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Category: Plays
Cover Title Author
Summer Rain
Nick Enright, Terence Clarke

The dust settles as the populace nurses a Christmas hangover. When Harold Slocum of Slocum’s Travelling Tent Show becomes stranded, emotions run high and the sedentary life of the town is disturbed by the remembrance of an illicit affair.

Thyestes
Seneca Translated by Caryl Churchill

A violent tragedy by a contemporary of Nero, in a faithful and uncut translation by one of our leading dramatists.

Lulu
Frank Wedekind Adapted by Nicholas Wright

Lulu is the story of the decline and fall of a young woman possessed of a fatal combination of sexuality and innocence. She passes from German and Parisian high society to the streets of Jack the Ripper's London – destroying, and ultimately destroyed by, her lovers.

Emma
Jane Austen Adapted by Doon MacKichan, Martin Millar

A bold, witty and fresh adaptation of Jane Austen's novel which, while thoroughly modern, retains the spirit and much of the language of the original.

The Lady From the Sea
Henrik Ibsen Translated by Kenneth McLeish

One of Henrik Ibsen's most powerful studies of female psychology, The Lady from the Sea introduces the character of Hilde Wangel, who reappears in Ibsen's later play The Master Builder.

The Great Man and Sanctuary
David Williamson

Two plays that investigate the divergence of self-interest and truth in public life. Includes The Great Man and Sanctuary.

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The Changeling
Thomas Middleton, William Rowley

Alsemero has fallen in love with the beautiful Beatrice after a chance meeting in a church – but Beatrice has already been promised to another man. Unable to marry the man she loves, she employs the hated De Flores, her father's servant, to murder the man her father bids her marry. As payment, De Flores demands Beatrice. And then things get worse...

Abandonment
Kate Atkinson

Elizabeth, forty-something, childless, recently separated, just wants to be alone. She's moved into a converted Victorian mansion, alive with history, character, woodworm and rot. But worse than that she's besieged by invaders of the human kind.

Luck of the Draw
Ned Manning

Luck of the Draw deals with the tragic consequences of the forced removal of Indigenous children from their families. It focuses on the impact this policy had on the parents who lost their children and the children who lost their identity.

Two plays by award-winning playwright Marie Jones: the smash hit Stones in His Pockets, which ran for four years in London's West End; and an earlier monologue, A Night in November, exploring the subjects of football and sectarianism, set during the 1994 World Cup.

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