclaimed Swedish director's Projekt Europa will have a UK residency in Kent and collaborate with migrant theatre-makers
Maria Aberg was having one of the busiest times of her 20-year th…
Available onlinePart two in NTGent's Sorrows of Belgium trilogy is a visually arresting account of the rise of the Rex party and the horror of the second world war
Director Luk Perceval's So…
Available onlineIn Steppenwolf theatre company's creepy satire on palace life, two women have an intense teatime meeting
It is tempting to assume that an American drama about black women cau…
BBC Radio 4David Mamet's new play, adapted as an audio drama, follows an indomitable Manhattanite willing to sacrifice everything to save her murderer son
It is peculiarly low-key for a pla…
Thirst Trap and Swimming Home are two new audio productions which audiences listen to while submerged " but don't expect a relaxing soak
Two new immersive audio shows involve running a warm …
Available onlineScenery, sounds, light and casting are treated with endless invention in this charmingly low-key take on Fitzgerald's classic
Stage and screen adaptations of The Great Gatsby…
Available onlineAs two women compete for the attentions of a middle-aged man, Athena Stevens' production explores abuse and complicity
Everything about Late Night Staring at High Res Pixels …
After cutting her teeth on carnival parades and the Olympics opening ceremony, the bright designer collaborated on dazzling creations for major London stages
Sadeysa Greenaway-Bailey's caree…
In a drama written by artificial intelligence, the computer's imagination touches on themes of love and loneliness " but is mostly obsessed with sex
Kazuo Ishiguro, whose new novel Klara and…
Available online Disgraced stars must plead for the audience's forgiveness " or suffer a nasty fate " in a show that prizes horror over interaction, yet delivers a satisfying adrenaline high…
Available onlineThis superb play draws on the final hours of Christopher Alder, who died in police custody in Hull in 1998
Christopher Alder's last moments, in April 1998, were unforgivably…
Available online It's a ball playing sleuth " with Dr Watson's help " even if you don't identify the killer in this interactive show
This interactive sleuthing show has the punning title The…
Available onlineDanny Sapani and Adrian Lester strike up true chemistry in a poignant friendship drama that wears its racial context lightly
Danny Sapani describes this play about an oddbal…
Available onlineCovid guidelines and clunky camerawork sadly undermine the ebullient performances in this digital adaptation of Alice Walker's modern classic
It felt auspicious when the lega…
Available onlineHarriet Walter, Cherylee Houston and Sharon D Clarke star in the second collection of shorts in Graeae's series of dramas
The second instalment of Graeae theatre company's se…
Available onlinePeter Barnes's spellbinding play about class as seen by a Buckingham Palace footman is the pick of these four single-handers
Most of Peter Barnes's people in this quartet of …
Our new series profiling theatre talents continues with a sparky, award-winning writer-actor committed to making her industry more inclusive
For as long as Amy Trigg can remember, she wanted…
