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The Iliad-inspired story, Idomeneus by leading German playwright, Roland Schimmelpfennig.

A monologue for younger actors seeking new writing from an up-and-coming playwright.

This Summer 2014, the RSC are producing a festival of new plays, in a purpose-built temporary studio on the current Courtyard Theatre stage. The festival is led by Deputy Artistic Director Erica Whyman with four new short plays by leading female British playwrights.

An award-winning play by up-and-coming Irish theatre company.

A multi-award winning new play by acclaimed American playwright Kevin Kautzman.

From fast-rising Channel 4 Playwrights' Scheme winner Clara Brennan, comes a hilarious, pan-generational and heartbreaking call to arms for our modern age.

A play from the brilliant playwright Torben Betts, centered around the recession in Britain. Looking at the political and class consequences for the 'real people' in this comedy play.

Hole is a new play by Royal Court Young Writers' Programme alumna Ellie Kendrick, asking how power is created through words, music and movement.

It's back to school with a bang for Alisha, Iman and Kareem - they all failed GCSE English and there are only six weeks until their resits.

"Nothing's very far away from anything, is it, in this country? Not really?". Chris Thorpe's cycle of six warm, witty new plays crosses northern England, from a sheep farm in Eskdale via a tourist information centre in Whitby to Manchester, and explores the landscapes that surround us and how we live with each other.

An uncompromising political drama, traveling backwards through time.

New stage adaptation of the bestselling children's author. On stage in Exeter & Bristol in 2014 before a full UK Tour in 2015

Sixteen short satires attacking the decadence of Rome - hilarious monologues performed by Simon Callow.

Thomas Bernhard's rarely performed masterpiece, a moving portrait of a once celebrated actor now isolated and forgotten.

A play devised by and written for young people, which explores adolescent sexuality, friendship and loss.

The English-language premiere from one of Europe's stars of speaking theatre - great material for amateur groups seeking something original

Poet Bev Hemmings is in the eye of a storm after she publishes a poem that the world seems to believe is anti-Semitic. She's convinced she's innocent, but everyone else - including her PA, Tamsin - wants her to apologise... Checkpoint Chana examines the point where pro-Palestinian criticism of the government of Israel and anti-Semitism blur.

With the true value of money and the human cost of greed firmly in their sights, Proto-type Theater tell the story of how, in the aftermath of the 2008 economic crisis, Icelanders raised their voices in protest and railed against the currents.

One of Terry Pratchett's most popular Discworld Novels adapted for the stage by long-time friend and collaborator Stephen Briggs. The Rince Cycle mashes the best moments of Rincewind, one of Pratchett's most popular and enduring characters, into a two hour show.

A dark, volatile new play by the George Devine Award-winning playwright Alice Birch.

A new play for young people adapted from the nove written by the acclaimed writer of The Gruffalo.

A collection of six performance pieces from one of the UK's most daring and challenging collaborative theatre groups.

Provocative new play by acclaimed writer Gary Duggan.

Picture yourself as a bartender, sipping top-shelf whiskey and watching your customers descend into nightly oblivion. Your heart is broken by the world around you and, leaving the whisky aside, you hatch a devious, unthinkable plan of escape -

Kill Me Now is a black comedy about Jake who has sacrificed his career as a writer to care for his teenage son Joey.

Civil war is raging in Liberia. Four young women - members of the rebel army - are struggling to survive. Yet sometimes, the greatest threat comes not from the enemy's guns, but from the brutality of those on your own side.

Animals is a wicked satire set in a world where everyone over 60 is tossed on the scrapheap, children are hothoused, and being a 'burden on society' is the ultimate crime.

Adapted from Ben Travers' classic comedy.

The Master and Margarita is a novel by Mikhail Bulgakov, written between 1928 and 1940 but not published in book form until 1967. It is woven around a visit by the Devil to the fervently atheistic Soviet Union. Many critics consider it to be one of the best novels of the 20th century, and the foremost of Soviet satires.

A new play about the 2015 General Election, by one of British Theatre's leading social commentators, Torben Betts.