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Words, music and movement combine in a new play that rages against what it is to be a woman
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Lucy Bailey directs a thrilling bio-play about writer Patricia Highsmith. Switzerland transfers to the West End after impressing in Bath
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Debbie Tucker Green writes and directs this searing portrayal of race relations in the UK and the US
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Jim Broadbent stars in a new dangerous, twisted and funny play by Martin McDonagh, premiering at the Bridge Theatre this autumn
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From women's prison drama to the story of an Asian skin-whitening start up, here are the highlights of the Royal Court 2019 season
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Robert Alan Evans returns to the Royal Court mysterious tale about a cabin deep in the woods
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A bold, brilliantly sharp new play explores youth, ambition through the cut-throat world of competitive dance
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A dark new comedy from up-and-coming playwright Lisa Carroll comes to the Soho Theatre this autumn
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Rory Mullarkey returns to the Royal Court to offers some escapism amid our challenging political climate
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Alan Bennett's new poignant ode to the NHS premiers at the Bridge Theatre
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Up-and-coming playwright Cordelia Lynn returns to the Royal Court with a new play about liberal fear
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Domesticity meets the macabre in this unsettling snapshot of American suburbia that draws on Harold Pinter and Taylor Swift
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Peaky Blinders' Paul Anderson stars in a dual language Trump-era update of classic French comedy Tartuffe
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Post-truth politics, zeitgesty comedy and haunting drama: three premieres come to the Hampstead Theatre 2018
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Barney Norris, hailed as one of our most promising playwrights, returns with a new play about family life and loss, set in the countryside near Winchester
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The drama and psychodrama of making music is explored on stage in a new play by Sunny Afternoon playwright Joe Penhall
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Writer and director Anthony Neilson takes us into a stale, sexless long term relationship in the Royal Court's Jerwood Theatre Upstairs
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Geeks rule in sassy new musical about a teenager who dreams up a comic book blockbuster
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Romola Garai stars in a political, provocative new play by Ella Hickson
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Jane Horrocks stars in a new play about a world where kids comes with instruction manuals and refund policies
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After impressing at the Fringe Ontroerend Goed's play about human extinction comes to Battersea Arts Centre
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The unstoppable playwright behind Ink and Labour of Love hits the jackpot once more with this witty game-show drama
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Ingmar Bergman's film is re-imagined for the stage with brilliant performances from the ensemble cast, but it stumbles in the second act
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Carey Mulligan takes us from ribald laughter to icy devastation in Dennis Kelly's compelling new play
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Jonathan Pryce and Eileen Atkins star in a new family drama by French playwright Florian Zeller
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Alan Ayckbourn's dystopian drama may have been re-worked, but it's still a clunky and laborious four hours
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Loved Three Billboards? Writer Martin McDonagh has two plays coming to London this year – and they'll be just as bleakly funny
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A relationship born in the dregs of a house party forms the basis of this charming anti-rom-com
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Andrea Dunbar's 1982 play is an uncompromising portrait of poverty and abuse
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Cult following: Anoushka Warden debuts a frank and funny account of losing one’s mother to a sect
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There's another chance to see two impressive new plays as Beginning and Mary Stuart transfer to the West End
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A herd of goats steals the Royal Court stage as playwright Liwaa Yazji presents a Syrian take on fake news