Theatre Drama

11 February 2010 to 27 March 2010

Donmar Warehouse WC2H 9LX[map]

A theatre Serenading Louie by Lanford Wilson.

24 November 2009 to 28 November 2009

Tabard Theatre W4 1LW[map]

It is 1916. Drawn from 2 year's Sussex retirement for the funeral of his friend, Dr. Watson, Holmes returns to Baker Street to resolve 'the last act' of his epic career. The play explores the mind of the real man, - not the thinking machine. An unexpectedly passionate and secretive man, with a cutting sense of humour.

10 December 2009 to 20 December 2009

The Space E14 3RS[map]

Finn is in trouble - there's a recession, the Space lacks enough funds to keep running and the trustees are keen to turn the building into a Turkish spa. There is one last hope - put on a sell-out Christmas show. With the help of his friends, an Eastern European performance artist and a Fairy Godfather, Finn must battle against the odds one more time.

14 July 2010 to 14 August 2010

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

Pre-teen Delilah enjoys High School Musical, swim parties and ogling the lodger. Whilst her parents throw verbal grenades at one another, they barely notice their 21 year old tenant starting to notice her. Spur of the Moment looks at the distance between close family relations and a young girl on the brink of adolescence. It is the debut play by Anya Reiss, written when she was seventeen.

27 November 2009 to 28 November 2009

Pentameters Theatre NW3 6TE[map]

2 December 2009 to 3 December 2009

Bush Theatre W12 8QD[map]

A glimpse into one man's love at two very different stages of life. 'Stefan Golaszweksi Speaks About A Girl He Once Loved' is a bruising one-man show about being 18, in love and unable to cope. 'Stefan Golaszewski Is A Widower' forms the second part of the evening. In 2054, Stefan Golaszewski's wife died. Now, in 2056, crushed, alone and 76 years old, he revisits their life together and performs a one-man play dedicated to her memory.

24 November 2009 to 10 January 2010

The Lion and Unicorn Theatre NW5 2ED[map]

Take a journey with us into the heart of darkness where nothing is as it seems; take a journey with us into the world of the Supernatural.

25 February 2010 to 10 April 2010

Young Vic Theatre SE1 8LZ[map]

A young man has an affair with a married woman. He is terrified her husband will challenge him to a duel and kill him. At a party, he flirts with a girl who believes she is truly loved. Life seems full of joy. The doorbell rings. The husband enters the room. The power of sexual longing, the cruelty of tradition, the vulnerability of those in love.

10 November 2009 to 28 November 2009

Southwark Playhouse SE1 2TF[map]

Following a critically acclaimed sell-out run at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe, EIF award winners, Belt Up Theatre bring their interactive and immersive re-working of Moliere’s classic to the Southwark Playhouse. Blending clowning, farce, satire, mime and egotistical actors into a bizarre cocktail of meta-theatrical choreographed chaos – Moliere purists should leave all reservations at the door. Those that don’t like to be interacted with? Drop your guard because the haphazard troupe will grab you if they need you. By the end, they’ll have to shout at you to sit back down. An indefinite number of years after a career destroying scandal, lost luvvie, Orgon Poquelin presents a theatrical representation of his fall from grace at the hands of the sinister conman – Tartuffe. Assisted by his troupe of faded French variety act vagabonds, Orgon attempts a performance to truly exorcise the demons of his past. A dizzying spectacle of theatrical pandemonium, The Tartuffe is a production that will leave you exhausted from watching the troupe travelling at a break-neck speed through this madcap bedlam of a performance. Before you know it, you’ll be dragged up to understudy a missing troupe member or deliver a forgotten prop. Whether from itching to get onstage or from terror at being picked on, The Tartuffe will leave you on the edge of your seat; this adaptation shatters the fourth wall and happily chucks the broken fragments in the face of convention. A hilarious celebration of the very concept of theatrical performance.

14 December 2009 to 3 January 2010

The Roundhouse NW1 8EH[map]

Take two preposterously funny chaps. Some arctic animals. A touch of frost. Add some improbable tails and three seasonal stories from around the world - one created live from audience suggestions in an impossible act of on-the-spot invention. The result? A festive alternative to pantomime for all the family.

24 November 2009 to 5 December 2009

Soho Theatre & Writers Centre W1D 3NE[map]

Crackling with wit and sparkling with hope, Moss's new play is a tender portrayal of two women trying to start again. From the writer of How Love is Spelt (Bush Theatre), A Day in Dull Armour and Catch (Royal Court). Clean Break was founded by two women in prison in 1979. From its roots as a small-scale fringe theatre company, it has grown today to become a critically-acclaimed organisation that maintains a commitment to social justice, personal and societal change, and the empowerment of women who have experienced the criminal justice system.

25 November 2009

Riverside Studios W6 9RL[map]

The Outside Edge is the only professional theatre company in the UK working with people affected by drug and alcohol addiction. It was founded by director/writer Phil Fox in 1999. Performances from the world of music and theatre introduced by The Outside Edge Theatre Company patron Jimmy Page.

11 December 2009 to 9 January 2010

Rose Theatre Kingston KT1 1HL[map]

Outdoor theatre for families with the tale of young Jim Hawkins and his search for buried treasure.

10 November 2009 to 28 November 2009

Southwark Playhouse SE1 2TF[map]

A haunting theatrical incarnation lifts Kafka's words from the page and inhabits them in the labyrinthine world under London Bridge. Get lost alongside Josef K as he struggles to make sense of the nonsensical bureaucratic monster that preys on him. It's half past eight and Josef K normally has his breakfast at half past eight. Yet today his world is twisted and deformed when he is arrested and dragged into the uncertain purgatory of the justice system. In a warped wonderland, K must make his way through this tentative world seeking help amongst a sinisterly peculiar freak show of characters. From the spider-like helping hand of Huld to the giddily incomprehensible Titorelli, K must attempt to weave a narrative through his vague destiny. Easier said than done in a world of absolute order without logic, punishment without crime, people without humanity.

16 January 2010 to 20 January 2010

Institute of Contemporary Arts SW1Y 5AH[map]

Moscow's BlackSkyWhite presents USSR Was Here, a vision of disintegration. Through movement, shadows, sound and light, terrifying characters and grotesque costume, this is an overwhelming, impressionistic response to the sudden collapse of a great edifice, a vast empire.

25 November 2009

The Beck Theatre UB3 2UE[map]

Based on author Eve Ensler's 'Vagina Interviews' conducted with women from all around the world, this collection of tales gives voice to a chorus of human stories.