Lear’s Shadow

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“It’s Shakespeare, Jim, but not as we know it.”

At the end of the play, Lear dies. But what happens then?

Using only Shakespeare’s words, reordered, repurposed and oft repeated, Colin Hurley’s solo show is a mischievous reflection on the great domestic tragedy.

PLAYING THE SPACE YOU’RE IN – Acting Workshop with Colin Hurley

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Actors can learn to play a space very quickly, if we’re on ‘receive’ rather than ‘transmit’.

A playful, practical workshop with Colin Hurley: Circles of Concentration, proximity, eye-contact, walking the angles.

On our feet, not in our heads.

ART

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One white painting. Three old friends. Nobody’s speaking to each other.

Yasmina Reza’s sharp comedy about friendship, taste, and the things we can’t say out loud.

Back at Mike’s after selling out earlier this year.

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Three weeks before the election, a social media boss suspends the former Prime Minister’s account.

The office is in lockdown, the protesters are outside, and the people with power are on their way.

Who really decides what we see online, and who gets a free pass?

CrossOver: Physical Theatre Workshop with Becky Blomgren

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Explore movement as a storytelling tool with Becky Blomgren. Using Laban Effort Actions (weight, time, space and flow), this 90-minute workshop looks at how the quality of movement shapes character, dramatic tension and the choices you make on stage. All experience levels welcome. Limited to 12 participants.

CrossOver: Redacted

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A political drama about the influence of tech on free speech, censorship and power. This special CrossOver matinée is followed by a Q&A with the cast and director, included in your ticket.

CrossOver: Cyrano de Bergerac (FREE)

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Paris adores Cyrano — but the one person he longs to win, Roxane, has fallen for his handsome, tongue-tied friend Christian. So Cyrano lends Christian his words. Edmond Rostand’s 1897 classic of love, wit and swordplay, from the team behind the sold-out Guards! Guards! (2025). Free, outdoors, in English.

CrossOver: One-Act Plays

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An evening of new short plays. In Nóri Mátrai’s Heart, a retired surgeon and his unlikely assistant wait in an abandoned operating theatre for a patient who’s running late. In Laura Durnford’s The Crush, two shy colleagues flirt through a crowded commute. And in Niharika Iyengar’s Chronos, a fortune teller with a secret gets a visit she’s been dreading. Q&A with the writers after.

CrossOver: Hi, Handsome (Daragh Gillen)

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Amsterdam-based duo Hi, Handsome — Jesse Finn from New Zealand and Daragh Gillen from Belfast — make songs somewhere between indie-pop, folk and alt-country: close harmonies, rough edges, and lyrics about queerness, mental health, desire and shame. Live after the one-act plays.

CrossOver: Shakespeare Workshop with William Sutton

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Learn to perform Shakespeare like the pros with William Sutton. A 90-minute workshop open to any level, and ideal for dipping a toe in.