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A desert. A border. A remote petrol station within earshot of civil war. This vividly imagined twilight zone provides the background for a familial standoff in which the crimes, secrets, and broken loves of one generation make violent claims on the lives of the next as two half-brothers vie for favours and allegiance from their ageing father.

A play set in World War II about the moment when love confronts extremism.

Set over a single evening, Jam is a relentless, incendiary new drama that interrogates social fault-lines in Britain today, and the tension between truth and justice.

The Making Mischief Festival features work from some of today's most exciting playwrights who are challenging and questioning our society. The Festival runs from 24 May to 17 June from The Other Place Studio Theatre, Stratford-upon-Avon. Featuring The Earthworks by Tom Morton-Smith, and Myth by Matt Hartley and Kirsty Housley.

Dead Centre's new solo work for an eleven -year-old boy is devoted to Shakespeare's only son, Hamnet, who died in 1596 at the age of eleven.

A new stage adaptation of the much-loved novel, from one of Britain's foremost directors, Matthew Dunster.

A shocking new thriller drama exploring greed and the financial crisis, directed by Sir Trevor Nunn.

A new dramatization of one of the angriest, funniest and most deeply felt stories about childhood ever written.

It's Dougie's birthday. He just turned 50 and his family are throwing him a party. But it's he who has a surprise for them. A bombshell proposal.

Sad Little Man is a stand-up tragedy set performed by the mind of a young man in shock.

A chance meeting between two children on the streets of Edinburgh leads to a terrible reckoning, leaving Jenny and Tommy forever bound together by blood and fate.

A reclusive children's writer becomes wildly successful. Her books are treasured across the country. But when a troubling narrative starts to unfold, we find ourselves asking: What matters more, the storyteller or the story?

Five years ago, Annie Siddons found herself living in suburbia by accident. This show is a hilarious and touching account about her attempts to fit in.

Questions the value of art and the power of storytelling. Ticket proceeds in aid of Street Child United.

In a cheap house made of plywood and glue, notions of masculinity and femininity become weapons with which to defeat the old order. But in Taylor Mac's sly, subversive comedy, annihilating the past doesn't always free you from it.

For anyone who has suffered mental illness themselves, or has lived with someone who is afflicted, this piece will cut close to the bone. Triple Fringe First winner Andrew Buckland stars in Lara Foot's powerful and poignant drama about friendship, dysfunction, addiction and angels.

A real-life story of gender transition and the search for identity

Two actors, one couple, swapping roles. A savage new play exploring violence in relationships and our expectations of gender.

Harry is a play about friendship and fandom, exploring the impact on young people of a celebrity-obsessed, Twitter-fuelled culture. Thick Skin is about millennials, but don't let that put you off. They're just trying to become decent people.

How to Act explores the contemporary realities of personal, cultural and economic exploitation through two individuals drawn together in the theatre.

A captivating, lively and poignant portrait of the pressures of being a teenager and the fight for acceptance in these intertwined monologues about three working class sisters sent to a private school.

Locker Room Talk is a provocative piece of event theatre. Inspired by Donald Trump's leaked sexually aggressive comments, the show is a confronting exploration of the phenomenon the then presidential candidate later dismissed as `locker room banter'.

The Flying Lovers of Vitebsk traces a young couple as they navigate the Pogroms, the Russian Revolution, and each other.

A searing comedy about clocking in, clocking out and rising up in New York.

Letters to Morrissey is the third in a trilogy of often darkly comic works drawing on the joys and struggles of growing up in working class Scotland.

Two policemen are called out to a remote asylum to investigate the escape of a missing patient. Set in the twilight world of 1950s pulp, this creepy satire twists and turns towards its shocking climax.

When Paul meets Marie outside the headmaster's office it's hardly love at first sight. More like "what you playing at you frigging psycho?" And when the two sixteen-year-olds find out Marie is pregnant, things get a little dicey. But hindsight is a wonderful thing, and as a grown up Paul waits to meet his children for the first time it's time for some serious thinking."I drink too much, my toilet looks like a bomb site and I eat crisps for breakfast. I'm not fit to be someone's father".

In a big city hotel room, a man and the maid are talking. But the more they talk, the more danger they face, and neither knows where it will lead. This work is a tale to frighten chambermaids in the night.

Rare, comic play about football (soccer) with broad popular appeal.

Critically acclaimed at Edinburgh Festival 2010.