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Although his mainstream career has recently included majorwork for the RSC and the National, the five new pieces collected here show just how close playwright and director Neil Bartlett has stayed to...

Includes the plays Britannicus, Phedra and Berenice Jean Racine is the greatest tragedian of the French seventeenth century, using its strict rules and conventions to tell stories of overwhelming...

Ragamuffin was one of the Eighties' most successful and groundbreaking theatrical productions. Set in the Supreme Court of African Justice, the play presents the trial of Ragamuffin, an allegorical...

In his Aberdeen flat, a young man stakes everything on a one-night stand. But does she give a fuck?Rainbow Kiss is a play about life in the Granite City, a world where work is meaningless and...

A retired American steps off the plane at Prestwick, hoping to discover the land of his fathers. A beleaguered politician in Edinburgh dips her feet into a hot bath. An old drunk man in Peterhead has...

After a happy childhood picking herbs, making potions, healing the sick and helping the local villagers, Rapunzel grows into a beautiful young woman - and suddenly finds herself locked in a tower...

Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin, Sammy Davis Jr, Peter Lawford and Joey Bishop. They were the most famous entertainers on the planet and they made the rules. Their world was full of charisma, talent and...

Reykjavik, 1972. All eyes are on Iceland ahead of 'the Match of the Century': Boris Spassky vs. Bobby Fischer. For the two contenders, the stakes have never been higher - the world title,...

'I sometimes wonder how on earth people as pathetic as you and me are allowed to start a family. It's far more dangerous than driving a car, and yet there's not a single test...' Briony and Keith are...

The National Student Drama Festival has been British theatre's best-kept secret for the last fifty years. Published as part of the Festival's golden anniversary, Raw Talent, celebrates the many...

Raymondo and his brother Sparky have been locked in the cellar underneath their house for six years. An accident involving a pigeon enables their escape. But do the brothers have the requisite skills...

Red Demon (Oberon Modern Plays)Author: Hideki NodaPublisher: Oberon BooksPublication Date: September 01, 2003Number of Pages: 80 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10: 1840023570ISBN-13:...

Growing up in 70s Scotland as the adopted mixed raced child of a Communist couple, young Jackie blossoms into an outspoken, talented poet. Then she decides to find her birth parents... Based on the...

The new collection from multi-award-winning playwright Richard Bean. Contains the plays, Great Britain, The Nap, Pub Quiz is Life, Pitcairn and Kiss Me. Foreword by Sir Nicholas Hytner.Author:...

The new collection from Richard Bean, one of Britain's leading playwrights and the fastest-selling playwright in the history of the West End. This volume features an introduction by Mark Lawson and...

Includes the plays Toast, Mr England, Smack Family Robinson, and Honeymoon Suite 'Suddenly with four new plays opening within 12 months, Richard Bean has become the playwright of the moment and now,...

Rites is a powerful and provocative new play exploring the deep-rooted cultural practice of Female Genital Mutilation (FGM). This ritual of enforced cutting has been performed for centuries and...

Includes the plays The Dark River and After October Rodney Ackland is belatedly acknowledged as a master of the British stage, now captivating new audiences. In The Dark River, set in the late...

Includes the plays Smithereens, Strange Orchestra, Before The Party and The Old Ladies With an Introduction by Michael Hastings. No other major British playwright of the last 50 years has undergone...

Kidnapped as a teenage girl, Ma has been locked inside a purpose built room in her captor's garden for seven years. Her five year old son, Jack, has no concept of the world outside and happily exists...

On a hallucinatory road trip from the Badland to Graceland, the spirits of Theodore Roosevelt and Elvis Presley battle over the soul of Ann, a painfully shy meat-processing plant worker. Set against...

Silesia, 1903. Every man falls for Rose Bernd. But her actions lead her into danger. In a deeply traditional community how can she avoid disgrace?Rose Bernd is a compassionate but shocking account of...

Duncan Macmillan's stunning and resonant adaptation of Henrik Ibsen's Rosmersholm. This revival of a masterpiece charts love, politics, past and future, with plenty of twists thrown in for good...

Simon Schama's extraordinary novel in a new stage adaptation by Caryl Philips.As the American War of Independence reaches its climax, a plantation slave and a British Naval Officer embark on an epic...

Fall of the Kingdom, Rise of the Foot Soldier by Somalia Seaton - a racially-motivated attack on a student forces her teacher to confront the uncomfortable truth lurking beneath the community. ...

Charlie has stopped sleeping. His neighbour's cat has been dismembered. And worse, he's being haunted by an urban fox. In a haze of neon-soaked insomnia, lines blur between reality and fantasy. A...

When was the last time you had a lucky streak? Spanish Harlem, NYC, 1999 - A young man fleeing Dublin crash lands on the sofa of his Irish-American cousin, as this older cousin's relationship with...

Includes the plays Master and Margarita (Satan's Ball), Vanity, Gogol and Brothers Karamazov From original translations by Faynia Williams. Crane and Williams' sensational Master and Margarita...

May is an idealist. She's fighting for a better world and has sacrificed more than most. So when the old regime is destroyed, she is rewarded with a job as a prison photographer.But as the enemy pass...

Good Friday 1612. High on a hill in the wild and lawless area of Pendle, a secret meeting is held at Malkin Tower. By the end of the year, most of those present have been sentenced to death at...