Seth and Abby fly into New York to care for their ailing mother, Anna. Determined that her children should remember her as more than an unremarkable housewife, Anna reveals that she once had an affair
The present day: when Warsaw Ghetto escapee Sarah goes to the Venice Ghetto, and encounters a group of actors staging a dress rehearsal of The Merchant of Venice, she is confronted by a terrible stor
Welcome to the world of 14-year-old Katie as she battles her way through the bitches, the chavs, the misery of school discos and the desperate search for a worthy boyfriend.A turbulent, triumphant ta
England People Very Nice is a riotous journey through four waves of immigration from the 17th century to today, as the French Huguenots, the Irish, the Jews and the Bangladeshis in turn enter the cha
1948: George Orwell is attempting to finish his final novel -Nineteen Eighty Four - before ill-health forces him off the solated Scottish island he has made his home. Holed up with a shotgun and liter
Ricky's mates come from all over the world, and as far as they're concerned they are all 'breddas'. But when tragedy befalls one of them, Ricky's forced to ask himself the serious question - what does
“A very tough piece of goods—dynamite, hard-edged and brilliant.”—New York PostNew York is hell. Daughters are murder. Vietnam was a war that America shouldn’t have star
Mummy's boy Elling and his roommate, the uncouth, reluctant virgin Kjell Bjarne, are the Odd couple of Oslo: a pair of confused souls taking their first steps in the outside world after years of isola
Lord Arthur Savile is secure, wealthy and engaged to be married to Miss Sybil Merton, whom he truly loves. But then at Lady Windermere's last soiree of the London season he meets Mr Septimus Podgers,
Past her prime, Min happily spends her life caring for her sick, foul-mouthed mother, Balbir. With Elvis the home help in tow, mother and daughter head to the local Sikh Temple. When Balbir encounter
Trevor's in trouble with the law - again. But this time it's serious. He faces twelve years behind bars.Roddy, Trevor's dad, came to Britain in the '60s and has done the right thing ever since - worke
The Murders at Argos retells the Oresteia story with Orestes and Electra as murderous teens. Cressida Among the Greeks takes place during the last days of the Trojan War. The story of the doomed lover
The Mammoth Sails Tonight! is inspired by the ballad of Sir Patrick Spens. This thrilling musical takes the reader on a wild voyage of adventure blending timewarps and mystery. It tells the story of a
The Wedding, in Noel Clark's faithful and skilled new translation, is a witty but ultimately tragic satire on Polish society at the turn of the century, after more than a century of oppressive rule by
'Looking out over the country, this country, where I was born and raised, I wonder what's going to become of us. Because this can't be the future, can it? Everyone just... changing the rules?'Roger th
Visitors: On a farmhouse at the edge of Salisbury Plain, a family is falling apart. Stephen can’t afford to put his mother into care; Arthur can’t afford to stop working and look after his wife. When
“To choose is to commit, and to commit is to be free.”Berlin. Eleven past eleven. Art teacher Melissa is about to do something drastic.Seeking a place to hide, her ex-pupil Mehdi interrupts her moment
A graphic, gripping, funny and frank verbatim drama exposing the chill-out chem-sex scene. ?Wanna pair of shorts? Shot of G? Line of Meth?” From surgeons to students, couples to kink; guys that love i
A relationship rotting. Purgatory. Is having no reason to stay a reason to leave? At what point does the abuser become the abused? And why aren't we more afraid of women?Two actors, one couple, swappi
Surrounded by lies and deceit, how do you work out the truth?When decorated war hero Colonel Tariq joins the intelligence agency, his rise to the top seems assured. But in his first case he discovers
Two boys play a game. They fight, they laugh, they jump up and down, they play dead.Downstairs, their parents argue. As the shouting gets louder, their bedroom will no longer be able to protect them f
In an oak-paneled room in Oxford, ten young punks with cut-glass vowels and deep pockets are meeting, intent on restoring their right to rule. Members of an elite student dining society, the boys are
Are we the puppets of our emotions?No aspect of our mental life is more important to the quality and meaning of our existence than emotions. They are what make life worth living, or sometimes ending.
Inspired by a nightmare Betts had shortly after moving out of London, this savagely funny poetic drama deals with a young couple who relocate to a remote rural wilderness to escape the rat race and t
When the canal bursts it banks and a holy statue arrives through her bedroom floor, no one is more surprised than 12-year-old Veronica. Soon the entire population of the town finds itself yearning unk
In the late 1980s, Peter Gill, first director of the National Theatre Studio, sent a group of young actors and directors to interview some of the most respected actors of the time about speaking on s
Two of the finest comedies from a giant of Spanish theatre. Drawing on everything from street life to lives of the saints, Lope de Vega was a prolific and compelling writer who treated an enormous ran
A tragic comedy, McGonagall’s Chronicles charts the poet’s life story, tries to understand how he could be so bad at what he did and gets to the heart of the dilemma that surrounds his legend - is it
Cities are full of stories – it’s amazing what you hear if you stop and listen.Drawing on her decade of singing on the tube, Danusia Samal’s Busking It is a journey through the tunnels of the London U
Rachel Watson longs for a different life. Her only escape is the perfect couple she watches through the train window every day, happy and in love. Or so it appears. When Rachel learns that the woman s
A Queen masterminds the murder of her Husband and takes the throne with her new lover. Her Daughter, Electra, grows up in the grip of a cruel regime, swearing revenge. Her Son Orestes, exiled as a boy
Sam wants to tell you about five encounters he had on a site called Craigslist.Sam is anxious about the way he gets to know people. About the way he self-sabotages his attempts to communicate and reac
Seventeen is set in that time after the end of the last day of school, but just before everyone moves on. It’s about the cusp of adulthood, the cusp of complete change.Funny, immature, wise and a litt
It’s 1997. You’re 11. You’re sad, lonely and scared of doing anything that would get you singled out by the hopeless, angry people in your hometown. One day you see a man on telly. He’s mumbling, yet
It’s Dougie’s birthday. He just turned 50 and his family are throwing him a party. But it’s he who has a surprise for them. A bombshell proposal.He wants his ex-wife Arlene to back his new endeavour.
A series of vicious civil wars has ended. A small city state half way across the world rebuilds itself in the ashes. Blush of Dogs is a play about conflicting freedoms and the desire to break repressi
Well it all happened (most of it anyway) in Devon, 1944. This play explodes everything we thought we knew about the D-Day landings. 946 uses music, puppetry and foolishness to tell this tale of war, p
One night under Cardiff skies, four lost souls go looking for answers. After dark, their paths weave and collide as they all go in search of salvation. When dawn breaks, life will go on but there will
Adriano Shaplin's new history play is set in 17th century London. The Civil War is over, the King has been executed, Oliver Cromwell has closed the theatres and the talk in the coffee houses is of rev
In 1826 a giraffe was captured in the African savannah and transported from Egypt to France to be presented to King Charles X as a prize addition to his menagerie. In 2004 a unique collection of perf
