Helen B Edmundson

Inspired by the extraordinary life of Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz, The Heresy of Love is a powerful drama about a clash between organized religion and personal faith, full of intrigue and danger, ruthless ambitions and illicit desire. Premiered by the Royal Shakespeare Company in 2012, The Heresy of L...

Set in the eighteenth century, Coram Boy is a tale of two cities and a tale of two boys: Toby, saved from an African slave ship, and Aaron, the illegitimate heir to a great estate. It’s also a tale of fathers and sons: slave-trader, Otis, and his son Meshak; and landowner Sir William Ashbrook and th...

Renowned ensemble Shared Experience and acclaimed playwright Helen Edmundson combine forces on this astonishing play about one of history's most extraordinary women. Mary Shelley explores the title character's remarkable life, from her scandalous teenage elopement to her authorship of Frankenstein—t...

A story of lust, madness and destruction set in the backstreets of Paris. Based on Emile Zola's classic novel.The beautiful but doomed heroine is trapped in a loveless marriage to her sickly cousin, Camille. Every Thursday evening she watches her domineering aunt, Madame Raquin, play dominoes... unt...

Sister Juana writes dazzling plays, but her freedom of expression is threatened when a new archbishop arrives at her seventeenth-century convent. This epic play, first seen at the Royal Shakespeare Company, is a complex portrait of a nation and church in crisis and a unique look at the struggle for ...

Anna is beautiful and admired but empty – until a chance meeting throws her into emotional turmoil and a scandalous affair. Contrasting with this tale of destructive love is the story of Levin, an idealistic man striving to find meaning in life – and a self-portrait of Tolstoy himself.

The brilliany original play by a rising young British playwright.

An exhilarating new version of a classic Spanish drama for the top-ranking Donmar Warehouse.