'Of course that's how it begins: a harmless fairy tale to pass the hours'When Alice Liddell Hargreaves met Peter Llewelyn Davies at the opening of a Lewis Carroll exhibition in 1932, the original Alice in Wonderland came face to face with the original Peter Pan.
The 40 Minute Tempest recreates the world of Shakespeare's great play as told by Prospero and Ariel as they journey towards Prospero's retirement and Ariel's freedom.
The Mayor of Zalamea, Life's a Dream, The Great Theatre of the WorldIn The Mayor of Zalamea, commissioned by the Royal National Theatre, peasants honour clashes with military discipline.
Dion Boucicault, the Irish genius of London theatre in the age of Dickens, wrote the brilliantly funny London Assurance in 1841 and thereby created in Sir Harcourt and Lady Spanker two of the great comic roles of the English stage, played at the NT by Simon Russell Beale and Fiona Shaw.
Includes the plays Get Up and Tie Your Fingers, Devil's Ground and SafeGet Up and Tie Your Fingers, Ann Coburn s first play, was premiered at the 1995 Borders Festival and had a successful run at the 1996 Edinburgh Festival.
Moving, powerful, ethereal; Mind Walking is a celebration of the life of one extraordinary man, the enduring love story of a mature couple and their family.
The Flying Machine; Smashed EggsLife isn t much fun for the two children trapped on Ward One of St Ruth s Hospital for Damaged Eyes in The Flying Machine.
Decky Does a Bronco is the tragi-comic story of a gang of nine-year-old boys who spend the summer of 1983 'Broncoing swings' in Girvan, on the west coast of Scotland.
This new version of William Wycherley 's most famous classic, The Country Wife has been adapted by Tanika Gupta, one of the country 's leading playwrights.
A comedy written for the Shakespeare's Globe, telling the story of an insatiably curious young man who, wishing to turn himself into a wise owl, takes the wrong drug and finds himself transformed into an ass.
Faustus s restless quest for knowledge and his insatiable desire for notoriety drive him to make a pact with the devil in return for the power to perform the black arts.
