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Category: Plays
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The Haunting
Hugh Janes, Charles Dickens

A spine-chilling play by Hugh Janes, based on several original ghost stories by Charles Dickens.

Rattigan's Nijinsky
Nicholas Wright, Terence Rattigan

The extraordinary story of the relationship between the famous dancer Vaslav Nijinsky and the impresario Sergei Diaghilev, drawing on an unproduced screenplay by Terence Rattigan. 

Luise Miller
Friedrich Schiller Adapted by Mike Poulton

A masterpiece of power and politics that explores the battle between honour and corruption, between truth and betrayal.

Seagull
Anton Chekhov Translated by Charlotte Pyke, John Kerr, Joseph Blatchley

A striking version of Chekhov's classic play, by Charlotte Pyke, John Kerr and Joseph Blatchley, restoring to the play the cuts demanded by the Russian censor in 1896. In nineteenth-century rural Russia, an anxious young writer prepares the first performance of his new play for the two women in his life. The consequences are devastating, with everybody in love with the wrong person, and death hovering close by.

The League of Youth
Henrik Ibsen Adapted by Andy Barrett

A play about political ambition and opportunism, the conflicts of class, the difficulties of breaking open long established systems, and the ways in which political expediency can lay waste to idealism.

Thursday's Child: the play
Eva Di Cesare, Sandra Eldridge, Tim McGarry, Sonya Hartnett, Monkey Baa

Thursday’s Child is Tin, born on a Thursday and like the old nursery rhyme, has far to go. A strange and lonely child who digs, his wanderings take him underneath the earth into the subterranean tunnels that he’s pre-destined to roam. 

Anna Karenina
Leo Tolstoy Adapted by Helen Edmundson

Anna is beautiful and admired but empty – until a chance meeting throws her into emotional turmoil and a scandalous affair. Contrasting with this tale of destructive love is the story of Levin, an idealistic man striving to find meaning in life – and a self-portrait of Tolstoy himself.

Frankenstein
Mary Shelley Adapted by Patrick Sandford

One of the greatest horror stories of all time, and one that still grips readers today almost two hundred years after its first publication.

Persuasion
Jane Austen Adapted by Mark Healy

Mark Healy's faithful yet inventive stage adaptations of Jane Austen's treasured novels are terrifically actable and readable. This edition features Production Notes, making it easily stageable too.

The Railway Children
E. Nesbit Adapted by Mike Kenny

Mike Kenny's imaginative stage adaptation of E. Nesbit's much-loved children's classic.

Famously filmed, this story of a prosperous Edwardian family - mother and three children - forced into near-penury in the rural north of England captures the anxieties and exhilarations of childhood with great tenderness and insight.

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