A black farce masterpiece, Loot follows the fortunes of two young thieves, Hal and Dennis. Dennis is a hearse driver for an undertaker. They have robbed the bank next door to the funeral parlour and h
Charlotte Keatley's first main stage play My Mother Said I Never Should explores the difficult relationships between mothers and daughters, moving the play back and forth between the lives of four gen
Set in an unnamed city from which voices and images spring, Crave charts the disintegration of a human mind under the pressures of love, loss and desire.Crave, produced by Paines Plough and Bright Lt
The most controversial of the Greek tragedians, Euripides is also the most modern in his sympathies, a dramatist who handles the complex emotions of his characters with extraordinary depth and insigh
Antigone, defying her uncle Creon's decree that her brother should remain unburied, challenges the morality of man's law overruling the laws of the gods. The clash between her and Creon with its trag
Danny returns from Basra to a foreign England and a different kind of battle. He visits an old flame, buys a gun and goes on a blistering road trip through the new home front.
Beats and Cold, two ambitious DJs, are gaining a serious reputation in the music industry. They have found a new sound - jungle - and it's going to be massive. At first the chemistry between them prod
In The Memory of Water, three sisters meet on the eve of their mother's funeral. As the conflicts of the past converge, everyday lies and tensions reveal the particular patterns and strains of family
In this, the second volume comprised of Maugham's best works, the four plays in this selection provide significant evidence of the playwright's powers as a dramatist. For S
This is the first play adaptation of the classic novel and cult film. It premiered in April 2000 at the Gielgud Theatre, Shaftesbury Avenue, London, starring Kathleen Turner as Mrs RobinsonCalifornia
Hedge is sixty. It is a time of celebration. A time for the family to gather and smooth over the cracks left by the suicide of Linda, twin sister to Christian. As Hedge's eldest son, Christian will r
Juniper's Whitening: In Aleph, Beth and Juniper's nightmare house, kindness is entrapment, and resurrection is a weapon. Aleph lovehates Beth, Beth lovehates Aleph, and all Juniper knows is that Beth
Elliot is worried. The party he and his brother, Darren, have been planning has been brought forward.In a lawless ravaged city the boys and their team survive by realising their clients' darkest fant
Based on a true story, Peter Quilter's new comedy Glorious! invites us into the world of Florence Foster Jenkins (1868-1944), a gregarious soprano who in the early 1940s became the must-see artist in
This play is the first original drama published in English by a woman and is notable for its interest in gender inequalities. It is also marked by a fascination with interiority, yet presents, in vari
A Student Edition of Bond's notorious play set in London in the 1960s reflecting a time of social change. Its subject is the cultural poverty and frustration of a generation of young people on the dol
When Daniel walks up to shop assistant Cathy and tells her he wants to buy a bra - for himself - it's their first step in a passionate affair. Meanwhile, their respective partners, Kay and Paul, are h
Two lovers - a playwright and his leading lady - escape to a discreet and charming Parisian hotel straight out of Feydeau - but conjured by the playwright (to make it even more discreet) from the emp
Kwaku Mackenzie, founder of a Black policy think-tank, hits the bottle after his father's death. As media interest in the once dynamic Institute fades, his team grows fractious and then, disastrously,
Fires are becoming something of a problem, but Biedermann has it all under control. A respected member of the community with a loving wife and a flourishing business, he believes nothing can get to hi
