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Revival of a successful play from of one of the West End's most successful post-war dramatists.

New play from award-winning playwright and poet Glyn Maxwell.

Winner of the Brian Way award for UK's Best New Play for Young People.

A hilarious play from award winning writer Tamsin Oglesby.

Rachel is a genuinely lost landmark of American theatre - the first play by an African American woman ever produced professionally.

Rob Hayes masterfully dissects the world of relationships, defecating and surviving in this testosterone-triggered tragi-comedy.

Collecting the work of some of the best Black British playwrights and theatre-makers working today, Hidden Gems II scrutinizes the Black British experience and the continuing effects of racism and the African Diaspora, also choosing to subvert the expected. The volume also includes academic introductions to each play.

Arnold Wesker's perennially popular play. The central story tells of a frustrated love affair between a high-spirited, young German chef, Peter, and a married English waitress, Monique.

The true story of Charles Ignatius Sancho, who became the first black person of African origin to vote in Britain.

A powerful and startling play about U.S. and Soviet arms negotiators battling for supremacy, from beloved American playwright Lee Blessing.

A vertical, sinister thriller about neighbors, for an age when a stranger is only one wall away.

An intense family drama, set in South London, about love, family and sordid secrets told through the eyes of four brothers.

A powerful and award-winning story of the terrifying complexities of contemporary sex trafficking, based on real experiences.

Written in English and in British Sign Language, the two languages and two scripts work both in opposition and in harmony to test and stretch the capacities of language.

A powerful and disturbing verbatim play, based on the testimonies of people within Syria at the heart of the uprising, which provides a troubling account of life under Assad's oppressive regime. The stories were gathered by British journalists who travelled into Syria covertly.

A young couple in a war-torn country are stranded on opposite sides of a newly-militarised border, in a sinister yet absurdly funny satire.

Morgan Lloyd Malcolm's explosive new play delves into one woman's quest for identity and a place she can call home.

Journey's End is one of the best known, and most studied First World War plays. This comprehensive and detailed book tells the story of what went into the making of this extraordinarily powerful first world war drama, and why it means so much to so many people across the word and through the years.

Highly inventive and actable adaptation of Conan Doyle's most famous story.

A delicate and beautifully wrought South African drama, Solomon and Marion is the story of two injured souls searching for redemption in the fragile, post-apartheid South Africa. It won the Fleur Du Cap Award for Best New South African Play in 2011.

"Witty, provocative and heartbreaking, the pieces in this first collection by Douglas Maxwell explore childhood trashed and innocence lost, reinvent and subvert the very idea of a play for young people. Contains the plays Decky Does A Bronco, Helmet, Mancub, The Mother Ship and Too Fast.

A thrilling and tragic play about an unsolved historical mystery, which asks whether a heroic Scottish General was smeared in a plot by the English establishment.

Dr Faustus is a highly popular text, this student edition uses the A text, widely excepted as the most authentic published edition. Fully revised by leading Renaissance scholar, Ros King, it contains a completely new Introduction containing the latest criticism and stage history and revised commentary and notes.

Surreal, dystopian comedy. This play won the 2011 Verity Bargate Award for new writing; impressing the judges with its amazing bravery, its stunning theatricality and its pure originality.

The first play by Dea Loher, one of Europe's foremost contemporary dramatists, is based on real events of the 1930s and 1940s focusing on the life of Olga Benario, a German-Brazilian communist militant.

A trivial event causes the lives of six disparate characters to intertwine, in a beguiling tale set in contemporary Dublin.

Acclaimed poet and playwright Glyn Maxwell's sequel to Shakespeare's Twelfth Night, which revolves around the characters' search fro Malvolio, who hasn't been seen since his humiliation twelve years earlier, where Shakespeare's play ended.

Adaptation of a classic British farce written in 1887 by Arthur Wing Pinero, an actor and important British dramatist and stage director.

A powerful coming-of-age story set in the heart of Liverpool in 1989. A funny and ultimately heartbreaking monologue.

A fantastical interpretation of the true story of a man trapped in a tunnel beneath the trenches during World War One. A blend of physical theatre, verse, puppetry and music.