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Measure for Measure

This is a production fascinated by the psychological dissection of individual souls, but without much concern for the real-world consequences of its protagonists’ moral and marital manoeuvres.

11 and 12

One of the most touching moments in the play comes when the two leaders of 11 and 12 meet and talk through the night about their conflicting beliefs.

Cat on a Hot Tin Roof

Cat on a Hot Tin Roof has turned out to be a box-office smash hit in the West End, but what does this reverse-race production bring to Tennessee Williams’ modern classic?

Play on Words

Play on Words is an old fashioned confection of moments both tragic and comic, juggling language and dramatic structure in an elegant production.

Stick Man

A confident, charming, polished and thoroughly reliable seasonal entertainment for the very littlest theatre-goers.

Jiggery Pokery: An Homage to Charles Hawtrey

This unconventional bio-drama is like a macabre inversion of the usual Christmas theatre outing.

Lady Julia

In The Lamplight’s Lady Julia brings August Strindberg’s seminal Miss Julie bang up to date. How does it fare in its new 21st century context?

The Stefan Golaszewski Plays

The Stefan Golaszewski Plays work so well as a double bill; it seems likely they were always meant to be performed together.

Petrushka

Petrushka is an ambitious conglomeration of jokes, dance, music, tragedy and magic tricks.

Hall

Viewed in context, HALL is a necessary step in the evolution of audio-instructed performance to a form capable of telling big, sprawling stories as well as brief, compact ones.

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