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When his faith compels him to take a stand with a bereaved parishioner, he finds himself isolated, with his family, his place in the town and his certainties all at risk. 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Director Caroline Steinbeis and translator Rory Mullarkey, who together made the 2025 production of Three Sisters, reunite for this timeless story of ambition and desire, inspired by Shakespeare's Hamlet. On a rural estate, the lives of four people intersect: the middlebrow writer Boris Trigorin, the ingenue Nina, the washed-up actress Irina Arkadina, and her son Konstantin Treplev, a brooding experimental playwright. When Konstantin falls in love with Nina while staging a play on his uncle's estate, but she is drawn to Trigorin, his mother's lover, a thrilling psychological drama follows.", "url": "https://go-gnocchi.app/en/london/events/the-seagull-63524/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://go-gnocchi.app/images/25e9b6bb190dd82d3939273b1d03f7d3ea96b8a8f8892a32a7f27350d3607255-600.webp"}, {"title": "Mother There Art Thou", "start": "2026-10-30T12:00:00Z", "end": "2026-10-30T13:00:00Z", "place": "Etcetera Theatre", "address": "265 Camden High Street, London, England, NW1 7BU, United Kingdom", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "https://events.humanitix.com/mother-there-art-thou", "category": "theatre", "tags": ["stage/theatre/drama"], "description": "Mother There Art Thou is a play staged at the Etcetera Theatre in Camden. It follows oddball siblings Charlie and Murphy, who don't remember a world outside their remote home and are strictly governed by \"The Rules\". When their mother meets an untimely demise, the siblings must figure out which parts of their reality to keep and which to break. Writer Thomas Kirby won the WriteForTheStage Prize for New Writing for this play at the Greater Manchester Fringe Festival in 2022, and this production is fully restaged for its London debut by director Olivia Cole.", "url": "https://go-gnocchi.app/en/london/events/mother-there-art-thou-60511/", "official_url": "https://www.etceteratheatrecamden.com/events/mother-there-art-thou", "image": "https://go-gnocchi.app/images/5e9d41d630e09bd0bc935dab3ad987494f71ec03afba8e0f1327c9ab223759c8-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Death of a Salesman", "start": "2026-10-27T00:00:00Z", "end": "2027-09-30T00:00:00+01:00", "place": "Lyttelton - National Theatre", "address": "South Bank, SE1 9PX London", "price": "GBP 209.50", "price_from": "30.00", "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "https://www.londonboxoffice.co.uk/lyttelton-national-theatre", "category": "theatre", "tags": ["stage/theatre/drama/classic-drama"], "description": "Death of a Salesman is a new staging of Arthur Miller's Pulitzer and Tony Award-winning play, widely considered one of the greatest American works of theatre. 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Stephen Mangan, Ardal O'Hanlon, Sarah Hadland and Janie Dee star in the Olivier-nominated play about two married couples caught in a tangled web of adultery and deception. Michel, a middle-aged businessman, has been having an affair with Alice, the wife of his best friend Paul, and things come to a head when the couples spend a night away in a hotel. Packed with twists, secrets and biting humour, it promises to leave audiences on the edge of their seats.", "url": "https://go-gnocchi.app/en/london/events/the-truth-63390/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://go-gnocchi.app/images/f79b16ea8703f7602155010e53a290e4423fbba74a722f0cb245b97c568a2231-600.webp"}, {"title": "Gem of the Ocean", "start": "2026-10-27T00:00:00Z", "end": "2027-07-17T00:00:00+01:00", "place": "Young Vic", "address": "66 The Cut, SE1 8LZ London", "price": "GBP 23", "price_from": "23.00", "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "https://www.londonboxoffice.co.uk/search/form-for-venue/gem-of-the-ocean-tickets/2027/05/14/2", "category": "theatre", "tags": ["stage/theatre/drama", "history"], "description": "Gem of the Ocean is a play at the Young Vic, the first UK staging in 20 years of August Wilson's work. Directed by Nadia Fall, it is part of a ten-play chronicle of the African-American experience in the twentieth century. 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Voila! Theatre Festival and The Playground Theatre present the show. Built on a single deliberately bad joke, it becomes a dream-riff on families, intergenerational trauma, envy, hate, mothers and sons, and the theatre itself. 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