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If We Got Some More Cocaine I Could Show You How I Love You

Written by John O’DonovanDirected by Joel HorwoodPresented by Everyman Theatre In a town of ten thousand people, what parade do we get? I’m a parade. I’m a one-man parade! Halloween. A small town in the west of Ireland. There’s a party to get to and Mikey and Casey have everything they need . . . […]

The House of Bernarda Alba

By Federico García Lorca Adapted by Karen Vickery with the assistance of Andrea GarciaPresented by Chaika Theatre Feel this silence? A storm is brewing in every room. The day it bursts, we’ll all be swept away! Considered the first play to be written for a cast of women only, The House of Bernarda Alba is […]

Lend Me a Tenor

Written by Ken LudwigDirected by Cate ClellandPresented by Free-Rain Theatre It is 1934 – a glamorous time for the Cleveland Grand Opera Company. The company is overjoyed to have secured the world-famous tenor, Tito Merelli, to sing the starring role in Leoncavallo’s Pagliacci for one evening. Everything is organised, all preparations have been carefully made, […]

Equus

Written by Peter ShafferDirected by Anne SomesPresented by Free-Rain Theatre My desire might be to make this boy an ardent husband – a caring citizen – a worshipper of abstract and unifying God. My achievement, however, is more likely to make a ghost! Equus by Peter Shaffer is an electric play about passion and worship. […]

Hand to God

Written by Robert AskinsDirected by Jarrad WestPresented by Everyman Theatre Thing about a saviour is you never know where to look. Might just be the place you saw the devil before… In the tiny, conservative town of Cypress, Texas, the shy, mild-mannered Jason is just trying to be a good son. When he joins his […]

Every Lovely Terrible Thing

Written by Adam FawcettDirected by Lachlan HouenPresented by ACT Hub Step inside the tumultuous world of the Colemans as they prepare to take on their greatest adversary yet: Themselves. Widowed matriarch Jerica yearns to sell the decaying family home and break free from her past. Her conservative son Charles seeks to reinvent himself as a […]

Julius Caesar

Written by William ShakespeareDirected by Caitlin BakerPresented by Chaika Theatre Cry havoc. Rome is ripe for rebellion.Democracy hangs in the balance.Caesar has returned. In this unrelenting new staging, Shakespeare’s masterpiece of political machinations is brought kicking and screaming into the twenty-first century

Mojo

Written by Jez ButterworthDirected by Lachlan HouenPresented by Red Herring Theatre Company & ACT Hub A brutally funny journey through the seedy, amphetamine-fuelled London rock scene of the 1950s follows a gang of would-be power-players who, seduced by the promise of fame and fortune, battle for control of hot teen singing idol, Silver Johnny. A […]

The Beauty Queen of Leenane

Written by Martin McDonaghDirected by Cate ClellandPresented by Free-Rain Theatre In a small, rural cottage in Connemara County Galway, plain, middle-aged Maureen and her ageing, manipulative mother, Mag, live their isolated existence. When it seems that Maureen might have her first, and probably last, romantic encounter, her mother does all she can to undermine and […]

Present Laughter

Written by Noël CowardDirected by Karen VickeryPresented by ACT Hub I don’t give a hoot about posterity. Why should I worry about what people think of me when I’m dead as a doornail anyway? At the center of his own universe sits matinee idol Garry Essendine: suave, hedonistic and too old, says his wife, to […]

The Musical of Musicals (the Musical)

Music by Eric RockwellLyrics by Joanne BogartBook by Eric Rockwell and Joanne BogartDirected by Duncan Driver and Duncan LeyPresented by Everyman Theatre ”I can’t pay the rent!’ ‘You must pay the rent!’ ‘I’ll pay the rent for you!’ ‘Yay!’ This timeless story makes for a perfect musical. But let’s do 5 of them instead! This […]