When a power-cut results in murder, frustration turns to fear. In the confinement of a stalled elevator, two co-workers stand over a lifeless body. But who is the killer? Dark and engaging - a murder mystery with a psychological twist.

York’s premier improv troupe perform new and classic improv games in their high-energy Fringe debut.

An emotionally stark portrayal of the last days and memories of a young man on the brink of self-destruction, ‘Song’ is a fragmentary tale of seduction, manipulation, and revenge. No audience has left unaffected.

A small, powerhouse cast and a driving, exquisitely-crafted score bring the next generation into the theatre. Stunning voices, created staging and amazing multimedia effects create a theatrical performance of the highest calibre.

Realistic theatrical violence is a combination of acting and skilful illusion. Whether it is flamboyant swashbuckling swordplay, slapstick, punchup or domestic violence, these workshops reveal the tricks of the trade. You will learn the fundamental principles of safe and affective staged violence. Swords on Sunday 3rd, Tuesdays and Thursdays. Unarmed on other days.
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A respectable priest of the Anglican Church and an aggressive pro-feminist thrown together in a chance encounter visiting an art gallery. Confrontation is thick in the air as these two unlikely protagonists settle down to a game of chess...

A group of entertainers are trapped in the World Trade Center on September 11, 2001. With fire above and rubble below, they struggle to comfort each other in the last few hours they have to live.

‘It offends me fucking immensely.’
Set in real time in a seedy hotel room, Vince awaits a visit from an old school friend, Jon. What should be a happy reunion transpires into an hour of tough questions, some answers and an old flame of both whose appearance and attitude are not what one might expect.

Richard, struggling to become a struggling writer, discovers that he is turning into his own modernist novel. This impossible yet strangely actual state of affairs forces him to confront the point of his own existence. A maudlin chuckle in the face of life, death and our inability to do anything about either.

Non-stop laughter! This frolicking, comic adaptation of Henry Fielding’s classic satire of 17th-century English country life gallops through Tom’s romantic life at a breathtaking pace in a performance by a dynamic young cast.

A chilling and claustrophobic tale which incarcerates us in a disused nursery and draws us into a dangerous game with the room’s menacing wallpaper, intent on infecting our minds. ‘The Yellow Wallpaper’ is Edgar Allen Poe meets Sweeney Todd down a dark alley in Sleepy Hollow (with Vivienne Westwood and Tim Burton for company).

A black comedy set in the utopia years of Blair where everyone believes the honest up front saviour. Look through the eyes of six mental day patients and witness their desire for honey and milk.

Jack grows up in a world overshadowed by the echoes of his grandfather’s death by war-induced Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder, trying to makes sense of a mother who sings abusive lullabies, teachers who eat children and seductive mad scientists. With original and traditional music played live onstage by the performers.

After being dumped by Toffee, Jonny commits suicide by driving into a nuclear power plant. Her tears raise him from the dead, but she is torn. What’s a girl to do when her dead ex-boyfriend asks her to the prom?