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Every Brilliant Thing

Written by Duncan MacmillanDirected by Joel Horwood You’re seven years old. Mum’s in hospital. Dad says she’s ‘done something stupid’. She finds it hard to be happy. You start to make her a list of every brilliant thing in the world. 1. Ice cream.2. Water fights.3. Staying up past your bedtime and being allowed to […]

Tick, Tick... Boom!

Written by Jonathan LarsonDirected by Nikki FitzgeraldMusical Direction by Callum Tolhurst-CloseChoreography by Nathan Rutups Before RENT, there was Tick,Tick… BOOM! Jonathan Larson’s semi-autobiographical musical is a look at the struggle and the business of art. It tells the story of an aspiring composer named Jon, who lives in New York City in 1990. Jon is […]

The Inheritance

By Matthew LopezInspired by the novel ‘Howard’s End’ by E.M. ForsterDirected by Jarrad WestAssistant Direction by Lachlan Houen ‘One may as well begin with Toby’s voicemails…’ So begins Matthew Lopez’s stirring and heartbreaking epic that explores love and legacy within the queer community. Eric is a New York City lawyer trying to keep his family’s […]

August: Osage County

Written by Tracy Letts.Directed by Cate Clelland. Recipient of the 2008 Tony Award® for Best Play and winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Drama. A vanished father. A pill-popping mother. Three sisters harbouring shady little secrets. When the large Weston family unexpectedly reunites after Dad disappears, their Oklahoman family homestead explodes in a maelstrom of […]

Mary Stuart

Adapted by Kate Mulvany, after Friedrich Schiller.Directed by Luke Rogers. Two powerful women, beloved by their people – one sits on the throne; the other in a prison cell.Kate Mulvany’s smart and witty adaptation of Schiller’s masterpiece ‘Mary Stuart’ is a tale of two queens at war. In the legendary rivalry between Elizabeth I and […]

A Streetcar Named Desire

Written by Tennessee Williams.Directed by Anne Somes.Associate Director Cate Clelland. Winner of the 1948 Pulitzer Prize for Drama.When Blanche unexpectedly visits her estranged sister Stella, she brings with her a past that will threaten their future. As Stella’s husband Stanley sees through her façade, Blanche’s fragile world begins to fracture. Reality and illusion collide and […]

Five Women Wearing The Same Dress

Written by Alan BallDirected by Steph RobertsAssistant Directed by Lachlan Houen During an ostentatious wedding reception at a Knoxville, Tennessee, estate, five reluctant, identically clad bridesmaids hide out in an upstairs bedroom, each with her own reason to avoid the proceedings below. They are Frances, a painfully sweet but sheltered fundamentalist; Mindy, the cheerful, wise-cracking […]

Seagull

Written by Anton ChekhovTranslated by Karen VickeryDirected by Caitlin BakerPresented by Chaika Theatre A vivid and contemporary, site-specific translation and adaptation by Karen Vickery of Chekhov’s masterpiece. A country house near a lake is the scene in which love triangles, quarrels about the theatre, and egos erupt. Aging celebrity actress, Irina, returns to the family […]

Queers

Curated by Mark GatissDirected by Steph Roberts & Jarrad WestOriginal music by Alex Unikowski Welcome back to The Prince’s Arms… Everyman Theatre are thrilled to be bringing back the critically acclaimed production Queers to the Hub in 2024. A young soldier returning from the trenches of the First World War recollects a love that dare […]