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48 Shades of Brown
Philip Dean, Nick Earls

In his final year at school, and with his parents overseas, Dan is forced to grow up fast when he moves in with his 22-year-old aunt Jacq and her eccentric friend Naomi. Light-hearted and funny, with a definite twist of insanity.

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.

After January: the play
Philip Dean, Nick Earls

Alex is marking time while awaiting his school results—body surfing, watching TV and playing pool are meanwhile his primary concerns. So, he's not prepared for the who cuts past him on a wave and draws him into a new way of looking at the world.

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...

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.

The Drawer Boy
Michael Healey

Beautifully written, funny and moving, The Drawer Boy is a multi-award winning, bitter-sweet tale of the power of storytelling, friendship, and the very thin line between truth and fiction.

The Winslow Boy
Terence Rattigan

Based on the real-life court case of a young naval cadet unjustly accused of stealing a five-shilling postal order and first staged in 1946, The Winslow Boy has been revived many times since.

The Deep Blue Sea
Terence Rattigan

Written in the early fifties when Rattigan was at the height of his powers, The Deep Blue Sea is a powerful account of lives blighted by love - or the lack of it.

The House of Bernarda Alba
Federico García Lorca Translated by Rona Munro

García Lorca's drama about the shattering effects of emotional repression on a family of cloistered daughters, in a version by playwright Rona Munro for the critically acclaimed Shared Experience Theatre Company.

The Rover
Aphra Behn

Arriving in Naples at carnival time, a group of exiled cavaliers determine to enjoy themselves. They are repeatedly tempted and tricked by various prostitutes and their pimps, until their leader, the Rover, is finally forced to give up his wild behaviour when he falls in love with a single-minded, wealthy virgin.

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