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Category: Plays
Cover Title Author
Purgatorio
Ariel Dorfman

A powerful and poetic play, with echoes of Jean-Paul Sartre's Huis Clos and Euripides' Medea. From the author of Death and the Maiden.

The Seafarer
Conor McPherson

It's Christmas Eve and Sharky has returned to Dublin to look after his irascible, ageing brother who's recently gone blind. Old drinking buddies Ivan and Nicky are holed up at the house too, hoping to play some cards. But with the arrival of a stranger from the distant past, the stakes are raised ever higher. In fact, Sharky may be playing for his very soul.

Thérèse Raquin
Émile Zola Adapted by Nicholas Wright

Stifled by an oppressive mother-in-law and a sickly husband, Thérèse Raquin falls passionately for another man. Their feverish affair drives the lovers to an act of terrible desperation, which catapults them headlong into a world more claustrophobic than the one they sought to destroy.

Ladies' Day
Amanda Whittington

An exuberant comedy about four likely lasses from the Hull fish docks on a day trip to the races.

The Wild Duck
Henrik Ibsen Translated by Stephen Mulrine

Should the truth be pursued, whatever the cost? The idealistic son of a wealthy businessman seeks to expose his father's duplicity and to free his childhood friend from the lies on which his happy home life is based.

Exiles
James Joyce

James Joyce's startlingly modern portrait of a marriage.

Strawberries in January
Evelyne de la Chenelière Translated by Rona Munro

A biting, heart-warming comedy of love and fate in contemporary Montréal, in a version by Rona Munro.

Cruising
Alecky Blythe

A hilarious, real-life comedy about pensioners going in search of love - from the sublime to the downright saucy.

John Gay's bawdy and burlesque pastiche of classical Italian opera, often regarded as the world's first ever musical.

Bad Girls
Jacqueline Wilson Adapted by Vicky Ireland

Mandy's been picked on at school for as long as she can remember. That's why she is delighted when cheeky, daring, full-of-fun Tanya picks her as a friend. Mum isn't happy - she thinks Tanya's a 'bad girl' and a bad influence. Mandy's sure Tanya can only get her out of trouble, not into it. But can she?

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