Lights Up: Season 1 - 10 Episode s
1x1 - Pale Sister
March 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.
1x2 - Sadie
March 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.
1x3 - Half Breed
April 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.
1x4 - Sitting
April 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.
1x5 - Harm
April 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.
1x6 - Buttercup
April 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.
1x7 - Orpheus in the Record Shop
April 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.
1x8 - The Winter's Tale
April 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.
1x9 - J'Ouvert
April 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.
1x10 - Adam
April 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.