Sue Wallace

Alan Bennett’s sharp and hilarious new play is ‘just what the doctor ordered’ (Daily Telegraph). Filmed live at London’s Bridge Theatre during its limited run, don’t miss this acclaimed production full of ‘singalongs and stinging wit’ (Guardian). The Beth, an old fashioned cradle-to-grave hospital serving a town in Yorkshire, is threatened with closure as part of an efficiency drive. A documentary crew, eager to capture its fight for survival, follows the daily struggle to find beds on the Dusty Springfield Geriatric Ward, and the triumphs of the old people’s choir. One of Britain’s most celebrated writers, Alan Bennett’s plays include The History Boys, The Lady in the Van and The Madness of George III, all of which were also seen on film. Allelujah! is his tenth collaboration with award-winning director Nicholas Hytner.

첫 만남은 운명, 연애할 땐 사랑, 결혼 후엔 실수?! 더도 말고 딱 1년 만에… 내 남편을 죽이고 싶어졌다! 첫 만남 후, 불 같은 사랑에 빠져 초스피드로 결혼에 골인한 ‘냇’(로즈 번)과 ‘조쉬’(라프 스팰). 매일 행복할 줄만 알았는데 “일년만 살아봐!”라는 주변 사람들의 말처럼 결혼 생활이 순탄치만은 않다. 남편 조쉬는 하루 종일 소파에만 앉아 어설픈 유머를 날리는가 하면, 청소는커녕 쓰레기를 휙~휙 던져 놓고 급기야 회사모임에 동석해 진상댄스를 선보이기 까지… 운명의 남자에서 인생 최악의 밉상으로 변해버렸다! 그러던 중, 냇에게는 매력적인 클라이언트 ‘가이’(사이먼 베이커)가 나타나 거부할 수 없는 애정공세를 펼치는데… 깨물어주고싶던 남자가 깨물어죽이고싶은 남편이 되어버린 결혼 1년 차 냇! 과연 그녀는 행복한 결혼 1주년을 맞을 수 있을까?

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.

A young boy who lives in an old folks' home strikes up a friendship with a retired magician.

When his estranged wife is brutally attacked by a burglar, a law-abiding locksmith unconvinced that the junkie charged for the crime is the real attacker starts his own investigation.

Unexpected events occur when Pat, a glamorous British-born star of American soaps, returns home to plug her auto-biography on television and meets, for the first time since they were teenagers, Margaret her plain and frumpy younger sister. The meeting is painful for both women highlighting the vast differences in their lives and resurrecting painful memories of their unhappy childhood with an uncaring, errant mother. The tabloid press smell a juicy story and a race ensues to trace the whereabouts of the long lost parent.

It is 1970, there is World Cup and General Election fever. Marco, a wealthy Italian has come to England to discover his true identity. Carl, a student is torn between canvassing for the Labour party, watching the World Cup or going on a walking holiday with his girlfriend Ellie. Their paths cross in Preston library and the three take an epic journey across the Pennines.

Mobsters and the IRA chase a stagestruck London cabby (Tim Curry) who has found a briefcase full of cash.

A shy, introverted young girl takes a summer job at a seaside resort in Wales, where she finds the staff, the owners and patrons unlike anyone she has ever met before.

A play by Victoria Wood. Frances is 28, single and happy, despite ritual interrogation from her family as to why she's not married. Then she meets Jim, and finds she has decisions to make.