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Category: Plays
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The House of Bernarda Alba
Federico García Lorca Translated by Rona Munro

García Lorca's drama about the shattering effects of emotional repression on a family of cloistered daughters, in a version by playwright Rona Munro for the critically acclaimed Shared Experience Theatre Company.

The Rover
Aphra Behn

Arriving in Naples at carnival time, a group of exiled cavaliers determine to enjoy themselves. They are repeatedly tempted and tricked by various prostitutes and their pimps, until their leader, the Rover, is finally forced to give up his wild behaviour when he falls in love with a single-minded, wealthy virgin.

Peer Gynt
Henrik Ibsen Translated by Kenneth McLeish

Henrik Ibsen's mighty epic, by turns fantastic and tragic, based on the Norwegian fairy tale Per Gynt.

A simple and delightfully inventive re-telling of the stories from the Arabian Nights.

The Clink
Stephen Jeffreys

Elizabeth I is tottering at death's door. Conspirators are everywhere. Lucius Bodkin, an Elizabethan stand-up comedian, becomes unwillingly involved in the political skullduggery and jiggery-pokery surrounding the ailing queen.

Oedipus
Sophocles Translated by Kenneth McLeish

The story of the mythical Greek king of Thebes, the archetypal tragic hero who accidentally fulfills a prophecy that he will end up killing his father and marrying his mother, thereby bringing disaster down upon his city and family.

The School for Scandal
Richard Brinsley Sheridan

Joseph Surface is apparently a model citizen; his brother Charles is a dissolute wastrel. But when the schemings of the scandalmongers go awry, the reverse is shown to be true.

Life is a Dream
Pedro Calderón Translated by Jo Clifford

It is foretold that Prince Sigismund will become a tyrant. Alarmed, his father, the king, imprisons him. When he is released for a day as an experiment he proves the omens only too right, and, as a result, is incarcerated once more. Sigismund persuades himself that all that has passed is a dream and emerges to rule wisely and justly.

The Resistance Trilogy
Ariel Dorfman

Three powerful political plays in one volume - with a substantial introduction by Ariel Dorman.

Jane Eyre
Charlotte Brontë Adapted by Polly Teale

A bold and theatrically inventive adaptation of the literary classic that puts the interior life of Jane Eyre on stage.

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