Sarah Woodward

In 1964, Richard Burton, newly married to Elizabeth Taylor, is to play the title role in an experimental new Broadway production of Hamlet under Sir John Gielgud’s exacting direction. But as rehearsals progress, two ages of theatre collide and the collaboration between actor and director soon threatens to unravel.

Lucy Kirkwood’s Maryland takes us to the dark heart of male violence against women but manages to do so with humour and wit. An outstanding cast explores an urgent issue.

Sam y Tusker, pareja de 20 años, están viajando por Inglaterra en su vieja autocaravana visitando a amigos, familiares y lugares de su pasado. Desde que a Tusker se le diagnosticó demencia de inicio temprano hace dos años, su tiempo juntos es lo más importante que tienen. Sin embargo, a medida que avanza el viaje, sus ideas para el futuro chocan, salen a la luz secretos y su amor mutuo se pone a prueba como nunca antes. En última instancia, deben enfrentarse a la pregunta de qué significa amarse el uno al otro frente a la enfermedad de Tusker.

Narra la lucha de Anthony Bryan para ser aceptado como ciudadano británico durante el escándalo de inmigración de Windrush.

Ruling by divine right, but himself ruled by caprice, King Richard exiles Henry Bolingbroke and seizes his father’s vast estates. While Richard is distracted by a rebellion in Ireland, Bolingbroke returns to England, intent on recovering his rightful property and, with the support of his disgruntled peers, perhaps seizing the crown itself.

Drama inspired by the true story of classical pianist Joyce Hatto. Victoria Wood's new strange-but-true drama about musical deception and enduring love

Madame Ranevskaya is a spoiled, aging aristocratic lady who returns from a trip to Paris to face the loss of her magnificent Cherry Orchard estate after a default on the mortgage. In denial, she continues living in the past, deluding herself and her family, while the beautiful cherry trees are being axed down by the re-possessor Lopakhin, her former serf, who has his own agenda.

The fat knight Sir John Falstaff imagines that Mistress Ford and Mistress Page are both taken with him and so, attracted as much by their husbands’ money as their personal charms, he decides to woo them both. But the women are up to the old lecher’s tricks and turn the tables on him with a series of humiliating assignations, midnight terrors and a very damp, extremely smelly laundry basket. Gutsy, colloquial and bustling with vivid characters, The Merry Wives of Windsor is a brilliantly constructed farce and the only comedy Shakespeare set in his native land. It is also the ancestor of English bourgeois comedy and gave birth to a tradition that reaches down to the modern TV sitcom. The production made merry with the relationship between the life of middle-class Elizabethan England and the late medieval period in which the play is set.

Ambientada en la Inglaterra de 1930. La joven Cassandra Mortmain (Romola Garai) pertenece a una excéntrica familia que lucha por sobrevivir en un viejo castillo inglés que está prácticamente en ruinas. Sin embargo, la llegada de dos adinerados hermanos (Marc Blucas y Henry Thomas) podría representar la salvación para todos sus seres queridos, principalmente su padre (Bill Nighy), un frustrado novelista, y su hermana Rose (Rose Byrne). Basada en el best-seller de Dodie Smith, una clásica historia romántica que relata el viaje personal, social y emocional de una joven hacia la madurez, a través de su descubrimiento de sus propios sentimientos y la sexualidad...