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Four boys face the tricky transition to adulthood in Ella Hickson's riot of a play.
Astrid Wentworth is a City trader, a ruthless player in a man's world. When the young and ambitious Priya applies for a junior position on the trading floor, Astrid recognises something in her and decides to give her a go.
Brainstorm is a unique theatrical investigation into how teenagers' brains work, and why they're designed by evolution to be the way they are.
Lynchburg, Virginia, on the former site of a cotton mill. Fourteen-year-old Ruffrino is struggling to make sense of his place in an impoverished world filled with seemingly random killings of young black men.
An arresting and angry look at conflict and its effect on soldiers returning home – to a world they no longer know how to cope with, and a society that doesn't know how to cope with them.
Holed up in Megan’s garden shed, three old friends try to change their fortunes in a beautiful, heart-warming, laugh-out-loud coming-of-age story for our times. Rock on.
In 1845, Branwell Brontë returns home in disgrace, plagued by his addictions. As he descends into alcoholism and insanity, bringing chaos to the household, his sisters write…
In a varied and distinguished career, Harriet Walter has played almost all of Shakespeare's heroines. But where, she asks, does an actress go after playing Cleopatra's magnificent death? Why didn't Shakespeare write more – and more powerful – roles for mature women?
Six young people are caught in the aftermath of a terrorist attack in the heart of London. By turns terrifying, inspiring, brutal, heartbreaking and hilarious, BU21 is verbatim theatre from the very near future.
Across thirty-three interconnected scenes – some just a few lines, others mini-plays in their own right – buckets swings through a kaleidoscopic world of sadness and happiness, illness and health, youth and experience, kissing and crying, singing and dying.
Two plays showcasing the exciting and distinctive voice of Josh Azouz. This collection includes Buggy Baby and The Mikvah Project.
A razor-sharp play about the fine line between office politics and playground bullying, Bull offers ringside seats as three employees fight to keep their jobs.
A ferociously gripping play that tackles the challenging moral issues of contemporary military occupation and its effect on the mental health of serving soldiers with startling insight.
An exhilarating coming-of-age drama for a solo performer.
General Kotov, decorated hero of the Russian Revolution, is spending an idyllic summer in the country with his beloved young wife and family. But on one glorious sunny morning in 1936, his wife's former lover returns from a long and unexplained absence.
A play about grief and looking at someone that little bit more closely.
A searingly funny debut play about death, betrayal, and the possibility of forgiveness. And cider.
Set in the heat and dust of Andalusia in seventeenth-century Spain, Cardenio is the story of a friendship betrayed, with all the elements of a thriller: disguise, dishonour and deceit.
Caroline, or Change is an uplifting and profound portrait of America at a time of momentous social upheaval in 1963.
The fourth volume of the collected plays of one of the best playwrights alive, Caryl Churchill. This collection includes Hotel, Blue Heart, This is a Chair, Far Away, A Number, Drunk Enough to Say I Love You? and A Dream Play.
Spanning almost ten years and embracing a remarkable range of style and subject matter, this third volume of Churchill's Collected Plays contains Icecream, Mad Forest, The Skriker, Thyestes, Lives of the Great Poisoners and A Mouthful of Birds.
Ten short plays by Caryl Churchill, written for stage, radio and TV, selected and introduced by the author.
Forced out of London by spiralling living costs, Cathy finds herself in an unfamiliar town with no friends and no money; pushed to make choices she doesn't want to make...
Based on the true story of Alma Rattenbury, who, in 1935, went on trial with her eighteen-year-old lover for the murder of her husband.
A fast and furious comedy about the lengths we will go to when our backs are against the wall.