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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

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

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

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 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

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

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

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

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

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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

British theatre underwent a vast transformation and expansion in the decades after World War II. This Companion explores......more

The Art Gallery on Stageis the first book to consider the representation of the art gallery on the contemporary British ......more

When someone tells you not to look, OPEN THE BLOODY DOOR! Blue Beard the Magician makes hearts flutter and pupils dilate......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

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

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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

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 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

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

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

Would you mind if I asked you a troubling question? An Oscar-winning American actor, an English director and a Northern ......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

Since the late 1960s, drama by Pacific Island playwrights has flourished throughout Oceania. Although many Pacific Islan......more

Originally composed and published in 1981, this second book makes up two volumes of the plays of George Colman the Young......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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"The first printed edition of Polwhele’s first play, -Faithful Virgins-, a tragicomedy apparently performed in London by......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

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

Sir Neil Marriot had a "good pandemic," becoming familiar to millions from his TV appearances as a government medical ad......more

Medea and Jason, clinging together as refugees in Corinth, have struggled to bring up their beloved offspring in this al......more

2022 Edinburgh Fringe First Award Your life from the day you turn twenty-five through to your death. All the chances you......more

2022 Papatango New Writing Prize A family packs into a small house with a tangled history. Matt is here, yearning to rea......more

John Gabriel Borkman, once an illustrious entrepreneur, has been brought low by a prison sentence for fraud. As he paces......more

Frantic Assembly’s electrifying take on Shakespeare’s tragedy of paranoia, sex and murder, firmly rooted in a volatile t......more

When Eddie returns home to Shropshire, he falls back into his fractious, complicated relationship with his father, both ......more

Pearl, Jan and Linda are enjoying a long-awaited break on the Holy Island of Lindisfarne, when a surprise visitor turns ......more

Scotland, 1504, seen fresh through the eyes of new arrivals Ellen and Anne, two Moorish women who were expected to take ......more

It’s 1567. James Melville is an intelligent, charismatic and skilled diplomat - and also one of the most loyal servants ......more