Ethereally beautiful, Salt Root and Roe is a heartbreaking, humorous tale of love, age and family against a mythical backdrop. Set on the Pembrokeshire coast in West Wales, exhausted lives and childr
It's unusual, isn't it, for a girl to grow a tail at my age?Owen can't seem to write, Thom's exhaust pipe is ruined, and Holly is turning into a cow. As the situation worsens Owen is forced to choose
I feel like asking him to stay. To never leave this room. But I know that soon he will leave and...I’m going to ring him that night. I’m not going to write anything down. I might not even say anything
Home is a timeless play that offers a beautiful, compassionate, tragic and darkly funny study of the human mind and a once-great nation coming to terms with its new place in the world.
I wish you could just like consider - consider the chance of it being an accident. 'Cos you're so sure. You're so sure that I did this awful thing.Billy is out waiting for love where she last saw it.
In your quest for respectability I think we can say you have been talking out of both corners of your mouth. One corner talks to your rich backers, the other to your street-fighters.1931. Hans Litten
A wild storm shakes a small East Anglian seaside village and sets off a series of events that changes the lives of all its residents. Set in the high Edwardian world of 1907, The Sea is a fascinating
Set in modern-day Jamaica, Kingston 14 follows the story of James, a black British police officer, who is sent to Kingston to investigate the murder of an English tourist in a local hotel. Tied to
We've stood up - we've lain down - we've concentrated. We've sat interminably while that tiresome old woman recited extremely unflattering verses at us. We're endured five seances - we've watched her
A modern parable set against the backdrop of the first Old Firm clash of the season. Funny, hard-hitting and thought-provoking, Scarfed for Life tells the story of two teenage friends caught in the cr
A boy wakes up in a field somewhere in London. He's a door-to-door salesman: a pedlar boy. An encounter with an old acquaintance sends him into a frenzied questioning of everything: his life, his wor
In 1934, the people of Inishmaan learn that the Hollywood director Robert Flaherty is coming to the neighbouring island to film his documentary Man of Aran. No one is more excited than Billy, an unlov
Telling the story of one man's life and afterlife, "The Life and Sort of Death of Eric Argyle" was nominated for Best New Play at the Irish Times Theatre Awards.
An anniversary edition of Entertaining Mr Sloane, with a new critical introduction, which offers an opportunity to reappraise both Orton’s reputation as a playwright and the status of his play, plus a
A dynamic collection of three of Sabrina Mahfouz’s pieces for the theatre, published alongside a selection of her poetry.Dry Ice A critically acclaimed solo show about a young stripper, which was pr
My brother’s trying to win the war. He’s fighting. We should be fighting. I’m brilliant at fighting.June 5, 1944, Southsea Beach. A girl named Poppy stands on the precipice of history. Tomorrow is the
–I want things to get better, not worse.–There's hundreds of thousands worse off than us.Ideals are worthless if you can't pay the bills.Anita and Sam live in East London. Burdened by debt and on the
Written as a vehicle for Coward’s own acting talents alongside his frequent stage partner Gertrude Lawrence, Tonight at 8:30 is Coward’s ambitious series of ten one-act plays which saw him breathe new
Winner of the Olivier Award and set to open on Broadway in September 2011, The Mountaintop is set at the Lorraine Motel in Memphis in 1968, on the night before Martin Luther King is assassinated and
When an old adversary threatens Rome, the city calls once more on her hero and defender: Coriolanus. But famine threatens the city, the citizens’ hunger swells to an appetite for change, and on return
