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Girl in the Machine is a disturbing but compassionate vision of our potential digital future, and what it might mean for 'life' as we know it.
A striking play from Northern Ireland about two women and the childhood tragedy they'll never be allowed to forget.
An urgent and explosive play that explores of the pressures on young people today in the wake of advancing technology.
This collection features four urgent and explosive plays by award-winning playwright Evan Placey, including Girls Like That, Banana Boys, Holloway Jones and Pronoun.
Branden Jacobs-Jenkins's Gloria is a razor-sharp comic drama about ambition, office warfare and hierarchies, where the only thing that matters is selling out to the highest bidder.
A moving and darkly comic story of an Afghanistan veteran's search for redemption, and a fascinating insight into the plight of ex-servicemen in modern Britain.
Tuesday, 19 August, 1561, 9 a.m. Through the fog a ship arrives in Leith docks, and Mary Stuart, Queen of Scots, steps ashore. She is eighteen and on her young shoulders rest the hopes of the Catholic establishment of Europe.
It's 1982. London is restless, gripped by spiralling unemployment and inner city riots. Ska beats dominate the airwaves and in a flat in Deptford, two mixed-race brothers are unexpectedly reunited.
Set during the early noughties, Arinzé Kene's good dog is a theatrical monologue that chronicles growing up in a multicultural community, and the everyday injustices that drive people to take back control.
A funny and tender drama that explores the struggles, shifting loyalties and unshakeable hopes that come with having next to nothing in America.
A bittersweet romantic comedy about finding love later in life, from 'Scotland's greatest living dramatist' Scotland on Sunday.
Frank has been married for forty five years. Three years ago he fell in love.
Luke Norris's taut and tender debut play, Goodbye to All That, asks if it's ever too late to start again.
A beautifully simple adaptation of one of Dickens's best-loved novels, bringing it thrillingly to life for the stage.
A gritty adaptation of Dickens' least sentimental love story with a cast of some of his most unforgettable characters.
Three of the most famous tragedies from Ancient Greece, all featuring female protagonists - in modern, much-performed translations. This collection includes Antigone, Bacchae and Medea.
A painful comedy about growing up and manning up.
A nursing-home conservatory. Sean sits alone, abandoned to his memories. In storms Patricia, a feisty woman with a zest for life and for handsome men in wheelchairs. A wary intimacy develops between the two, an unforeseen relationship, by turns charming and combative, tender and funny.
A unique survey of the twentieth century's most influential acting methods, offering invaluable practical insights for actors and drama teachers.
His life. In her hands.
A shattering play about one woman's unspeakable decision.
debbie tucker green's play hang premiered at the Royal Court Theatre, London, in June 2015, in a production directed by the author, and featuring Marianne Jean-Baptiste, Claire Rushbrook and Shane Zaza.
'Powerfully intense... sits at the sharp end of the capital punishment question' — Guardian
'A stark 60 minutes of staccato poetry… [an] entirely absorbing drama' — Evening Standard
'Stark, probing… poised and poetic, with such pitch-black humour that laughs pop like gasps in reverse' — WhatsOnStage
'A taut, measured piece about the nature of justice and revenge… you find yourself, at the blackout, holding your breath' — The Stage
'Stunning… a fascinating, gripping piece that examines revenge, suffering and human frailties' — Huffington Post
This funny, heartfelt and compelling one-woman play Hanna asks what family means in a modern society, delicately weaving in questions of racial identity, economic privilege, and the lottery of birth.
A painfully truthful, darkly comic take on contemporary life and how to survive it.
A double bill by Terence Rattigan, featuring two plays of striking contrast that display his astonishing range as a writer. This volume includes Harlequinade and All On Her Own.
In Lucy Kirkwood's version of Hedda Gabler, Ibsen's nineteenth-century heroine is relocated to London in 2008, to startling effect.
A wife, a muse, a coward, a heretic. Hedda Gabler is something to everyone, yet has no idea who she is to herself. Trapped by convention and by her own irreconcilable nature, will she have the courage to shape her own destiny?
Restless and discontented in her marriage, Hedda Gabler is drawn to a former admirer, Lovborg, now a brilliant writer. But he is more taken with Hedda's old schoolfriend. Driven by jealousy, Hedda destroys Lovborg and his precious manuscript and, finally, herself.
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