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Tara Lynne O’Neill’s debut play chronicles the courage and determination of the first Northern Irish women’s football team, known as the suffragettes of soccer.

2021
A fearless award-winning play about two best friends at the 2017 Notting Hill Carnival, seeking joy and resistance in a society where women’s bodies are frequently under threat.
Set across a span of 16 years, from the coronation to the moon landings, a new production of Shakespeare's play, staged for the screen by the Royal Shakespeare Company.
Ancient myth is charged with the magical crackle of vinyl in rapper and playwright Testament’s timely musical story of a young man’s journey out of isolation.
The true story of a trans man, Adam Kashmiry, and his remarkable struggle across genders and borders. Based on the acclaimed National Theatre of Scotland play, with Adam himself in the lead role.
Fortune is live streaming her truth, weaving together words of survival and solidarity. From her life as a little girl in a bedroom in Kinshasa to a bold young poet in Liverpool, this is her story.
When a lonely estate agent becomes obsessed with the perfect life of a charismatic social media influencer, the lines between the online world and reality become dangerously blurred.
Bafta Award-winning Katherine Parkinson's debut play. Three characters sit for a silent painter and reveal their personal truths in a play about love, loss and the importance of human connection.
Coming-of-age drama. A young woman from a small village has a burning desire to escape its small-minded atmosphere and move to the city to become an actress.
In David Ireland’s unflinching new play, a sharp-tongued Belfast cleaner relives painful and harrowing episodes in a showdown with her past. Filmed at the Lyric Theatre, Belfast.
Written by Colm Toibin, Pale Sister is a powerful retelling of the classic tale of Antigone. Lisa Dwan stars in a tour-de-force performance directed by Sir Trevor Nunn.
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