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Ever Feel Like you're constantly disappointing people? Meet Rumi.

Rumi is a British Pakistani woman who's referred to as a 'Coconut' (brown on the outside, white on the inside). Born and brought up as a Muslim, Rumi spends more time enjoying fine wine and bacon than being at the mosque. When she meets Simon, a white guy, she hopes that his decision to convert to Islam will be enough to keep everyone happy. However, as Simon begins to explore his faith, Rumi's world spins off its axis in ways she could never have predicted.

'Mir's writing is side-achingly funny...hits both a zeitgeist and the universality of coming to terms with your own identity' FemaleArts

A strange new act has arrived at Trafalgar Fair's freakshow.

Who is Grinpayne and how did he get his hideous smile?

With the help of an old puppeteer, his pet wolf and a blind girl, Grinpayne's tale is told. When word spreads across the capital, everything changes. Desperate to know the terrible secrets of his mysterious past, Grinpayne leaves his true love behind and embarks on a journey into an even crueller world - the aristocracy. 

The Grinning Man is a fairy tale love story streaked with pitch-black humour, lashings of Gothic horror and swashbuckling adventure. It opened at Bristol Old Vic in 2016 to great acclaim and transferred to the West End's Trafalgar Studios in 2017 where it achieved cult status and rave reviews.

"Defies theatrical convention by keeping its hand on its heart and its tongue in its cheek." - The Guardian

"Blackly comic brilliance." - The Telegraph

"The best British score in years" - WhatsOnStage

As Mary Jane navigates both the mundane and the unfathomable realities of caring for Alex, her chronically ill young son, she finds herself building a community of women from many walks of life. Mary Jane is Pulitzer Prize finalist Amy Herzog’s remarkably powerful and compassionate portrait of a contemporary American woman striving for grace.

Ibsen's celebrated play thrust drama firmly into the modern age when it premiered in 1879. Now nearly 150 years later acclaimed playwright Amy Herzog makes the story of Nora Helmer freshly relevant. Herzog's thrilling compact and contemporary adaptation runs a mere 110 minutes.

Keen to boost his flagging career, fading Hollywood action hero Jefferson Steele arrives in England to play King Lear in Stratford - only to find that this is not the birthplace of the Bard, but a sleepy Suffolk village. And instead of Kenneth Branagh and Dame Judi Dench, the cast are a bunch of amateurs trying to save their theatre from developers. Jefferson's monstrous ego, vanity and insecurity are tested to the limit by the enthusiastic am-dram thespians. As acting worlds collide and Jefferson's career implodes, he discovers some truths about himself - along with his inner Lear!

"terrific comedy packed with killer comic dialogue... plenty of twists and turns" ***** Whatsonstage

"Deliciously stuffed with Shakespeare...a laugh-a-minute" **** Mail on Sunday

After the success of Little Women, Louisa M. Alcott responded to demand for a sequel by writing Good Wives which continues to chart the lives of Meg, Jo, Beth and Amy.

- 3 women, 9 men