Is Shakespeare in this Movie? is an ode to the English teacher – a verbatim play that celebrates the complex work of teaching and the power of imagination to transform lives.

Two startling Canadian plays, both based on real-life events.

It's 1987. Kylie's about to hit number one, and Jess meets Billy in First-year Juniors. They quickly become inseparable: proper soulmates – the kind who finish each other's sentences and overshare about first kisses.

In the kitchen of an old Devon rectory, the daughter who stayed and the son who moved away make conversation with their current and former partners, the milkman, the postman, the care workers. They talk about the weather, the roads, the toaster, the bins. About anything except the simmering tensions between them, as their father lies mortally ill in the next room.

London, 1890. Fresh from the success of his first big case, Sherlock Holmes misuses his time, until an unknown woman and a mysterious jewel arrive at 221B Baker Street.

'I'm not gonna stand up in front of a bunch of strangers and tell stories about you and me.'

Billie's signed them both up for stand-up comedy. Tonight, she and her husband Peter are locking themselves in their living room until they've got it down: a 'tight-five' set that's a guaranteed knock-out.

With the clock ticking and nothing but a baby monitor for an audience, they go delving through their past for material. But as questions about their future are forced to…

Happy Feraren brings first-hand insight and fearless wit to this whip-smart satire. Utopia meets The White Lotus, SAVIOR skewers the ego, excess and ethical gymnastics of corporate humanitarianism.

An exhilarating fever dream, Foal is a revenge thriller set in the era of the Sony Walkman; a lyrical, urgent play for one actor about masculinity, compassion and retribution.

It's late summer, 1983. Out in the street, the world is waiting to greet Margaret Thatcher as she emerges from hospital after routine surgery. Two people. One window. A gun. When the time comes to pull the trigger, what side of history will you be on?

Smart, self-sufficient and secretly just holding it together, Thea has spent the last two years keeping the secret that she's a carer for her mum. But chasing a university athletics scholarship means leaving her mum behind...