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Category: Plays
Cover Title Author
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.

Howie the Rookie
Mark O'Rowe

A white-knuckle ride through a nightmare Dublin, where enemies and allies are interchangeable.

Bacchae
Euripides Translated by Kenneth McLeish, Frederic Raphael

At the whim of Dionysos, a son is torn to pieces by his own mother during the famous women-only Bacchanalian ritual. The story of revenge by the half-man half-god on Pentheus, King of Thebes, and all his people.

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.

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.

Passing Places
Stephen Greenhorn

Alex and Brian are a pair of Scottish smalltown boys going nowhere, who get out the only way they know how – doing a runner with a prized surfboard in the only transport available: a worn-out Lada. But the surfboard belongs to Binks, Alex's psychopathic gangster boss, and he's hot on their heels as they head north for Thurso – where the surf is up all year round.

Two plays from playwright Gary Mitchell, known for his powerful explorations of the conflicts troubling Northern Ireland.

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