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The first collection of plays from the multi-award-winning playwright and novelist. Introduction by Alice Hamilton. Visitors: On a farmhouse at the edge of Salisbury Plain, a family is falling apart...

The first collection of plays from Bathsheba Doran. Contains the plays Kin, Parents Evening and The Mystery of Love and Sex. Kin: Anna, an Ivy League poetry scholar, and Sean, an Irish personal...

Che Walker and Arthur Darvill's neon-soaked, soul-fuelled new musical arrives to smarten up London... Yvonne and Simone are cruising for action. Raymond stole Gil's girl and now Gil wants to slice...

Based on a short story by Somerset Maugham, Before The Party tells the story of a family attempting to return to normal in the wake of the Second World War. With daughter Laura returned from Africa,...

"You think it is pleasant watching a fat virgin become infertile? I want to be seen and noticed and invited by people. I want anything... that is not this." Past her prime, Min joyfully spends her...

The International Contest of Contemporary Drama (ICCD ) was set up by Belarus Free Theatre to encourage new writing and topromote Belarusian cultural identity on an international stage with the...

'The effect of the entire creation is perhaps best measured by occasional involuntary gasps coming from the audience...' The Stage BELIEVE - Traitor, adulteress, widow and martyr: a contemporary...

Includes the plays The Optimist, The Swing of Things and The Company ManIn this third volume of his collected plays Torben Betts portrays a world of floundering, sub-alpha males and suicidally...

Includes the plays Incarcerator, Five Visions of the Faithful, Silence and Violence, The Last Days of Desire, The Biggleswades. With an Introduction by David Pownall, and an essay by Peter Craze A...

BigmoutH He who picks his words well can turn the weakest argument into the strongest. Valentijn Dhaenens pays tribute to 2,500 years of oration. Ingeniously weaving together fragments of seminal...

Howard Barker's theatre is characterized by its tragic scale and its distinctive way of exposing the unconscious resistances that underlie apparent social unanimity, both in the sexual and political...

Blonde Poison is based on the true story of a Jewish woman during World War II who betrayed up to 3,000 fellow Jews. Gail Louw's powerful play examines the motivation of evil. Stella Goldschlag was...

I?m not going to tell you her hair colour. Her skin colour. Her name. All you need to know, right now, is that she is a person.? An explosive new piece of guerilla-gig-theatre from Julia Taudevin...

A dark family drama from award-winning American playwright and screenwriter Mary Laws. Every family has a dark underbelly, especially the perfect ones. On a regular Sunday morning, Walt sits in his...

A series of vicious civil wars has ended. A small city state half way across the world rebuilds itself in the ashes. Blush of Dogs is a play about conflicting freedoms and the desire to break...

"We have chosen to live lives less ordinary..." Crossing the state border in a stolen Ford V-8 with a trunk of sawn-off shotguns and bootleg whiskey, Bonnie and Clyde have found one last place to...

Above a secluded cove in Cornwall, Huck, a former fisherman, is squatting in an empty second home. The holiday season is fast approaching, but he refuses to budge. Huck grew up here, but he can't...

A QUEER COMING-OF-AGE REMIX Locked in his bathroom during a tragic third date, Willy Hudson asks: are you a Top or a Bottom? Bottom is about bums, Beyoncé and burnt fish fingers. Join Willy for a...

Includes the plays Little Boxes, The Disorderly Women and Singles. John Bowen's plays, like his novels, are preoccupied with myth, manipulation and self-deceit. Bowen's first major success as a...

Scottee grew up around strong, brave and violent men and boys. Bravado is his memoir of working class masculinity from 1991 to 1999 as seen by a sheep in wolf's clothing. Scottee grew up on a council...

Bright by Polly WisemanClair is bright. Too bright. She crackles with energy. She has a flat, a boyfriend, a life - until one night she loses it all... Sectioned to a psychiatric ward, should Clair...

A relationship rotting. Purgatory. Is having no reason to stay a reason to leave? At what point does the abuser become the abused? And why aren't we more afraid of women? Two actors, one couple,...

Burn This is the story of Birdman. Fifteen years old, no family, no friends - a loner with nothing to lose. One lazy afternoon, down on the riverbank, the friends he never had narrate the story of...

in 2007 year two leading barristers: Philippe Sands QC (for the prosecution) and Julian Knowles (for the defence) tested the evidence of the grounds for an indictment of the British Prime Minister...

Callisto is a swirling constellation of remarkable queer stories, weaving together four stories of same-sex relationships from across the ages. Hurtle across time and space with this scintillating...

"All I ever wanted was a man who wouldn't ask me questions"Across the foyer of a crowded theatre, a handsome young man catches sight of the most expensive prostitute in town. When they meet, a mutual...

Can I Help You?Author: Philip OsmentPublisher: Oberon BooksPublication Date: Mar 03, 2020Number of Pages: 72 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10: 1786828510ISBN-13: 9781786828514

Bringing together five plays exploring our notions of family, myth, death, truth and the ever-fluctuating nature of reality, Carl Grose: Plays One celebrates the possibilities of theatre and...

Monogamy means sharing your life with one person, but what if you shared your kitchen with 5.6 million? Caroline Mortimer, the nation's favourite TV cook, has it all - a sparkling career, a big house...

When the Second World War air raids threaten their safety in the city, Carrie and her brother Nick are evacuated to a small Welsh village. But the countryside has dangers and adventures of its own -...