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Straight from the English set texts comes William Shakespeare’s Cymbeline. Imogen, daughter of King Cymbeline, has displeased her father by marrying Posthumus. In exile, Posthumus proclaims the beauty of his wife to the villainous Iachimo and lays a wager on her fidelity. But Iachimo will stop at nothing to prove […]

Cymbeline

<< Le Mariage de Figaro >> was performed in 1784 for the first time. The play was censored for many years, and this already hints at its revolutionary and insolent dimension. This sequel of sorts to “The Barber of Sevilla” mainly revolves around this question: will Figaro and Suzanne manage […]

The Marriage of Figaro

Set on a London estate, The Losters Play deals with the fallout of a group of youth’s being mailed a corpse. What follows involves Polish drug dealers, embalming with anti-freeze and Kesha. Described by Stovepipe playwright Adam Brace as “the best play by a young playwright I’ve read”, The Losters […]

The Losters Play

New Year’s Day 2050, Compound Camelot. There’s not much to look forward to in a post-apocalyptic wasteland, so when the Green Knight crashes the party with a game of Russian Roulette, Gawain’s only too eager to go. There’s just one twist – the winner has to take a shot from […]

Sir Gawain and the Green Knight