Literary studies: plays and playwrights

All my life they looked down on me, always cursing and abusing.

Dress by Ganni.

Hakawati Noun: Storyteller.

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

All cats are alike in the dark.

You didn't come for a weekend in Scarborough to watch Homes Under The Hammer.

All the time we have invested.

Some stereotypes have an element of truth.

It's called your Christmas scar!

Yomi Sode's hit show COAT tackles immigration, identity and displacement.

"e;We think we'll be alright - because we wade through air, not water, but that's not enough.

A team.

Well, I suppose we have to believe him.

I remember thinking, what difference is there between donating my body to science and donating it to someone who might find pleasure in it when I'm dead.

It's a simple idea, really.

I'm a monster.

Blood Wedding is set in a village community in Lorca's Andalusia, and tells the story of a couple drawn irresistibly together in the face of an arranged marriage.

In rooms like this room people lie.

The point is to divest yourself of shame It's about getting clean.

A Memory of Water was Stephenson's first play, opening in London in 1996, and was awarded the prestigious Olivier Award for Best Comedy.

In a London psychiatric hospital, an enigmatic patient claims to be the son of an African dictator - a story that becomes unnervingly plausible.

I love you I love you I love you I love you I love you.

Ye'r a jinx!

Brecht's series of twenty-four interconnected playlets describe events which took place in ordinary German households in the 1930s.

On a rainy Wednesday evening, Cally sits at her local pub waiting for her best friend.

If you're a wheelchair-user, you've got a simple choice: either you suck sweets in a corner and watch television all day or you try to change the world around you.

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

Woza Albert!

Ye'r a jinx!

'Who knows yetBut from this Lady may proceed a gemTo lighten all this isle'You know the story: a King who turns his country upside down to try and secure a male heir.

People find me.

I remember thinking, what difference is there between donating my body to science and donating it to someone who might find pleasure in it when I'm dead.

Impressively navigates the tricky boundaries that separate art and life, the haunted present and the haunting historical past.

We were bound by the same dreamTo be there and to own itor to destroy itNearly two years after the end of their affair, John and Aga meet once more.

'You're my special girl.

'Brecht's dark, dazzling world-view.

She used to be everywhere, all at the sametime, do you know what I mean?

I don't know how to feel.

'What gets me through is knowing I took this pain, and saved all of you from suffering the same.

No what I think is there are people who are suffering and you can't go through your life as if they aren't there and you don't help them?

In a London psychiatric hospital, an enigmatic patient claims to be the son of an African dictator - a story that becomes unnervingly plausible.

Newcastle, London, America.

"e;This Malevole is one of the most prodigious affections that ever conversed with nature: a man, or rather a monster, more discontent than Lucifer.

People always think a woman who thinks for herself, who speaks her mind is dangerous.

I am not your punch bag!

This powerful one-woman play is a moving reminder of some of the harrowing events that shaped the century and remains sadly relevant today with racial tensions and allegations of antisemitism continuing to dominate the news.

A torn family.

It's harder to kill people when there's a peace process on.

Professor John Halder is a 'good' man.

I want theatre to be sweaty, exciting, unpredictable .