Funny and moving - an insight into 30's Hollywood and an epic of laughter.
OEdoen von Horvath's startling tale of displacement and isolation in the aftermath war, boldly adapted by Duncan Macmillan.
Buchner is often considered the father of modern German drama, and "Woyzeck"was his most influential work. Beneath the utter simplicity of itsbasic story, there are complex themes of human motivation, victimisation, guilt, class, and the meaning and nature ofexistence. This edition incorporates recent research and full Introduction and Notes."
Carthage asks who should raise our children when even the systems designed to protect them can be abusive.
Mrs Barbour's Daughters (**** The Herald, **** The Scotsman) by award-winning playwright AJ Taudevin (Some Other Mother, Chalk Farm) charts a family history of sisterhood and betrayal interwoven in a social history of women's resistance incorporating worker, protest and popular songs from the last 100 years.
A play by the poet and playwright Jon Fosse. This version is translated for the stage by playwright Gregory Motton. Two lovers have conflicting interests when they have a child together.
Luke Barnes's brash bold voice and fine eye for a rowdy tale combine in this play about a family's tradition and one last storytelling competition.
English translation of Nobel laureate Elfriede Jelinek's Sports Play, a provocative postdramatic theatrical exploration of sport as a form of war. First produced in Vienna in 1998, this English version was produced in the UK to coincide with the London 2012 Olympics, and has subsequently toured internationally.
A contemporary reimagining of Sophocles' Antigone, for children and young audiences.
A stunning monologue which is a haunting and often fiercely funny meditation on life as a state of permanent exile.
A young lawyer, Myles, is seduced into a rapport with a notorious historian he has been hired to defend. But the sinister nature of the historian's crimes soon become clear, sending him into an ethical and emotional collision with his own identity. As he defends a Holocaust denier, he becomes embroiled in the human rights paradox of free speech.
It's the worst job in the world and only those what is born to it, what has gorrit in the blood, can do it. Three generations of Hull men struggle with the legacies left to them by their fathers. A powerful and moving story of fate, choices and men at work, Under the Whaleback opened at the Royal Court Theatre in August 2002.
A play from Niklas Radstrom which looks into the 1993 killing of James Bulger. A hard-hitting and emotional play. Winner of the inaugural Anglo-Swedish Literary Foundation Award 2008.
Prize winning adaptations of four seminal Russian plays collected together for the first time. A collection of plays from Richard Crane, these four plays flourished out of a unique collaboration of author and director, which saw them progressing from fringe to mainstream, West End and Off-Broadway.
Based on the true story, and set in 1934 in an unnamed southern state of America, Bonnie & Clyde is an intimate re-telling of the final hours of one of the world's most infamous criminal couples.
First performed in 1967, this is an early, yet startlingly brilliant, work by the internationally acclaimed Argentine playwright, Griselda Gambaro.
A trilogy of works about cancer. Sometimes inappropriate, often salacious and always funny, honest and open. A collection of performance texts about cancer, illness and the body.
This collection of short plays tells the story of a love affair from three different angles.
An epic adventure adapted from the classic novel by Michael Murpurgo, author of the acclaimed smash hit "War Horse." This version is the adaptation from Simon Reade.
A smash hit, written in 1923, that enjoyed successful runs on the West End and Broadway.
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