UNDERSTANDING MEN by Julia Pascal Katherine Nagel. She was the most famous woman war correspondent alive. I had to meet […]
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TARIQ & SARAH
Tariq Iqbal is a 15- year old Rochdale schoolboy. His father has left his mother for a white English woman. […]
Read more...OLD NEWLAND
The title is a reference to Theodor Herzl’s utopian novel Altneuland which imagined a state for Jews in Palestine. Reviews […]
Read more...12-37
At 12.37pm on 22 July 1946, the King David Hotel in Jerusalem was bombed. 91 people were killed, 46 wounded. […]
Read more...Far Above Rubies
Hagar, Sarah and Eve discuss the beginning of the world and the position of women. A twelve year old Iranian […]
Read more...PARADISE NOW
A London worker who is part of the Crossrail digging project in 2017 unearths Joan England, who has been hidden […]
Read more...A Manchester Girlhood
The play, rooted in my family’s history, is based on the lives of three Manchester Jewish women and their Romanian […]
Read more...Charlotte Bronte Goes to Europe
Inspired by Charlotte Bronte’s novel Villette this play explores the novel in a new context. This play is currently held […]
Read more...As Happy As God In France
The title references the joyful Yiddish saying common to Jews in appreciation of their new status as equal citizens in […]
Read more...Year Zero
Year Zero is a bitter-sweet satire on Vichy France using the popular music of the period to lampoon many of […]
Read more...The Shylock Play
The Merchant of Venice An adaptation by Julia Pascal What happens when someone who escaped the Warsaw Ghetto goes to […]
Read more...The Golem
A new play for children aged 5 -13Why do giants, monsters and robots excite all children? This ancient story, set […]
Read more...Blueprint Medea
“If I am a virgin. If the enemy catch me. You know what they will do…” Kurdish freedom fighter Medea […]
Read more...Crossing Jerusalem
You know our problem? Too much history, not enough geography. The play takes place over 24 hours in March 2002. […]
Read more...NINEVEH
Four former soldiers wake up in an unknown place. They don’t know how they got there. Only by revealing their […]
Read more...BROKEN ENGLISH
The action happens on January 15 1947 in a room in a house in London’s East End. It is based […]
Read more...A DEAD WOMAN ON HOLIDAY
The Nazis, wrote Primo Levi, called a Jew in a concentration camp “a dead man on holiday.” A Dead Woman […]
Read more...THE DYBBUK
Dybbuk: the soul of someone who has died too early The Dybbuk is a modern play inspired by Solomon Anski’s great […]
Read more...WOMAN IN THE MOON
Fritz Lang’s great silent movie Frau im Mond premiered in l929 and gave the world its first celluloid space travel […]
Read more...WOMAN ON THE BRIDGE
A London journalist goes to the Brooklyn Bridge to jump off it. 4 women, 2 men or a larger cast. […]
Read more...THERESA
Theresa A semi-staged reading of the play Followed by Q & A Burgh House London NW3 1LT28 January 2024 Sold out7pm […]
Read more...THE WEDDING PARTY
40 minute play for one woman and one man A cop’s fiancé has been blown up by a bomb. She […]
Read more...HONEYPOT
Set in Stockholm, Tel Aviv and Paris in 1982. A Swedish woman volunteers to join Mossad. Two actors. One woman […]
Read more...ST JOAN
A satire set in France time travelling back to the Middle Ages and returning to today. 2 women or many […]
Read more...THE YIDDISH QUEEN LEAR
A drama with music set in New York’s Lower East Side in the 1939 and on the French Swiss border […]
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