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"You know when a song gets stuck in your head? Round and round ... over and over. I've got that right now ... only it's not a piece of music ... it's not a tune ... it's a phrase: home is where the...

"That photo; that wasn't who Baylee was. She wasn't 'the baby in the fireman's arms'. She was my child." In Oklahoma City on the morning of April 19th 1995, Timothy McVeigh detonated a truck bomb...

2013 Critics Award Scotland Best Technical Presentation WINNER 2013 Critics Award Scotland Best Children and Young People's Show NOMINEE Sam McTannan is just a typical 15 year old, with one exception...

Lost-in-translation business trips and global travel are put under the microscope in The Internationalist, a play of wit, romance, misunderstandings and the mysteries of communication. Lowell goes...

Since it premiered in Athens in 405 BC alongside Bacchai, Euripides' Iphigeneia in Aulis has been one of the most performed and re-imagined of Ancient Greek Tragedies. The story of how Iphigeneia,...

The Greek fleet bound for Troy is becalmed. For the sake of a wind, Agamemnon, leader of the Greek forces, is persuaded that he must sacrifice his daughter Iphigenia. But as the priest raises his...

Winner of the James Tait Black Prize for Drama 2020 ?What people you know can party through all of the earth's elements?? Carnival is here. The streets of Notting Hill are alive with history and...

In BULLISH, ancient mythology meets modern gender negotiation. Inspired by Ovid?s Minotaur, a gender fierce ensemble of hopers and renegades try to pass, pack and blag their way out of the labyrinth...

John Mortimer: Plays Two: The Wrong Side of the Park; Mill Hill; Bermondsey; Knightsbridge; Marble Arch; EdwinAuthor: John MortimerPublisher: Oberon BooksPublication Date: Sep 01, 2004Number of...

Includes the plays A Sense of Detachment, The End of Me Old Cigar, Jill and Jack and A Place Calling Itself Rome Osborne here delivers his trademark eloquence, rage and devastating wit. A Sense of...

R C Sherriff's Journey's End is a syllabus text and the most famous play about World War One. First staged in 1928, this book tells the story of what went into the making of this extraordinary and...

And now for something completely different - Simon Callow, theatrical treasure extraordinaire, reprises a success from early in his career. The writer, Juvenal born circa 55AD, wrote sixteen satires...

'Esteemed members of the Academy! You have done me the great honour of inviting me to give you an account of my former life as an ape.' Imprisoned in a cage and desperate to escape, Kafka's monkey...

In a remote and impoverished village in the Karoo, South Africa, a young girl, Thomaza, struggles to survive. A violent and terrifying incident and a chance encounter with an escaped moose changes...

"People of the internet, people of the world, you wanna see your Environment Minister SOLVE some shit, this is the soundtrack..." What happens when the unstoppable force of climate change meets the...

"Is it possible for God to do wrong? To be wrong...? And if God is wrong, what then? Beauty, comedy, horror and tragedy collide in this gripping and powerful new play. Award-winning writer Fraser...

What is King Lear really thinking of? What does his mysterious Fool dream about? What are the secret reasons for his daughters' revenge on their father? What really lies behind the most famous lines...

Three A.M. on a hot midsummer's night in Manchester. A party taking place in a shabby Victorian terrace house. In the back garden Tony and Ruth meet, thanks to a stolen can of beer. On the floor...

In a world where tower blocks are stone mountains and city walls are urban tapestries retelling epic fights, Michael keeps away from the warring tribes until a passerby helps him out of a tight...

Includes the plays Playing Sinatra, The Hamlet of Stepney Green, and Ezra Playing Sinatra explores with humour our inexhaustible capacity for trying to escape the traps in life. The Hamlet of Stepney...

April 1994. A man sits alone in an attic extension on the cusp of becoming a Seattle suicide statistic. This man is no 'number and name' to be reported in a local newspaper. He is an icon, albeit a...

'I took my tears and turned them into paintings' In the electric calm of a blue-painted room, a dying woman reassembles the images of an extraordinary life. The woman is Mexican painter Frida Kahlo...

Lyn Gardner's The Guardian Recommended Shows 2017 Exeunt recommended shows 2017, The Word of Mouth Favourites Leah and Sophie have been together, here, for a long time. They are happy here. But...

Old Earth has nothing left for us, and so it is time for a new beginning. Cross galaxies, traverse light years and find yourself in a world where you can be the centre of your own universe. Welcome...

"If Lee Harvey Oswald did it, he could not have done it alone. If he did not, he must be the hit of the century. If he was involved and somehow double-crossed, alive today must be persons with the...

It?s 1997. You?re 11. You?re sad, lonely and scared of doing anything that would get you singled out by the hopeless, angry people in your hometown. One day you see a man on telly. He?s mumbling, yet...

A loophole in the Postal Services Act says you can open other people?s mail under certain circumstances. This is that certain circumstance... Songs, politics, dodgy landlords and detective work:...

Based on the true story of her great uncle and freedom fighter Dinesh Gupta, Lions and Tigers is Tanika Gupta?s most personal play yet. It charts Dinesh Gupta?s emotional and political awakening as...

Winner of a Scotsman Fringe First Award 2014 In 2000 in Leixlip, co. Kildare, an aunt and 3 sisters boarded themselves into their home and entered into a suicide pact that lasted 40 days. We weren't...

Philip Osment's magical play is funny, tender and true. Gabriel has to earn his stripes as a guardian angel to a poor orphaned girl as she grows up with her adoptive parents. Along the way he learns...