Series 1 (2021)
Episodes: 10
Star Cast:
Episodes List
Ep.1 Pale Sister
Air Date: 2021-03-30
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.
Ep.2 Sadie
Air Date: 2021-03-31
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.
Ep.3 Half Breed
Air Date: 2021-04-06
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.
Ep.4 Sitting
Air Date: 2021-04-07
Three characters sit for a silent painter and reveal their personal truths in a play about love, loss and the importance of human connection.
Ep.5 Harm
Air Date: 2021-04-13
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.
Ep.6 Buttercup
Air Date: 2021-04-14
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.
Ep.7 Orpheus in the Record Shop
Air Date: 2021-04-21
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.
Ep.8 The Winter's Tale
Air Date: 2021-04-25
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.
Ep.9 J'Ouvert
Air Date: 2021-04-26
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.
Ep.10 Adam
Air Date: 2021-04-20
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.