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Lights Up

2021
1 Season
10 Episodes
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Returning Series

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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.

#filmed theater

Episodes

Series 1

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E1

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.

E7

Orpheus in the Record Shop

Apr 21, 2021

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.

E8

The Winter's Tale

Apr 25, 2021

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.

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