emma fielding theater

Story of Gertrude Bell, British archaeologist. Play explores what it means to try and create a nation – and why a country’s treasures matter when people are dying.

cast: David Birrell, Houda Echouafni, Ali Gadema, Rendah Heywood, Zed Josef

In the 1930s, Dr Mary Barton and her husband, Dr Bertold Wiesner, founded one of the first clinics to treat infertility with donor insemination. Now, thanks to DNA testing, we know that majority of the 1,500 women were inseminated with Wiesner’s sperm.

cast: Katy Stephens

Adaptation of play by Oscar Wilde: satire on English upper-class society.

cast: Eve Best, Dominic Rowan, Anne Reid, Eleanor Bron, William Gaunt

Play by Ferdinand von Schirach: the courtroom drama of an air force pilot, Major Lars Koch, who had been ordered to divert an aeroplane with 164 people on board that had been hijacked by terrorists.

cast: Tanya Moodie, Forbes Masson, Ashley Zhangazha

cast: John Nicholson, Javier Marzan, Jonathan Holmes

Three generations of women discuss work, love, and family with honesty and sharp humor.

cast: Emilia Fox, Adam James, Shannon Tarbet

cast: Peter Wight, Stuart McQuarrie, Michelle Terry, Anna Calder-Marshall, Seline Hizli, Ellie Kendrick, Paul Ready

Story of how King George VI conquered his debilitating stammer with the help of maverick speech therapist Lionel Logue.

cast: Jonathan Hyde, Charles Edwards

Play by George Bernard Shaw

cast: Fiona Button, George Layton, Derek Jacobi, Raymond Coulthard, Ronald Pickup

In 1968 Czech student Jan returns home to protect rock'n'roll from the Soviet tanks crushing the Prague Spring.

cast: Dominic West, David Calder, Alice Eve

Play by William Shakespeare: Scottish general Macbeth receives a prophecy from a trio of witches that one day he will become the King of Scotland. Consumed by ambition and spurred to action by his wife, he murders King Duncan and takes the Scottish throne for himself.

cast: Simon Russell Beale, Silas Carson, Paul Higgins, Tom Burke, Sara Powell

cast: David Horovitch, Daniel Evans

Noel Coward's play: divorced couple who, while honeymooning with their new spouses, discover that they are staying in adjacent rooms at the same hotel.

cast: Adam Godley, Alan Rickman, Lindsay Duncan, Alex Belcourt

cast: Michael Sheen, Jason Hughes

Play by George Bernard Shaw: Ellie Dunn, her father, and her fiancé are invited to one of Hesione Hushabye's infamous dinner parties, to be held at the house of her father, the eccentric Captain Shotover.

cast: Richard Griffiths, Patricia Hodge, Penelope Wilton, Malcolm Sinclair, Peter McEnery

Play by William Shakespeare: twins Viola and Sebastian were separated as their ship was wrecked. Viola disguises herself as a page named Cesario and falls in love with Duke Orsino.

cast: Desmond Barrit, Haydn Gwynne, Tony Britton, Clive Wood, Joanna McCallum

Play by William Shakespeare: four plots are connected by the Duke Theseus of Athens and the Amazon queen, Hippolyta, wedding celebration.

cast: Alex Jennings, Stella Gonet, Barry Lynch, Toby Stephens, Kevin Doyle

Play by John Ford: story of Amyclas, King of Laconia, his daughter Calantha, and their court

cast: Iain Glen, Ewan Hooper, William Houston, Robert Bowman, Philip Voss

Play by Moliere: Arnolphe, a mature man, tries to control the upbringing of young Agnes, so she could be perfect wife for him.

cast: Ian McDiarmid, Bernard Gallagher, Linal Haft, Carol Macredy, Damian Lewis, Richard Addison

Play by Tom Stoppard: in 1809, Thomasina Coverly, the daughter of the house, is a precocious teenager with ideas about mathematics, nature and physics well ahead of her time.

cast: Bill Nighy, Cherie Lunghi, Rufus Sewell, Harriet Walter, Felicity Kendal, Samuel West

Play by William Shakespeare

Play by Arthur Wing Pinero: story of a theatre star who attempts to give up the stage for love, but is unable to fit into conventional society.

cast: Helen McCrory, Ben Miles, Adam Kotz

Play by J.B. Priestley: Birling family is visited by a man calling himself Inspector Goole, who questions the family about the suicide of a young working-class woman in her mid-twenties.

Musical by Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein

cast: Patricia Routledge

Play by Alan Ayckbourn

Play by Frederick Lonsdale

Play by Pierre De Marivaux

Play by Keith Waterhouse

Play by Alan Bleasdale

cast: Gary Olsen

Play by Stephen Sondheim and Hugh Wheeler

cast: Alun Armstrong, Adrian Lester

Play by David Hare

Play by David Hare

Play by David Hare

Play by Bertolt Brecht

Play by John Osborne

Play by Alan Bennett

cast: Nigel Hawthorne, Julian Wadham, Adrian Scarborough

Play by Luigi Pirandello

cast: Mark Tandy

Play by Sophie Treadwell: inspired by the real-life case of convicted and executed murderer Ruth Snyder.

cast: Fiona Shaw, Ciaran Hinds, John Woodvine

Play by Sophie Treadwell

Play by Ken Campbell

Play by Ken Campbell

Play by Tony Kushner: examination of AIDS and homosexuality in America in the 1980s

cast: Henry Goodman, Nick Reding, Felicity Montagu, Daniel Craig, Jason Isaacs, David Schofield

Play by Kenneth Grahame and Alan Bennett