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- DirectorNicholas HytnerRobin LoughStarsPortia BooroffChipo ChungDominic CooperThe wife of the Athenian King Theseus conceives a forbidden love for his son (by an earlier wife) Hyppolytus. All ends badly for all.
- DirectorMarianne ElliottStarsBen AllenCassie AtkinsonJolyon CoyHelena, orphaned and impoverished, follows the countess' son, Bertram, to court, hoping to win his heart. Bertram, though, has other ideas.
- DirectorMelly StillStarsDavid AjalaGaye BrownGary CarrA parallel world, 1860. Two teenagers thrown together by a tsunami. One wears next to nothing, the other a long white dress. Neither speaks the others language, but somehow they must learn to survive and forge a new nation.
- DirectorNicholas HytnerRobin LoughStarsRichard GriffithsAlex JenningsAdrian ScarboroughBenjamin Britten, sailing uncomfortably close to the wind with his new opera, Death in Venice, seeks advice from his former collaborator and friend, W H Auden.
- DirectorNicholas HytnerStarsNick SampsonRichard FramePaul ReadyGrace has agreed to marry Sir Harcourt in return for his financial support of her family. At a house party in her father's place, Harcourt's son Charles also falls in love with Grace.
- StarsDavid AnnenFirdous BamjiPaul BhattacharjeeTheatre du Complicite tell the story of Srinivasa Ramanujan, a penniless man from Madras (who was also the greatest natural mathematician of the last century), and the great Cambridge numbers don G.H. Hardy.
- DirectorNicholas HytnerStarsMichael PeavoyMatthew BarkerDavid CalderHamlet suspects his uncle has murdered his father to claim the throne of Denmark and the hand of Hamlet's mother, but the prince cannot decide whether or not he should take vengeance.
- DirectorBill T. JonesNick WickhamStarsLydie AlbertoSherinne Kayra AndersonJonathan AndreA provocative and wholly unique hybrid of dance, theatre and music, exploring the extravagant, decadent and rebellious world of Afrobeat legend Fela Anikulapo-Kuti.
- DirectorMichael GrandageRobin LoughStarsMichael HadleyPaul JessonAlec NewmanAn ageing monarch. A kingdom divided. A child's love rejected. As Lear's world descends into chaos, all that he once believed is brought into question.
- DirectorDanny BoyleTim Van SomerenStarsJonny Lee MillerBenedict CumberbatchAndreea PaduraruChildlike in his innocence but grotesque in form, Frankenstein's bewildered creature is cast out into a hostile universe by his horror-struck maker. Meeting with cruelty wherever he goes, the Creature determines to track down his creator.
- DirectorHoward DaviesRoss MacGibbonStarsClaudie BlakleyMark BonnarPip CarterMadame Ranevskaya is a spoiled, aging aristocratic lady who returns from a trip to Paris to face the loss of her magnificent Cherry Orchard estate after a default on the mortgage.
- DirectorNicholas HytnerRobin LoughStarsSuzanne ToaseTrevor LairdFred RidgewayFrancis Henshall becomes minder to Roscoe, a small time East End hood. Francis spots the chance of an extra meal ticket and takes a second job with one Stanley Stubber. To prevent discovery, Francis must keep his two guvnors apart.
- DirectorBijan SheibaniStarsMike AherneNeal BarryRendah BeshooriThrown together by their work, chefs, waitresses and porters from across Europe - English, Irish, German, Jewish - argue and flirt as they race to keep up.
- DirectorNicholas HytnerRoss MacGibbonStarsAlex JenningsSimon Russell BealeMark AddyMoscow, 1938. A dangerous place to have a sense of humour; even more so a sense of freedom.
- DirectorNicholas HytnerRobin LoughStarsTom AllwintonNorma AtallahRoy BaronIn a remote village in Eastern Europe, around 1900, the young Motl Mendl is entranced by the flickering silent images on his father's cinematograph.
- DirectorDominic CookeTim Van SomerenStarsMarcus AdolphyTom AndersonPaul BentallAegeon of Syracuse has come to Ephesus to seek his son, who went in search of his missing twin and mother months ago. Unfortunately, Ephesus has just declared war on Syracuse, and will instantly put to death any Syracusean found within their borders unless a ransom's paid. Meanwhile, the son, Antipholus, and his servant, Dromio (also an identical twin), keep running into strangers who seem to know them...
- DirectorJamie LloydStarsAmy Booth-SteelStavros DemetrakiTerry DoeHardcastle, a man of substance, looks forward to acquainting his daughter with a potential suitor. But thanks to playboy Lumpkin, he's mistaken by his prospective son-in-law Marlow for an innkeeper. Hilarity ensues.
- 20122h 40m8.6 (380)TV MovieDirectorMarianne ElliottScott GrahamSteven HoggettStarsLuke TreadawayNiamh CusackPaul RitterChristopher has an extraordinary brain - exceptional at maths while ill-equipped to interpret everyday life. When his neighbour's dog is murdered, he ventures on a frightening journey that upturns his world.
- DirectorHoward DaviesRoss MacGibbonStarsJulie WaltersHelen McCroryRory KinnearJudy Haussman, an elderly hippy, deals with the dysfunctionality of her family, including her children, Nick and Libby, and the baggage they have in tow.
- DirectorNicholas HytnerStarsMatt AyleighSimon Russell BealePaul BentallTimon of Athens is a play unique to Shakespeare as it offers a central character without family or partner; the story of a rich and liberal Athenian whose generosity is exploited until he learns the full extent of man's greed.
- DirectorTimothy SheaderTim Van SomerenStarsNicholas BlaneNicholas BurnsNancy CarrollWhen amiable magistrate Posket marries widow Agatha, little does he realise she's lopped five years off her age - and her son's.
- DirectorTimothy SheaderTim Van SomerenStarsNicholas BlaneNicholas BurnsNancy CarrollWhen amiable magistrate Posket marries widow Agatha, little does he realise she's lopped five years off her age - and her son's.
- DirectorNicholas HytnerRobin LoughStarsFranc AshmanLinda BassettEllie BurrowPeople spoil things; there are so many of them and the last thing one wants is them traipsing through one's house. But with the park a jungle and a bath on the billiard table, what is one to do?
- DirectorJeremy HerrinTim Van SomerenStarsPhil DanielsReece DinsdaleVincent FranklinThis House is a play by James Graham, based on true events that occurred in the 1970s British Parliament.
- DirectorStephen DaldryRobin LoughStarsHelen MirrenPaul RitterEdward FoxFor sixty years, Elizabeth II has met each of her twelve Prime Ministers in a weekly audience at Buckingham Palace, a meeting like no other in British public life, it is private.