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Available online In Gerry Moynihan's monologue, recorded at the Finborough in 2017, Paul Kennedy gives a magnificent performance
Gerry Moynihan's debut play begins in a bustling Northern Iri…
It would be a tragedy if the lockdown left drama narrower and risk-averse. Our chief critic hears from Kwame Kwei-Armah, Indhu Rubasingham, Lynette Linton and Rachel De-lahay
As protests ove…
BBC Radio 3A Roman soldier falls under the spell of a Pictish woman in this poetic radio play that holds up a mirror to modern Britain
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Available onlineLee's 2018 film of Antoinette Nwandu's powerful play, written as a response to the shooting of Trayvon Martin, resonates after the George Floyd killing
Two homeless men in Sp…
Available onlineThe company's years of operating underground inform a dynamic approach to online drama that goes far beyond talking heads
Belarus Free Theatre began rehearsing an adaptation …
Soho Theatre On DemandNaomi Sheldon fuses comedy with candour as she tracks a woman's sexual journey from liberated teen to unfulfilled adult
'One is not born, but rather becomes, a woman,"…
Available onlinePatrick Sandford makes an astonishing dramatisation of childhood abuse and its consequences over a lifetime in this eloquent film
In 2016, Patrick Sandford performed an autob…
Available onlineHeadlong's superb series explores lockdown life, with a cast including Alison Steadman, Katherine Parkinson, Lennie James and Gemma Arterton
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Available onlineThe playwright and his wife, actor Heather Stoney, play all eight parts " from 70-somethings to teenagers " in his 84th drama
Alan Ayckbourn's hefty oeuvre lingers on the fau…
As his parliamentary epic is streamed for National Theatre at Home, the playwright discusses politics of the past and present " and the future of theatre
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Manchester international festivalBooze, music and martial-arts lessons are punctuated by existential musings in this delightfully strange virtual blowout
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As his novel The Understudy is turned into a radio play starring Stephen Fry, the writer talks about his own failed acting career " and what dramas will be like after the coronavirus
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Available onlineA starry cast muse on first bras, prom dresses, marriage and motherhood in Nora and Delia Ephron's magnificent celebration of clothes " and life
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Available onlineThe Apple siblings from Richard Nelson's quartet of plays return on a Zoom call to talk about life in lockdown
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Available onlineThe story of a woman in London trying desperately to connect online with her daughter in Palestine suits these isolated times well
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Despite a knee injury, the actor's lockdown has been productive " she stars in the Donmar's online play about a mother's relationship with her daughter
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From love triangles to the bond between mothers and daughters, performers step into the relationships minefield
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Available onlineAd Infinitum conjure a surreal world from the Covid-19 pandemic, while Bryony Kimmings unravels flamboyantly
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Artistic director says theatre sector is in 'premier league of risk' caused by Covid-19 and calls on increased government support for freelancers
Rufus Norris has warned that the UK's theatr…
Available onlineTemporary Distortion's stage scarer uses filmic elements to gripping and claustrophobic effect in a story of infidelity and murder
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Available onlineThe labyrinthine corridors of Battersea Arts Centre become a rabbit hole of live acts in this bewitching single-take film
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Available onlineGators and Zarabooshka, the first instalments in a new 14-part series of monologues by Philip Ridley, feature anxious characters marooned in confusing times
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The actor and writer, who recently masterminded a viral Shakespeare video, stars in a new drama about life under lockdown and is ready to reveal her one-woman play, Heart
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Available onlineThis touching show about the schoolboy and reality TV stand-out Musharaf Asghar is compellingly performed
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Available onlineDeirdre Kinahan's touching drama about homosexuality and women's lives celebrates song, dance and the comfort of theatre
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