Damages by Steve Thompson

With more revelations every week about Fleet Street's phone-hacking scandal, this is the perfect time for a play about tabloid hacks with the scent of a story in their nostrils.

The action takes place in real time - a large clock on the newsroom wall is set to 6 p.m. at curtain up, intensifying the pressure of the looming deadline to get the paper out.

And just what is the right the balance between freedom of the press and the right to privacy?

This is a sharply witty play from the writer of BBC's recent Sherlock finale and the Tower Theatre Company's 2010 production of political comedy Whipping it Up.


"Sharp, slick, cynical and howlingly funny; a modern The Front Page with balls. I haven't laughed so much or so loudly in the theatre for a long time" - The Guardian

"One of the most gripping and plausible newspaper dramas I have ever seen" - Charles Spencer, Daily Telegraph

"Hilarious. Thompson's razor-sharp lines shoot from one side of the room to the other. A great night out" - Tribune