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Medea
Euripides Adapted by Tom Paulin

Betrayed by a husband she sacrificed everything for, Medea unleashes a horrific vengeance on her enemies, by murdering her own children.

A Tender Thing
Ben Power

When a married couple discover that their lifetime together is drawing to a close, they realise they cannot contemplate being apart.

Don’t Say the Words
Tom Holloway

After a decade under siege a city has finally fallen. But ten years of rage have taken their toll. For an officer returning from this epic overseas campaign, it is time to put the horrors of battle behind him, and to take back his place at the family table. For the officer's wife, it is time to take her revenge…

Three Sisters On Hope Street
Diane Samuels, Tracy-Ann Oberman

A funny, vibrant and moving version of Chekhov's Three Sisters, set amongst the Jewish community in wartime Liverpool. From the award-winning writer Diane Samuels (Kindertransport) and well-known actress and writer Tracy-Ann Oberman.

The Oresteia
Aeschylus Translated by Marianne McDonald, J. Michael Walton

Aeschylus' great trilogy of Greek tragedies about the end of the curse on the House of Atreus, The Oresteia comprises AgamemnonChoephori (Libation-Bearers) and Eumenides (The Furies).

Rafta, Rafta...
Ayub Khan Din

A hugely warm-hearted, comic tale of close-knit Indian family life in England, by the author of East is East.

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 Canterbury Tales
Geoffrey Chaucer Adapted by Mike Poulton

This two-play adaptation of Chaucer's Canterbury Tales encompasses the full span of the original work, containing 21 separate stories. All the famous characters are here – as well as many less well-known but equally full of life. Each of the stories has its own style – heroic verse for the Knight's Tale, vernacular rhymes for the Miller's Tale etc – echoing the many narrative voices employed by Chaucer himself.

Three of the most famous tragedies from Ancient Greece, all featuring female protagonists - in modern, much-performed translations. This collection includes Antigone, Bacchae and Medea.

Playing With Fire
David Edgar

An epic and provocative play about multi-racial Britain, from the UK's leading political playwright.

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