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Category: Plays
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Ella's got a project. After ten years she has completed her piano concerto, and now she needs the help of Liz and Beth to get it performed. But first they've got some history to negotiate, and some old scores to settle.

We Happy Few
Imogen Stubbs

A comedy drama about an all-female theatre company touring Britain during the darkest days of World War Two, written by the well-known actress and premiered in the West End.

Amigos
David Williamson

In a moment of glory at the 1968 Olympics, an Australian rowing team known as 'The Four Amigos' won bronze. Thirty-five years later, only two of the Amigos keep in touch. Then, the third Amigo turns up, ready to expose all about their past. And so the games begin…

Electra
Sophocles Translated by Marianne McDonald, J. Michael Walton

King Agamemnon, on returning from the Trojan Wars, is murdered by his wife, Clytemnestra, and her lover. Now, to avenge the crime, their daughter Electra must commit one even worse and face the inevitable consequences.

Electra
Euripides Translated by Marianne McDonald, J. Michael Walton

Electra's brother Orestes returns to avenge the murder of his father, Agamemnon, by his mother Clytemnestra.

Women of Troy
Euripides Translated by Kenneth McLeish

Covering themes of religious scepticism, the injustices within roles for women and the destructive power of war, Euripides' tragedy Women of Troy is as relevant now as it ever was.

Animal Farm
George Orwell Adapted by Ian Wooldridge

A powerful and straightforward dramatisation of Orwell's enduring parable on the perils of totalitarianism.

Ladybird
Vassily Sigarev Translated by Sasha Dugdale

Dima, 19, lives with his alcoholic father. The night before he leaves for the war in Chechnya to do his national service, he throws a party. Lera, 20, lives in the same block. She's convinced that she'll win a fortune if only she can borrow enough money for a lottery ticket. Lera's cousin Yulka, 18, is more interested in seeing just how far Dima will go to prove his devotion to her.

Holy Day
Andrew Bovell

On the white frontier in mid-nineteenth century Australia, a lone, bloodied woman arrives at a traveller's rest in the midst of a violent desert storm with a shocking story to tell. A chilling mystery that draws together the lives of four extraordinary women and their men, all struggling to survive in a hostile and misunderstood landscape.

Two linked plays - Mothers Against and Daughters of the Revolution - by the UK's leading political playwright, investigating the machinations of the Democratic and Republican parties in America.

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