Theatre 625(1964–1968)

The Seekers: The Heretics

Three plays on the theme of man and belief by Ken Taylor.

The Seekers: The Idealists

Three plays on the theme of man and belief by Ken Taylor.

The Seekers: The Materialists

Three plays on the theme of man and belief by Ken Taylor.

All the Conspirators: The Ides of March

The events leading up to the assassination of Julius Caesar.

Women in Crisis: Husband and Wife

The first of three plays by Colin Morris.

Women in Crisis: With Love and Tears

The second of three plays by Colin Morris.

Women in Crisis: My Grandmother

The third of a trilogy by Colin Morris. Paintings by children of the Horncastle School, East Grinstead.

Carried by Storm

Parade's End: Some Do Not

A trilogy by Ford Madox Ford.

Parade's End: No More Parades

A trilogy by Ford Madox Ford.

Parade's End: A Man Could Stand Up

A trilogy by Ford Madox Ford.

The Minister

Poor Bitos

The Physicists

Three patients in a lunatic asylum all claim to be famous physicists. One of them – but which? · actually is a famous physicist, and the agents of a foreign power want his knowledge.

Progress to the Park

Three plays by Alun Owen.

No Trams to Lime Street

Three plays by Alun Owen.

A Little Winter Love

Three plays by Alun Owen.

Ironhand

16th-century mercenary knight Götz von Berlichingen loses his right hand in battle and has a prosthetic iron hand commissioned.

Try For White

Unman, Wittering and Zigo

John Ebony begins a new career as a schoolteacher — and begins to suspect certain pupils of murder.

Seek Her Out

Anne Follister witnesses an assassination on the London Underground and becomes the next would-be victim of the perpetrators.

Talking to a Stranger, Part 1: Anytime You're Ready I'll Sparkle

Over the course of a single weekend, the Stevens family's lives will change forever.

Talking to a Stranger, Part 2: No Skill or Special Knowledge is Required

Over the course of a single weekend, the Stevens family's lives will change forever.

Talking to a Stranger, Part 3: Gladly My Cross-Eyed Bear

Over the course of a single weekend, the Stevens family's lives will change forever.

Talking to a Stranger, Part 4: The Innocent Must Suffer

Over the course of a single weekend, the Stevens family's lives will change forever.

Conquest: The Encounter

Conquest: The Leopard and the Dragon

Amerika

After a minor scandal involving a servant girl, young Karl is packed off to America, a land he finds distinctly strange.

The Family Reunion

Dark secrets emerge when a family gathers for a birthday party at their country house.

Anatol

Sword of Honour, Part 1: Men at Arms

Prevented by his strict Roman Catholicism from divorcing his faithless wife, Guy Crouchback prepares for war in 1939.

Sword of Honour, Part 2: Officers and Gentlemen

As he journeys through the Second World War, Crouchback undergoes various grotesque adventures, both comic and tragic.

Sword of Honour, Part 3: Unconditional Surrender

At the end of the war, Crouchback ponders his future.

A Slight Ache

Married couple Edward and Flora explore their dreams and desires, primarily Edward's fears of the unknown, of aging, and of the 'Other' as a threat to his self-identity.

A Night Out

Albert, a shy and repressed young man who lives with his mother, is persuaded to go for 'a night out' with his workmates; it turns nightmarish.

The Basement

An uneasy friendship between an introspective loner and a more gregarious man is renewed when the latter turns up at the former's basement flat one rainy night accompanied by an enigmatic, beautiful, mostly silent, girlfriend.

Hotel Torpe

As a Man Grows Older

Kain

Brothers Kain and Rattler Sutherland live on a Northern Territory station. The unstable Kain clashes with the more laid-back Rattler over several issues - money, treatment of local Blacks, cattle, but most of all, their Aboriginal housemaid, Kaita, whom Kain is convinced Rattler has impregnated.

The Loser

The Winner

The Fantasist

The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists

The Blood Knot

Henry IV

In twentieth-century Italy, a man insists that he is Enrico Quattro, an Italian monarch from centuries before. Obviously, he's a madman - isn't he?

Firebrand

The Plough and the Stars

A husband clashes with his wife over his membership to the Irish citizen army.

Tickle Times

55 Columns

Stan's Day Out

The Memorandum

The Lost Years of Brian Hooper

The Magicians: Dr Dee, Kelly and the Spirits

The Magicians: The Incantation of Casanova

The Magicians: Edmund Gurney and the Brighton Mesmerist

The Single Passion

The Burning Bush

Kittens Are Brave

Lieutenant Tenant

Play with a Tiger

To See How Far It Is: Murphy's Law

Murphy is a humble pen-pusher in a cardboard box factory who tries to brighten his life with home movies, tape-recording, and homemade wine. But success can come from failure...

To See How Far It Is: The Curse of the Donkins

To See How Far It Is: To See How Far It Is

Albinos in Black

The Swallow's Nest

The Lady Is a Liar

To the Frontier

Party Games

A German businessman develops an obsessive passion for a girl he picks up in an East End pub. But she, and her brother, are playing their own game.

The Fall of Kelvin Walker

The Fanatics

An account of the famous 'Calas case', in which Voltaire managed, at great personal risk, to set right an injustice.

Home, Sweet Honeycomb

Anyone who doesn't conform to bourgeois norms in a post-apocalyptic world is ritually executed.

The Pistol Shot

The Life Class

All's Well That Ends Well

A woman is given in marriage to the man she longs for, but, because she's of lower rank, he refuses to accept. It becomes her challenge to win his acceptance.

Wind Versus Polygamy

When Councillor Ogidi and Mr Madu come to Chief Ozuomba's court, both wanting to marry Elina, the Chief sees his chance to oppose the new anti-polygamy law.

The Year of the Sex Olympics

In a future where the world is dominated and run by television, where language has become almost redundant and all 'tensions' - love, war, hate, loyalty - have been removed, overpopulation is a problem, so there are gluttony programmes to put people off food and pornography programmes to put them off sex. There is artsex and sportsex, and now this - the year of the Sex Olympics. Audience attention begins to wane, however, until TV executive Ugo Priest works on a new concept - a reality-based programme in which a couple is stranded on a bleak island, without the aid of any modern technology, and their efforts to survive filmed twenty-four hours a day.

Esther's Altar

In 1916 Dublin is a story of love and hatred, engendered by the Irish Rebellion.

David, Chapter 2

Rosmersholm

The young and liberated Rebekka West wants Pastor Rosmer. However, will his pondering and his wife's suicide ruin their relationship?

Miss Julie

Miss Julie has a torrid, strange relationship with her servant Jean.

Hermit Crabs

Enter Solly Gold

Con artist Solly Gold convinces a Jewish millionaire that he is the Messiah in order to steal his money.

The Siege of Manchester

A German mercenary is hired to defend the small township of Manchester during the English Civil War.

The World of George Orwell: Keep the Aspidistra Flying

Gordon Comstock dreams of being a great poet and giving up his dreary career in advertising. But advertising pays and poetry doesn't.

The World of George Orwell: Coming Up for Air

With war looming, middle-aged George Bowling reminisces about the lost world of his village upbringing.

The World of George Orwell: 1984

In a totalitarian future society, a man whose daily work is rewriting history tries to rebel by falling in love.

Portraits from the North: The Nutter

Portraits from the North: Bruno

Yob and Nabob

Doctor Knock

After meeting the nefarious Doctor Knock, a number of respectable citizens in a French town become convinced that they are very ill.

Focus

Towards the end of WWII, a Brooklyn man is mistaken for a Jew by anti-Semitic neighbours, forcing him to consider the nature of prejudice.

The Wesker Trilogy, Part 1: Chicken Soup with Barley

A Jewish family from in London strive to maintain their 1930s Communist beliefs, through the War and the rise of Stalin, to the Hungarian Revolution of 1956.

The Wesker Trilogy, Part 2: Roots

A uneducated Norfolk girl matures into a confident woman.

The Wesker Trilogy, Part 3: I'm Talking About Jerusalem

A London couple move to an isolated Norfolk cottage and try to live off the land.

Kiss on a Grass Green Pillow

A Man Like That

Simon and Laura

An argumentative theatrical couple are persuaded to appear as harmonious versions of themselves in a television series filmed in their own home.

The Queen and Jackson

A Month in the Country

In this rendering of the Turgenev play, a woman toys with a young admirer's affections while spending a month at a country estate.

The Seagull

Young playwright Konstantin is in love with aspiring actress Nina, who in turn is infatuated with his famous writer lover Trigorin.

Twelfth Hour

The Queen and the Welshman

The story of Queen Katherine, widow of Henry V, and her affair with Welsh hero of Agincourt, Sir Owen Tudor.

Final Demand

Semi-Detached

She Stoops to Conquer

Hardcastle, a man of substance, looks forward to acquainting his daughter with his old pal's son with a view to marriage. But thanks to playboy Lumpkin, he's mistaken by his prospective son-in-law Marlow for an innkeeper, his daughter for the local barmaid. The good news is, while Marlow can barely speak to a woman of quality, he's a charmer with those of a different stamp. And so, as Hardcastle's indignation intensifies, Miss Hardcastle's appreciation for her misguided suitor soars. Misdemeanours multiply, love blossoms, mayhem ensues.

Up and Down

Marianne

The Melody Suit

On the March to the Sea

During the American Civil War, a Southern patriarch finds his house occupied by enemy soldiers.

How to Get Rid of Your Husband