A funny, furious monologue about navigating a world that cares so much about you keeping it together, it doesn't notice you falling apart.
A madcap adventure story for young people (and older detectives) to watch, read and perform.
Three extraordinary plays by one of the most audacious and talented playwrights of our times: Jerusalem, The River and The Ferryman. Plus his short film The Clear Road Ahead, and a conversation with playwright Simon Stephens.
Ultra-contemporary, sexy and funny, Kenny Emson's play Rust pushes the boundaries of trust, love and lust to the limit.
Rona Munro's adaptation of Louis de Bernieres' much-loved epic novel, set on an idyllic Greek island in 1941.
A beautiful, ferocious play about the bonds that tie us, and how we sometimes need to break them. One sister stayed at home to care for Dad. The other set out to 'make a difference'. Reunited under their childhood roof, Pauline and Rachel unearth more than the ten years between them.
A long summer weekend, two strangers, and a full-size table tennis table. A Table Tennis Play is a play about how everything and nothing changes as people bat a ball. It premiered at the 2019 Edinburgh Festival Fringe
A riotous new stage version of the classic novel. Discovering that the musketeers have been disbanded, the young and naive D'Artagnan makes it his mission to get them reinstated. But will his feud with the femme fatale, Milady de Winter thwart him? And who the heck is she?
'I can see her just. Most people can't see her at all.'A girl made of glass. Gods and murders. A serial killer's friends. And a secret in a bottle. Four stories by Caryl Churchill. Glass, Kill, Bluebeard, and Imp premiered at the Royal Court Theatre, London, in September 2019.
A darkly comic, smashed-up retelling of Richard III, Shakespeare's classic tale about the lust for power, Teenage Dick reimagines the most famous disabled character of all time as a high-school outsider in junior year: the deepest winter of his discontent.
The Lafayette family gather at their late father's home in Arkansas to bury the hatchet and prepare the former plantation for its Estate Sale. Until, that is, they make a discovery which changes everything. A gripping play about ghosts and the legacies we are left with, and a wickedly subversive appropriation of the great American family drama.
Written specifically for young people as part of the 2018 National Theatre Connections Festival. Set in and around a swimming pool, Chris Bush's play The Changing Room follows a group of teenagers full of excitement, impatience and uncertainty. They know change is coming, but not what it'll look like.
August Strindberg's classic portrayals of secrets and lies, seduction and power - both written in the summer of 1888 - in brilliant new versions by Howard Brenton.
The club's rising star. The veteran. Two girls on a night out. The drinks are flowing in the VIP section. A spare hotel room is booked. But at the end of the night, someone is going to get hurt. Lose Yourself is a fast, wild and ultimately tragic ride into the darker side of our celebrity obsessed culture.
The NHB Drama Classics series presents the world's greatest plays in affordable, highly readable editions for students, actors and theatregoers. The hallmarks of the series are accessible introductions (focussing on the play's theatrical and historical background, together with an author biography, key dates and suggestions for further reading) and the complete text, uncluttered with footnotes. The translations, by leading experts in the field, are accurate and above all actable. The editions of English-language plays include a glossary of unusual words and phrases to aid understanding. This Drama Classics edition of Anton Chekhov's masterpiece of provincial claustrophobia is translated and introduced by Stephen Mulrine.
A modern-day tale of unexpected genius and of our struggle to accommodate extraordinary talent, loosely inspired by Thomas Hardy's novel Jude the Obscure.
A radical play set in East Berlin in 1968, unfolding with all the tension of a spy thriller and the inexorable revelations of an Ibsen drama.
Sasha may not have a job or a flat, and, admittedly her boyfriend's not answering her calls; but she's got talent and a dream - when she releases her first EP everything's going to change. Nicole Lecky's debut play receives its world premiere at Londons Royal Court theatre.
1944. America. Paul Robeson is touring the country as the eponymous hero in Shakespeare's Othello. His Desdemona is the brilliant young actress Uta Hagen. Her husband, Jose Ferrer, plays Iago. The actors are friends. But in mid-century American society, they are not all equals. Revenge takes many forms.
Hortense yearns for a new life away from rural Jamaica, Gilbert dreams of becoming a lawyer, and Queenie longs to escape her Lincolnshire roots. In these three intimately connected stories, hope and humanity meet stubborn reality, tracing the tangled history of Jamaica and Britain.Andrea Levy's epic novel Small Island, adapted for the stage by Helen Edmundson, journeys from Jamaica to Britain in 1948 - the year the HMT Empire Windrush docked at Tilbury. It premiered at the National Theatre, London, in April 2019, directed by Rufus Norris.'Honest, skilful, thoughtful and important. This is Andrea Levy's big book' Guardian on Andrea Levy's Small Island
Philip Goulding's stage adaptation of Compton Mackenzie's comedy classic is a tribute to the all-female touring theatre companies of the post-war years.1943 on the Scottish islands of Great and Little Todday, the whisky supply has dried up. Relief seems to be at hand when a ship carrying 50,000 bottles of whisky is wrecked just offshore.
It's 1972. An era of possibility and polyester and pubic hair. While Ziggy Stardust is on Top of the Pops, Penny is writing an essay on Lady Chatterley's Lover, Christine is watching Deep Throat and Brian is confused. 1972: The Future of Sex tells the story of a country on the brink of a sexual awakening.
A new play. A wildly imaginative, irreverent look at life in and after the care system A spiralling odyssey of dizzying theatricality, Wolfie is a bold, fantastical fairytale following two twins separated at birth and asks who is truly responsible for society's most vulnerable children.
Holly Robinson's debut play soft animals is a tender and unflinching story about motherhood, self-destruction and the way women help each other heal.
Professor of Parapsychology, Philip Goodman, is an arch-sceptic with a mission to debunk the paranormal, wherever it occurs. But when he embarks on an investigation of three apparent hauntings Goodman finds himself at the outer limits of rationality, and fast running out of explanations.
A psychological thriller, adapted for the stage from Harriet Lane's gripping novel.
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