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A brilliantly observed comedy about two friends living in London waiting for their big break...

Three plays from Paul Sirett. Includes the plays A Night in Tunisia, Jamaica House and Skaville with an introduction from Jeff Teare.

Tom and Jess have grown disillusioned with a world full of people who'll murder you as soon as look at you--or else systematically overcharge you for building work. They are going to make life simple from now on: just the two of them rescuing starfish washed up by the tides and strictly no contact with other human beings. Until the mysterious Slippy decides to die on their doorstep.

A temp takes off, a headhunter wins a Dreamcast. A father hires a boy and a daughter needs an escort. The successful and the damaged richochet around the metropolis. Emotion becomes a commodity with violent consequences in this savage, funny play.

This is a new version from the Greek of Iphigenia in Aulis, by contemporaary playwright Colin Teevan. This translation and adaptation, which availed of the most recent textual scholarship of the source text, strips the piece down to its Euripidean essentials.

The 40 Minute Tempest recreates the world of Shakespeare's great play as told by Prospero and Ariel as they journey towards Prospero's retirement and Ariel's freedom. Using puppetry, the modern idiom and Shakespeare's verse it magically brings to life the world of Prospero's island. King Ram, based on King Lear, is the story of an old king with a foolish plan to split his lands between his two daughters, and of a ten year old boy's desperate search for a baby's father. Songs and verse create a roller-coaster dramatic ride for children.

A comedy assumptions and appearances.

In a translation for the stage by award-winning writer Dennis Kelly, Rose Bernd examines the female temptress and the actions which lead her into danger and disrepute.

Award-winning playwright Roland Schimmelpfennig is one of the most exciting voices in European drama. This is a translation by David Tushingham.

Duncan is an ambitious young TV producer. While planning to bring wrestling back to British TV screens, he meets Victor, aka The Count of Monte Cristo. Victor is one of the old guard, desperate to reclaim his glory days - and he's a perfect pawn for Duncan to use in his climb to the top of the industry ladder.

Sophocles' age-old existential questions are asked again, and are found to be as relevant as ever. In a translation from playwright, tv presenter and journalist Keith Dewhurst. The play was written during the Peloponnesian War. It was first performed at the Festival of Dionysus in 409 BC, where it won first prize.

In May 1875 Lord Primrose Agar, wagered one of his tenant farmers, Orlando Harrison, that his new border collie pup Jip would outlive the 94 year old Harrison. The prize would be the 82-acre Kilham Wold Farm. Thirteen years later, having buried his dog, Agar shook hands with Orlando and conferred on the Harrisons a century of struggle...

Features two stories written in the 1830s: "The Tower" - a riotously inaccurate retelling of a notorious royal scandal from fourteenth-century France; and "Ruy Blas" - named after its low-born hero, forced to masquerade as an aristocrat as part of his disgraced master's revenge against the Queen.

It's 1899 and the world crackles with possibilities. Swinging above them all is a showbiz sensation; a fierce, vulgar, pant-droppingly sexy trapeze artist called Fevvers. This story charts her unlikely love affair with Walser, a world-weary journalist on a mission to expose her as a fake.

In his Aberdeen flat, a young man stakes everything on a one-night stand. But does she give a fuck? This is a play about life in the Granite City, a world where work is meaningless and emasculating, where drink an drugs are the only painkillers, and where cheap sex can cost you everything.

Includes the Time Out Best Play Award 1987 'The Garden Girls'

Growing up in the shadow of the brilliant barrister, who adored his garden and hated visitors, and whose blindness was never mentioned, the son continually yearns for his father's love and respect. This autobiographical play is the portrait of a son's relationship with his father.

Based on the fables of "Kalila wa Dimna", one of the masterpieces of Eastern culture. Locating Ibn Al-Muqaffa's work in its original historical context, this drama, part history, part political fable, explores the creation of these tales amidst the tragedy that unfolds around the author himself.

In this new thriller of a play from Irish playwright Colin Teevan, a journalist and some British soldiers set off across Iraq on a mercy mission to absolve themselves from the guilt of past misdemenours.

Three monologues from one of Britain's leading playwrights - David Pownall. Inludes Rousseau's Tale, Crates on Barrells and Later.

A fascinating theatrical journey into Dickens' life and work inspired by Dickens' many letters and speeches.

An ancient Greek tragedy from Athenian playwright Euripides. This is a new translation from Colin Teevan. The tragedy is based on the mythological story of King Pentheus of Thebes and his mother Agaue, and their punishment by the god Dionysus (who is Pentheus' cousin) because he refuses to worship him.

A hilarious Spanish Golden Age play, adapted for the Royal Shakespeare Company by British translator Catherine Boyle

A collection of works by one of Germany's leading contemporary playwrights. This title features three plays such as: "The Park is Strauss'", "Seven Doors", and "Time and the Room".

Juan Mayorga's work has been produced in Spain and around Europe as well as the USA.

"Drum", a highly influential magazine written by and for black South Africans saw a number of its chief reporters killed in mysterious circumstances. Set in 1950's Johannesburg, this book attempts to bring apartheid South Africa's black underbelly jumping to life, and counts the cost of one man's struggle to avoid opposition.

Prometheus Bound from Aeschylus,this greek classic is translated here by James Kerr in a fantastic adaptation. In Prometheus Bound the defiant Titan Prometheus is brutally punished by Zeus for daring to improve the state of wretchedness and servitude in which mankind is kept.

Features poetic tales of modern masculinity inspired by the Greek myth.