Manchester School of Theatre season

A riposte to the conventional image of Thomas More, Brutopia takes as its starting point the alienation of the least favoured of More's daughters and…

Robert David MacDonald’s ambitious adaptation of Marcel Proust’s epic novel Remembrance of Things Past (A la recherche du temps perdu), unveils a world of sexual…

First performed in 1942, Terrance Rattigan wrote Flare Path while serving as an air gunner with the RAF during the Second World War.

Playwright Timberlake Wertenbaker turns a sharp and beady eye on three women and their partners.

In the wake of the 1916 factory explosion, women discover the true cost of the cry for 'More Shells!'

Tom Stoppard's absorbing play takes us back and forth between the centuries and explores the nature of truth and time, the difference between the Classical…

Set in a time-bending, seriocomically imagined world between Heaven and Hell, Stephen Adly Gurgis's 'The Last Days of Judas Iscariot' is a philosophical meditation on…

One of the finest and early examples of the Restoration Theatre’s Comedy of Manners, The Man of Mode offers a sparkling feast of wit and…

An enchanting argument for the power of theatrical imagination over reality, 'The Illusion' weaves obsession and caprice, romance and murder, fact and fiction, into an…

Originally staged by the RSC in 1982, Peter Flannery’s Our Friends in the North is one of the most important plays to have emerged during…

A celebration of the centenary of the suffragette movement.

Luminosity links a physic garden, a fabulous diamond and the colour of skin; exploring race and identity and the moral responsibility of representing the past.

This comedy drama about an all-female theatre company touring Britain during the darkest days of World War Two is based on the true wartime history…

John Webster’s The Duchess of Malfi is a masterpiece of Jacobean horror, featuring political intrigue, conspiracy, a severed hand, a wolf-man and a poisoned Bible.

A classic comedy and one of his most popular and often controversial works, The Taming of the Shrew is based on Shakespeare’s depiction of love…

Mary Pix’s hilarious play is all that is best about the Restoration archetype: a world of roaring playboys, duplicitous widows, savvy maids & characters who…

One of the most popular and lyrical of Shakespeare's comedies, the plot of this entertaining, yet gently melanchonic tale, centres on romance, mistaken identity and…

Marking the Centenary of the year of the Russian Revolution, Manchester School of Theatre present Nikolai Erdman’s The Suicide, considered one of the finest plays…

Set during 1918's 'Spanish Flu', Manchester School of Theatre presents a gothic romance filled with dark comedy and the desperate embrace of life at the edge of death.

This classic restoration comedy is a sharp attack on social and sexual hypocrisy, greed and the corruption of town manners.

A contemporary take on the ancient myth and a passionate exploration of an encounter between the world's richest and the world's poorest countries in the…

Written by Sergei Belbel, one of the most popular Spanish playwrights to have emerged in the 1990’s, Caresses captures carefully interwoven encounters between various complex…

This specially selected collection of short one-act plays feature some of Tennessee William’s finest characters. From scheming lovers and derelict lodgers, to disheartened poets and…

On a sweltering Labor Day morning, the women of a quiet neighborhood on the wrong side of the tracks are preparing for their annual picnic.

Frequently bawdy and shocking, occasionally dark and disturbing, yet always intensely gripping, The Art of Success offers an extraordinary glimpse into the life of one…

Bryony Lavery's adaptation of Kate Atkinson's award-winning novel Behind the Scenes at the Museum is a fascinating and compelling tale of The Family in 19th…

Frank McGuinness's dark Irish tale follows the West family in Donegal during World War II.

One of Dickens’s best-loved and most autobiographical stories, brilliantly and faithfully dramatized.

Nationalist sympathisers murdered Spain’s most celebrated dramatist Federico García Lorca shortly after the outbreak of the Civil War in 1936. His innovative plays are renowned…

Cloudstreet is an epic stage adaptation of Tim Winton's enormously successful and much-loved novel of the same name.

In Blithe Spirit, Charles Condomine, a novelist and socialite, recieves a visit from his first wife, Elvira. Unfortunately, Charles is now married to Ruth and…

A sensation in London and on Broadway, The Blue Room depicts a daisy chain of ten sexual encounters between five women and five men.

Based on Jamila Gavin’s Whitbread Children’s Book of the Year Award-winning novel, Coram Boy is a gripping family saga that exposes an era blighted by…