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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THINGS I KNOW TO BE TRUE
“Genuinely haunting and fervently recommended” Paul Taylor, The Independent “This family drama is tender, physical and deeply relatable.” Jane Howard, The Guardian With an international premiere in 2016 and a critically acclaimed production in the UK with Imogen Stubbs in the lead role, Things I Know To Be True is as beautifully touching as it […]
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