Private Lives

Old friends of Emmanuelle’s visit her at the haunted villa she has rented for the summer. After holding a séance, the ghosts of the previous owner and his mistresses begin to possess the group, and open them up to the possibilities of love that lies dormant in the group.

Suspense / Crime - After being shipped off to the Kenya for insubordination, Scotland Yard supervisor Albert Tyburn grapples with the resentment of his expatriots. While in Kenya, he investigates the kidnappings and murders of several young people from a local mission.

Enjoy eight world premieres in one night. This benefit event is the latest installment of our renowned annual new play festival. The evening will bring you works by some of the most exciting up-and-coming writers from across the country, penning classically inspired ten-minute plays alongside two commissioned playwrights. This year's festival will include new plays by Jeremy O. Harris and Theresa Rebeck alongside six of today's up-and-coming playwrights selected through an open submission process: Ben Beckley, Avery Deutsch, Leah Maddrie, Jessica Moss, Matthew Park, and Mallory Jane Weiss. This year’s theme? PRIVATE LIVES, inspired by Noël Coward’s classic comedy The plays, directed by Mêlisa Annis, Vivienne Benesch and Em Weinstein, will be performed by Ali Ahn, Frankie J. Alvarez, Kathleen Chalfant, Lilli Cooper, Edmund Donovan, William Jackson Harper, Louisa Jacobson, Peter Francis James, and Charlayne Woodard. The festival is produced by Craig Baldwin and Nathan Winkelstein.

The civilisation of Ancient Egypt was the greatest the world has ever seen, continuing for 3000 years with one religion, one language and one evolving history.

The Private Lives of Pompeii concentrates on the people that lived and worked in Pompeii at the time of its destruction, as depicted in the archaeology of their houses, their tombs and the surviving documents that relate to them. Emilia Fox introduces us to the themes and ideas that lie behind the structure of the Roman society of Pompeii, themes which are then played out by actors illustrating the private lives of four key characters.

A thief and her partner attempt to seduce and rob a rich woman.