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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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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UP ‘N’ UNDER
“Heartfelt, brilliantly knowing in its parodies and often squealingly funny……it celebrates a poignant if glorious past and leaves the future an open question.” Paul Allen, The Guardian Up ‘n’ Under is a riotous Olivier Award-winning comedy about a depleted and ragged amateur rugby league team, who are audaciously taking on their arch rivals. The play […]
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