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Category: Plays
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The Thrill of Love
Amanda Whittington

A gripping drama about Ruth Ellis, the last woman to be hanged in Britain.

Antigone
Eamon Flack, Sophocles

Thebes, the morning after a war. The new king takes the first step of his government, while a young woman slips out of the city to bury her brother’s body. Her act of devotion destroys the ruling family and brings the state to its knees.

Irish Shorts
Selected by Aideen Howard

A collection of short plays by exciting new Irish writers, selected and introduced by the literary manager of the Abbey Theatre.

Mydidae
Jack Thorne

One bathroom. Two people. One day. A relationship witnessed in minute, devastating detail. A story of intimacy, fragility and the darker side of love, Jack Thorne's play Mydidae exposes the private and disturbing moments a couple share, and explores what becomes of a relationship when it is held together not only by love, but by fear, guilt and despair.

The Machine Gunners
Robert Westall Adapted by Ali Taylor

It's 1940, and Britain is at war. Young Chas McGill has the second-best collection of war souvenirs in town, but desperately wants it to be the best. Amidst the bombs and air raids, Chas and his friends plan their own war effort in their newly built bunker. Friendships are forged and loyalties tested, in the adventure of a lifetime...

Pack
Louise Monaghan

A raw, uncompromising drama about bigotry and racism that explores the insidious rise of the British National Party.

NSFW
Lucy Kirkwood

Carrie's getting them out for the lads, Charlotte's just grateful to have a job, Sam's being asked to sell more than his body, and Aidan's trying to keep his magazine from going under. Set in the cut-throat media world, Lucy Kirkwood's comedy exposes power games and privacy in the age of Photoshop.

A painfully comic excavation of a family history that asks if there is an authorised version of the past - or just the one we can live with.

Halcyon Days
Deirdre Kinahan

A nursing-home conservatory. Sean sits alone, abandoned to his memories. In storms Patricia, a feisty woman with a zest for life and for handsome men in wheelchairs. A wary intimacy develops between the two, an unforeseen relationship, by turns charming and combative, tender and funny.

Sex & God
Linda McLean

Four women from different moments in the twentieth century talk across time in Linda McLean's extraordinary play about faith, lust and family.

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