“It’s all rather messy if you look at it too closely. People don’t tend to do that, put themselves under a microscope. People don’t generally like what they see.”

Taking inspiration from 4 prolific prostitutes from history this immersive journey will recount their dark, and at times, humorous stories. Meet Theresa Berkley a 19th Century Dominatrix, Marie Duplessis a famous French courtesan, Polly Adler a New York 1920's brothel madam and Valerie Solanas, American prostitute turned Warhol assassin.

What links all these extraordinary women is their distorted relationship to the sex trade and how they survive within this both illustrious and unyielding industry, the industry of Whore's.

'It was a life in the shadows, but I think I was suited for it. I could be hard and secret, I could be lonely, I could be independent.’ Eileen Nearne

All Hidden charts the stories of two courageous women; Eileen Nearne was an SOE during the Second World War and Sophie Walker works as an intelligence officer within MI5 today. This is a play that conjoins the worlds of these female spies.

These are two women, both past and present that survived and strived and fought for their countries in an incredibly passionate and brave way. They are all skilled, all brave, and all talented but resolutely all hidden.

“Monsters Percy. I am hunted by them. They chase me – in my dreams, in my waking hours. Shadows that I catch in the corner of mine eye.”

Mad Women examines the perceived madness of Mary Shelley, whose sensational personal life and loss of her children found release in her novel Frankenstein; Emily Dickinson, the 19th century American whose poems reached far beyond the confines of her reclusive life; the utopian feminist Charlotte Perkins Gilman, plagued by depression, whose story The Yellow Wallpaper highlighted the horrors of confinement for women termed ‘mad’ and Virginia Woolf, the modernist genius whose own demons would eventually consume her.

Katherine is creating a 'quiet space' in her living room. Complete with fountains, Muslim artwork and a statue of Ganesh. Or, at least, that was the plan seventeen weeks ago when Leo, Jakey and Bizzy turned up to make her dream reality. Now she thinks she may be on the edge of a nervous breakdown. Or murder. Or both.

Her city type boyfriend Michael is trying to be one of the lads, Jakey's turning criminal and Leo's starting to cut corners.