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2020
2020x1
One Man, Two Guvnors
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Fired from his skiffle band, Francis Henshall becomes minder to Roscoe Crabbe, a small time East End hood, now in Brighton to collect £6,000 from his fiancée’s dad. Holed up at The .. show full overview
2020x2
Jane Eyre
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Charlotte Brontë’s story of the trailblazing Jane Eyre is as inspiring as ever in a production that uncovers one woman’s fight for freedom and fulfilment on her own terms - facing .. show full overview
2020x3
Treasure Island
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It’s a dark, stormy night. The stars are out. Jim, the inn-keeper's granddaughter, opens the door to a terrifying stranger. At the old sailor’s feet sits a huge sea-chest, full of .. show full overview
2020x4
Twelfth Night
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A ship is wrecked on the rocks. Viola is washed ashore but her twin brother Sebastian is lost. Determined to survive on her own, she steps out to explore a new land. So begins a .. show full overview
2020x5
Frankenstein (Benedict Cumberbatch as The Creature)
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Childlike in his innocence but grotesque in form, Frankenstein’s bewildered creature is cast out into a hostile universe by his horror-struck maker. Meeting with cruelty wherever he .. show full overview
2020x6
Frankenstein (Jonny Lee Miller as The Creature)
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Childlike in his innocence but grotesque in form, Frankenstein’s bewildered creature is cast out into a hostile universe by his horror-struck maker. Meeting with cruelty wherever he .. show full overview
2020x7
Antony & Cleopatra
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Caesar and his assassins are dead. General Mark Antony now rules alongside his fellow defenders of Rome. But at the fringes of a war-torn empire the Egyptian Queen Cleopatra and Mark .. show full overview
2020x8
Barber Shop Chronicles
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Inua Ellams’ generously funny, heart-warming and insightful smash-hit play is set in five African cities: Johannesburg, Harare, Kampala, Lagos, Accra, and London. Inspired in part by the .. show full overview
2020x9
A Streetcar Named Desire
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Gillian Anderson is Blanche DuBois, Ben Foster is Stanley, and Vanessa Kirby is Stella in Tennessee Williams’ timeless masterpiece. As Blanche’s fragile world crumbles, she turns to her .. show full overview
2020x10
This House
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It’s 1974, and Britain has a hung Parliament. The corridors of Westminster ring with the sound of infighting and backstabbing as the political parties battle to change the future of a .. show full overview
2020x11
Coriolanus
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Tom Hiddleston plays the title role in Shakespeare’s searing tragedy of political manipulation and revenge. When an old adversary threatens Rome, the city calls once more on her hero and .. show full overview
2020x12
The Madness of George III
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1788. King George III is the most powerful man in the world. But with his mind unravelling at a dramatic pace, ambitious politicians and a scheming prince threaten to undermine the power .. show full overview
2020x13
Small Island
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Hortense yearns for a new life away from rural Jamaica, Gilbert dreams of becoming a lawyer, and Queenie longs to escape her Lincolnshire roots. Small Island follows their lives through .. show full overview
2020x14
A Midsummer Night's Dream
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Deep in the magical forest a feuding King and Queen cross paths with four runaway lovers and a troupe of actors, resulting in tempestuous love triangles, contagious fogs and moonlight .. show full overview
2020x15
Les Blancs
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An African country teeters on the edge of civil war. A society prepares to drive out its colonial present and claim an independent future. Racial tensions boil over. Tshembe, returned .. show full overview
2020x16
The Deep Blue Sea
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A flat in Ladbroke Grove, West London. 1952. When Hester Collyer is found by her neighbours in the aftermath of a failed suicide attempt, the story of her tempestuous affair with a .. show full overview
2020x17
Amadeus
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Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, a rowdy young prodigy, arrives in Vienna determined to make a splash. Awestruck by his genius and seized by obsessive jealousy, court composer Antonio Salieri .. show full overview
2020x18
The Cherry Orchard
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Russia, 1904. Ranyevskaya and her brother snub the lucrative scheme of a local entrepreneur to save their family estate. In so doing, they put up their lives up for auction and .. show full overview
2020x19
Dara
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1659 Mughal India. A ferocious war of succession rages between the heirs to the Muslim empire; two brothers with very different visions of its future. Shahid Nadeem's epic tale of the .. show full overview
2020x20
I Want My Hat Back
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Bear's hat is gone. He loves his hat. He wants it back. He asks all the animals in the forest, but no one has seen it. WAIT! He has seen it somewhere... Wils Wilson directs Jon Klassen’s .. show full overview
2020x21
Medea
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Heartbroken and stricken with grief, Medea plans appalling revenge on her ex-husband, Jason, to destroy everything she holds dear. Helen McCrory plays the title role in Euripides’ .. show full overview
2020x22
Mosquitoes
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In 2008, as the Large Hadron Collider searches for the Higgs boson, tragedy throws two sisters together. The collision threatens them all with chaos. Olivia Colman and Olivia Williams .. show full overview
2020x23
Othello
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Furious about being overlooked for promotion, Iago plots to take revenge against his General, Othello. In this acclaimed production of Shakespeare’s timeless tale of envy and brutal .. show full overview
2020x24
Phèdre
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Consumed by an uncontrollable passion for her young stepson, and believing her absent husband is dead, Phèdre confesses her darkest desires and enters the world of nightmare. Helen .. show full overview
2020x25
Three Sisters
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Nigeria, 1967. Three sisters, grieving the loss of their father, long to return to their former home in Lagos as conflict encroaches on their provincial village. Chekhov’s iconic .. show full overview
2020x26
Yerma
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A young woman is driven to the unthinkable by her desperate desire to have a child. Set in contemporary London, this radical production of Lorca’s classic tragedy builds with elemental .. show full overview
2020x27
War Horse
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At the outbreak of World War One, Albert’s horse is sold to the cavalry and shipped to France. Though still not old enough to enlist he embarks on a treacherous mission to find him and .. show full overview
2020x28
Dick Whittington
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Dick Whittington and friends are on an adventure to save the true spirit of London. A hilarious and heartfelt new version of the classic tale that's packed with the cheekiest of jokes, .. show full overview

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