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I came to Birmingham with the view to being creative, and today I believe we have not only successfully secured the future of the Company, but the whole dance culture in the city of Birmingham. We are geared for great things.' - David Bintley, BRB Director Twenty years ago, Birmingham Royal...

Steven McRae: Dancer in the Fast Lane gives a close up look at the ballet and dance world's newest, flame-haired star. Born and raised in the world of Australia's high octane, drag-racing circuit, Steven effortlessly moves between the sophistication of his interpretations of the greatest ballet...

Desperately hilarious and achingly bleak, this is an intricate and tender question mark around our attempts to encounter each other in a technologized world. Sam wants to tell you about five encounters he had on a site called Craigslist. Sam is anxious about the way he gets to know people....

Three plays from award-winning American Playwright Jen Silverman. Contains the plays The Roommate, The Moors and Collective Rage: A Play in 5 Betties. Collective Rage: A Play in 5 Betties - Five different women named Betty collide at the intersection of anger, sex, and the “thea-tah.” The...

"Without crime I became a criminal. Without payment I became a whore" Munich, 1906. Klara lives with her singing teacher and his wife. But when a backstreet abortionist is arrested, a secret emerges which theatens to destroy the household's respectability. Frank Wedekind was...

Six months into their relationship, Bryony found out that Tim suffered from severe clinical depression. This was a secret Tim had kept for a very long time. Fake It ’Til You Make It is Edinburgh Fringe First-winner Bryony Kimmings’ new work about clinical depression and men, made in collaboration...

‘I felt I should say congratulations on winning the election but I couldn’t find the words...There were suddenly three of us in our relationship.’ In the weeks leading up to the 2003 invasion of Iraq, the pressure on the UK government to commit to joining the American cause was escalating....

‘The UK is like the Holy Grail and they’re all expecting the crusades. We have to give it to them.’ Laurence loves to go out, get wrecked and rave to dub tep. He pays for it with a job at UK Immigration Control. Deciding who does or doesn’t get to stay in the country is hard enough...

We live in a time where old orders are collapsing: from the postcolonial nation states of the Middle East, to the EU and the American election. Through it all, tech savvy and extremist groups rip up political certainties. Amidst this, a generation of young men find themselves burning with resentment,...

Mediterranean roasted vegetables. Finnish Folk and Margaret Drabble. Adolf Hitler and the knitted cover for a toilet roll. An audience split in two experiencing auditory hallucinations. The new work from acclaimed theatre company Ridiculusmus is inspired by a treatment method for psychosis...

Welcome to the world of war veteran Zach. As the last man standing, he has retreated into a tiny dugout under a barrage of hostile fire. His enemies are cunning, using every trick in the book to mess with his mind. Even the landscape is weird … it’s a cardboard box, in Zach’s kitchen. His wife...

Lysistrata is one of the few surviving plays written by Aristophanes. Originally performed in classical Athens in 411 BC, it is a comic account of one woman's extraordinary mission to end The Peloponnesian War. Lysistrata persuades the women of Greece to withhold sexual privileges from their husbands...

‘It’s democracy. Everyone is equally unhappy. It’s the defining feature of the system’ September 2003. Rory Stewart, a thirty year old former British diplomat, is posted to serve as governor in a province of the newly liberated Iraq. His job is to help build a society at peace with...

‘I told the guy sometimes your arm around my neck felt like…a feather boa…and sometimes it felt like a big ol’ snake. Squeezing the life outta me.’ One transatlantic marriage. Three continents. Two wars. Boa is an acerbic, warm and honest account of a husband...