They have a beautiful home and a glamorous life. In fact, everything they could wish for. Except the one thing they want most of all. A baby.When a wealthy couple decide to adopt, they know only how
Love, sex, birth, death and salsa classes. Three generations of women. One extraordinary year.Amber has fierce bad indigestion and the sambucas aren't getting rid of it. Lorraine attacks a customer a
2nd May 1997. An historic victory. The Tories, eighteen years in power, are defeated as New Labour sweeps into government. From the euphoria and despair, three deeply personal stories emerge.Tory MP R
Another Romeo and another Juliet in a strikingly different love story.Shakespeare's timeless poetry provides the backdrop for this delicate and moving account of old age, memory and the demands we mak
Inspired by "La Ronde", and portraying the same 'daisy chain' of sexual encounters, this work offers a re-interpretation of Arthur Schnitzler's taboo-breaking 1897 original. In place of Schnitzler's s
Dornoch, northern Scotland, 1727. In the claustrophobic heat of summer, a woman's apparent ability to manipulate the power of land and sea stirs suspicion. Janet Horne can cure beasts, call the wind
India and Treasure come from very different backgrounds but soon become the best of friends. Together they escape from their problems by writing diaries, inspired by their heroine, Anne Frank. But whe
When Eva's parents fail to escape Germany, the child changes her name and begins the process of denial of her roots. It is only when her own daughter discovers some letters in their attic that Eva is
Deep in the Polynesian islands of the Pacific Ocean, hungry spirits circle the homes of writer Robert Louis Stevenson and artist Paul Gauguin, who lived and died on the islands only a few years apart.
A double bill of plays from the frontline of climate change - an epic portrait of an England of the near future, in the grip of unprecedented and catastrophic floods.In On the Beach, Will Paxton, a g
How Plays Work has grown out of David Edgar’s teaching in the University of Birmingham’s MA course in playwriting studies, which he founded twenty years ago. Through historical and modern examples, th
Brings the fabled figures of Jonathan Harker, the archetypal innocent abroad, Mina Westerman, his anxious fiance, Renfield, Van Helsing and, of course, Count Dracula himself, in an adaptation for the
An epic play spanning four generations and two hemispheres, When the Rain Stops Falling moves from the claustrophobia of a London flat in 1959 to the windswept coast of southern Australia, and into t
Working-class Alan, upper-class Catherine and middle-class Tom are part of a social litmus test, reunited every seven years to expose themselves on television to the nation. But waiting on the sofa f
Carl, a youngish but overweight Dublin taxi driver, owes Jackie three grand in gambling debts. Jackie wants the money, and he wants it now, not least because an armed robbery he has masterminded has
Tessa has set up a business: a brothel where mature women specialise in offering the 'Girlfriend Experience', a surprisingly caring and sympathetic service.As the women stoically strive to make a liv
Grazyna Antkiewicz lived. Robert Dziekanski died.Two people from Poland. One real, one imagined. What happened - or might have happened - between there and here? The distance from living the dream to
These three plays announce the arrival of a very special playwriting talent. The longest of the three, atmospheric and elliptical, is St Petersburg. It comprises three scenes involving three characte
A rich evocation of a world poised on the brink of Stalin's Great Terror, based on the 1994 Oscar-winning film written by Nikita Mikhalkov and Rustam Ibragimbekov.General Kotov, decorated hero of the
The Karamazovs are a train wreck waiting to happen. A hated father and his sons battle it out over women, money and God. This is them, uncompromising and on the edge. They don't so much live as burn
A seemingly normal detention in a seemingly normal modern-day comprehensive school. A teacher valiantly battles on with biology revision. She believes only education will set her pupils free. For out
Thirty years ago Margot Mason, pioneer of the 1970's Women's Liberation movement and fearless academic, wrote her groundbreaking work, The Cerebral Vagina. Numerous best-sellers and international adu
He's old, rich and determined to find the perfect wife. She's young, innocent and in debt to him. He'll have her by any means possible ...Liz Lochhead's new Scots-inflected adaptation of Moliere's The
When he left for war he was her little soldier...Like every mother, Gill wants the best for her sons. Raise them well; keep them safe, clean and out of trouble. But for Michael and Chris the choices
When a young executive reaches breaking point and decides to disappear, he pays a visit to a master of the craft in a seafront fortune teller's in Southend. Haunted by visitations from a pathologist
In Ukraine, Victor had a business, a family and a home, but things have changed and he's fled to the UK in search of a better life. Now he's doing everything from gutting fish to picking carrots.But V
Sometime in the twenty-first cnetury, the British Isles are dissolving into the sea. Amidst the chaos, one man clings to his traditional British values and his love of meat.For Londoner Saul Everard,
Step into a faded hotel room where two people are having an illicit weekend away. Amidst the peeling wallpaper, they laugh, quarrel and make love, but they don't dare go out. After all, at just fifte
Emma is a dedicated ESOL teacher (English for Speakers of Other Languages), teaching British citizenship to people from Somalia, Serbia, the Congo, India and Egypt. At the same time, Tetyana, Mahmood
Set against a backdrop of fading Empire, war, the Suez crisis, vintage champagne, adultery and vicious Tory politics at the Ritz, Howard Brenton's Never So Good paints the portrait of a brilliant, wit
The wedding feast is over and the bridegroom's father is dancing the bhangra, but the groom himself is curiously reluctant to make his way to the bedroom. In fact he's so woefully inhibited by the pro
England 1873, a country in a state of turmoil. A young girl is propelled on a journey from the London slums to the servants' quarters of a great house - and from first love to murder.In her flight fr
Chicago's South Side in the 1920s Struggling to keep his dreams alive and his family together, Victor Mason is an educated black man reduced to working on building sites. His loyalty to Marcus Garvey
One woman, five men. One by one we see into each of her relationships, apparently existing in separate worlds.There's Dan, the ever-patient husband; Duncan, the dying and irascible father; Roy, the I
An artist sells her work but believes she still owns it. An advertising genius hunts for the next 'big idea.' A thief steals shoes and calls it activism ... Jed just wants to do the right thing.Every
“This extraordinary memoir brilliantly evokes one of the most formidable and influential figures in recent British cultural history, Peggy Ramsay…Those of us who loved her will be astonished by the vi
