I’m making a decision. I’m changing things. This is it.

Three old friends. One remarkable day. For Ted, Danny and Charlotte, it’s time to seize control. Make a difference. Change things. This is it.

A day glo trip through the parks and raves and cafes of South London, where life is what you make it. The rapid fire words of Kate Tempest paint a picture of lives less ordinary in an unforgiving world, sound-tracked by an exhilarating score.

A play about life, love and losing your mind.

“I could fly to New York and back every day for seven years and still not leave a carbon footprint as big as if I have a child. Ten thousand tonnes of CO2. That’s the weight of the Eiffel Tower. I’d be giving birth to the Eiffel Tower.”

A couple are deciding their future. Thirty-something, educated and thoughtful, they want to have a child for the right reasons. But in a time of overpopulation, erratic weather and political unrest, what exactly are the right reasons?

A play about the different types of love we feel in a lifetime.

In (2013) LUNGS aired on BBC Radio 3.

“Victim of an overdose or recipient of bullet
Just the harvest of the finger or the wrist
It’s the needle or the trigger, the 8th could push or pull it
As long as folk believe that he exists”

One of Manchester’s greatest songwriters Paul Heaton (The Beautiful South, The Housemartins), premieres an epic new pop song, THE 8TH, in a thrilling live show.

Joined onstage by his band and a host of special guests, Heaton transports you to a destitute neighbourhood where the seven deadly sins unfurl. From the seven an eighth is born – a new and thoroughly modern sin that imprisons all who cross its path.

The 8th is a musical masterpiece entwined with a theatrical narrative by award-winning playwright Ché Walker (The Globe, Royal Court and Young Vic) and directed by Paines Plough’s Joint Artistic Director George Perrin.

THE 8TH was developed, in part, with assistance from the Orchard Project, a program of The Exchange (www.exchangenyc.org).

Laughing. Talking. Hours in cafes drinking coffee. Chatting about boys. Girls. Romance. Sharing a plate of chips. It was one of those friendships…I don’t know how to explain…like…Love.

Cabaret singer Foxie O’Hara vanished without a tweet two weeks ago from Mrs Whistle’s Lodge.

On that very same night Foxie’s friend Maggie Brown, a temporary secretary, announced her engagement to local businessman Dougal Cheese.

Concerned and desperate Maggie seeks the help of Dabrowski P.I. to find her missing friend.

But before Dabrowski can blow the whistle on the mystery of Foxie O’Hara he must delve into the history of the girls’ relationship; the deeper he digs, the darker the case becomes, until the real question he needs to answer isn’t ‘where is Foxie’….but ‘who is Foxie’?

Part of The Roundabout Season

The first performance of The Sound of Heavy Rain took place on 16th November 2011 at the Crucible Studio Theatre, Sheffield.

I am actually incredibly scared. And not how you might think. I am scared, that once this war is over, and I am sent home, that you won’t be here. That you will have left.

When Leonard and Violet embark on their first night together, they know it also might be their last. It’s 1942 and in a small hotel room in Bath, the couple prepare for Leonard’s departure to war, and dream of what the future may bring. As the bombs begin to fall, they know their world won’t ever be the same again.

But the world keeps turning and in the year 2002, the couple must decide what was lost and what was gained.

A new play about the impact of the Second World War on two ordinary lives and a love that spans more than sixty years.

Part of The Roundabout Season

The first performance of One Day When We Were Young took place on 5th October 2011 at the Crucible Studio Theatre, Sheffield.

The Great British Bulldog has been usurped by snarling hybrids. The bowler hat has morphed into the hoodie. The culture of polite society is now a culture of blame and hatred as our land of hope and glory is torn into extremes.

Two actors play a cast of thousands in a fast-paced and hilarious inquisition into broken Britain.

Strap yourselves in for a full throttle rollercoaster ride through the dilapidated attractions of noble old Blighty, exposing the millions of tiny volcanoes bubbling up through our green and pleasant land. With hymns.

Young people, our age. We’re the moment. Henry’s just that bit too old he can’t understand.

1967. Kenneth and Sandra meet, and it’s a whole new world. A fiery relationship is sparked in the haze of the 60s, and charred by today’s brutal realities. From passion to paranoia, LOVE, LOVE, LOVE takes on the baby boomer generation as it retires, and finds it full of trouble.

Paines Plough and the Royal Court Theatre in association with Drum Theatre Plymouth present Olivier Award winner Mike Bartlett’s new play.