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Ava Wong Davies’ sweet-turned-sour relationship drama Graceland is compellingly written but leaves too much unsaid to pack a proper punch
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Guardian columnist Jonathan Freedland gives voice to a diverse array of contemporary British Jews and their views on antisemitism
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Playwright Alistair McDowall returns to the Royal Court Theatre with The Glow, a Victorian-set thriller based in an asylum, directed by Vicky Featherstone
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Most Promising Playwright nominee Al Smith takes Royal Court audiences to the Bolivian salt flats with Rare Earth Mettle, a dark satire about a grapple to commodify lithium
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Premiering at the Royal Court, Caryl Churchill’s 20-minute micro-play What If If Only taunts its focal character and audience with the possibilities of unseeable futures
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Inherited family trauma brings laughter, tears and bloodshed: Aleshea Harris’ revenge play Is God Is comes to the Royal Court in the hands of director Ola Ince
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Following a sell-out premiere in 2019, Jasmine Lee-Jones' debut play seven methods of killing kylie jenner returns to the Royal Court Theatre
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Award-winning Welsh writer Ed Thomas ponders the relationship between place and memory in On Bear Ridge, a surreal and eerie tragicomedy starring Rhys Ifans
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Grime star Deborah 'Debris' Stevenson challenges theatrical form in an autobiographical new work Poet in da Corner
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Selina Thompson's one-woman salt. plays at the Royal Court this May. Performed by Rochelle Rose, it's an eviscerating examination of the onerous legacy of the transatlantic slave trade
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The Royal Court’s production of Pah-La is a scorching dissection of Tibetan and Chinese conflict and examines the vicious consequences of non-violent protest.
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Book now for a new play by Mark Ravenhill: The Cane explores the consequences of control and the legacy of violence
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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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Robert Alan Evans returns to the Royal Court mysterious tale about a cabin deep in the woods
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Rory Mullarkey returns to the Royal Court to offers some escapism amid our challenging political climate
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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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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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Jane Horrocks stars in a new play about a world where kids comes with instruction manuals and refund policies
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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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Final London performances announced for Jez Butterworth's absorbing, intricate story of Irish family life. Don't miss your chance to see this masterful drama before it transfers to Broadway
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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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A herd of goats steals the Royal Court stage as playwright Liwaa Yazji presents a Syrian take on fake news
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Vicky Featherstone directs a new play about women's experiences in war zones by Ukrainian writer Natal'ya Vorozhbit
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Land and life: Simon Longman’s survival drama Gundog debuts at the Royal Court
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The true story of three men hiking in the Peak District delves into black British history and identity in a new play at the Royal Court
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Julia Jarcho's darkly comic thriller is re-formed in a series of installations in the Royal Court's temporary peformance space
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Lela & Co director Jude Christian returns to the Royal Court Theatre Upstairs with a new play exploring babies as commodities
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debbie tucker green returns to the Royal Court with a densely poetic and wordily-named new play that pushes the limits of new writing
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Premiere of new play by Lucy Kirkwood: The Children is an enigmatic return for 'Britain's brightest young stage writer'
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A new play by E V Crowe explores life in pre-industrial England at the Royal Court's Jerwood Theatre Upstairs
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Pigs and Dogs, new 10-minute play, is the second Caryl Churchill premiere in the Royal Court's Sixty Years Young season