Theatre Drama

20 December 2009

Rudolf Steiner House NW1 6XT[map]

A set of plays that were first collected and written down by Karl Julius Schroer, who was one of Rudolf Steiner's teachers. They came from a community living on the island of Oberufer on the Danube, and had been passed on by oral tradition since the Middle Ages. They represent a unique survival of the tradition of medieval mystery plays.

18 December 2009

The Beck Theatre UB3 2UE[map]

This Christmas join Colonel Mustard, Lady Peacock and Miss White for a festive country house murder mystery. When Lady Peacock's diamond necklace goes missing she turns to her butler, Mr Boddy, for help. But can Mr Boddy get his hands on her ladyships jewels before Boxing Day? Just what big game is the Colonel hunting? It surely can't be turkey! And, why is Miss White so keen to dust his nik naks? Join a cast of classic characters in a traditional English 1930's comedy murder mystery.

13 December 2009 to 15 December 2009

The Latchmere & Theatre 503 SW11 3BW[map]

Newly elected Labour MP Meg Jones finds herself in the front line of the expenses scandal, while her husband Doug falls for a classic newspaper honey trap. Their lives and their marriage disintegrate before the relentlessly cruel headlines. But was it all their fault - or are they convenient scapegoats for much bigger fraudsters? The financiers who surrounded them were having their own troubles, and the journalists who exposed them were not as clean as they liked to sound.

13 November 2009 to 19 December 2009

The Royal Court Theatre & Jerwood Theatre SW1W 8AS[map]

When John takes a break from his boyfriend, he accidentally meets the girl of his dreams. Filled with guilt and indecision, he decides there is only one way to straighten this out. Mike Bartlett's punchy new story takes a playful, candid look at one man's sexuality and the difficulties that arise when you realise you have a choice. His previous plays include Contractions, My Child (Royal Court) and Artefacts.

27 November 2009 to 5 December 2009

The Broadway Theatre SE6 4RU[map]

An unmissable new play live and direct from Jamaica, starring the island's most celebrated actor Oliver Samuels. It's a stunning night of Caribbean comedy for the entire family. When misguided misogynist Oliver Samuels tries to trade in Patsy, his common-law wife of 15 years for a younger model all hell breaks loose. Patsy refuses to be de-throned and Oliver must learn the painful way that no man can have his cake and eat it. The rights of those women who have not yet said 'I do' are championed in this thought-provoking comedy that examines the pitfalls of the common-law relationship and its rights and wrongs in what is still a grey area in the legal system.

30 November 2009 to 17 January 2010

Hampstead Theatre NW3 3EU[map]

It is Christmas 1875 and Professor Gabriel Stokes takes lodgings at The Sea House, on a desolate stretch of the East Sussex coast. No sooner has he arrived than the troubled history of the house comes to the fore with unexplained and mysterious happenings. Following the traditions of the finest ghost stories, Darker Shores is a gripping and shadowy tale of suspense - perfect seasonal entertainment for all the family.

7 December 2009 to 13 December 2009

Drill Hall WC1E 7EX[map]

Six unique and exciting short plays directed by Paula Garfield features a wide range of characters such as a prostitute who lends a sympathetic ear, anarchy-driven squatters and a discriminated-against office worker who plots for revenge. Acted by a mixture of Deaf and hearing actors, these plays will be the product of a year of writing workshops lead by Andrew Muir.

24 November 2009 to 28 November 2009

Tabard Theatre W4 1LW[map]

Arthur Conan Doyle's fictional creations come to life in a tale of murder, mystery and the occult.

17 February 2010 to 20 March 2010

The Royal Court Theatre & Jerwood Theatre SW1W 8AS[map]

Your credit card is maxed out, and you hang up the phone on Ross chasing your payments. But Ross is actually Roshan and though the sun is shining for you it's past midnight in his window-less call centre. With a new accent and invented back story, bright young graduates in India are renamed and rebranded as they work to claw back the cash spent by Americans crippled by debt.

3 December 2009 to 5 December 2009

Royal Vauxhall Tavern SE11 5HY[map]

This dark comedy lifts the lid on the subversive world of dogging and its oddball inhabitants. Meet Peter the former public schoolboy with a penchant for pooches or Terry who is more attached to his car than his wife.

10 November 2009 to 6 December 2009

Greenwich Playhouse SE10 8JA[map]

Olivier award winning Blue/Orange is a sardonically comic play touching on race, mental illness, and our failing National Health Service in Britain. In a London mental hospital, an enigmatic patient claims to be the son of an exiled African dictator. As the drama unfolds, his story becomes unnervingly plausible. By Order of Ignorance is a play set in London looking at whose cause is most righteous and who deserves to die. Muhammad has a mission, George has a history, Charles has a theory. They all have their orders but who'll follow them?

1 December 2009 to 13 December 2009

Blue Elephant Theatre SE5 0XT[map]

A combination of out of work actors and zealous Christians gather in the parking lot of a Mega Church to tell the greatest story ever told, in the way that Americans like best: fast and convenient. Are they revolutionary, or seriously misguided?

27 January 2010 to 30 January 2010

The Pit, Barbican Centre  EC2Y 8DS[map]

In a fairground-carnival setting, sharing her freakshow stage with a badger, a mountain goat and other natural curiosities, Jeanne Mordoj juggles egg yolks and bamboo and forces us to consider taboos that rarely come to the surface. Ventriloquist, contortionist and multi-talented circus artist, the charismatic bearded lady reveals truths about identity, perception, sex, and finally death itself.

31 March 2010 to 1 May 2010

The Royal Court Theatre & Jerwood Theatre SW1W 8AS[map]

Helmand in the height of summer. Gary, a British soldier, and Hafizullah, his Afghan colleague, guard an injured young prisoner, Zia, found in the heat of battle. Gary wants answers, Hafizullah just wants to make it through the day and Zia thinks there has been a big mistake.

18 November 2009 to 5 December 2009

Barbican EC2Y 8DS[map]

The story of two young siblings living in the snowy tundra in a remote arctic exploration station. Life is perfect until one day their parents return from an expedition and their mother takes to her bed.

29 January 2010 to 30 January 2010

British Museum WC1B 3DG[map]

Art, passion, obsession: An explosive portrait of the woman who gave birth to herself. Sharp, witty and bursting with colour, this multi award-winning Mexican play thrillingly brings to life Latin America's greatest female painter.