The Loft Dancing at Lughnasa

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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Loft Web - Doctor Faustus

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 - John Godber - Loft Theatre

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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