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Until the beginning of the 20th Century, when naturalism began to assert its powerful influence on western theatre, acting was a very different business indeed. Rather than attempting to reproduce...

Are some lives worth more than others?The town of Pensacola, Florida, is about to be set alight by the fiercest of battles: a struggle that pits the law of God against the law of the land, and the...

Against the rising Bajan sun, the Gillard family gathers to lay their mother Grace to rest. Eli, devout follower of the Church of God of Providence and father to three, reluctantly welcomes his...

'Bacchai is one of the top dozen plays ever written. Whenever it's performed, it seems extraordinarily timely. It's haunted me all my life.'Peter Hall After huge successes with Aeschylus' The...

This winter, JM Barrie's much-loved tale takes flight. Following the acclaimed Jane Eyre, director Sally Cookson brings her wondrously inventive Peter Pan to the NT after a sell-out run at Bristol...

The country's in turmoil, the spring is sprung, there's about to be a coup, a woman has been found murdered, her unborn child stolen from her womb, things can't get any worse; wait until Peter Pan...

From the streets of Paris to worldwide fame Edith Gassion (known to all as 'Piaf', the sparrow) continues to be remembered and revered for her exceptional voice and extraordinary, troubled life. In...

Illustrated by Una Walker.Eight monologues in which the women in Picasso's life, used and often abused by the great painter, tell their own stories. The first four monologues were originally produced...

The four plays in this volume were written for teenage audiences and deal with issues of gender, AIDS, disability, relationships, ethnic strife, crime, drugs and bullying. In Who's Breaking? a young...

Includes the plays Transformation, Masses Man, Hoppla, We're Alive! Preface by Charles Wood. Ernst Toller (1893-1939) was a formative figure in the development of theatrical modernism, yet his plays...

Award-winning theatre company PLAY champion a new approach to new writing, with an emphasis firmly on collaboration. They bring together some of the industries' brightest and best actors, writers and...

A coming of age story inspired by Dizzee Rascal's seminal album. In a strict Mormon household somewhere in the seam between East London and Essex, a girl is given Dizzee Rascal's ground-breaking...

An ambitious, poetic reworking of the story of Myrrah from Ovid's Metamorphosis, Poor Beck is a rich exploration of love, language and the senses. Poor Beck is Laurens' third play. The Three Birds,...

16 year old Louisa wakes up on lock down surrounded by debris from last night's blow out. Josh has vanished but she's not alone and is beginning to feel the heat. She must decide whether or not to do...

"Okay. I'm gonna beat you up a little now because that's going to make me feel better there, and then we can get back to this nice talk." 01:00 am on a steamy summer night. A grubby police office in...

'I can see this life for exactly what it is. I can now, anyway. We're walkin' a knife edge. One slip, one tiny slip an' we fall. An' there's a fuck of a long way to fall...even for us. An' we're kept...

'It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife.' When Elizabeth Bennet first meets Mr Darcy, she thinks him arrogant and...

Two little known Priestley plays, which, while they are quite different, have important features in common. The 31st of June is a comedy set partly in an advertising agency and partly in a medieval...

Includes the plays They Came to a City, Summer Day's Dream and The Glass Cage With an introduction by Tom Priestley. All three dramas in this second volume of J B Priestley's plays investigate the...

Heroic commander of the Prussian cavalry, the Prince of Homburg dreams of victory, glory and fame. But reckless disobedience during a crucial military operation leads the Prince into his greatest...

Private Peaceful by Michael Morpurgo, Aladdin and the Enchanted Lamp by Philip Pullman, The Owl Who Was Afraid of the Dark by Jill Tomlinson, all adapted by Simon Reade. Three rites-of-passage plays...

Vienna, 1900. A Jewish doctor prevents a Catholic priest from absolving a dying patient. A witchhunt ensues.Arthur Schnitzler's work has come to define Vienna at the turn of the twentieth century...

'When does libertarian become Nitroglycerine? When does protest become Semtex? At what point does the conviction you are right...become Gelgnite?' Charles Jennings QC arrives at a respected national...

Lee, a soldier returning to Hull from two tours of Afghanistan, joins a losing pub quiz team. The team is: Lee, specialist subject - "how to kill a man with your bare hands"; Woody, specialist...

When popular news man Geoffrey Hammond is caught by photographers in a compromising position, he turns to his publicist Larry to find a way of spinning him out of what seems to be an impossible...

Treble Fringe First winning, San Francisco-based The Riot Group won every major award at the Edinburgh Festival 2003 with this soaring and timely premiere dissecting the American military's hunt for...

Punishment without Revenge (Oberon Classics)Author: Lope de VegaPublisher: Oberon BooksPublication Date: April 15, 2014Number of Pages: 96 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10:...

Quaint Honour, a play about relationships between boys at a boarding school, was first staged in 1958 when homosexuality was still illegal. This publication marks it's revival at the Finborough...

What does it mean to be an adult and when do you become one? Alicia is a hot mess. She doesn't know what she's doing with her life. Swiping left, swiping right to find the perfect match. Even though...

Queens of Sheba tells the stories of four Black women who have been turned away from a night club for ?being too Black? (based on the DSTRKT Night spot incident of 2015). The story focuses on the...