The London première of Alexandra Wood’s new play, Merit, opens this week marking the new season at London's Finborough Theatre.
In runs in tandem with the world première of Don’t Smoke in Bed by African-American playwright Aurin Squire.
Other world premières include Phil Willmott's new musical Princess Caraboo and Schism by acclaimed playwright with a disability Athena Stevens.
The first UK production in four decades of The Non-Stop Connolly Show by Margaretta D'Arcy and John Arden marks the centenary of Dublin’s Easter Rising.