Clarence Darrow's Last Trial by Shirley Lauro, directed by Andrew Stockdale

The story takes place in 1932, the last time Clarence Darrow pleads in a criminal court of law. Darrow with his wife, Ruby, travels to Honolulu to defend a Pearl Harbour Naval Lieutenant accused of shooting a Hawaiian who allegedly led a gang rape on the Lieutenant's wife.

The Beauty Queen of Leenane by Martin McDonagh, directed by Nola Dutton

The story is set in the Irish village of Leenane, Connemara in the early 1990's and centres on the life of Maureen Folan, a 40-year-old spinster who takes care of her selfish and manipulative 70 year old mother Mag. Maureen's sisters have escaped into marriage and family life, but Maureen, with a history of mental illness, is trapped in a seriously dysfunctional relationship with her mother.

The Folan cottage is visited by Pato Dooley and his younger brother Ray. Pato is a middle-aged construction worker fed up with having to live and work in England, disappointed by the limitations and loneliness of his life. The day-to-day sameness is tedious also for Ray, a non-threatening "bad boy".

The glimmer of a last-chance romance between Maureen and Pato sparks up but the plot, full of deceptions, secrets and betrayals interspersed with turnabouts, keeps surprising the audience. Hopes are raised only to be dashed.

Abducting Diana by Dario Fo, adapted by Stephen Stenning, directed by Barry Keane

Millionaire media boss, Diana Forbes-McKaye, is kidnapped - but this ruthless magnate proves more resourceful than her clumsy abductors. Are things what they seem? Who is in charge? Who masterminded the abduction? Who has the television rights to this premier media event? In this cocktail of chaotic double-dealing Fo adds a gun-toting priest, a deranged altar boy, a kidnapper hiding in the fridge, pyromania and an explosive climax.