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Yerma is Simon Stone's modernised adaptation of Lorca's play (1934). It follows the story of an unnamed protagonist and her partner John. The main character, referred hence as she/her, is desperate to have a baby - she convinces John (who is reluctant at first) to try for children. As the months fly by, illuminated by interludes of traditional...

Complicité are a British theatre devising company - created in 1983. They have a very unique style which can be characterised by 6 key features:

Paperbirds are an entirely-female British theatre company who produce a type of political theatre called verbatim theatre.

Jerry Marian Grotowski (1933-1999) was a polish director and theorist who founded experimental theatre. He was born in Rzeszów, in south-eastern Poland and studied acting and directing at the Ludwik Solski Academy of Dramatic Arts in Kraków.

Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are two very minor characters in Shakespeare's Hamlet. They are Hamlet's childhood friends and in Hamlet, there deaths are incredibly overlooked: the line 'Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead,' appears in the play.

The original metamorphosis was written by Franz Kafka (Czech Jewish writer 1883-1924) in 1912. He was thought to have a schizoid personality and originally wrote Metamorphosis to emphasis his own alienation.

Written and directed by Alexander Zeldin, 'The Other Place' is a play inspired by Sophocles' Antigone. Its central themes are managing grief and the breakdown of relationships after traumatic events whilst also exploring the idea of secrecy and repression.

Punchdrunk are a theatre company that specialise into immersive theatre - which developed from promenade theatre. Promenade theatre originated in the Medieval times because as the traveling shows performed their miracle/mystery plays, the audience followed the wagon and followed the story at the sam time.

Born Leslie Steven berks to a Romanian Jewish family on 3rd August 1937. He was trained as an actor, writer and director at Webber Douglas academy in London, whom he later worked for.

Antigone is the third play in Sophocles' 'The three Theban plays' series. The other two are Oedipus the king and Oedipus at Colonus which tell the story of a man who desperately runs from his disturbing fate but can never fully escape it. Antigone focuses on `Oedipus' niece, called Antigone.The play is first and foremost a tragedy, although it...

Konstantin Stanislavski was a Russian playwright and practitioner who lived from 1863 to 1938 in Russia. He is very famous for his totally-naturalistic style. He lived in a very turbulent time in Russia, the rise of communism saw a totalitarian government come into power.