Toby Wharton

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Bullet doesn’t want to call a hostel home. Eritrean Girl was smuggled here in a lorry. Singing Boy dreams of seeing his name in lights and Garden Boy just wants to feel safe. Homelessness amongst young people in the UK is at a record high, so when the big society doesn’t work – where do you go? An inner-city high-rise hostel, TargetEast, offers a roof. Nadia Fall’s verbatim play features performances from Michaela Coel, Antonia Thomas and Kadiff Kirwan.
Drama
Postcode
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Postcode

Mar 15, 2011
A TV drama short. After one of Clive's thugs steals from him, he sends his man, Dillon, after him. After settling that score, he goes to collect his payups, but someone is having trouble making the payments on time.
Drama
National Theatre Live: Medea
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Medea is a wife and a mother. For the sake of her husband, Jason, she’s left her home and borne two sons in exile. But when he abandons his family for a new life, Medea faces banishment and separation from her children. Cornered, she begs for one day’s grace. It’s time enough. She exacts an appalling revenge and destroys everything she holds dear.
Drama
Bashment
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Bashment

Jun 17, 2011
JJ is an aspiring MC exploding onto London's exciting outlaw urban music scene. He's got the skills, he's got the rhymes, and he's got the drive. But there's a problem — not only is JJ a white boy from the sticks — he's also gay. And gay — in the world of hip-hop and ragga — ain't good. So when JJ resolves to come onstage at the Urban Slam Finals, taking his boyfriend Orlando with him, he knows it's going to get a bit grimy... but when the couple falls foul of the Infamous ghetto-rap crew, the Ilford Illmanics and Orlando is beaten into a state of permanent brain-damage, all of their lives are changed forever in a way no one could have ever foreseen.
Drama
Cla'am
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Cla'am

Mar 11, 2017
A dark, surreal comedy about a local man who becomes convinced that a vast conspiracy is behind the impossibly rapid gentrification in his London area. But is it all in his head, or is the truth even darker than he imagines? Cla'am is the debut short from Nathaniel Martello-White, one of the UK's leading young playwrights.
Horror
Babs
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Babs

May 07, 2017
This is the story of Dame Barbara Windsor, the Cockney kid with a dazzling smile and talent to match. Preparing to perform in the theatre one cold evening in 1993, the cheeky, chirpy blonde Babs recounts the people and events that have shaped her life and career over fifty years from 1943 to 1993. She contemplates her lonely childhood and WWII evacuation, her decision to go from Barbara Ann Deeks to Barbara Windsor - inspired by the Coronation of Queen Elizabeth II, her complicated relationship with her father, her doomed marriage to Ronnie Knight, capturing the attention of Joan Littlewood and becoming the blonde bombshell in the Carry On films. Babs, ever the consummate professional, never lets her fans down whatever her personal anguish and steps on the stage to rapturous applause.
Drama
Held
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Held

Oct 08, 2022
A teenage boy struggles to accept that he is the victim of a brutal and humiliating attack.
Held
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Held

Oct 08, 2022
A teenage boy struggles to accept that he is the victim of a brutal and humiliating attack.
The Aliens
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The Aliens

Apr 12, 2016
Quarante ans après leur arrivée en Mer d’Irlande, des Aliens à apparence humaine sont cantonnés à vivre dans la ville-ghetto de Troy, abandonnée des forces de police et laissée entre les mains des gangs. Certains aliens ont l’autorisation de franchir le Mur pour travailler au sein de la société britannique en tant que citoyens de seconde zone. Lewis, un garde-frontière affecté au point de contrôle qui sépare ce territoire dangereux du côté humain, apprend qu’il est le premier homme à moitié extraterrestre. Cette découverte l’entraîne sur une route dangereuse. En quête d’identité, il a bien du mal à déterminer vers qui va désormais sa loyauté…
Comedy
Marcella
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Marcella

Mar 02, 2021
Malgré une disparition tragique, ses pertes de mémoire et les nombreux défis du quotidien, cette détective londonienne ne recule devant rien pour traquer les meurtriers.
Crime
Call the Midwife
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Call the Midwife

Feb 23, 2025
East End, Londres, 1957. Sage-femme fraîchement diplômée, la jeune Jenny Lee s'apprête à entrer dans la vie active. Mais en lieu et place de l'hôpital où elle croit avoir été embauchée, c'est un couvent qui l'attend : Nonnatus House. Elle va y découvrir l'âpre réalité d'un quartier défavorisé, mais aussi faire la connaissance de femmes qui sont de véritables héroïnes.
Drama