RICHARD II

"Not all the water in the rough rude sea
Can wash the balm off from an anointed king."

What makes a King: the crown or the head that wears it?

Daniel Raggett (Macbeth, Edward II) directs Golden Globe and Emmy Award winner Elizabeth Debicki (The Crown, Tenet) as King Richard II.

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CORIOLANUS

When drought and failing harvests bring unrest to the streets, Rome’s citizens direct their anger at Caius Martius and his fellow ruling classes for withholding grain to drive up prices.

A victorious display on the battlefield grants Martius hero status and the title ‘Coriolanus’, but a disdain for playing the political game brings him into conflict with both the elites and the public. As a power struggle erupts, old hierarchies crumble and a race to control critical resources begins.

Elizabeth Freestone directs Damien Molony (Bergerac, Two Weeks in August) as Coriolanus, reimagining Shakespeare's political tragedy through the lens of populism, societal instability and resource scarcity in a turbulent world.

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ROMEO & JULIET

Young love bursts out of an old feud. An instant, intoxicating, miraculous attraction. Though Juliet and Romeo's bond feels indestructible, it proves dangerously fragile. Every defiant decision risks turning this feverish first love into an untimely last.

Joanna Bowman directs Shakespeare's timeless, devastating tragedy in the Royal Shakespeare Theatre.

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FIRST ENCOUNTERS: THE COMEDY OF ERRORS

Identical twins, wrenched apart by shipwreck as infants, end up in the same city. Five years into his search, Antipholus of Syracuse is now tantalisingly close to reuniting with his brother - but he doesn't know it yet.

Francesca Goodridge directs this First Encounters production of Shakespeare's first comedy. Following a run in The Other Place, this hilarious, fast-moving story of mistaken identity, near misses and a brave quest for reconciliation will undertake a national tour.

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MRS DALLOWAY

Co-Artistic Director Tamara Harvey directs Zoe Cooper's artful adaptation of Virginia Woolf's pioneering novel.

Set in a city suspended between the aftermath of war and future unrest, Mrs Dalloway is a deep exploration of interior lives, the agony and ecstasy of queer love and the magnetic power of human connection.

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PIRANESI

Piranesi lives in the House. Day after day, he explores its vast halls and documents the tides that wash through its lower levels. But the more he learns the less he understands.

Adapted for the stage by Sami Ibrahim and directed by Ned Bennett, Piranesi is based on Susanna Clarke’s award-winning novel. Experience an immersive theatrical world that invites audiences to turn detective in a treacherous place of shadow and illusion.

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BORN WITH TEETH

Fresh from an acclaimed West End run, Daniel Evans directs Liz Duffy Adams’ thrilling imagining of the relationship between two literary icons - William Shakespeare and Christopher Marlowe - at odds with the world around them.

In this ‘sizzling and intelligent slice of historical fiction’ (Guardian), the two writers are drawn into a dangerous game of rivalry and suspicion - and forced to collaborate.

Across three secret meetings in the back room of a pub, the table between them becomes their stage and battlefield. Pens sharpen. Loyalties shift. And two extraordinary minds discover what they might create together - if they don’t destroy each other first.

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