Some places are so strange they seem impossible. Some are so sacred they changed the world.Across the earth, human beings have built holy places in caves, deserts, mountains, islands, cliffs, forests, wells, bone chapels, and cities of pilgrimage. Some are beautiful. Some are unsettling. Some are so remote or unusual that their existence feels like a miracle of human devotion.The World's Strangest Holy Places explores the ...

What happens when the writer loses the plot?Emma Watson is nineteen and new in town. She's been cut off by her rich aunt and dumped back in the family home. Emma and her sisters must marry, fast. If not, they face poverty, spinsterhood, or worse: an eternity with their boorish brother and his awful wife.Luckily there are plenty of potential suitors to dance with, from flirtatious Tom Musgrave to castle-owning Lord Osborne, who's as awkward as he is rich.So far so fa...

How happily married are the happily married?Home, I'm Darling is a dark comedy about sex, cake and the quest to be the perfect 1950s housewife.Judy has Johnny's slippers waiting for him when he arrives home from work, the kitchen's clean, the rooms are aired...yet this is not the 1950s, but a 21st-century 'arrangement' agreed between the two of them. With clothes, furniture and a (faulty) fridge from the 1950s, Judy and Johnny try to 'live the dream', with specific roles an...

Every culture carries its own hidden rules. Some protect. Some control. Some disturb.Across the world and throughout history, people have followed beliefs that shape daily life in ways that outsiders often find astonishing. From forbidden foods and whispered omens to rituals of protection, purity, and unseen forces, these traditions reveal a deeper structure beneath human behavior.The World's Most Bizarre Beliefs uncovers ...

Amy's found another body in a hotel bedroom.There's a funny smell coming from one of Jim's storage units.And Kate's losing it after spending all day with the police.There's no going back after what they've seen.Breathing Corpses was first performed at the Royal Court Jerwood Theatre Upstairs in February 2005.

“A scalpel-wielding dissection of the fetishisation of wifeliness." - The GuardianEvery couple needs a little fantasy to keep their marriage sparkling. Judy and Johnny are living the 1950s dream, but behind the gingham curtains, being a domestic goddess is not as easy as it looksA dark comedy about sex, cake, and the quest to be the 'perfect' housewife, Laura Wade's incisive study of the idealization of gender norms remain...

"I walked in and she's sat in the coffin. In the middle of the living-room floor and she's - she's watching telly and laughing"Nobody can ignore the fact that Myra is dying but in the meantime life goes on. There are boilers to be fixed, cats to be fed and the perfect funeral to be planned. As a mother researches burial spots and bio-degradable coffins, her family are finally forced to communicate with her, and each other, as they face up to an unpredictable future. Laura Wade's be...

In an oak-panelled room in a rural Oxford gastropub, ten young undergraduates with cut-glass vowels and deep pockets are meeting, intent on restoring their right to rule - and on getting totally "chatueaued". Members of The Riot Club, an elite student dining society, the fraternity starts to fray when they discover they're a guinea-fowl short and the prostitute they've hired is suddenly banished.An apparent spoof on Oxford's notorious Bullingdon Club, whose past members include Bor...

'I don't tingle anymore. I used to. To tingle. Everything I feel, feels like it's in my hands. Rest of me's totally….numb.'In a world of systematic, high-speed technology, some people expect to live life as efficiently as the machines they depend on... and when a machine breaks down, there is usually someone with the skills to fix it. But in an age where things that don't work and can't be mended are thrown away, what do we do with something as human and messy as love?...

This is the first full-length exploration of the work of Laura Wade, providing critical and performance perspectives on one of the UK's most frequently staged female playwrights.Laura Wade is one of the most exciting, challenging and commercially successful playwrights in the UK. Her work has been widely translated and performed across the globe, but despite the prolific appearance of her plays on professional stages, in university studios and school classrooms, sh...

I can't help it if you were careless with your cigarette case. I was extremely careful with your heartConstance has everything. A loving family, a beautiful home, a fulfilling career, and a husband as devoted to her as he is to his mistress. When her perfect set up is threatened, Constance fights back but refuses to play by the rules. Can she withstand society's expectations? And can society withstand the force of a woman determined to do things her own way?

It's 1887 and Nancy Astley sits in the audience at her local music hall: she doesn't know it yet, but the next act on the bill will change her life. Tonight is the night she'll fall in love… with the thrill of the stage and with Kitty Butler, a girl who wears trousers.Giddy with desire and hungry for experience, Nancy follows Kitty to London where unimaginable adventures await.Sarah Waters' debut novel, Tipping the Velvet was highly acclaimed and was chosen by The New York ...