Plays, playscripts

In Loreto there is a Holy House, a divine and wondrously flitting house.

Comic poet and dazzling swordsman, Cyrano is hopelessly in love with Roxane.

The Yiddish Queen LearNew York in the late 1930s: a once-famous Yiddish actress gives her theatre business over to her three daughters.

'Nothing I do has changed.

This is the latest in the Primary Classics series produced by the National Theatre's Discover programme which aims to introduce children aged 7-11 to Shakespeare.

Alex wants Grandad home from hospital for Christmas, so he makes a foolish wish.

Two little known Priestley plays, which, while they are quite different, have important features in common.

Times are tough for the family in the wood.

Includes the plays The Lady's Not for Burning, A Yard of Sun and SiegeIn this volume of Christopher Fry's original stage work, his most famous play The Lady's Not for Burning - 'Spring' in his set of 'Seasonal Plays' - is joined by the 'Summer' play A Yard of Sun, written in the mid-1930's.

With his louche air and a developed taste for smoking, gambling, port and women, it s hard to believe Cis Farringdon is only fourteen.

"e;Isn't it funny?

When you're alone in a big city, how far would you go to make a new friend?

'The last thing I want is all these total strangers, who live literally inches away from me, knowing every last detail of my life.

Includes the plays Ernest and the Pale Moon, The Terrible Infants and The VaudevillainsLes Enfants Terribles: Collected Plays presents a thematic trilogy of plays from one of Britain s most innovative theatre companies.

I felt I should say congratulations on winning the election but I couldn t find the words.

Presented here are four epic history plays from Sir Arnold Wesker, which touch on the age-old conflicts caused by religion, science and the Establishment.

'I place Boguslaw Schaeffer's genius firmly at the centre of the European cultural heritage which expressed avant-gardism during my lifetime.

In 1993, black teenager Stephen Lawrence was stabbed to death in a racist attack by a gang of white youths.

"e;You put it in the freezer, so when you transfer it to the boiling water it doesn't feel a thing.

Following the death of their young daughter, John and Laura visit Venice to try and escape their grief.

Adapted for The National Theatre by Carl Heap'The day is hot, the capulets abroad, And, if we meet, we shall not scape a brawl; For now, these hot days, is the mad blood stirring.

Will the courageous Cyril defeat the weedy Baron Wadd and win the hand of Princess Daphne?

Acclaimed as one of the classics of 20th century children's literature, The Mouse and His Child is a moving story about two clockwork mice thrown on a scrap heap who then have to begin a dangerous quest for a place to belong.

You know sometimes when you re drinking, you feel a bit ill and you dread every swig, but you do it anyway because you want to get drunk?

Dracula and Frankenstein: Two Horror Plays brings together two classic horror tales updated for the 21st century and adapted for the stage by two of Britain s leading playwrights.

A modern-day version of Euripides' anti-war play, The Trojan Women has been rewritten and is set in a mother-and-baby unit of a prison.

The beautiful Marquise has been left a widow tragically young.

You have to laugh.

Four plays.

In The Wedding Feast an idealistic, altruistic shoe manufacturer arrives at an employee s wedding, with disastrous consequences.

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Magdalena is a pupil of Mozart's.

Carlo Goldoni was Italy's greatest playwright of the eighteenth century and wrote at least one hundred and fifty plays, although only a handful; of these have been performed since his time.

Carlo Goldoni (1707 1793) was one of the most prolific and versatile playwrights of his century, even though most of his vast output deals with life confined to a few square miles of Northern Italy.

An Almeida Theatre production that opened at the Albery Theatre with Diana Rigg and Toby Stephens, and then played for a season on Broadway.

Includes the plays De Sade Show, Persons Unknown and Salto MoltaleA second series of plays, originally written for and performed by the Glasgow Citizens' Theatre.

Adapted by Robert David MacDonald from Gitta Sereny's Into That Darkness"e;Robert David MacDonald s In Quest of Conscience, based on Gitta Sereny s Into That Darkness, a record of her interviews with death camp commandant Franz Stangl, takes it for granted that the Holocaust was a shocking crime against humanity; what it wants to know, with an urgency amounting to desperation, is how it happened, and how it can be prevented from happening again.

'Passing Out.

Little Wolf is a Goody Four-Paws.

Features the plays Car, Raw, and Kid.

'They're outside.

Across the UK thousands of people are involved in protests and debates, sparked into action by the largest cuts to publicspending since WWII cuts which are the turning point of a generation, undermining the welfare state, higher education and the arts in one fell swoop.

Features the plays Sweet talk, Alterations, In the Mood and El Dorado Michael Abbensetts is the writer who gave Caribbeans a real voice in Britain.

Lysistrata, frustrated at the ongoing violence of the civil war, convinces the women of Athens to deny their husbands sex, until a treaty for peace has been signed.

How I deplore the bogus waysOf society these days -A sort of national contestTo find out who can a se-lick best!

Includes the plays The Liar, The Illusion, Le CidPierre Corneille (1606 84), the great seventeenth-century neoclassical dramatist, wrote over thirty plays during his long and varied career.

First performed in Paris in 1666, The Misanthrope is one of Moli re's great comic masterpieces.

Drawing on the themes of cruelty, imperialism and betrayal, Hideki Noda and Colin Teevan's new play, The Diver, ingeniously links the ancient Japanese Tales of Genji with a Noh theatre play and a contemporary murder.

Set in the backdrop of early 60's London, Telstar is the story of the World's first Independent record producer, Joe Meek.

Using only Charles Dickens extraordinary words and a chameleon ensemble of eight actors, Neil Bartlett's powerful stage version of this much-loved story brings its settings and characters to thrilling theatrical life.