Farinelli and the King
Music, medicine and monarchy: Farinelli and the King offers reflections on celebrity at the dawn of the public sphere.
Hitmen, Harlots and High Net Worth: Dead Dog in a Suitcase
An innovative production that captures the spirit of Gay's original work.
Our Country’s Good at the National Theatre
A great play on the themes of humanity, degradation and the healing power of theatre.
Mr Foote’s Other Leg
A treat for eighteenth-centuryists and the wider public alike.
The Last Judgment of All Kings
Revolutionary French theatre brought into the twenty-first century.
The Beaux’ Stratagem
A production which does justice to the play, keeping it fresh and engaging while remaining true to its Restoration aesthetics.
The Provok’d Wife
An energetic and accessible version of Vanbrugh's classic.
Eighteenth-Century Legacies
Academics help to bring the eighteenth-century past of Newcastle into its present
Austentatious
Fun and laughter in the spirit of the Austen family’s own home theatricals.
Shakespeare Restor’d
New insights emerge from the resurrection of several Restoration and eighteenth-century Shakespeare adaptations.