Medea’s marriage is breaking up. And so is everything else. Testing the limits of revenge and liberty, Euripides’ seminal play cuts to the heart of gender politics and asks what it means to be a woman
An influential and controversial work by Joost van den Vondel (1587-1679), the colossus of Dutch literature, regarded as a major influence on Milton’s Paradise Lost. An angel returns from Eden, his wi
Premiered at the Citizens Theatre, Glasgow. Alma Wittgenstein, bored by her neo-fascist husband, goes to Cambridge to investigate the values of her long-lost father, Ludwig.
What I intend to do is wrong, but the rage of my heart is stronger than my reason that is the cause of all men’s foulest crimes.'Medea is the archetypal wronged woman driven to despair. When uncontrol
The power and magic of the Faust story, the man who, in a pact with the Devil trades his soul in return for a period of total knowledge and absolute power is one of the most potent of all European my
Jim Wormold, an under-employed vacuum cleaner salesman living in 1950s Cuba, is struggling to pay for his teenage daughter's increasingly extravagant lifestyle. So when the British Secret Service ask
Sam Mendes and Simon Russell Beale have forged one of the most successful working partnerships in contemporary theatre history. Across twenty years and eight productions their collaboration has evolve
Hassan, a second generation Turk, leads a blissful, if somewhat eccentric bachelor life in London's suburbs. His tastefully decorated house is kept spick and span by his even more tastefully decorate
In a moment of rage, after receiving terrible review for his autobiography, popular newsman Geoffrey Hammond fires his publicist Larry. But when he is caught by photographers in a rather compromising
Jean Racine is the greatest tragedian of the French seventeenth century, using its strict rules and conventions to tell stories of overwhelming passion and cruelty.This volume brings together three o
Developed by the award-winning Opera Group, The Lion's Face is a new opera that was created to introduce children to issues surrounding dementia. It is a collaboration between poet Glyn Maxwell and co
In 1961, Peter and Helen Kroger, two Americans living in a London suburb, were convicted of spying for the Russians and sentenced to twenty years' imprisonment. From these true facts Hugh Whitemore ha
Howard Barker is one of the most significant and controversial dramatists of his time. His plays challenge, unsettle and expose. These plays are among his best-known works, and their energy, poetic la