If you could press a button and one hundred thousand vulnerable citizens died instantly but the rest of the population o......more
These four new short plays were written over the first twenty years of the 21st Century by master playwright Keith Dewhu......more
Nominated for Best New Play at the 2023 Olivier Awards I found a king in me and now I love you I found a king in you and......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
On his fifteenth birthday, Noble transforms into a bird. Thousands of miles away, his sister Cleo is stationed on a remo......more
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
Sophie is about to become a single mum - a third-generation one - and she’s terrified. How will she afford to feed her b......more
In a cottage by the sea, four women live in a house made for five. Meals are prepared, stories are shared and the waves ......more
Summer 1945. Hitler is dead, but the war in the Pacific rages on. When six of Germany’s top nuclear scientists - includi......more
They don’t seem an obvious match. Joanne is spiky, defensive, a survivor; Paul is quiet, considered - and hiding profoun......more
When ’intimidating’ Rachel and eternal ’nice guy’ Nick meet at an awkward work Christmas party, what was meant to be a o......more
Amber is trapped - by her family’s rules and expectations, and by her own fears. But on the running track she feels free......more
In May 1926, Britain grinds to a halt, as workers down tools for the General Strike. With the printing presses shut down......more
Years and years ago, Hope disappeared. Now, she’s back. To find something she left behind. But in the People’s Republic ......more
Summer 1860, an elegant country house, a young boy is found dead in an outside privy. All clues point towards the murder......more
Dan is a carpenter. A Geordie through and through. He had a heart attack recently, but he’s on the mend now. Katie has j......more
An irrepressible fraudster known only as the Maniac is brought into Police Headquarters just as the officers are prepari......more
Two couples each invite a stranger into their homes in the hope of sparking new life. Instead, they find themselves thre......more
The short play - very traditional to Irish theatre - is a little jewel of a structure, a lightning flash on a different ......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
Lyrical, funny and moving, this is Dylan Thomas’s masterwork and a beloved Welsh classic. It is spring, moonless night i......more
London will do for you for now... And I will do for London. London, 1956. Newly arrived from Trinidad, Henry ’Sir Galaha......more
A powerfully topical new translation of Shakespeare’s study of military power and political folly. Bay Area director, ac......more
A modern translation that will appeal to new audiences. In her translation of The Merry Wives of Windsor, Dipika Guha up......more
In Killology, players are rewarded for torturing victims, scoring points for "creativity". But Killology isn’t sick. In ......more
EROS!! Do your thing! It’s 1950s London, and Ferdy, Bernie, Dennis and Lennie arrive from the West Indies full of expect......more
From the gods, from the hills, from a crush of gyrating bodies lost in a riff, but all time I could hear a voice in my e......more
British theatre underwent a vast transformation and expansion in the decades after World War II. This Companion explores......more
When someone tells you not to look, OPEN THE BLOODY DOOR! Blue Beard the Magician makes hearts flutter and pupils dilate......more
The Art Gallery on Stageis the first book to consider the representation of the art gallery on the contemporary British ......more
As I walk past the funeral parlour, I see a poster next to their two-for-one offer. It’s a wanted poster with my name on......more
This story will be told, the way it has always been told. What else use is it otherwise? The hags on the heath. The woma......more
"This translation modernizes the language of this comedy and takes the archaic humor and renews it for a contemporary au......more
"A contemporary translation of one of Shakespeare’s earliest explorations of love and friendship"--...more
An accessible new translation of one of Shakespeare’s most interesting and challenging plays. One of Shakespeare’s most ......more
This translation of Shakespeare’s overlooked play will captivate contemporary readers. Virginia Grise takes on one of Sh......more
One of Shakespeare’s late plays rewritten in contemporary language. In her modern translation of Cymbeline, Andrea Thome......more
First, complete, integrated corpus of this major Elizabethan writer and first critical edition of his collected works in......more
Winner of the 2023 Woven Voices Prize Who do you blame? The woman, the gun, or politics? Berker travels from Britain to ......more
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Rebecca Lemon illuminates a previously-buried conception of addiction, as a form of devotion at once laudable, difficult......more
"It’s not really surprising that our generation would be struggling. It’s a sane response to an insane world." When the ......more
Are those little voices in our heads our friends, or our enemies? What if they’re neither, what if they’re both? In this......more
In an oak-panelled room in a rural Oxford gastropub, ten young undergraduates with cut-glass vowels and deep pockets are......more
Set in early 17th-century London this play is renowned for its sharp wit, intricate plot, and vibrant characters. Jonson......more
’A scared playwright won’t write a good play. We’re going to have to try to find a bit more steel.’ - Telegraph Ryan Cra......more
’A scared playwright won’t write a good play. We’re going to have to try to find a bit more steel.’ - Telegraph RyanCrai......more
A funny, moving play which celebrates the lives of three real-life heroines: Edwardian balloonist and parachutist Dolly ......more
Co-written by William Shakespeare and John Fletcher, this is a captivating play that explores themes of love, friendship......more
Winner of the 2020 Alfred Fagon Award. As the 19th Century dawns in London, politicians of all parties gather to abolish......more
First published in 1965, The Golden Labyrinth provides a coherent and readable history of the essential nature of Britis......more
Robert Greene holds a significant place in our understanding of Elizabethan literature. This book offers the most rigoro......more
This book covers playwright Martin Crimp’s recent work showing how it captures the nuances in our interpersonal contempo......more
Private Peaceful relives the life of Private Tommo Peaceful, a young First World War soldier awaiting the firing squad a......more
No.1 - Players always come first No.2 - We look to the future No.3 - We never leave anyone behind No.4 - We place others......more
Elif shears sheep for a rich landowner. Every other waking hour she spends queuing outside the palace, hoping that the K......more
There’s a legend about the Watch House... Scrape beneath the whitewash and you’ll find terror. You’ll find him. Tynemout......more
Step into the heart-wrenching world of "The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet" by William Shakespeare. Set against the vibrant......more
A TALE OF RACISM, REVENGE, BETRAYAL AND JEALOUSY One of Shakespeare’s most performed tragedies written in approximately ......more
Would you mind if I asked you a troubling question? An Oscar-winning American actor, an English director and a Northern ......more
"The Doctor’s Dilemma" is a satirical play written by George Bernard Shaw. This social comedy revolves around the ethica......more
"Major Barbara" is a play written by the renowned Irish playwright George Bernard Shaw. Set in Edwardian London, the nar......more
George Bernard Shaw, a famend Irish playwright, wrote the comedian play "You Never Can Tell". The novel is about in a se......more
Under Milk Wood is Dylan Thomas’s best-known and best-loved work, his radio play completed in 1953 at the very end of hi......more
Originally composed and published in 1981, this second book makes up two volumes of the plays of George Colman the Young......more
Since the late 1960s, drama by Pacific Island playwrights has flourished throughout Oceania. Although many Pacific Islan......more
From 1642 to 1660, live theater was banned in England. The market for printed books, however--including plays--flourishe......more
From 1642 to 1660, live theater was banned in England. The market for printed books, however--including plays--flourishe......more
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There are ghosts everywhere. There are ghosts here right now. Plagued by the ugly truth of her late husband’s legacy, He......more
"The first printed edition of Polwhele’s first play, -Faithful Virgins-, a tragicomedy apparently performed in London by......more
An anthology of five of the best plays from VAULT Festival 2023, London’s leading festival of live performance. Fanboy b......more
In 1988, two Birmingham school friends tentatively come out to one another: Edward as gay; Peter, even more daringly, as......more
The average person will speak 123,205,750 words in a lifetime. But what if there were a limit? Oliver and Bernadette are......more
While on holiday, Peter and Debbie befriend Elsa: a lusty, Trump-loving widow from Denver, USA. She’s less than woke but......more
Gabriel Dolan’s never been up to much. That’s what everyone says. Until she meets Alex, a young, ambitious woman who sel......more
Zafar flees homophobic persecution in Pakistan to seek asylum in the UK. Londoner Bilal (or Billy as he prefers to be kn......more
The near future. The climate emergency is gathering pace, and our generation is being judged. The jurors are children. B......more
2022 Edinburgh Fringe First Award A permanently single, professionally neurotic stand-up comedian finally meets his Mr R......more
2022 Edinburgh Fringe First Award Starting in the quaint days of dial-up and MSN, Happy Meal is a funny, moving and nost......more