DOUBT: A Parable
“Like all good parables, its story feels both timeless and more timely than ever, its ideological arguments speaking to our world of social media silos and ‘Punch and Judy’ political debates.” Arifa Akbar, The Guardian John Patrick Shanley’s Doubt: A Parable, originally premiered on Broadway in 2005 and was awarded a Pulitzer prize and several Tony […]
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Swing That Music!
Join the UK’s hardest swinging band Down for the Count All-Stars for “one hellova celebration of vintage music” (TimeOut London) – it’s time to Swing That Music! Described as “a breath of fresh air on the swing scene” (Twinwood Festival) Down for the Count’s 10-piece mini big-band is regularly found in jazz clubs across the UK […]
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ANIMAL FARM
“Animal Farm was the first book in which I tried, with full consciousness of what I was doing, to fuse political purpose and artistic purpose into one whole.” George Orwell At once funny and frightening, delightful and devastating, Animal Farm charts the fall of idealism and the rise of tyranny, after the animals of […]
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DANCING AT LUGHNASA
“You leave convinced that this is one of Friel’s finest plays.” Michael Billington, Guardian Following Brian Friel’s award-winning play Translations performed at the Loft last year to great acclaim, we are now staging his greatly loved 1990 play Dancing at Lughnasa. This semi-autobiographical play, set in 1936 in the Ireland of his boyhood, features five unmarried […]
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THE CAGE PROTECTS ME
LOFT MAIN HOUSE PREMIERE Every night for the last ten years, a pack of wolves has descended upon the town of Drylake, Texas. Their unbroken siege has left one survivor standing, a man named Red, who by day, fortifies the town’s church, and by night, prays his work holds until the morning. But to say […]
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BEGINNING
“A play that leaves you caring deeply about its characters and which adds unusual poignancy to the dating game.” Michael Billington, The Guardian Every story starts somewhere… It’s the early hours of the morning and Danny is the last straggler at Laura’s party. The flat’s in a mess…..and so are they. Maybe time for one […]
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DOCTOR FAUSTUS
Christopher Marlowe’s notorious tale of vanity, greed and damnation will be staged- with the creative team unconfined! – in a new adaptation by David Fletcher. Faustus is a brilliant but embittered academic, a solitary scholar who has exhausted the confines of human knowledge. Frustrated with the futility of religion, law and science he is desperate […]
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