An intimate look at the complexities of familial relationships in a changing America.

This is the story of Jen and her relationships with the two Johns of her life: her younger brother, who was killed in Vietnam, and his namesake, the son who is trying to find his way in a confusing world. With music by Andrew Lippa (The Wild Party, The Addams Family) and lyrics by Tom Greenwald, 'John and Jen' is a musical about connections, commitments and the healing of the human heart.

This is a Pre-recorded Online Performance

Once you have purchased a ticket you will receive a booking confirmation containing the link to access the show. Regardless of which performance date you choose, the stream will be available to you 24 hours a day from May 13th at 7:30pm until midnight on May 15th.

Playwright Steph falls into an internet rabbit hole and  finds herself with a pen-pal awaiting execution for murder..

Looking for an idea for her new play, Steph finds herself investigating women who fall in love with convicted felons, and before she knows she's on a flight to visit her very own prison pen-pal all the way in Huntsville, Texas, leaving her beloved cat -- and boyfriend! -- behind. At its heart The Road to Huntsville is a play about mental illness, questioning how well we know ourselves, and how well we can really know the ones we love.

This is a Pre-recorded Online Performance

Once you have purchased a ticket you will receive a booking confirmation containing the link to access the show. Regardless of which performance date you choose, the stream will be available to you 24 hours a day from May 14th at 7:30pm until midnight on May 17th.

After the skeletonised remains of a woman are found stuffed into the trunk of a wych elm in Hagley Woods, graffiti begins to appear and gruesome theories begin to take form. We delve into the mind of a detective exploring the case but as they begin to lose control of the story we are left wondering not just Who put Bella in the Wych Elm but if we should be telling the story at all…

The unsolved murder known as ‘Who Put Bella in the Wych Elm?’ details the finding of the skeletonised remains of a woman found stuffed in a wych elm in a town near Birmingham. Soon after the body was found graffiti appeared around Birmingham asking ‘who put Bella in the wych elm?’ and many theories emerged about who the woman had been and how she had died. Her murder and identity remains unsolved today. The show follows a ‘detective’ who is presenting to an audience the story of the unsolved murder. She brings the stories and theories to life by animating figures and manipulating the show. However, as she digs further and become more adamant to reveal what truly happened the story begins get away from her leading us to question whether we should even be telling the story at all.

This is a Pre-recorded Online Performance

Once you have purchased a ticket you will receive a booking confirmation containing the link to access the show. Regardless of which performance date you choose, the stream will be available to you 24 hours a day from June 4th at 7:30pm until midnight on June 11th.

Three children awaken at sea. A stormed has passed… …and another stirs on the distant horizon. In this oceanic limbo, dreams and nightmares swim just beneath the surface.

TOUCH is the first feature length production by UVTC. It is a unique story told without spoken word, communicated through music, movement and dance. In this wonderland, the waters are alive. As the children sail across this magical ocean, what dreams will rise from the azure waters? And what nightmares lurk in the blackened depths? As their pasts, presents and futures intertwine, the siblings will swim through a dimension only found in the wildest of children’s books. Can they ever sail to the sunrise?

This is a Pre-recorded Online Performance

Once you have purchased a ticket you will receive a booking confirmation containing the link to access the show. Regardless of which performance date you choose, the stream will be available to you 24 hours a day from June 6th at 7:00pm until midnight on  june 15th.

"And he's so, so nice, and doesn’t deserve you, or any of this – but that’s a hard thing to accept because you actually really like him.”

Sadie is cynical, grieving and a compulsive liar. Matt is polite, into poetry, and still terrified of relationships. They meet on Tinder, and agree to go on a date. And a few more. There’s something they’re not telling each other, and one day Matt learns something that makes him question their entire relationship. Meeting Point is about love, loss and lemon drizzle cake, a play about navigating relationships in the digital age and the things that go unsaid.

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Four heroic, chivalrous swordsmen fight for justice, honour, and love in 17th-century Paris, adapted from perhaps the most famous historical novel of all time...

Young D'Artagnan travels to Paris in hopes of joining the Musketeers of the Guard. Although he does not immediately succeed, he befriends three of the most formidable musketeers of the age, meets the love of his life, and becomes embroiled in the sly affairs of state, court, and church. This is a swashbuckling and endlessly entertaining story of chivalry, honor, and sexual tension, with a plot that delivers stolen diamonds, masked balls, loud threesomes, and, of course, great bouts of swordplay. It's ''all for one, one for all!", so join us if you dare!

This is a Pre-recorded Audio Play consisting of 20 episodes. Two 20-minute episodes will be released each week, the last episode being released at 8pm on July 1st

The show is free, and will be released on Purple Radio Arts and Drama, that can be found on Spotify and Apple Music.

Upon a spot in Parliament Square converge a statue artist, a beggar, a protestor and his daughter. Last night there was a murder. In a tale of crime, complicity, and idolatry, we join them as they struggle to keep their place.

Icons is a play about a spot in Parliament Square. Upon this spot converge a number of figures: a statue artist, a beggar, a protestor with dementia who has forgotten what he is protesting about - and his daughter. Around them, the familiar statues stand on ceremony: Churchill, Gandhi, Mandela, Fawcett. Last night there was a murder. The scene is taped off. In the middle of the stage lies the outline of a body in chalk. In a tale of crime, complicity, and idolatry, we join them as they struggle to keep their place.

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DUCT presents a night of classical theatre, with ‘The Lovers’, a dark adaptation of Shakespeare’s ‘A Midsummer Night’s Dream’, followed by a modern adaptation of ‘Everyman’, the Medieval morality play.

DUCT presents a double-bill of student-written adaptations of classical plays! ‘A Midsummer Night’s Dream’ is a magical romp through a forest. ‘The Lovers’ asks whether it is quite so comedic when the trappings of fairies and mechanicals fall away, leaving us with a broken man begging us for answers. We must face the fact that we can give him none. ‘Everyman’ both isolates us and brings us together as we follow one man's journey to the afterlife. Filled with more questions than answers, we confront our own mortality in Everyman's journey to discover what it is that makes us human.

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A factory above, a factory below. Two worlds, existing side by side - until someone crosses the boundary.

MJ is a human who is sick of moving boxes around all day like a robot. Pins is a robot who doesn’t fit into the underground. When they meet in the space between their worlds, they form a friendship that blurs the boundaries of human and machine. Are we becoming machines? Are machines becoming too much like us? Is there another possibility? Foundations is a play about technology, love, and bad dancing, told through physical theatre and puppetry.

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Sam Vimes is thrown into his past and must navigate secret police, murderous patricians and the Revolution itself. Will one honest Copper be able to stop the path of history?

While chasing a murderer, Watch Commander Sam Vimes and his quarry, Carcer, are thrust into their own past, into the Revolution. Carcer kills Vimes' old mentor and Vimes takes up his persona, leading his younger self, and the Night Watch, through riots, plots, assassinations and barricades. Disobeying orders, Vimes becomes a leader of the Revolution. Yet for all his efforts, history snaps into place and Vimes watches those around him die for a second time, this time at the hands of Carcer and his allies. Back in the present, Vimes arrests Carcer and witnesses the birth of his son.

This is a Pre-recorded Online Performance

Once you have purchased a ticket you will receive a booking confirmation containing the link to access the show. Regardless of which performance date you choose, the stream will be available to you 24 hours a day from June 17th at 7:30pm until midnight on June 19th.

He’s gay. She’s a lesbian. But it’s not quite that simple; especially when they’re wearing each other’s clothes. This standup theatre show explores the labels we put on one another.

He has just moved to the UK to attend an unnamed university in London; She is fresh out of a foster care home, trying to make it on her own. The two bond over their sexuality and unluckiness in love, but soon their idyllic life starts to fall apart, and they have to question what it is they want to be, and where they want to go.

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A factory above, a factory below. Two worlds, existing side by side - until someone crosses the boundary.

MJ is a human who is sick of moving boxes around all day like a robot. Pins is a robot who doesn’t fit into the underground. When they meet in the space between their worlds, they form a friendship that blurs the boundaries of human and machine. Are we becoming machines? Are machines becoming too much like us? Is there another possibility? Foundations is a play about technology, love, and bad dancing, told through physical theatre and puppetry.

This is a Pre-recorded Online Performance

Once you have purchased a ticket you will receive a booking confirmation containing the link to access the show. Regardless of which performance date you choose, the stream will be available to you 24 hours a day from June 20th at 7:30pm until midnight on June 26th.

War is Peace! Freedom is Slavery! Ignorance is Strength! 1984 is a dystopian tale based around Winston Smith, an unimportant member of the oppressive party 'Ingsoc'.

This show takes place in Winston’s cell in the ‘Ministry of Truth’, and centres around his interrogation by O’Brien, on suspicion of ‘Thought Crime’ against the Party and Big Brother. The ensemble is on stage for the entirety of the show and tell Winston’s story through a series of re-enactments. All ensemble roles are multi-rolled and strong, versatile actors have been cast to bring this production to life.

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A court of all-female leads. Three male witches who look more like traders and journalists than hags on a moor. How much can we trust what we’re told to believe?

‘Treasons capital, confessed and proved.’ ‘Macbeth’ is a play about what happens offstage. This filmed adaptation asks us to examine how much we can trust what is being reported when we are kept at an arm’s length from the real action. Words fail to describe the unnameable as the cycle of violence repeats before our very eyes. It is hard to believe that you have all the power when everyone is lying to you.

This is a Pre-recorded Online Performance

Once you have purchased a ticket you will receive a booking confirmation containing the link to access the show. Regardless of which performance date you choose, the stream will be available to you 24 hours a day from June 21st at 7:30pm until midnight on June 27th.

An emotionally powerful and intimate musical about two New Yorkers in their twenties who fall in and out of love over the course of five years.

DULOG is proud to present our production of The Last Five Years, the internationally acclaimed musical by Jason Robert Brown. The story explores a five-year relationship between Jamie Wellerstein, a rising novelist, and Cathy Hiatt, a struggling actress. The show's unconventional structure consists of Cathy telling her story backwards, at the end of their marriage, while Jamie tells his story chronologically, when they first fall in love. There is therefore no mystery about what happened – the real question is about why.

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A play of 400 letters, spanning three decades and tracking the complex and beautiful relationship of America's beloved poets, Elizabeth Bishop and Robert Lowell.

“Asking you is the ‘might have been’ for me, the one towering change, the other life that might have been had. But I am sure it is the will of the heavens that all is as it is.” Elizabeth Bishop and Robert Lowell were two of America’s most brilliant poets. Throughout their lifetime, they wrote over 400 letters to eachother, spanning decades, continents, political eras and tumultuous periods in their own lives. Their connection was messy and profound, platonic yet romantic: a love that resists easy definition. These are their words, compiled and compressed by award-winning playwright Sarah Ruhl.

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A comic operetta, following the fortunes of Frederic, a young pirate, as he comes to the end of his apprenticeship and falls in love, but is he really as free as he thinks?

It is assumed he will marry his ex-nursemaid, but he meets Mabel, who agrees to marry him so that he can enter polite society. When the Pirates force Mabel and her sisters into marrying them, they are saved by the trickery of their father. A mix-up with Frederic's birthday forces him to give up Mabel, to complete 63 years more service. A group of policemen ponder the difficulties of capturing the Pirates. Battle ensues, before a shock revelation leads to peace, happiness, and a wedding for good measure!

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The restless souls of award winning sketch comedy troupe, The Durham Revue are back from the dead with some Unfinished Business to attend to...

New year. New troupe. 100% new material.

Join the recently departed sketch comedy group, The Durham Revue, as they perform the show of their lives/deaths.

From the group that brought you Ed Gamble, Nish Kumar, Jeremy Vine, and many more, this is an hour of cutting-edge student comedy not to be missed.

‘Durham...had the crowd screaming for more’ ★★★★★ - Intermission Bristol

‘High energy and excellent performance talent’ ★★★★ - National Student

‘Outrageous, energetic and intensely funny… I could have watched at least another hour’ ★★★★ - EdFringeReview

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A brand-new, student-written musical focusing on the infamous love triangle between Elizabeth I, her cousin Lettice Knollys and Robert Dudley.

As the daughter of Anne Boleyn, Elizabeth knows how much love can go wrong, but when she is seduced by courtier Dudley, History asks her one question: how far must a woman go to win at a man's game? Written by Will Geraint Drake and Lauren Brewer, 'The Single Lady' offers a glimpse into the sacrifice and personal cost to be a female leader in a man's world. Perhaps the “Virgin Queen” really isn’t all she seems in the history books...

This show is Streamed Live from the Assembly Rooms Theatre

A brand-new, student-written musical focusing on the infamous love triangle between Elizabeth I, her cousin Lettice Knollys and Robert Dudley.

As the daughter of Anne Boleyn, Elizabeth knows how much love can go wrong, but when she is seduced by courtier Dudley, History asks her one question: how far must a woman go to win at a man's game? Written by Will Geraint Drake and Lauren Brewer, 'The Single Lady' offers a glimpse into the sacrifice and personal cost to be a female leader in a man's world. Perhaps the “Virgin Queen” really isn’t all she seems in the history books...

Staged in the Assembly Rooms Theatre