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Best friends Rita and Sue get a lift home from married Bob after babysitting his kids and the three start a fling each thinks they can control. Told with wicked humour and a great ear for dialogue, Andrea Dunbar’s semi-autobiographical play is a vivid portrait of girls caught between brutal childhood and an unpromising future, both hungry for adult adventure.

Rebecca Lenkiewicz’s Jane Wenham: The Witch of Walkern premiered at Watford Palace Theatre in September 2015, before going on tour as an Out of Joint, Watford Palace Theatre and Arcola Theatre co-production, in association with Eastern Angles. Walkern, Hertfordshire, 1712. After decades free from witch hunts, Walkern’s cunning woman Jane Wenham is blamed for a tragic […]

Out of Joint’s production of All That Fall played at the International Beckett Festival in Enniskillen, Bristol Old Vic and Wilton’s Music Hall before transferring to London’s West End. A funny, chilling and touching journey of words and sounds, this production was performed to blindfolded audiences by actors who moved around them, enhanced by a […]

This is the story of two Welsh names bruised, but not beaten, by media speculation: Gareth Thomas, 100 caps for Wales, now the world’s most prominent gay sportsman; and his hometown, Bridgend, itself a victim of tabloid intrusion following the deaths of several young residents. Working with Gareth himself, and young people in Bridgend, Out […]

“It is as if we find ourselves at the beginning of time…” It’s 1789. Ideas of revolution and democracy are in the air. In the South Pacific, Fletcher Christian overthrows his captain in the famous mutiny on The Bounty. With salty humour and growing horror, Richard Bean charts the colony’s bloody descent from a new […]

“Most of what she told me about herself is a cover story. She is a British Intelligence Officer. How far would she go to get information out of me? The answer is, quite far.” A young woman is found dead. Her sister sets out to find out what happened, and stumbles into a world of […]

A month after stating “we will stop the top-down reorganisation of the NHS that has got in the way of patient care”, the government launched the biggest top-down reorganisation the service had seen in its 65-year history. With characteristic wit, tenderness, and dives into surrealism, Stella Feehily’s play explores one family’s journey through the digestive […]