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A dark and wickedly funny farce about one man's twisted attempts to find a woman he can control completely. Adapted from Molière's classic comedy The School for Wives by Liz Lochhead.
Education, Education, Education is a love letter to the schools of the 1990s and asks big questions about a country in special measures, exploring what we are taught and why, and where responsibility lies.
Eight compelling monologues offering a state-of-the-nation group portrait for the stage.
Electra's brother Orestes returns to avenge the murder of his father, Agamemnon, by his mother Clytemnestra.
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.
Rose Heiney's debut play Elephants is a sharp black comedy with a tender heart that explores the paths we take in life and their repercussions on the people we love most.
A bold, witty and fresh adaptation of Jane Austen's novel which, while thoroughly modern, retains the spirit and much of the language of the original.
The first eight astonishing plays by Enda Walsh, including The Ginger Ale Boy, Disco Pigs, Misterman, bedbound, The Small Things, Chatroom, How These Desperate Men Talk, and Lynndie's Gotta Gun.
The second collection of plays from the multi-award-winning Irish playwright, Enda Walsh, including The Walworth Farce, The New Electric Ballroom, Penelope, Ballyturk, My Friend Duplicity and Room 303.
A smart, funny play about love, friendship and growing up.
Three old friends and a neighbour. A summer of afternoons in the back yard. Tea and catastrophe.
A spellbinding retelling of a passionate and legendary love story.
West End Producer is the anonymous Twitter sensation whose hilarious and unfailingly accurate barbs satirising and celebrating the theatre industry have won him a devoted following. Now he's eady to share all he's learnt about how to get ahead in showbusiness.
West End Producer, the masked man of Theatreland and author of the definitive guide to acting*, returns with the ultimate guide to the theatregoing experience.
The text of a talk given by renowned theatre director Peter Brook in Berlin in 1998, addressing essential questions about performing Shakespeare today.
James Joyce's startlingly modern portrait of a marriage.
A raucous family drama about the cost of living the life of our dreams.
In Facing the Fear – the first book of its kind written specifically for actors – performer, author and teacher Bella Merlin draws on her own and other actors' personal experiences to examine all aspects of stage fright.
Siblings Fanny and Alexander are growing up amidst the gilded romance and glamour of 1900s Sweden. But their world is turned upside down when their widowed mother remarries the iron-willed local bishop.
At the opening of the play, a young girl is questioning her aunt about having seen her uncle hitting people with an iron bar; by the end, several years later, the whole world is at war - including birds and animals.
Thomas Hardy's popular and enduring novel, adapted for the stage by Mark Healy.
An epic dramatic trilogy set during the American Civil War, by one of America's leading playwrights Suzan-Lori Parks.
Feldenkrais for Actors is the result of thirty years of study and experience of the Method, and the benefits it can bring. It is invaluable for actors at any stage of their career, as well as for singers, dancers, musicians, martial artists, athletes and more.
A thorough, practical book step-by-step manual, written by an RSC voice coach, offering everything that an actor needs to work on their voice.
A searing thriller about the naivety of youth and how easily it can be exploited.