Sarah Lam

Hamlet

Kenneth Branagh

Kenneth Branagh, Derek Jacobi

Hamlet, Prince of Denmark, returns home to find his father murdered and his mother now marrying the murderer... his uncle. Meanwhile, war is brewing.

Top Girls

Max Stafford-Clark

Deborah Findlay, Beth Goddard

Marlene celebrates her new position as MD of Top Girls Appointment Agency by giving a dinner party for five oddly assorted women from centuries past.

Liebe im Schatten des Drachen

Otto Alexander Jahrreiss

Jürgen Prochnow, Burt Kwouk

The Wildcats of St. Trinian's

Frank Launder

Sheila Hancock, Michael Hordern

The girls of St. Trinian's decide they are being asked to do too much work so they go on strike.

Shanghai Surprise

Jim Goddard

Madonna, Sean Penn

Glendon Wasey is a fortune hunter looking for a fast track out of China. Gloria Tatlock is a missionary nurse seeking the curing powers of opium for her patients. Fate sets them on a hectic, exotic, and even romantic quest for stolen drugs. But they are up against every thug and smuggler in Shangai.

Richard II

Adjoa Andoh

Adjoa Andoh, Nicholle Cherrie

Beset by problems at home and abroad, a capricious king is forced to relinquish his ‘hollow crown’. As his supporters abandon him and his power trickles away, Richard reflects with startling eloquence on the disintegration of his status and identity. Adjoa Andoh and Lynette Linton direct the first ever company of women of colour in a Shakespeare play on a major UK stage, in a post-Empire reflection on what it means to be British in the light of the Windrush anniversary and as we leave the European Union.

Poppy

David G. Hillier

Ken Wynne, Nichola McAuliffe

Poppy is a celebration of Victorian values and exposes the hypocrisy, racism, drug dealing, money worship and sexual repression of the time through its favourite entertainment form, pantomime. Dick Whittington, his man Jack, Sally the Principal Girl, the Dame, two pantomime horses, a flying ballet, a transformation scene and even the traditional song-sheet are all brought on to tell the serious and finally devasting story of the single most profitable crop of the British East India Company.