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A new comic drama, starring Maureen Lipman, about the life of the famous play agent, Peggy Ramsay, who helped transform post-war British drama

In a drowned world - how far will you go to save your own skin? In this vicious tale of love, revolt and beauty, Gary Owen presents a vision of a world divided between citizens and non-citizens, where friends betray one another and where surfaces matter more than love or kinship.

The study of the frail, flawed relationship between a middle-aged woman tripe butcher and a loud-mouthed factory worker.

The Discworld's most inept wizard has been sent to the oppressive Agatean Empire to help overthrow the Emperor. He's aided by toy-rabbit-wielding rebels, an army of terracotta warriors, a tax gatherer, seven very elderly barbarian heroes, and a subversive book entitled "What I Did On My Holidays".

A play and production from one of the world's most innovative theatre companies

Dramatic events in a rural community on the Scottish coast reflect the shifting political and social fabric of Britain in the 20th century. This play premiered at the Royal Shakespeare Company in London.

Two plays from one of Britain's most challenging dramatists. Both are set in a late-21st-century post-apocalyptic landscape where human behaviour is monitored, living spaces are designated and any emotional displays are eradicated.

By the author of Lucky Bag, Up to You, Porky and Barmy, two plays that provided an early vehicle for Victoria Wood's own performance teamed with Julie Walters. Friendship comes under uncommon strain in both plays as a community arts centre prepares to host the annual rally of cystitis sufferers in Good Fun and Maureen helps Julie dress for a night-club talent contest in Talent.

As part of Wakefield's centenary celebrations in 1988, the author was commissioned to do a modern adaptation of the Wakefield Medieval Mystery Plays. Simple vernacular speech is retained, spanning the Creation to the Resurrection. The music is by Andy Roberts.

In the light of a pregnancy, a faithless couple pick apart their relationship, stitch by painful stitch. Can it be mended? This dark and intimate play is a love story set at the extremes of brutality, banality and tenderness.

A stunning new play by "the most exciting playwright to come out of Wales" (Guardian)

The two monologues in this volume exolore the shattering of childhood innocence. The play opens up a moral minefield. Who can, or should, consent to what? Can anyone consent to something on the behalf of another? What power can anyone have over the mind and life of another?

It's 11pm on Millennium Eve. The ancient clown, Scaramouche Jones, has given his last performance and waits in his dressing room for the stroke of midnight - and his own centenary. Reflecting on the fortunes of his life, his journey spans the 20th century in his quest for a father and a homeland.

Two plays from playwright Kevin Hood. In "The Astronomer's Garden", while the base of the play is the vicious rivalry between Astronomer Royal, John Flamstead and Sir Edmund Halley, its true subjects are sex and class conflict. In "Beached" a couple of young runaways wind up on a bleak sea coast.

The second in McDonagh's Connemara trilogy of plays. Mick Dowd is hired annually to disinter the bones in certain sections of his local cemetery, in order to make way for the new arrivals. As the time comes for him to dig up those of his own late wife, strange rumours also resurface.

"The finest American playwright of his generation" (Sunday Times)

From the celebrated and controversial writer of Shopping and Fucking

Brilliant new comedy from Scotland's outstanding contemporary playwright

Kill the Old Torture their Young is an urban tragi-comedy from the acclaimed writer of Knives in Hens, one of Scotland's most talented new playwrights

A sharp and hilarious biographical play based on the life of Carry On star Sid James

This text offers the two comic plays previously staged in London in February 2000.

Rachel Keats is growing up in a town she doesn't like. Abandoned by her mother, she is left to bring up her younger brother. When her new partner starts to abuse her, and those she loves leave her behind, will she stay or will she find the strength to make her own way in the world?

This work is the last play by Sarah Kane, the controversial contemporary British playwright, who died aged 28 in February 1999. A single voice, dragged through therapy and endless medication, reveals the true experience of clinical depression.

"Breath, Boom" is a play that explores the life of a hardened New York gang member whose chief obsession is the creation of the perfect fireworks display. The author considers this marginal character's attitude to her own perilous existence.

When Derek's girlfriend Kath decides to move in with him she follows the advice of her favourite chat-show host and asks to meet his family. Derek's mother is in a nursing home, resentful of June, the limbless patient who gets all the attention. Her only saving grace is her assistant, Larry.

Lillian, a young clerk in a department store, impulsively steals a watch from the store to replace the one Frederic, her boyfriend, lost. Over the next 24 hours both their lives twist and turn in ways they never expected.

In "Down the Line", the Walshes are a middle class suburban Dublin family. It is the 1980s and Eve and James have reared four children. Almost. In "The Hunt for Red Willie" a local landlord meets his end while in pursuit of the notorious Red Willie. Foul play is suspected and the hunt is on.

The Glee Club, made up of five hard-working, hard-drinking miners and a church organist, is preparing for the local gala. This is the summer of 1962; music and much else is about to change - so too the lives of these six men. Nothing and no-one will ever be the same again.