Winner of the 1992 Evening Standard Best Comedy Award and the 1993 Olivier Award for Best Comedy,"The Rise and Fall of Little Voice is a cracker, original, hilarious and hauntingly sad" (Daily Telegra
Friday night, first thing, the tanning shop, a good nine-minute blaster!Shane is another thirty-year-old weekend millionaire, still living at home with his parents. Tonight, he's hitting the town. On
A new play by Jim Cartwright premiered at the Royal Court Theatre in March 2000From the author of Road and The Rise and Fall of Little Voice comes a new play about life in the North. Sump and Choke ar
“Why's the world so tough? It's like walking through meat in high heels.”A road, a wild night; a drunken guide, Scullery, conducts a tour of the derelict Lancashire road on which he lives. In this sem
Road: "A surreal vision of the contemporary urban landscape…uncomfortable and magical, funny and bitter. It is a northern Under Milk Wood, high on pills and booze" (Sunday Times). Bed: "Cartwright wri
'Jim Cartwright is one of the mavericks of British theatre' Daily TelegraphTwo: 'A sharp, salty, quickfire evocation of the surface gaiety and underlying melancholia of English pub life.' The Guardian
Drawing together the work of ten leading playwrights – a mixture of established and current writers – National Theatre Connections 2013 offers young performers between the ages of thirteen and ninetee
Sunset Maloney is about to find big trouble in the Big Sky country of Montana. Like Alan Ladd as Shane, he’s riding into the middle of a ruthless land grab, and his fight for what’s right takes an une
