The Alchemist is set during a plague epidemic in the Liberty of Blackfriars in 1610 - and was first performed on tour in 1610 by the company whose London home at Blackfriars was temporarily closed due to a plague epidemic.
Nominated for Best New Play at the 2023 Olivier AwardsI found a king in me and now I love youI found a king in you and now I love meFather figures and fashion tips.
Winner of the 2022 Olivier Award for Best New Play"e;Life of Pi will make you believe in the power of theatre"e; - The TimesAfter a cargo ship sinks in the middle of the vast Pacific Ocean, there are five survivors stranded on a lifeboat - a hyena, a zebra, an orangutan, a Royal Bengal tiger, and a sixteen year-old boy named Pi.
A wry, funny and touching meditation on loneliness, that private shame of the singleton in the era of the dating app and of fraudulent boasting on social media written with a real depth of insight, humour, compassion and a keen sense of the ridiculous.
You name something, you change what it is, who it belongs toPeople do it everywhere they go: new namesNot one of them even knows what we called this island before they came Kazumi is hunting a sea monster.
Nominated for Best New Play at the 2023 Olivier AwardsI found a king in me and now I love youI found a king in you and now I love meFather figures and fashion tips.
This Student Edition of Brecht's anti-war masterpiece features an extensive introduction and commentary that includes a plot summary, discussion of the context, themes, characters, style and language as well as questions for further study and notes on words and phrases in the text.
A tangled tale of love, sex and ethics among a quartet of men and women in their 30s as engrossing as it is ferociously funny, like a big box of fireworks fizzing and crackling across the stage from its first moments to its last.
The Importance of Being Earnest is one of the most enduringly popular of British comic dramas, and a mainstay of English literature and drama courses at college and university level.
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.
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.
