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Sarah Kane's poetic masterpiece that sparked controversy and debate. Performed intimately, using physicality alongside the dialogue to question clinical depression and provide insight into the fragility of the human mind. Hard-hitting but beautiful.

Influenced by the like of Whose Line is it Anyway? and Fast and Loose, ToBeContinued take audience suggestions, no matter how silly, and transform myriad ideas into fast-paced improvised comedy.

The Bancroft's Players. The Actor's Nightmare presents every actor's greatest fear – George, an actor / accountant, doesn't know his lines, doesn't know what play he's in, and yet is surrounded by accomplished actors who seem to think he does! Shifting between Private Lives, Hamlet, Checkmate, and A Man for All…

A one-act tragicomedy about how absurdly moviemakers and the media represent good and evil, making light of a dark reality. The set of a movie in the making is the stage where arch-villain meets real villain. A serious actor forever typecast as arch-villain dreams of playing a real character. In a movie world where…

Year of the Horse Theater. Beijing Cake tells the story of Americans lost in China, international heartbreak, and an unpalatable slice of cake. Things quickly unravel when Lori, an American diplomat, moves to Beijing despite her inability to speak Chinese and her impending due date. Lori finds a mentor in the spirit of…

ARTE - Birmingham Medics' Performing Arts Society. This insane, farcical comedy presents a lonely woman (Prudence) who replies to a personal ad and meets an eccentric bisexual man (Bruce). After a few short minutes Bruce concludes that he wants Prudence to be the mother of his children. If it sounds like Bruce should…

Film-maker Bobby Gould comes face-to-face with the devil in this fast-talking comic duel of wits from David Mamet, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Glengarry Glen Ross. Bobby’s time on earth is about to be examined. Will Gould confess his sins? Will he prove he is a good man? Or will his ditsy ex-girlfriend turn up, spill…

The Rat's Nest Theatre Company. 433,000 a year. 1,180 a day. 49 an hour. 1 a minute.The Democratic Republic of Congo: The worst place on Earth to be a woman. Two women in Eastern Congo begin a brave battle of what has now become inevitable – suffering the worst weapon of war: rape. As an unlikely bond forms between a…

Trinity College London, Wac Arts. Fleeing war-torn Sierra Leone, three teenagers arrive in 1990s London. As they attempt to fit into alien surroundings, an unexpected gift draws the two worlds together. Will their parents find their brother, forced to fight as a child soldier in the war? Written by Mariama Ives-Moiba…

A man there was, Dra'gon by name, by all his peers a beast became. A family curse and bygone ways condemned him to a hard-fought grave. A tale retold - the New Barn Theatre Company, making its Festival debut, presents a reworking of the classic tale George and the Dragon. This comedic world premiere takes the…

Unicycle Theatre Company. Oil or water, which is worth more? Unicycle Theatre Company brings to life the despairing, deserted, musical world of The Exception and the Rule. Where speed is necessary in the pursuit of fortune, what lengths will a merchant go to to get his hands on the prize? Foregoing rest, provisions and…

'Whether we like it or not, we are bound to one another.' Four lives blasted apart by tragedy in this European premiere - what happens when they reunite after 15 years? Can they ever find a way to move on? And how does tragedy finally make us what we are? Memories are relived, truths revealed, and the women are…

In a violent world where money is omnipotent and faith in anything is a distant memory, a back-street chemist sells his soul to the devil. The medieval Germanic legend of the Faustian pact is retold on a grimy British council estate. Act One presents searing original writing in this gritty urban fairy tale; a story of…

Foreplay: sexual stimulation, usually a prelude to sexual intercourse … usually. Alice is an actress-turned-careworker. Tom, her boyfriend, is still plugging away at acting and currently rehearsing a play with the alluring Natasha. All the while Alice befriends her awkward and somewhat dubious co-worker Jack. Fourplay…

Year of the Horse Theater. The Givers tells the intertwined stories of an abortion provider and her hairdresser, a devout pro-life advocate, both living in the American south. Inspired by interviews with both abortion providers and pro-life activists across the US, The Givers illustrates how perspectives collide in the…

The Bromley Contingent. Glory Days. The Bromley Contingent's new play, written by Gemma Carmen in collaboration with the company, focuses on a group of school leavers in the last days of the summer before they go their separate ways. With some of the group ready to move on and others dreading change, friendships are…

Mark Cairns. Mark Cairns can't really read minds. Think of him as a fake psychic who is honest about being a fake. Three years ago, out of the blue, Mark's wife secretly converted to Islam. As someone who spends his life making people believe things that aren't true, Mark sets out to try and understand how his (now…

RHR PRODUCTIONS. Iago plots gleefully to enmesh his victims. Richard III plays a sinister seduction scene with Lady Anne, who cannot decide whether she is more attracted or repelled by him. Claudius vainly tries to feel sorry for murdering his brother, King Hamlet. Finally, the wicked Edmund from Lear invites the gods…

Watch This Improv Troupe. Watch This Improv; the team behind Nothing to Show (Fringe 2010-2012, 'a spectacular exhibition of quick wit and goofiness bound to get you laughing' ThreeWeeks) are back! Your suggestions decide what manic, downright bizarre, or just-plain-silly story unfolds before your eyes, with all the…

Howard Timms. My mother's forgetful and in her 90s. Sometimes we sing, then she talks: about my drag queen grandfather, my dead sister, who my father is - what!? But often she's funny… Come to the show and I'll introduce you. In this solo musical play Howard conveys the frustration, agony, and occasional elation of…

Jerry and Tom are both professionals: one a master, the other a mere novice. They are hit men. But just because your business is death, doesn't mean it isn't just as much about life, as Tom tries to work out where it all went wrong in this deliciously dark comedy.

Funny You Should Ask. What happens when a New York woman attacks a man in a supermarket? What if both of them are crazy? This unique play charts the stresses of modern life in America and promises to have you laughing in the aisles. Arguably Christopher Durang's funniest and most thoughtful play, it is presented here…

Life Sentence is an original comedy about Theo, a young hypochondriac who is diagnosed with immortality. Bound to a life everlasting, Theo immediately goes into mourning at the thought of the delights now denied to him by his diagnosis, such as the glory of a young death, final words and his very own funeral. Only…

Journalist Craig is due to interview Amy, a working escort. But Amy has much more of an identity beyond her employment. Meanwhile, British-born Farid is travelling around Africa attempting to compile an alternative travel guide. As word spreads about a terrorist plot, Farid flees the destruction he encounters. Back in…

Thrust Stage. The scorpions in Macbeth's mind are made terrifyingly real in this intimate production of Shakespeare's darkest, bloodiest tragedy. Driven by his remorseless wife, the prophecies of three weird sisters and his own vaulting ambition, Macbeth does the unspeakable to fulfil his deepest desires. Unfolding in…

Crooked Hand Productions. Magic Number Six is a one-act stage play that portrays the sometimes turbulent relationship between TV actor Patrick McGoohan and impresario Lew Grade before and during the making of The Prisoner TV series (1967). Written by newcomer Paul Gosling, a graduate of De Montfort University's MA in…

Cambridge's oldest comedy society returns to the Fringe, with a dead bird in a box, and a selection of stand-up comedy that we promise is more amusing than the show title. Ages 14+.

3BUGS Fringe Theatre. The Pink Bedroom … worse than drink or drugs. Williams's rarely performed one-act play of a man and mistress's declining affair received its UK premiere in 2008. In their now saccharine pink bedroom there is only the residue of their former relations, making her question: can a mistress ever be…

3BUGS Fringe Theatre. I am Heathcliff! He's always … in my mind: Not as a pleasure … but as my own being. Set amongst the heath and harebells, Brontë's novel recollects the love story of Heathcliff and Catherine. Presented with a modern twist, 3BUGS version of Wuthering Heights re-situates this classic story in to the…

Angry Bairds Production. It is 2020 and child pornography has become a widespread problem in Britain. When 14-year-old Katie meets Joe online, what starts out as an innocent friendship grows dangerously inappropriate, and their 14 year age gap is ignored as they become more darkly entangled. Both have secrets they are…

Hoghead Theatre Company. Do you think it'll be alright? Pressure gets to everyone and tensions are running high with A level mocks fast approaching. Seven students have more than exams to contend with. As relationships are tested and secrets exposed, this disparate group discover that there's more to their classmates…

Milan Govedarica and Tullaroan Productions. 'Cal says everyone's story's the same. Get born, grow up, get a job, get wed, have kids, work, get sick, get better, get sick, die. I think he's wrong.' Joe is a master storyteller like his father, a man who can make the ghosts of Irish legends seem as real as the rabbits he…

Somebody's Theatre. Cowboy costumes and Christmas tree fairies. Photographs and family films. Last year's computer. Bin bags brimming with god knows what: baby clothes, baubles, the roller skates you broke your collarbone on. Knick-knacks, bric-a-brac and the rest of all that sentimental junk. Faye and her friends are…

A young girl, an older man and a camera: a picture of perversity. Or is it? Max is spending time in his step-daughter Sarah's bedroom. She spends time at his studio. Jane spends time tending to the sick and Tom lives by the Assasin's Creed. What are they all looking for? And what are they looking at? A pulsating new…

Shanghai Normal University. Physical theatre traces the adventures of Ah Q, a man from the peasant class with little education and no definite work and famous for spiritual victories. Ah Q is a bully of the less fortunate but fearful of those who are above him in rank, strength or power. This piece of physical theatre…

Drama - dra-ma. noun: a play for theatre, radio, or television. Such works as a genre or style of literature. An original and exciting first Fringe performance from the University of Westminster's Centre for Performing Arts. Unseen and unheard… until today!

Drama Queens. Deirdre and Roni make the perfect couple. Maybe. Deirdre wishes Roni was Julie Andrews; Roni wishes Marni Nixon had dubbed Pierce Brosnan in Mamma Mia. They don't even have the same taste in music except for the divine Dusty. Both flawed, but comically grasping onto their world of reality by their…