On the Little Mermaid's fifteenth birthday she visits the world above the sea for the first time and falls in love with a prince whom she rescues from a storm.
Who was it who said that a friend is someone you can phone in the middle of the night and say, "e;I've just killed a man"e; and he'll say "e;OK, where's the body?
When Warsaw Ghetto-escapee Sarah visits the Venice Ghetto she happens to witness a group of actors staging a dress rehearsal of The Merchant of Venice, upon this chance encounter Sarah is confronted by the terrible story of 'The Jew' which touches her own life.
When little Conrad Van der Bosch claims he has an invisible tiger called Sigmund hiding on his wardrobe, his child-psychologist father sees the lie as a deliberate act of juvenile defiance.
Stage version of the popular novel, first performed at the Citizens Theatre, Glasgow before two West End productions and one on Broadway, winning an Olivier award on the way.
The first performance in The Space, Tanika Gupta's Fragile Land is about what nationhood means for second generation immigrants: revealing the complexities of life for a new generation of young Londoners.
Foreword by Maureen LipmanHaving produced a new Shakespearean canon in his previous collection of plays Codpieces, Perry Pontac turns his attention to other great names in European culture.
Includes the plays The Wrong Side of the Park, Come as You Are and Edwin This second volume of Oberon's new edition of John Mortimer's Collected Plays contains two full-length works, The Wrong Side of the Park and Edwin, and four short plays known collectively as Come As You Are and individually named after parts of London.
The Snow Palace is the story of Polish playwright Stanislawa Przybyszewska, a pathfinder and a brave, lonely woman, as she writes her great play The Danton Affair.
The Oikos Project and the two plays Oikos and Protozoa are an attempt to take responsibility for creating a different future in relation to the coming threat of climate change.
Includes the plays Theresa, A Dead Woman on Holiday and The DybbukPresented as a trilogy at the New End Theatre in 1995 before touring much of Europe, The Dybbuk pays homage to Anski s great Russian classic.
Augustine's Oak, the first play to be commissioned for Shakespeare's new Globe Theatre, is the story of St Augustine's mission in 597 AD to reconcile the Christians of the Celtic Church with the authority of Rome.
Widely accepted to have been inspired by Shakespeare s Macbeth, Boris Godunov recounts the tragic conflict between Tsar Boris and the pretender Dimitri.
Includes the playsThe Firstborn, A Phoenix Too Frequent, A Sleep of Prisoners, Thor, With Angels, The Boy With a Cart, Caedmon Construed and A Ringing of BellsThe third volume of Christopher Fry's original stage work brings together his only fully-fledged tragedy - The Firstborn, a vivid, urgent retelling of the Biblical story of Moses and the plagues of Egypt - and his six one-act plays, each revealing Fry's unique blend of humour and humanity.
South African born internationally acclaimed director and playwright, Ya l Farber, sets her explosive new adaptation of Strindberg s Miss Julie in the remote, bleak beauty of the Eastern Cape Karoo.
Sunday 30th January 1972: 13 civil rights marchers were shot dead, and another 13 wounded when British soldiers opened fire during an anti-internment civil rights march in Londonderry, Northern Ireland.
Written by one of Northern Ireland's most celebrated playwrights Martin Lynch, this is the painful, shocking and hilarious story of Northern Ireland's infamous prison - Long Kesh - told through the eyes of prison officers, Republicans and Loyalists, a rich assortment of patriots, chancers, leaders, wives, escapers and hypochondriacs!
After a happy childhood picking herbs, making potions, healing the sick and helping the local villagers, Rapunzel grows into a beautiful young woman - and suddenly finds herself locked in a tower.
'What's done cannot be undone' Three weird sisters, an eerie prophecy and a lust for power start a spiral of betrayal which has disastrous consequences.
In this hilarious sequel to Alex and The Warrior, Alex and Cat are once again faced with keeping the unruly Warrior under control, not an easy feat for the pair as I'm sure you all know.
Released after fifteen years in prison, trapped in a bureaucratic maze, petty criminal Wilhelm Voight wanders 1910 Berlin in desperate, hazardous pursuit of identity papers.
Includes the plays Venus Observed, The Dark is Light Enough and CurtmantleThis volume of Christopher Fry's original stage work concludes his 'Season Plays' with Venus Observed ('Autumn') and The Dark is Light Enough ('Winter').
The power and magic of the Faust story, the man who, in a pact with the Devil, trades his soul in return for a period of total knowledge and absolute power, is one of the most potent of all European myths.
