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Using only Charles Dickens' extraordinary words, Neil Bartlett's powerful stage versions of Dickens have garnered wide critical acclaim.
Collected together for the first time are four works by young British playwright Thomas Eccleshare, whose plays have been performed to national and international acclaim over the past decade.
Presenting four plays, this work includes "Toast" where seven men come together to bake enough bread to feed the population of Hull. It also features "Honeymoon Suite" that deals with love, and middle manager Stephen England ("Mr England").
Three short plays from the multi-award-winning writer of Visitors
The first collection in English of plays by Marius von Mayenburg, one of Europe's most influential and widely produced playwrights
Presenting Bella Heesom's first two plays - My World Has Exploded A Little Bit and Rejoicing At Her Wondrous Vulva The Young Woman Applauded Herself - grappling with feminism, grief and female desire.
Three plays by playwright and novelist Caryl Phillips, written in the 1980s and collected here for the first time: Strange Fruit, Where There is Darkness, and The Shelter.
Plays One is the first volume of brand-new English translations of selected volumes of Hanoch Levin, one of Israel's leading dramatists, aiming to bring one of the most important playwrights of the Middle East to English speaking audiences.
'Hanoch Levin is the modern world on the stage... we badly need to hear what he has to say.' David LanHanoch Levin was one of Israel's leading dramatists. Born in Tel Aviv in 1943, his work includes comedies, tragedies, and satirical cabarets, most of which he directed himself. He received numerous theatre awards both in Israel and abroad and his plays have been staged around the world. Levin was awarded the Bialik Prize in 1994. Published in brand-new English translations, these selected volumes of Hanoch Levin, one of Israel's leading dramatists, aim to bring one of the most important playwrights of the Middle East to English speaking audiences.Plays Three contains the plays The Thin Soldier, Bachelors and Bachelorettes (2002), Everyone Wants to Live, The Constant Mourner (2019) and The Lamenters (2000).
A collection of four classic farces from Ben Travers (1886-1980), who was known as the master of the "Aldwych Farce."
Bringing together five plays commissioned specially for the RADA Elders Company, this anthology provides a selection of dynamic and thought-provoking works for Elders companies anywhere.
Nelson Falcao Rodrigues (August 23, 1912 - December 21, 1980) was a Brazilian playwright, journalist and novelist.This volume contains brand-new translations of the plays Wedding Dress; Waltz No. 6; All Nudity Will Punished; Forgive Me for Your Betrayal; Family Portraits; Black Angel and Seven Little Kitties.
The second collection of unflinching political work by Mojisola Adebayo, including the plays I Stand Corrected, Asara and the Sea-Monstress, Oranges and Stones, The Interrogation of Sandra Bland and STARS. With an introduction by Lynette Goddard.
Includes the plays The Castle, Gertrude - The Cry, Animals in Paradise and 13 Objects.
From Ushuaia, the southernmost town in the world to the edges of the great Paraná river, and from the city of Buenos Aires to its fertile plains and the estuaries of northern Argentina, The Oberon Anthology of Contemporary Argentinian Plays provides a unique insight into the preoccupations and the creative responses of one of the major theatre-producing countries in Latin America.Includes the plays:La vida extraordinaria (Extraordinary Life) by Mariano Tenconi Blanco, translated by Catherine BoylePato verde (Green Duck) by Fabián Miguel Díaz, translated by Gwen MacKeithFonavi by Leonel Giacometto, translated by Rosalind HarveyNou Fiuter (No Future) by Franco Calluso, translated by William GregoryPoema ordinario (Poor Men's Poetry) by Juan Ignacio Fernández, translated by William GregoryFuego de dragón sobre dragón de madera (Dragon Fire over Wood Dragon) by Candelaria Sabagh, translated by Kate Eaton
Plays Two is the second volume of brand-new English translations of selected volumes of Hanoch Levin, one of Israel's leading dramatists, aiming to bring one of the most important playwrights of the Middle East to English speaking audiences.
Three stage plays and one play for BBC Radio from a unique and comic playwright.
"11 Josephine House" is set in Bristol in the 1970s, and pushed froward by religion, drink, love and hate. "Death of a Blackman" unfolds like a dream, created a reality in which the only thing to be sure of is the need to make it in a white man's world. "Lonely Cowboy" is play about searching for identity in Brixton in the eighties.
An inspiring play from Eduardo Erba and translated into English by celebrated playwright and translator Colin Teeven.
These two plays portray the losers in what von Horvath calls "the gigantic battle between the individual and society."
A new collection of three plays by Dea Loher, one of Germany's most highly esteemed contemporary playwrights.
Two of Britain's most enduring and remarkable horror stories, adapted for the stage by multi-award-winning playwrights Lisa Evans and Bryony Lavery.
A collection of one-act plays by one of British Theatre's most distinctive voices, these short plays parade David Pinner's enthrallment with the political, the farcical, the sexual and, above all, the miserable. Contains the plays Cartoon, An Evening with the G.L.C., Shakebag, and Succubus.
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