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A fast-moving, exhilarating play about teenage hopes, dreams and frustrations in a rural part of England.
Stephen Unwin takes you scene by scene through the action of Ibsen's play A Doll's House, analysing moment by moment what is actually said and done, and how the staging of these moments affects our understanding of them.
An unsettling look at British attitudes to America and vice versa.
An enthralling drama about the man who killed Hendrik Verwoerd, President of South Africa and the architect of South African apartheid. Written by the acclaimed actor and author of Year of the King.
An absorbing study of attitudes towards outsiders, spanning two continents and sixty years.
She is a young woman in a yellow dress. She has been shot by the police. As a video goes viral, a revolution begins to stir.
A laugh-out-loud comic variation on the virgin birth in which a young woman finds her life spiralling into confusion when she wakes up one morning, unaccountably pregnant.
You're young, free and single and haven't had sex for the last eleven and a half months, then one morning you wake up pregnant and to make matters worse the Angel Gabriel is on your doorstep claiming parentage...
Oliver Lansley's play Immaculate was first performed by Les Enfants Terribles Theatre Company as part of the 2005 Edinburgh Festival Fringe.
'Genuinely a laugh a minute, with some real strokes of comic genius' — Metro
'In a Fringe which is filled with comedies, this has to be one of the funniest' — British Theatre Guide
Imperium is a backstage view of Ancient Rome at its most bloody and brutal, told through the eyes of Tiro, Cicero’s loyal secretary.
John Abbott, author of The Improvisation Book, explains how theatre directors at every level can use improvisation in the rehearsal room. Foreword by Mark Rylance.
Witness the adventures of three extraordinary women spanning 80 years, against the backdrop of humanity’s journey to the stars.
For years, Francis Harmon has traded off her reputation as a star actress in the prospering American cities. Now, at the end of the nineteenth century, she and her companion May have washed up in a cabin on the Alaskan frontier, while May’s daughter prospects for gold.
Lynn Nottage's Intimate Apparel is a multi-award-winning play about the empowerment of a black seamstress in New York City in 1905.
An invaluable guide to the difficult arts of devising plays and directing texts, by one of the UK’s leading theatre directors.
A collection of short plays by exciting new Irish writers, selected and introduced by the literary manager of the Abbey Theatre.
An intense psychological drama set in a women's prison, in which a mother and daughter try to break through the barriers of time, memory and punishment which separate them.
A luminous journey exploring the life of Dijana Polancec: professional romantic, eternal optimist and accidental prostitute.
Set in a country weighed down by political, ideological and spiritual stagnation, Chekhov's compelling early play is rooted in the revolutionary atmosphere of Russia at the turn of the 20th century.
This collection by Jack Thorne, with a revealing introduction by the author, covers a period of intense creativity. Including When You Cure Me, Stacy, 2nd May 1997, Bunny, Red Car, Blue Car, and Mydidae.
A bold and theatrically inventive adaptation of the literary classic that puts the interior life of Jane Eyre on stage.
When a country house weekend takes a turn for the worse, Bertie Wooster is unwittingly called on to play matchmaker – reconciling the affections of his host’s drippy daughter Madeline Bassett with his newt-fancying acquaintance Gussie Fink-Nottle. If Bertie, ably assisted by the ever-dependable Jeeves, can’t pull off the wedding of the season he’ll be forced to abandon his cherished bachelor status and marry the ghastly girl himself!
Jez Butterworth's hugely acclaimed, prize-winning play - a comic, contemporary vision of life in England's green and pleasant land.
Jessica Swale's Blue Stockings is the empowering and surprising story of four young women fighting for their right to a university education in a world that assumed women belonged at home.
A collection of plays by Jez Butterworth, including Mojo, The Night Heron, The Winterling, Leavings, Parlour Song, and The Naked Eye.
In Joanne, five of the most exciting voices in theatre explore the pressures on our public services as one young woman buckles under pressures of her own.
A bed and breakfast in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania. A cheerful innkeeper. A young couple struggling to stay together. Thousands of inanimate objects, watching.
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