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The second collection of work by Olivier award-winning British playwright Laura Wade, bursting with her trademark satiri......more
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A new Student Edition of Willy Russell’s enduring 1983 play, Blood Brothers, offering accessible and vivid insights into......more
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The first of its kind, this anthology documents some of the UK’s most exciting contemporary queer performances, through ......more
The first of its kind, this anthology documents some of the UK’s most exciting contemporary queer performances, through ......more
What do we gain from watching a familiar play for the nth time? This was a crucial question for Romantic-period theatre ......more
Verse drama is not a dead form, but very much alive on the contemporary stage. Drawing on plays from throughout the Engl......more
Created by experts from the world’s largest and most well-respected Shakespeare archive, The Folger Guide to Teaching Ha......more
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Despite the popularity of plays about the East, the representation of the East in early modern drama has been either ove......more
The latest work from acclaimed playwright Jez Butterworth, The Hills of California is a generational drama that rifles t......more
The Routledge Companion to Twentieth Century British Theatre provides a broad range of perspectives on the multiple mode......more
Jacq and Kas’s boutique restaurant has gone bust, and telling their oldest friends Adaego and her rich husband Tobin tha......more
Arriving from his East Midlands beginnings into a London thick with the grime of industrialization, Joseph Merrick is an......more
Professor George Grey is world-renowned for her pioneering research into octopus intelligence. Recently bereaved, her cl......more
For Charly, every day is the same. Things used to be different, when there was Clo, but now there isn’t Clo, and Charly ......more
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When shy Aaron joins the hotel’s inharmonious team, he’s faced with emotionally volatile guests, apathetic staff and man......more
It’s the 1970s, and Fereydoun Farrokhzad’s star is blazing bright - he’s a sex symbol and chart-topping pop singer. Imag......more
July 1889, London. A flea bites a rat. A rat spooks a horse. A horse kicks a man. As the chain reaction continues, a boy......more
Casey’s new boyfriend Brett is handsome, romantic and devoted - a dream come true. He writes poetry! He makes quiche! Fo......more
MALAPROP Theatre is an award-winning collective of Irish theatremakers, who seek to challenge, delight and speak to the ......more
Gregor Samsa wakes up each morning, quietly leaves the house to take the same train, and works to pay off the family deb......more
Chunkyz Shisha Lounge is a home away from home for Jihad, Rashid and Asif, a space where community whispers are heard, j......more
1917: World War One is raging in Europe. In Britain, Sterling Ladies - known as the Dagenham Invincibles - are playing t......more
On the surface, Michael and Cheryl have it all: a posh new home in suburban Belfast, good jobs, 2.4 pets. But things tak......more
Mark and Tiny go for walks along the beach at Seaton Carew, County Durham. Their dad is dying, and their town is crumbli......more
Christmas Eve, 1946, Bedford Falls. Down-on-his-luck banker George Bailey feels life has passed him by, and he’s at the ......more
1979. Clarence House, London. The Queen Mother’s receptions are in full swing and the champagne is flowing. Guiding the ......more
A playwright known for dazzling structural inventiveness combined with emotional intelligence and wit, James Fritz is a ......more
The spellbinding story of love and murder, power and paranoia, and the internal struggles of a married couple as they tr......more
Chasing his runaway shadow, a mischievous young boy who will never grow up crash lands through an open window and meets ......more
When the worlds of science-fiction and science-fact collide... extraordinary things can happen. Dave is the great-great ......more
Irina takes erotic photos of average-looking men. Always behind the lens, she watches, she molds, and she stalks. These ......more
Mustapha Matura Award - 2022 Malachi’s been looking forward to a fresh start at uni for months. He’s settling in, he’s g......more
Poland, 1949. Zula is bold and brilliant, a singer who ignites the stage. Wiktor is withdrawn and damaged, a composer lo......more
Best Play - Evening Standard Awards - 2023 1964: Richard Burton, the firebrand Welsh actor, newly married to movie star ......more
Edinburgh Fringe First Award - 2022 A permanently single, professionally neurotic stand-up comedian finally meets his Mr......more
Richard Burton, the firebrand Welsh actor, newly married to movie star Elizabeth Taylor, is to play the title role in an......more
"A nation that devours another will one day devour itself." Set when the Great Devouring comes home, England & Son is a ......more
Thomas Dekker’s singular comic drama, The Shoemakers’ Holiday moves through the urban landscape of 16th century apprenti......more
Thomas Dekker’s singular comic drama, The Shoemakers’ Holiday moves through the urban landscape of 16th century apprenti......more
Over a decade, Fishamble commissioned and called for submissions of tiny plays that reflected major changes in Irish soc......more
Bruntwood Prize Judges’ Award - 2017 Behind the crumbling walls of St Grace’s Convent, an exhausted order of nuns needs ......more
How does our understanding of early modern performance, culture and identity change when we decentre Shakespeare? And ho......more
William Shakespeare’s comedy As You Like It (adapted by playwright Stephen Evans) offers what may be his funniest. most ......more
This book explores historical, socio-political, and metatheatrical readings of a whole host of dying bodies and risen co......more
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"The most infamous scandal in financial history becomes a theatrical epic in Lucy Prebble’s parable, republished in Meth......more
Biographies of two actresses reclaim the story of women in theater in 1930s Ireland. The book explores the lives of Aide......more
It only takes one voice to resist. Caught by the Nazis distributing forbidden leaflets, Sophie Scholl is facing executio......more
To interrupt, both on stage and off, is to wrest power. From the Ghost’s appearance in Hamlet to Celia’s frightful speec......more
This book investigates the translation field as a hybrid space for the competing claims between the colonisers and the c......more
Artist Eric Ravilious’s stunning illustrative interpretation of Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night. Together with a newly commi......more
Bisi Adigun and Roddy Doyle’s centenary adaption of J. M. Synge’s classic The Playboy of the Western World had a sold-ou......more
Bisi Adigun and Roddy Doyle’s centenary adaption of J. M. Synge’s classic The Playboy of the Western World had a sold-ou......more
This co-edited collection breaks new ground by bringing together several leading scholars to explore the substantial bod......more
These four new short plays were written over the first twenty years of the 21st Century by master playwright Keith Dewhu......more
Hyde Park is a striking Caroline example of London city comedy. This critical edition unpicks its valuable insights into......more
And I think you can tell a lot about a person by what they choose to see in you. She was a 17 year old girl; the only Go......more
Times are tough for the family in the wood. They’d eat like kings if only they could.But hunger gnaws - famine stalks th......more
A group of teenagers, their lives shaped by billions of seemingly random events going back to before they were born, com......more
In the Downing Street Press Office an emergency meeting has been called. The Prime Minister has been ad-libbing on live ......more
It’s 1671, and the charismatic and unpredictable Colonel Blood is planning the greatest heist of all time: stealing - in......more
When orphaned Mary Lennox comes to live at her uncle’s great house on the Yorkshire Moors, she finds it full of secrets.......more
Five wildly different women gather in the muddy fields of the Highland Games circuit to compete in the obscure art of Ba......more
The early hours of Wednesday 14 June 2017. The north-west corner of the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea. A twent......more
The story Charles Dickens might have written after drinking too much gin... Follow half-orphan Pip’s extraordinary explo......more
Helen is forty when she loses her husband. Her daughter Becca is fifteen when her dad dies. Now it’s just the two of the......more
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Es and Flo fell fiercely in love in the eighties. They’ve been living as secret lovers ever since. As Es becomes more fo......more
David is in love with King. But King is a superhero. After an unexpected encounter, David plunges himself into a world o......more
David is gay, disabled and profoundly horny. He can’t eat, drink or shower by himself - or wank. Totally inexperienced, ......more
Mary has just been released from prison. She wants to come home and forget all about it - but Briana has other ideas. Ov......more
After the breakout success of his early work for stage and screen, Jack Thorne turned for inspiration to his own family ......more