Joe leaves working-class, industrial Dufton behind him and takes a job as senior audit clerk at the town hall in affluent Warley. He takes lodgings at the poshest part of the town and starts to make his mark on local society.

The mayor of a New England town resolves to turn it into the next tourist hot spot, despite local warnings that it's cursed.

Gird your loins for the tragic tale of Lady Jane Grey, the young Tudor noblewoman who was Queen of England for nine days and then beheaded, back in good ol’ 1553. Actually... f*ck that. We’re retelling history the way it should have happened: the damsel in distress saves herself. This is an epic tale of true love and high adventure set in an alt-universe of action, history, fantasy, comedy, romance, and rompy-pompy. Buckle up.

2021 true crime black comedy-drama

British television sitcom

入围2020年柏林戏剧节十大关注剧目之一，时长约120分钟。
“My mother always said to Live Big.
Live as much as I could.”
Three generations of women.
For each, the chaos of what has come before brings with it a painful legacy.
“I have Stayed. I have Stayed – I have Stayed for as long as I possibly can.”
Writer Alice Birch (Revolt. She said. Revolt again, We Want You To Watch), continues her collaboration with director Katie Mitchell (2071, Ten Billion, Cleansed) following Ophelias Zimmer last year.
Anatomy of a Suicide is part of the Royal Court’s Jerwood New Playwrights programme, supported by Jerwood Charitable Foundation.
The Big Idea: writer Alice Birch and director Katie Mitchell will be in conversation post-show on Tuesday 13 June. Free with a ticket to that evening’s performance.
Dialogue Club
Thu 29 June, 8pm (free but ticketed)
Dialogue Club works like a book group: see the show in your own time, then come and discuss what you thought with other audience members over drinks. Hosted by theatre-writer Maddy Costa and producer Jake Orr (founder and artistic director of A Younger Theatre).
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‘Birch has crafted a rich, haunting, technically dazzling script’
Andrzej Lukowski | Time Out
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‘Most productions require one viewing. Katie Mitchell’s staging of Alice Birch’s spellbinding and serious new drama is worth three.’
Maxie Szalwinska | The Sunday Times
★ ★ ★ ★
‘Hattie Morahan brilliantly vanishes... Adelle Leonce gives a beautifully judged performance... Kate O’Flynn is remarkable.’
Susannah Clapp | The Observer Read full review
★ ★ ★ ★
'This is a precise, cleverly staged and powerful drama supported by superb acting’
Ann Treneman | The Times
★ ★ ★ ★
'A sophisticated tapestry of generations and emotions'
Fiona Mountford | Evening Standard

In 1860, Inspector Jack Whicher of Scotland Yard is sent to rural Wiltshire to investigate the murder of the three-year-old boy Saville Kent, who was snatched from his bed at night and murdered.