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Category: Plays
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Tribes
Nina Raine

Billy's family, like every other, is a club, with its own private language, jokes and rules. You can be as rude as you like, as possessive as you like, as critical as you like. Arguments are an expression of love, and after all, you love each other more than anyone in the world. Don't you? But Billy, who is deaf, is the only one who actually listens. When he meets Sylvia, he decides he finally wants to be heard.

The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists
Robert Tressell Adapted by Howard Brenton

Passionate, highly entertaining and gloriously funny - Robert Tressell's classic pre-First World War account of the working lives of a group of housepainters and decorators is vividly adapted by Howard Brenton.

Salome
Oscar Wilde

Salome, stepdaughter of King Herod, agrees to perform the mysterious and erotic Dance of the Seven Veils – but demands in return the head of the King's most infamous prisoner, Iokanaan (John the Baptist). To avoid censorship by the Lord Chamberlain, Wilde originally wrote Salome in French, and it premiered in Paris in 1896, while he was in prison. The play was finally seen in London in 1906, but has yet to gain the massive popularity of his comedies.

Ruined
Lynn Nottage

A passionate, heartfelt play about surviving in a time of civil war, by a leading American dramatist. Winner of the 2009 Pulitzer Prize for Drama.

The Drunks
Mikhail and Vyacheslav Durnenkov Translated by Nina Raine

A darkly comic and freewheeling epic that gets to the heart of small-town politics and what it means to please all of the people all of the time.

On 23 October 2002, Chechen rebels stormed a theatre in Moscow, holding hundreds of theatregoers hostage. Three days later, in Newcastle, Australia, a young man staged an armed robbery in a bookshop.

David Copperfield
Charles Dickens Adapted by Alastair Cording

All Dickens's marvellous creations are here: Mr Micawber, Uriah Heep, Mrs Peggotty, Murdstone, Steerforth and Betsey Trotwood. Weaving through the colourful maze of the storyline is David's hopeless infatuation with Emily – and eventual salvation in the arms of the long-suffering Agnes.

Cold Meat Party
Brad Fraser

A group of former friends meet in a B&B for the funeral of their recently deceased college friend. They gather to remember past friendships and the happy days of success, but also to face the uncertain and chaotic present. It will be a hilarious and heartbreaking weekend and, in the end, more painful than they ever imagined.

Parlour Song
Jez Butterworth

A blackly hilarious exploration of deceit, paranoia and murderous desire, as the spirit of the Blues lands in leafy suburbia.

Secrets
Jacqueline Wilson Adapted by Vicky Ireland

India and Treasure come from very different backgrounds but soon become the best of friends. Together they escape from their problems by writing diaries, inspired by their heroine, Anne Frank. But when secrets start jumping off the page and into real life, Treasure and India find themselves in deep trouble.

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