Literary studies: plays and playwrights

'He was a boy, she was a girl.

A daring and unapologetic examination of religion, pop culture and Black representation.

The only rule is to break the rules.

When writer Sergio arrives in Ljubljana to give a lecture on Narcissus, the first thing he does after checking in to his hotel room is get on an app and look for someone to have sex with.

Melissa is having a bit of a crisis.

From the makers of 2018 hit Queens of Sheba comes this powerful new play by Ryan Calais Cameron, following the events over one typical night out that is turned upside down by racism and police brutality.

Inspired by the 1965 films Three Approaches To Psychotherapy (The Gloria films), The Patient Gloria is a provocative meditation on therapy and female desire.

Inua Ellams has established himself as one of the most distinctive voices in British and international theatre.

Jesus didn't die so we could be reborn, lady, the stars did.

The Nguyen family are nursing deep wounds and secrets.

What makes a home for you?

She is a strong, independent, black woman.

'These five plays represent the diverse scope and content of Mojisola's work, and demonstrate an ongoing commitment to an artistic practice that is both stylistically innovative and politically astute.

A new Danish play by Line M rkeby shining a light on how we talk about death.

Three plays by playwright and novelist Caryl Phillips, written in the 1980s and collected here for the first time.

"e;I go half way round the world and back thinking I'd made some sort of discovery and come back to find the same damn lies, the same white lies, the same black lies.

Winner of the 2018 PEN America Award in DramaAs Tolstoy said, All happy families are alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.

Duncan Macmillan's stunning and resonant adaptation of Henrik Ibsen's Rosmersholm.

I have a right to appear here.

An evening of shameless entertainment,of divine feminine fury.

A debut storytelling solo show, recounting a prodigal's return to the musty vibrancy of amateur dramatics.

A QUEER COMING-OF-AGE REMIXLocked in his bathroom during a tragic third date, Willy Hudson asks: are you a Top or a Bottom?

I was born in 1994, then came windows 95, And I would dive online to be the true me A 2cm avatar with a denim mini and a high pony.

Elizabeth Bishop and Robert Lowell were two of America's most brilliant poets.

"e;It's perfect, isn't it?

Nelson Falc o Rodrigues (August 23, 1912 December 21, 1980) was a Brazilian playwright, journalist and novelist.

I just lit up.

"e;I'm in love with a man from Dundee Though he lived 100 years or so before me He was a poet He was aware of this"e;A tragic comedy, McGonagall's Chronicles charts the true life story of the worst poet of all time: William McGonagall.

Susie Salmon is just like any other young American girl.

Camus' sparse parable about the human condition is one of the great stories of the 20th Century, here adapted for the stage by Booker prize winner Ben Okri.

A new version of The Wild Duck, Ibsen's masterpiece about the nature of truth, in which a stranger intervenes to reveal the lies in the past of a family, with tragic consequences.

Hurled words.

This adaptation of Virginia Woolf's novel asks the audience to reflect on how we become who we are, and on how we judge others.

The first collection of plays from the critically acclaimed Karen Zacar as, one of the ten most produced playwrights in the USA.

In Salford alone, 34,000 children are caring for someone.

The second volume in this series brings together some of the best new writing from contemporary American playwrights.

Farinelli and the King is a "e;profoundly funny and haunting mediation on melancholy and the therapeutic powers of music"e; set in the Royal Spanish court in the 18th century.

A murdered King.

Barber Shop Chronicles is a generously funny, heart-warming and insightful new play set in five African cities, Johannesburg, Harare, Kampala, Lagos, Accra, and in London.

Free and Proud dissects the disintegrating relationship between two American men from different backgrounds.

Jonathan Munby's explosive revival of Shakespeare's epic tragedy transferred to the West End following its sold-out run at Chichester Festival Theatre.

It's back to school with a bang for Alisha, Iman and Kareem they all failed GCSE English and there are only six weeks until their resits.

An absurdist dark comedy on friendship and isolation from up-and-coming American playwright Jean Ann Douglass.

Bringing together five plays commissioned specially for the RADA Elders Company, this anthology provides a selection of dynamic and thought-provoking works for elders companies anywhere.

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

A bawdy, vibrant and tumultuous adaptation of James Joyce's classic, by a writer who wants to engage people who may have felt daunted to read Ulysses.

It's 1992.

Dad.

When we can have sex whenever we want, with whomever we want, why settle for a normal relationship?

A unique anthology bringing together stories of queer life from international playwrights, these seven plays showcase the dazzling multiplicity of queer narratives across the globe: the absurd, the challenging, and the joyful.