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The Masque of Anarchy
A commemoration of the Peterloo Massacre in August 1819.
Dance Til You Bleed: The World According to Hans Christian Andersen
Toby Jones stars as Hans Christian Andersen in five interlinked fairy tale adaptations
Magnitsky the Musical
The incredible story of an American capitalist, a Russian tax adviser and a crazy heist.
The Likes of Us
Gloria settled in London in the 1950s. A moving portrayal of a family and a neighbourhood.
Only Mountains
Maxine Peake's powerful drama about a young woman fighting on the frontline in Syria.
Othello
Khalid Abdalla and Matthew Needham star in Shakespeare's tragedy.
Henry IV, Part 1
A nation stands divided in Shakespeare's play. Starring Iain Glen and Toby Jones.
Beethoven Can Hear You
By Timothy X Atack. Original, immersive audio drama, starring Peter Capaldi as Beethoven.
Christabel
Poet Kate Clanchy's contemporary re-working of Samuel Taylor Coleridge's poem Christabel
Life is a Radio in the Dark
Toby Jones stars in Will Eno's play about the effect of sound upon memory.
The Sorrows of Young Werther
Joel MacCormack and Daisy Edgar-Jones star in Goethe's story of a passionate young artist.
Rodgers and Hart and Hammerstein
The tumultuous story of Rodgers before Hammerstein, starring Jamie Parker.
Peking Noir
True crime docudrama about the secrets of a Russian refugee who ran the Peking underworld.
French like Faiza
Love, faith and values clash in a woman’s search for identity in cross-cultural London.
Inheritors
Susan Glaspell's play about freedom of speech and the right to protest in 1920s America.
The Duchess of Malfi
A bold production of Webster's 17th-century masterpiece for BBC Radio 3.
The Oresteia
Agamemnon
Part one of Aeschylus's trilogy. Agamemnon returns home from Troy to a vengeful wife.
The Libation Bearers
The second play in Aeschylus's classic trilogy in a new version by playwright Ed Hime.
The Furies
Having avenged his father's death, Orestes finds he is pursued by the Furies.
Shakespeare on 3
Twelfth Night
Shakespeare's comedy of disguise, madness and love, with David Tennant as Malvolio.
Shakespeare's The Tempest
David Warner is Prospero, with Carl Prekopp as Ariel in Shakespeare's play of magic.
Curated by Mark Ravenhill
The Octoroon
Dion Boucicault's classic melodrama about Abolition and the role of theatre in politics.
Decameron Nights
Five Italian Indelicacies Remixed from Boccaccio
Terry Jones presents five of Robin Brooks's stories retold from Boccaccio's The Decameron.
Five More Italian Indelicacies Remixed From Boccaccio
Terry Jones presents five of Robin Brooks's stories adapted from Boccaccio's The Decameron
Doctor Faustus
Marlowe's tragedy of a man who gains control over nature but loses control of himself.
This Little Relic
Karla Marie Sweet's new drama with songs for BBC CSL Festival at Coventry City of Culture.
The Saga of Burnt Njal
Iceland’s most famous family saga, a tale of a bloody revenge feud.
The Tempest
Shakespeare's play explores the relationship between humanity and the environment.
The Miser
Toby Jones stars in Barunka O’Shaughnessy’s version of Molière’s play of obsessive greed.
Wunderkind
The Mozarts, Leopold and Wolfgang, get into a spot of bother with a cardinal on the make.
Strings
Linda Marshall Griffiths's thrilling drama set on a space craft navigating cosmic strings.