Lights Up
- 2021
- Returning Series
- 1 season
A virtual theatre festival staged in lockdown. Household names join groundbreaking new talent - pushing the boundaries of what theatre can be when there is no audience in the room.
Latest: Series 1 · 2021
View all seasonsE1. Pale Sister
Mar 30, 2021
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.
E2. Sadie
Mar 31, 2021
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.
E3. Half Breed
Apr 6, 2021
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.
E4. Sitting
Apr 7, 2021
Three characters sit for a silent painter and reveal their personal truths in a play about love, loss and the importance of human connection.
E5. Harm
Apr 13, 2021
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.
E6. Buttercup
Apr 14, 2021
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.
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