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In 2025, with the world’s politics in a mess, American playwright, Richard Nelson, wrote and directed a play for Theater on Podil in Kyiv, Ukraine. Throughout the ten weeks of rehearsals for When the Hurlyburly’s Done, he kept a diary. Day after day he was inspired by his six young actresses. They laughed and cried as the play, their characters, their lives and the war entwined. An inspiring and very human story about making art when everything else feels out of one’s control.
STIRRING UP SHEFFIELD
(hardback)
Colin George
& Tedd George
WINNER THEATRE BOOK PRIZE 2022
£30
THE WORLD IS GOING TO LOVE THIS
(paperback)
Gordon Raphael
£17
MOVING MUSIC
Memoirs of Rikki Stein
(paperback)
£10
CRISIS: THE THEATRE RESPONDS (paperback)
Carol Rocamora
SIX YOUNG WOMEN PUTTING ON A PLAY
(paperback)
Richard Nelson
£9.99
£10.99
ADVENTURER: BERNARD MILES AND THE MERMAID THEATRE
(hardback)
Alan Strachan
THE PRODUCTION OF KING OEDIPUS
(paperback)
Tyrone Guthrie & Tanya Moiseiwitsch
THE CLUB ON THE EDGE OF TOWN
(paperback)
Alan Lane
BREAKING INTO SONG
(paperback)
Adam Lenson
BRICKWORK (paperback)
David Bratchpiece & Kirstin Innes
£25
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£12.99
£7.79
£12.99
A DIARY OF WAR AND THEATRE
(paperback)
Richard Nelson
PEGGY: THE LIFE OF MARGARET RAMSAY, PLAY AGENT (paperback)
Colin Chambers
£12.99
£10.99 / $14.49
WINNER THEATRE BOOK PRIZE 1997
£16.99
£7.99
Upcoming Events
On Stage and Screen
SQUIDGE by Tiggy Bayley
A one-to-one support assistant in an inner-city primary school is assigned to a sharp, chaotic Irish Traveller boy with a talent for disruption and a grief he can’t name. Brutally funny and quietly devastating, Tiggy Bayley’s play holds a mirror to poverty, education and loss—and asks what it means to choose love anyway.
EAT THE RICH (but maybe not me mates x) by Jade Franks
A sharp, funny look at class, identity and friendship. Jade Franks’s solo show asks “What happens when a Liverpool girl crashes the Cambridge bubble?”
MEDEA by Kathy McKean
Kathy McKean’s new adaptation of Euripides’s Medea. An outsider watches her life rewritten as her husband trades love for power. With no chorus to hide behind, the audience becomes witness and jury, drawn into Medea’s fierce intelligence, corrosive grief and incandescent rage.
6-7 March at 7.30pm - Traverse Theatre (Edinburgh)
10 March at 7.30pm - The Gaiety (Ayr)
12 March at 7.30pm - Melrose Corn Exchange (Melrose)
14 March at 7.30pm - Dunoon Borough Halls (Dunoon)
17 March at 6.30pm - Byre Theatre (St Andrews)
19 March at 7.30pm - Beacon Arts Centre (Greenock)
21 March at 7.30pm - Mull Theatre (Isle of Mull)
25 – 28 March - Tron Theatre (Glasgow)
8 April, 7pm - The Lemon Tree (Aberdeen)
April, 7.30pm - Lyth Arts Centre (Wick)
11th April, 8pm - Eden Court Theatre (Inverness)
NOWHERE by Khalid Abdalla
In this intricate and playful solo show, inspired by his involvement in the Egyptian revolution of 2011, and his experience of the counter-revolution that followed, actor and activist Khalid Abdalla (United 93, The Kite Runner, The Crown) takes us on a surprising journey into his own history, set against a cartography of seismic world events.
4 - 7 March2026
Aotearoa New Zealand Festival of the Arts
Tāwhiri Warehouse
Wellington
New Zealand
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OF LOVE AND OTHER MALADIES
Douglas Graham Wilson
HOPE IS A SILHOUETTE
Lana McDonagh
MINERVA AND
THE WHIR
Jo D'arc
UNDER THE SUN OUR HEARTS ARE BEATING
Seki Lynch
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JUAN BY JUAN
Juan Ramirez, Jr
i am ill with hope
gommie
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