Best friends address what the Poppy represents to their respective heritage and navigate their way through this historic subject matter and the British Empire’s devastating, lasting impact in Ireland.Johnjoe and Jim clash over the wearing of a poppy. The best friends address what the symbol represents to their respective heritage and attempt to navigate their way through this historic subject matter in relation to their friendship and the British Empire’s devastating, lasting impact in Ireland and how this affects their relationship.This naturalistic conversation develops into surreal hypotheticals that explore autonomy, societal expectations and childhood memories. Amidst this, their relationship falters as they both realise they are fundamentally different people . Poppies depicts a modern day tragedy of stubbornness, repressed anger and identity in a time where this lack of footing soft launches so many young men into dangerous ideals.

Fiercely funny and intensely romantic, Cyrano lives by his words and his sword. Haunted by doubts about his own his appearance, he watched from the shadows as Roxane falls for another man. Handsome but hopeless with words, Christian turns to the one person who can help.Following a sold-out, critically acclaimed run with the Royal Shakespeare Company, this ‘hilariously funny and ultimately heartbreaking’ (Mail on Sunday) production transfers to the West End for a strictly limited season.Olivier Award-winner Adrian Lester (Riviera, Hustle) is ‘perfect’ (The Times) as protagonist Cyrano, with Susannah Fielding (Wolf Hall) as the ‘instantly charming’ (The Stage) Roxane.Directed by Simon Evans (Staged, The Dazzle) and co-adapted with Debris Stevenson (Poet in Da Corner), Edmond Rostand’s timeless classic is reimagined with exhilarating wit, lyricism and heart

Back by popular demand after her sell-out 2024 tour, where she lifted the lid on marriage, motherhood, and the wild ride of perimenopause. Tova Leigh is back with a brand new one woman show: Fifty Shades of RAGE. This time, she’s talking all things sex. From desire and self-pleasure to vaginal dryness, hormones, feminism, and motherhood, absolutely nothing is off limits. Bold, brutally honest, and laugh-out-loud funny, Fifty Shades of RAGE is modern womanhood, unfiltered, loud, honest, and always well-lubed.

America The BeautifulBy Neil LaButeAn exclusive collection of savage short playsIn this sensational UK premiere from the writer of In The Company Of Men and The Shape Of Things comes an exclusive collection of savage short plays offering a uniquely skewed view of life and relationships in the modern world. From the pair of lovers quietly planning a brutal murder in Hate Crime to the first date that goes disastrously wrong in Great Negro Works Of Art to the persuasive charms of the bisexual home wrecker in The Possible, and culminating in a neighbourly challenge that just might destroy the couple upstairs in Saint Louis, these quietly shattering vignettes prove, without a doubt, that “there is no writer on the planet these days who is writing better than Neil Labute” (The New Yorker).Written over the past decade for the Labute New Theater Festival in the US, these four shorts are here brought together for the first time and for a strictly limited run, produced by Greenwich Theatre for the King's Head. 

Internationally acclaimed playwright and author Billy Roche (Handful Of Stars, Poor Beast In The Rain, Belfry) and renowned Irish Actor Gary Lydon (The Banshees of Inisherin, The Guard, Calvary, Brooklyn, War Horse, The Clinic) continue their 40-year creative alliance to present OF MORNINGTON; a raw, unsentimental drama set in a rundown café where three lost souls collide, revealing broken dreams, quiet devastation, and the myths we cling to when the applause is gone. In its first professional production, OF MORNINGTON is set in a rundown, small-town café run by the emotionally wounded young waitress Shauna. Former world champion snooker player Phil Athens and his magic cue (omit 'stick') now live in the apartment above. Licking his wounds, both physical and emotional, Phil yearns to return to his former glory. Enter Mike, the young ne’er-do-well, snooker player wannabe, who drifts into the café looking for something he can’t find. The three lost souls collide, revealing broken dreams, quiet devastation, and the myths we cling to when the applause is gone. Warnings: Small amount of violenceWRITTEN BY Billy RocheDIRECTED BY Peter McCamley LIGHTING DESIGN BY Cian Redmond SET DESIGN BY Mark Redmond COSTUME DESIGN BY Aileen McCamleySOUND DESIGN BY Terry Byrne STAGE MANAGER Carol StaceyCOMMUNICATIONS Elizabeth Rose BrownePHOTOGRAPHY Sasha BratkovaCAST Gary Lydon as Phil James Doherty O’Brien as Mike Siofa O’Meara as Shauna TICKETS €23 | €21 (student/OAP/unemployed)RUNNING TIME 1 hr 25 mins with 15 min intervalABOUT THE COMPANYAd Personam Cultural Events Ltd is a Wexford-based arts organisation co-founded by theatre director, producers, and educators Peter McCamley and Aileen McCamley. The company creates and produces high-quality theatre, music, and interdisciplinary cultural events that combine professional artistic practice with strong community engagement. Ad Personam’s work includes the Castle-Lake Arts Festival (2021), theatre productions such as A Midsummer Night’s Dream (2021) and By Billy Roche (2022), the short film Sequah by Billy Roche (2023), and the ongoing Christmas by Candlelight series. The company has also produced large-scale public and community events including BarnFest at St Mary’s GAA (2022), Bealtaine Festival Wexford (2023–2024), Murrintown Christmas Festival and Specials (2021–2025), and Filling the Well for Rosslare Strand Culture Night (2024–2025). In 2023, Ad Personam produced The Rosslare Song Project in partnership with Cruinniú na nÓg Wexford, alongside an extensive programme of collaborative work with Music Generation Wexford, including Everyone (2024), La/Oíche at Ceilúradh, Fleadh Cheoil na hÉireann (2024), Music Generation Educators Day – We Are Music Generation (2025), Bí Ann at Fleadh Cheoil na hÉireann (2025), and Back to the Festival (2025), an interactive music experience for young people created as part of Wexford Festival Opera. The company’s mission is to produce artistically ambitious, accessible work that places professional artists at the heart of communities, creating meaningful cultural experiences that are rooted in place while engaging with universal themes.

Five plays: A nation’s fight for freedom.From the producer-director of the Olivier Award-nominated The Great Game – Afghanistan comes a powerful cycle of short plays about courage, truth and survival in the face of tyranny.Ukraine Unbroken charts twelve turbulent years of modern Ukrainian history, from the Maidan protests of 2014 to Russia’s full-scale invasion in 2022 and beyond. Across five gripping plays by some of today’s most acclaimed British and Ukrainian writers, including David Edgar, David Greig and Natalka Vorozhbit, we explore the resilience of a nation determined to remain free.Performed with live Ukrainian music from Mariia Petrovska on the bandura and woven through with headlines and voices from the front line, Ukraine Unbroken is a portrait of resistance and resilience. Join us for an evening of theatre, testimony and tribute to the unbreakable spirit of Ukraine.The PlaysAct 1: Demonstrations & InvasionsAlways – Jonathan MyersonIn Always by Jonathan Myerson (BBC’s Nuremberg: The Trial of the Nazi War Criminals), a married couple is held hostage inside Hotel Ukraina in 2014 as their son protests in Maidan Square below.Five Day War – David EdgarDavid Edgar (The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby; Destiny) takes a darkly comic and sinister look at the ambition and delusion of Russia’s 2022 “Special Military Operation” – an invasion that was not an invasion and a war that was not a war.Act 2: WarThree Mates – Natalka VorozhbitNatalka Vorozhbit (Bad Roads) explores the shame of survival in Three Mates, translated by Sasha Dugdale – a darkly humorous confession from a Ukrainian man in hiding from conscription, reflecting on the different paths through the war he and his friends have taken.Wretched Things – David GreigDavid Greig’s (Dunsinane; The Events) Wretched Things tells a story of Ukrainian front-line troops who have captured a wounded North Korean soldier and must decide whether to risk their own lives to save his.Taken – Cat GoscovitchCat Goscovitch (A Russian Doll) confronts the harrowing reality of the 20,000 Ukrainian children stolen by Russia in Taken, which follows one mother’s search for her daughter through a world of propaganda and re-education, where both childhood and country are erased.****

Two hearts. One fate. A timeless love reborn.The Duke’s Theatre Company presents Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet, a bold reimagining of the iconic tragedy directed by Joseph Pitcher. Pitcher’s acclaimed credits include My Fair Lady at The Mill at Sonning, Bard from the Barn at the Barn Theatre Cirencester, and The Winter’s Tale at Theatre on the Bay in Cape Town.This vibrant production also features original music by award-winning composer Rob Millett, whose previous commissions include Ballet Rambert, the National Theatre, and Shakespeare’s Globe.Blending dynamic staging, evocative sound, and the enduring power of Shakespeare’s verse, this retelling illuminates the passion, peril and youthful intensity at the play’s core, inviting audiences to rediscover the world’s most famous star-crossed lovers.Website

UNFORGETTABLE is the story of Nat “King” Cole, and his marriage to his second wife, Maria.  It is also the story of the developing jazz scene from the 1940s to the 1960s, and an unflinching look at the racism prevalent in America in those decades, and the rise of the civil rights movement.Nat King Cole was a huge recording star - Capitol Records was founded on his success - and today he is fondly remembered by many, but not many people know that he was hounded by the Ku Klux Klan, and that they attempted to kidnap him from a stage mid-performance, with a view to killing him.  But Nat had a conflicted relationship with the civil rights movement itself. The Nat King Cole Trio were the first black Americans to have their own radio show.  Nat himself was the first black American to have his own coast to coast network TV show.  But Nat saw himself primarily as an artist, not as a spokesperson, and this two-hander tells the story of how he tried to juggle being an artist, a husband and a father through the shifting attitudes of the time, and all under the glare of blazing publicity.It is about a man trying to stay true to his jazz roots while others around him tell him what he should be doing

'Life-affirming', 'wildly physical' and 'apt to induce wonder in the viewer': these are all phrases Nick Elleray has used to describe Cirque de Soleil. Since exploding onto the London comedy scene in the first part of the second decade of the first century of the current millennium, Nick has been seen as a comedian's comedian, a niece's uncle and a landlord's tenant. Many attempt to follow the path he has trod. Most of them succeed (it's actually quite a well-trodden path with clear signs and good facilities). But all agree that the real Nick Elleray experience leaves you feeling what can only be described as 'feelings'. In this show Nick will probably talk about biscuits, laziness and testosterone, amongst other things. "An underappreciated purveyor of quality downbeat comedy. Nick Elleray is a classy act" - Steve Bennett, Chortle "Time and money spent on Nick Elleray is time and money well spent. He's great." Edinburgh Festivals Magazine

MISCONDUCT by Dom RileyThree mates off on one last big away day match. Then that’s it.He said: I tell things how they are, right? … So, this is Everything. My side.… the heat of the moment, the desire to smash something, anything, anyone up good and proper …. It’s beautiful, but not in the sort of way that you want to do it yourself, more the way that you want to see what it’s like, right there in real life. It’s difficult to explain.Dom Riley’s cautionary tale - a runaway train ride to a life-changing moment.LADYKILLER by Madeline GouldA chambermaid. A murder.She said: Lust. Gain. Power. Thrill. Be strong and dark on you own time, in secret.Madeline Gould’s play grabs you by the throat and plunges a knife into the darkest recesses of a human psyche.

The Dasslers is a historical drama that explores the fractured relationship between the brothers behind Adidas and Puma in a fast‑paced new drama.

A dance theatre solo by Karla Shacklock.Developed on Complicité’s Mudlarks International Residency.Liberation via lactivism! Niplash dives into the societal pressures, insane mixed messaging and unconditional love surrounding infant feeding. Through humour, honesty, and vulnerability, Karla opens a space where our stories are given a voice, and we are powerfully reminded that they matter. That we matter. And that art can be both balm and battle cry. Expect to see milk, tears and confetti.