Lyra and Will find themselves embarked on a thrilling journey through worlds familiar and unknown. Their great quest demands a savage struggle against the most dangerous of enemies. They encounter fa
Set in 1945 during the hundred days that elapsed between victory in Europe and victory in Japan, this work follows the fortunes of a group of women in a working-class suburb of Nottingham.
West waits in a burnt-out farmhouse on Dartmoor, in the depth of winter, for two associates from the city. The wine has been poured and the revolver loaded. But who is waiting upstairs?Jez Butterwort
“The teenager, the bride to be, the exhausted young mother, the lonely widow . . . they are funny and often touching in these four monologues deftly written by Joanna Murray-Smith. Little gems,
Dramatised from Jamila Gavin's Whitbread Award-winning novel set in 18th-century England, Coram Boy is a tale of two cities - Gloucester and London - and a tale of two orphans at the Coram Hospital f
The timeless tale of Beauty and the Beast recounts the story of a brave young girl who leaves her beloved, if chaotic, family to discover the mysteries of passion, imagination and love in the gloriou
Cinzano and Smirnova's Birthday are two linked plays, first published in Moscow in 1988, depicting the grim reality of domestic life in Soviet Russia. And despite the immense political and social uphe
Some people need help. Some people find themselves in a position to give help. And others just help themselves.7:84 Theatre Company have brought together three of Scotland's best playwrights in the sh
Brenda is under siege in her Belfast home. Her daughter’s baby is crying upstairs, her mother-in-law has turned her front room into her bedroom and her husband is back after years in jail. And now the
George Orwell's 1945 satire on the perils of Stalinism has proved magnificently long-lived as a parable about totalitarianism anywhere - and has given the world at least one immortal phrase: 'Some are
'Once in the East there lived a man who owned a ring of unimaginable worth...'Jerusalem, 1192. An uneasy stalemate exists between the Muslim forces of Saladin and the western Crusaders. Caught in the
Taking place over the course of twenty-four hours in Belfast, Scenes From The Big Picture charts a hot summer's day in the lives of twenty of its denizens as their stories interweave and collide. In
Luigi Pirandello is widely regarded as one of the foremost innovators in twentieth-century theatre. Six Characters in Search of an Author caused a riot when it was first produced in Rome in 1921 and
Ronnie is fresh off the plane from Israel, looking to move back into his old room in Dave's flat and pick up where he left off. But life has moved on. And when his younger sister Cass and her new rel
From his overcrowded and famously filthy East Village apartment, England's most famous ex-pat wit is waiting to tell you how to be happy.As he awaits the arrival of the mysterious Mr Brown and Mr Blac
Oedipus, the former ruler of Thebes, has died. Now, when his young daughter Antigone defies her uncle, Kreon, the new ruler, because he has prohibited the burial of her dead brother, she and he enact
Plucked from obscurity to be Hitler’s architect and Minister of War, Albert Speer became the second most powerful man in Nazi Germany and the closest Hitler had to a friend. David Edgar’s panoramic ad
When Bernarda's husband dies, she locks all the doors and windows. She tells her grown-up daughters to sew and be silent. 'There are eight years of mourning ahead of us. While it lasts not even the w
A bold and exciting new approach to Bertolt Brecht, making his theories and ideas about theatre accessible to a new generation of actors, directors, students and theatre-makers, and showing how they c
1991 West Belfast. A celebration of women's strength under siege. Sharply funny, moving, yet never shying from the harsh realities of life during the Troubles, the award-winning Bold Girls announced R
Brian and Donna's son is nine years old and he's struggling. That's what his teacher says. Says he should see a psychologist. But Brian and Donna - recently separated - never liked school, never liked
Buggy Baby is a horror comedy about trying to build a normal life when nothing about life is normal.Jaden, Nur and baby Aya have escaped another country and ended up in a rotting room in London. While
'I want the world to change shape.''I'm not sure theatre can do that.''Well then where am I supposed to take that impulse because I'm very serious about the endeavour?' A young writer challenges the s
Writing a good play is only a small part of making it as a successful playwright; understanding the business side of building a career is just as crucial. Yet most advice for budding writers focuses o
A celebrated war photographer, A young Syrian, six months pregnant, on an ageing fishing boat in the Mediterranean, sinking fast under the weight of refugees. Through two alternating monologues, Borde
A once close-knit family of four reunite after a long period of estrangement. This time, this time, it must go right. A warm and touchingly comic new drama
In the darkest recesses of Ukraine, a war is raging. A journalist takes a research trip to the front line. Teenage girls wait for soldiers on benches. A medic mourns her lover killed in action. Heart-
A family searches for new beginnings...Ben thinks they might be better off without him, but his wife Cat has read her stars: “Today a very special person will appear from out the blue.”Their daughter
Autumn 1940. The Battle of Britain rages.Southampton is home to Britain's only hope of victory: the Spitfire. But when the Luftwaffe drops 2,300 bombs in three devastating raids, the city goes up in
Enid is one of those West Indians who came to England in the fifties, determined to become “little Miss English.” Abandoned by her husband, she has struggled to bring up her two daughters to live her
