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Mr KolpertDavid Gieselmann Translated by David Tushingham
Mr Kolpert is a delightfully morbid black comedy about a dinner party and a dead body. $24.99
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Dublin CarolConor McPherson
Present day Dublin. Christmas Eve. Undertaker John Plunkett is sharing memories of funerals over the years and dispensing advice to his young assistant. But the arrival of his daughter Mary – estranged, grown-up – shows him the time has come to face up to his own disastrous past. Otherwise, he will never be able to create some kind of truce with his fear of the future. $23.99
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Separate TablesTerence Rattigan
Two linked one-act plays set in a run-down residential hotel in Bournemouth. In the first of the plays, Table by the Window, a lonely divorcee tracks down her former husband in order to resume a kind of half-life with him. In the other, Table Number Seven, a repressed young spinster offers brave moral support to a fake major accused of importuning women in a local cinema. $29.99
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The Deep Blue SeaTerence 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. $24.99
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The House of Bernarda AlbaFederico 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. $27.99
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Peer GyntHenrik Ibsen Translated by Kenneth McLeish
Henrik Ibsen's mighty epic, by turns fantastic and tragic, based on the Norwegian fairy tale Per Gynt. $14.99
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The ClinkStephen Jeffreys
Elizabeth I is tottering at death's door. Conspirators are everywhere. Lucius Bodkin, an Elizabethan stand-up comedian, becomes unwillingly involved in the political skullduggery and jiggery-pokery surrounding the ailing queen. $24.99
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Perfect DaysLiz Lochhead
A funny, sad and truthful romantic comedy about beating the biological clock. $27.99
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Howie the RookieMark O'Rowe
A white-knuckle ride through a nightmare Dublin, where enemies and allies are interchangeable. $24.99
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BacchaeEuripides Translated by Kenneth McLeish, Frederic Raphael
At the whim of Dionysos, a son is torn to pieces by his own mother during the famous women-only Bacchanalian ritual. The story of revenge by the half-man half-god on Pentheus, King of Thebes, and all his people. $14.99
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