Anna Keaveney

Needle

Gillies MacKinnon

Sean McKee, Emma Bird

Needle paints a harrowing picture of a Liverpool overrun by drugs, charting a young man's nightmarish descent into intravenous heroin use and AIDS and a police and political leadership incapable of the imagination or courage necessary to respond to the drug problem.

Vera Drake

Mike Leigh

Imelda Staunton, Phil Davis

Abortionist Vera Drake finds her beliefs and practices clash with the mores of 1950s Britain – a conflict that leads to tragedy for her family.

Shirley Valentine

Lewis Gilbert

Pauline Collins, Tom Conti

Wondering what has happened to herself, now feeling stagnant and in a rut, Shirley Valentine finds herself regularly talking to the wall while preparing her husband's chips and egg. When her best friend wins a trip-for-two to Greece Shirley begins to see the world, and herself, in a different light.

King of Fridges

Richard Wilson, Mark Benton

A play about an ambitious young manager of a Dixons-style electrical warehouse who gets saddled with a 65-year-old re-trainee on a frenetic bank holiday.

Owd Bob

Rodney Gibbons

Jemima Rooper, Colm Meaney

Recently orphaned David must move to the Isle of Man to live with his grandfather, Adam, who's a sheep farmer. Both long for the end of the summer, having nothing in common but their love for dogs, notably Adam's precious champion sheepdog Bob. David strikes a friendship with Maggie, the sassy daughter of friendly neighbor Keith Moore, but Adam hates that family on account of an old canine competition-related tragedy. Other neighbors suspect Bob and the Moore's dog of the recent series of nocturnal sheep-kills.

The 51st State

Ronny Yu

Сэмюэл Леброн Джексон, Robert Carlyle

An American master chemist plans to score big on a once in a lifetime drug deal. All does not go as planned and he is soon entangled in a web of deceit.

The Young Americans

Danny Cannon

Harvey Keitel, Iain Glen

Experienced New York Police Detective John Harris is sent to London to help a local task force investigate a series of gangster killings organized by a new player in town, an American.With the help of a young teen wronged by gangsters, Harris navigates London's seedy, drug-fueled underworld in order to take down its new criminal empire.

Sin Bin

George Case

Pete Postlethwaite, George Costigan

A male nurse in a mental hospital witnesses one patient killing another, but struggles with his loyalties and his conscience to come forward.