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All's Well That Ends Well
Marianne Elliott's new production of Shakespeare's play All's Well That Ends Well uses the dark overtones of gothic fairy tales to mirror the troubled nature of the play's central relationship between Helena and Bertram. In our documentary you can hear the design team talk about how they put this vision on stage. And we take a trip to Stratford-upon-Avon to hear about Professor Stanley Wells's important new discovery about our greatest playwright.
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The Black Album
Tara Arts is co-produced this new play by Hanif Kureishi, based on his novel about Asian students in London just after Salman Rushdie's The Satanic Verses was published, and while Prince's The Black Album was spinning on record players.
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England People Very Nice
Richard Bean's play England People Very Nice takes a witty and critical look at our attitudes to immigration over the past few centuries. We interview him in Brick Lane, and visit the studio of animator Pete Bishop.
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Phèdre
This documentary looks into important themes and background information which will help you enjoy Nick Hytner's production of Jean Racine and Ted Hughes' Phèdre.
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The Observer
Matt Charman's new play The Observer focuses on an election observer during a West African country's first democratic election. It casts a critical eye on many of our attitudes towards intervention in foreign countries' affairs.
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Time and the Conways
J B Priestley's Time and the Conways is a compelling story of how a family's hopes and aspirations remain unfulfilled after 19 years ... but our play now documentary looks at whether 1919 and 1938 are actually separated by a full 7000 days of time, or just the blink of an eye.
