Literary studies: plays and playwrights

Shortlisted for the Popcorn Writing Award 2024Grieving is weird and expensive.

It connects emotionally with the audience, and is wittily written Bullmore makes you like, and believe in, her three characters The play also has a careering energy impossible not to like.

Matthew, I don't give a f*** who's Irish and who's not.

"e;Oh do not jest thy doom"e;The Revenger's Tragedy is an intense tragic burlesque.

And though you sometimes wish these people weren't so huge, or that they weren't even there in the first place, they keep you company somehow.

In October 1921, a delegation of the D il left by boat and train for London, where they were to negotiate with the British government for peace, unity and a republic.

Was anyone undone by fire, or turned to ashes through desire?

No Man or Woman should have to suffer oppression Luther.

Its brilliance lies in the way Shinn marries ideological debate to psychological complexity, shedding light, laser-bright and precise, on the way in which political discourse informs and shapes individual experience.

I know you hey.

I do not organise the ticket queue, it is up to the people in the ticket queue to organise themselves.

Yerma (meaning 'Barren') is one of three tragic plays about peasants and rural life that make up Lorca's 'rural trilogy'.

I don't know what's beyond this minute.

So, when you have the time and the space, the thoughts start to fill it, you know?

"e;Do's dim hawl 'da ti adael,Do's dim hawl 'da ti anghofio pwy wyt ti"e;"e;You don't get to leave,You don't get to forget who you really are"e;Erin, a young mother, has lost her son but no one will listen.

Chakrabarti has crafted a rich psychological study that's also a shrewd portrait of the theatre as an institution - its vanities and strange conventions, its politics and sense of community, the opportunities it presents for both progress and blinkered traditionalism.

On a Japanese beach, teenage sisters Hanako and Reiko are caught up in a storm.

There's a million in the middle - and they might go either way.

The ground-breaking debut from one of the most important playwrights of the last decade, now in a student edition"e;Shopping and Fucking is a darkly humorous play for today's twenty-somethings .

Winner of New Diorama, Underbelly and Methuen Drama's Untapped Award 2022Finalist for Best Performance Piece at the Offies Awards 2024 Sometimes I'm afraid of this play.

It's good to see you're alive.

You've got to learn how to keep it inside.

Saicrets?

Newcastle, London, America.

Honestly the best science I've ever done and - frankly the best science in the history of humankind - has started with the same thought experiment: find the ways in which humanity thinks it is special and assume that we're not.

Two migrants both alike in dignity in this city where we lay our dreams.

'Michael Frayn's tremendous play is a piece of history, an intellectual thriller, a psychological investigation and a moral tribunal in full session' Sunday Times 'A profound and haunting meditation on the mysteries of human motivation' Independent 'Frayn has seized on a ral-life historical and scientific mystery.

You definitely want to f*ck her but you don't want to know her.

Does Tommy know you're Jewish?

'There's more than one way to skin a theatrical cat; and McDonagh's chosen weapons are laughter and gore.

I've got goosebumps.

An intimate portrait of a lifeAustralia 1943 to London 2021, and everything in between.

In this deeply moving and life-affirming tale, a mother must nurture her five-year-old son through an unfathomable situation with only the power of their imagination and their boundless capacity to love.

Finalist for the Susan Smith Blackburn Prize 2024Congratulations!

Marlene thinks the eighties are going to be stupendous.

YOU CAN GO PROUDLY.

Why do people ever see things through?

Do you know what I believe in?

Call my narcissism whatever you want.

You're safe here.

We don't in general take to strangers here unless they take to us first.

The show that we're about to do is a story about the future.

I know you hey.

So, when you have the time and the space, the thoughts start to fill it, you know?

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The clocks are set.

Shopping and F***ing is.

A city under attack from a nuclear blast.