About this season
A virtual theatre festival staged in lockdown. Household names join groundbreaking new talent - pushing the boundaries of what theatre can be when there is no audience in the room.
Episodes (10)
1. Pale Sister
Aired 30 March 2021
Written by Colm Toibin, Pale Sister is a powerful retelling of the classic tale of Antigone. Lisa Dwan stars in a tour-de-force performance directed by Sir Trevor Nunn.
2. Sadie
Aired 31 March 2021
In David Ireland’s unflinching new play, a sharp-tongued Belfast cleaner relives painful and harrowing episodes in a showdown with her past. Filmed at the Lyric Theatre, Belfast.
3. Half Breed
Aired 6 April 2021
Coming-of-age drama. A young woman from a small village has a burning desire to escape its small-minded atmosphere and move to the city to become an actress.
4. Sitting
Aired 7 April 2021
Three characters sit for a silent painter and reveal their personal truths in a play about love, loss and the importance of human connection.
5. Harm
Aired 13 April 2021
When a lonely estate agent becomes obsessed with the perfect life of a charismatic social media influencer, the lines between the online world and reality become dangerously blurred.
6. Buttercup
Aired 14 April 2021
Fortune is live streaming her truth, weaving words of survival and solidarity. From a little girl in a bedroom in Kinshasa to a bold young poet in Liverpool, this is her story.
7. Orpheus in the Record Shop
Aired 21 April 2021
Ancient myth is charged with the magical crackle of vinyl in rapper and playwright Testament’s timely musical story of a young man’s journey out of isolation.
8. The Winter's Tale
Aired 25 April 2021
Set across a span of 16 years, from the coronation to the moon landings, a new production of Shakespeare's play, staged for the screen by the Royal Shakespeare Company.
9. J'Ouvert
Aired 26 April 2021
A fearless award-winning play about two best friends at the 2017 Notting Hill Carnival, seeking joy and resistance in a society where women’s bodies are frequently under threat.
10. Adam
Aired 20 April 2021
The true story of a trans man, Adam Kashmiry, and his remarkable struggle across genders and borders. Based on the acclaimed National Theatre of Scotland play, with Adam himself in the lead role.