A new play from the writer of Consent and Tribes. A touching and funny story about the fertilisation of an idea. How do you have a baby when you're 39 and single? You decide. But what happens next?The story, like a child, has a life of its own. The story becomes stories...
Greasy fish n chips, sticks of rock and pot-bellied Spiderman is throwing himself off the pier. The annual `Birdman' competition is in full flight. Caterpillar is a darkly funny, searing and tender drama about when we find ourselves standing on the edge, do we dare to step off?
Pop Music is an emotionally contagious rollercoaster. A night at the theatre like no other.
Brian and Donna's son is nine years old and he's struggling. That's what his teacher says. Says he should see a psychologist. But Brian and Donna - recently separated - never liked school, never liked teachers... Class is The critically acclaimed hit-drama about learning difficulties: in school, in life, wherever. New writing at its finest.
A selection of the best work of Stephen Jeffreys. Included here are his first big success, Valued Friends, The Clink, A Going Concern, and Jeffreys' smash-hit, The Libertine. Rounding off the volume are two previously unpublished plays: Interruptions, and a short autobiographical monologue, Finsbury Park.
The unidentified body of a young man with fatal head injuries is found face down in a suburban street. Who is he and where did he come from? He has no ID and nobody witnessed anything. It's as if he has just fallen from the sky... The Strange Death of John Doe is a powerful and poignant new play, inspired by real events.
A unique collection of everything that Ibsen wrote about the theatre.Three new productions of plays by Henrik Ibsen open somewhere in the world every week. Moreover, they are adapted into multiple genres: Chinese and Western Opera, Japanese Noh theatre, puppet plays, musicals, dance performances, tourist spectacles, promenade performances, applied theatre, community events, and every possible screen technology.The more successful Ibsen became as a playwright, the more reluctant he was to make public pronouncements about the practice of theatre, but his thoughts on the art form can be gleaned by mining his prefaces, letters, speeches and newspaper articles.For the first time, these fragments have been gathered together in one volume. Arranged chronologically, they throw a unique light on Ibsen's views on theatre production, casting, translation, the business of theatre, and most importantly his own plays. The result is an invaluable resource for those who seek to know what Ibsen himself thought about his work and about the theatre of his time.Ibsen on Theatre is edited, introduced and annotated by Frode Helland and Julie Holledge, with new translations by May-Brit Akerholt. Also included is a foreword by Richard Eyre.Ibsen on Theatre is in the Nick Hern Books ...On Theatre series: what the world's greatest dramatists had to say about theatre, in their own words.'For anyone interested in Ibsen's plays-actors, directors, students, audiences-[this is] a marvellously accessible compendium of the thoughts of a man I now unhesitatingly describe as a very great playwright.' Richard Eyre, from his Foreword
Legendary filmmaker Ingmar Bergman's masterpiece Fanny & Alexander is translated to the stage by BAFTA award-winning writer Stephen Beresford. As creative freedom and rigid orthodoxy clash, a war ensues between imagination and austerity in this magical study of childhood, family and love.
An inspiring and interactive workbook to help you develop skills for longform improvisation, by one of the UK's top improv performers and teachers. Ideal for improvisers at any level. Invaluable to anyone looking to discover more about this popular, thrillingly creative and empowering form of performance.
A once close-knit family of four reunite after a long period of estrangement. This time, this time, it must go right. A warm and touchingly comic new drama
A funny, heartfelt and compelling play, that asks what family means in a modern society, delicately weaving in questions of racial identity, economic privilege, and the lottery of birth.
A collection of monologues that document, remember and bear witness to a century of struggle for progress and equality for women in the United Kingdom.
Can a younger generation, dispossessed and disenfranchised, truly empathize with the old - especially when their future is at stake?
A sharply funny, moving play set during the Troubles in Northern Ireland and celebrating women's strength under siege.
The bonds of family, faith and friendship are stretched to breaking-point as four forty-somethings wrestle for school places in this smart new comedy play.
1665. When the plague arrives in Eyam, the villagers are tasked with examining their civil responsibility, as they must decide whether to stay quarantined, or flee and risk spreading the deadly disease. A new play commissioned for Shakespeare's Globe Theatre in London.
A play exploring the last three decades of women in politics, asking what's changed and what still must.
A collection of short plays curated by Sue Parrish, Artistic Director of Sphinx Theatre.
An explosively funny comedy that takes a closer look at the lengths to which people will go to defy biology - and at the moral compass of an industry that trades on fear and hope.
Tracy Letts' gripping thriller, published alongside the West End production, starring Orlando Bloom in the title role.
A vivid and fast-paced ride through a working-class estate, which fuses Shakespeare-inspired lyricism with Cockney accents. Olivier Award winner for Outstanding Achievement in an Affiliate Theatre, 2019.
A practical, and inspiring guide to using puppetry in theatre - the perfect entry point for anyone looking to use puppets in their productions, to explore what puppets can do, or to develop their puppetry skills. Ideal for actors and performers, for directors and designers, and for teachers and students of all ages and levels of experience.
A new play by Nessa Muthy. Welcome to a world where your partner can arrive by special delivery, you can replace your ex with a replica, or supplement your waning love life with regular updates. It could be the answer to all our problems... but what might we lose along the way?
Three women. Three conversations. As the details of what they share begin to diverge, we realise that a subtle game of survival is being played.
An exhilarating play about human triumph, ambition, self-doubt, and pride, set in the world of boxing.
A beautifully observed, moving account of a second generation immigrant family navigating the familial conflicts between generations and cultures.
A prodigiously talented young musician, an Ivy League school, a life changing allegation. Premiered at Hampstead Theatre, Amy Ng's explosive new play asks whether we can ever escape our past and investigates the destructive side of our search for acceptance.
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