Lights Up

Episodes

Season 1, 10 episodes

Episode 1: Pale Sister
- Now playing
- Mar 30, 2021
Written by Colm Toibin, Pale Sister is a powerful retelling of the classic tale of Antigone. Lisa Dwan stars in a tour-de-force performance directed by Sir Trevor Nunn.
Episode 2: Sadie
- Mar 31, 2021
In David Ireland’s unflinching new play, a sharp-tongued Belfast cleaner relives painful and harrowing episodes in a showdown with her past. Filmed at the Lyric Theatre, Belfast.
Episode 3: Half Breed
- Apr 6, 2021
Coming-of-age drama. A young woman from a small village has a burning desire to escape its small-minded atmosphere and move to the city to become an actress.
Episode 4: Sitting
- Apr 7, 2021
Three characters sit for a silent painter and reveal their personal truths in a play about love, loss and the importance of human connection.
Episode 5: Harm
- Apr 13, 2021
When a lonely estate agent becomes obsessed with the perfect life of a charismatic social media influencer, the lines between the online world and reality become dangerously blurred.
Episode 6: Buttercup
- Apr 14, 2021
Fortune is live streaming her truth, weaving words of survival and solidarity. From a little girl in a bedroom in Kinshasa to a bold young poet in Liverpool, this is her story.
Episode 7: Orpheus in the Record Shop
- Apr 21, 2021
Ancient myth is charged with the magical crackle of vinyl in rapper and playwright Testament’s timely musical story of a young man’s journey out of isolation.
Episode 8: The Winter's Tale
- Apr 25, 2021
Set across a span of 16 years, from the coronation to the moon landings, a new production of Shakespeare's play, staged for the screen by the Royal Shakespeare Company.
Episode 9: J'Ouvert
- Apr 26, 2021
A fearless award-winning play about two best friends at the 2017 Notting Hill Carnival, seeking joy and resistance in a society where women’s bodies are frequently under threat.
Episode 10: Adam
- Apr 20, 2021
The true story of a trans man, Adam Kashmiry, and his remarkable struggle across genders and borders. Based on the acclaimed National Theatre of Scotland play, with Adam himself in the lead role.