The harvest is ripe in a Black Country pear orchard. Seasoned hands settle to familiar tasks and the ritual education of newcomers. But corrupted lands yield a bitter crop. The weather turns, friction mounts, and pesticide begins to fall.
A darkly comedic coming-of-age solo play, Before I Was A Bear is a modern myth about the power dynamics of sexuality and shame, women's relationships with each other, and an affair with a hot TV detective.
A gripping philosophical clash between Pope Benedict XVI and the future Pope Francis.
A controversial new musical from an acclaimed team of writers and performers.
A viciously funny and unforgettable play about first love, teenage lust and nature vs nurture.
This funny, life-affirming play is infused with humour and humanity. Tender and touching, Visitors is an elegiac celebration of a lifetime shared.
A new Christmas show adapted from the classic German children's novel, first published in the UK in 1931.
Written by one of Poland's leading playwrights, Tadeusz Slobodzianek. Based on a tragic, historic event that happened in the town of Jedwabne , Poland in 1941, Our Class chronicles the lives of ten classmates from their childhood in the 1920s to the beginning of the new millennium. Translated by Ryan Craig
Good for youth theatre. "Dynamo of a play-an exuberant tragedy."--Kate Kellaway, The Observer
Buchner is often considered the father of modern German drama, and "Woyzeck"was his most influential work. Beneath the utter simplicity of itsbasic story, there are complex themes of human motivation, victimisation, guilt, class, and the meaning and nature ofexistence. This edition incorporates recent research and full Introduction and Notes."
An anarchic and foul-mouthed satire based on the phone hacking saga, which was a sell-out success at the National Theatre before transferring to the West End.
The Secret Lives of Baba Segi's Wives is a scandalous, engrossing tale of sexual politics and family strife in modern-day Nigeria. Lola Shoneyin's bestselling novel bursts on to the stage in a vivid adaptation by Caine Award-winning playwright Rotimi Babatunde.
A trilogy of works about cancer. Sometimes inappropriate, often salacious and always funny, honest and open. A collection of performance texts about cancer, illness and the body.
First performed in 1967, this is an early, yet startlingly brilliant, work by the internationally acclaimed Argentine playwright, Griselda Gambaro.
Based on the true story, and set in 1934 in an unnamed southern state of America, Bonnie & Clyde is an intimate re-telling of the final hours of one of the world's most infamous criminal couples.
Prize winning adaptations of four seminal Russian plays collected together for the first time. A collection of plays from Richard Crane, these four plays flourished out of a unique collaboration of author and director, which saw them progressing from fringe to mainstream, West End and Off-Broadway.
A play from Niklas Radstrom which looks into the 1993 killing of James Bulger. A hard-hitting and emotional play. Winner of the inaugural Anglo-Swedish Literary Foundation Award 2008.
English translation of Nobel laureate Elfriede Jelinek's Sports Play, a provocative postdramatic theatrical exploration of sport as a form of war. First produced in Vienna in 1998, this English version was produced in the UK to coincide with the London 2012 Olympics, and has subsequently toured internationally.
Carthage asks who should raise our children when even the systems designed to protect them can be abusive.
A riotous journey through four waves of immigration from the seventeenth century to today.
OEdoen von Horvath's startling tale of displacement and isolation in the aftermath war, boldly adapted by Duncan Macmillan.
Funny and moving - an insight into 30's Hollywood and an epic of laughter.
A black political farce set is a seedy hotel in Central Europe by OEdoen von Horvath.
A reportage play. Valerie wants a job, Frank wants to run the marathon--Paul, Philip and Alan just want to hold on. This dramatic piece of reportage draws on interviews with murderers to create stark, uncompromising portraits of people rebuilding their lives.
Pip, a poor village boy, finds two chance meetings set his life on an unexpected course. At the water's edge, he has a terrifying encounter with an escaped convict. In the decaying grandeur of Miss Haversham's house, he falls hopelessly in love with the heartless Estella. When an anonymous benefactor helps him move to Calcutta, the heart of the British Raj, Pip pursues his great expectations and his dream of winning Estella's heart. Relocating Pip's extraordinary journey to nineteenth-century India, this coming-of-age story, evoking some of Dickens' most colourful characters, is faithful to the period of the book and the richness of Dickens' language - a vivid theatrical retelling of a universally loved masterpiece.
A sunny September day. Heather Smithson, a senior MI5 controller, has a dilemma. Her job is on the line. She pauses in the sunshine to brood on recent events and what they mean in her life. Seattle, Genoa, New York: What is the battleground? Who is the enemy?Hyperlynx was performed as a one act rehearsed reading at the Edinburgh Festival in August 2001. Its grim premonition of the terrorist activity of September 11th, necessitated that John McGrath wrote a second act. He completed the play in November before his death in January 2002.Hyperlynx was the winner of the Fringe First Award, Edinburgh 2002
A biting cultural satire on media cynicism and the world of celebrity where you can go from nothing to everything and back again in the space of a YouTube video.
New play from critically acclaimed poet, described as "the best dramatic poet now at work " by the Daily Telegraph
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