Plays, playscripts

Includes the plays The Robbers and Passion and PoliticsTwo plays concerned with tyranny and freedom.

Includes the plays Don Carlos and Mary StuartMajor historical upheavals of the Sixteenth Century illuminate Schiller's increasingly troubled reaction to the present in these two plays.

Includes the plays Joan of Arc and William TellTwo plays about historical characters whose fame has also raised them to the level of myth.

Includes the plays Peer Gynt, Rosmersholm, When We Dead WakenThe three plays in this volume are representative of Ibsen's extraordinary achievement as a playwright.

Georges Feydeau, once considered as purveyor of slapstick farces, is now accepted as France s best comic dramatist since Moliere.

Based on the book by Torgny LindgrenA man goes on a journey in search of love and returns to his village carrying death in the form of a plague-ridden rabbit.

The most famous of the hilarious, heartbreakingcomedies with which Marivaux shocked and delighted eighteenth-century Paris.

On 14 September 2003, at the Haitham Hotel in Basra, Iraq, Baha Mousa and nine others were arrested by the British Army as suspected insurgents.

Includes the plays Flesh to a Tiger, Skyvers and The White Witch Barry Reckord s place in the history of black playwriting in the United Kingdom unfortunately has been almost unrecognised previously.

Winner Evening Standard Most Promising Playwright.

In a new adaptation of David Mamet's film, Harvard-educated psychoanalyst Margaret Ford is celebrated for her best selling book 'Driven!

Growing frustrated at the destruction of his rural idyll, a farmer picks up a pamphlet that encourages him on a dangerous path .

Includes the plays A Bitter Herb, Absolution, Identity, The Far Side, Mary Seacole, and Urban Afro-SaxonsThis second and sister volume to Hidden Gems showcases a further range of plays by Black British writers whose work reaches beyond themes too-often perceived by mainstream theatre commissioning as defining Black people's experiences.

The latest volume in Oberon's Howard Barker series comprises the plays Und, The Twelfth Battle of Isonzo, 12 Encounters With a Prodigy, Christ's Dog and Learning Kneeling.

From the last lonely wilderness, the last dark corner of these overlit times, in the camouflage of the common man, Thom Pain takes the stage, fumbling with his heart, squinting into the light.

At the age of 18, Mirza Tahir Hussain, a British Subject, arrived in Pakistan.

Don Pedro has it all high position, wealth, a beautiful family and enjoys the good life in the heart of the Spanish capital.

"e;If I was French, it would be simple; I'd commit crime passionel in a riot of garlic and vin ordinaire.

It s a perfect day in Camelot.

In The Friends (1970), Esther is diagnosed with leukaemia, causing her friends to reassess their working-class identity, their imagined achievements as well as their own mortality.

There was an owl sat up an oak;The more he heard the less he spoke;The less he spoke, the more he heard;Oh that we were all like that wise old bird.

in 2007 year two leading barristers: Philippe Sands QC (for the prosecution) and Julian Knowles (for the defence) tested the evidence of the grounds for an indictment of the British Prime Minister for the crime of aggression against Iraq.

Playing the Games is a duo of plays focussing on the London 2012 Olympics, it includes:Taking Part by Adam BraceLucky Henry, a Congolese security guard, has set his sights on representing his country at the 2012 Olympics.

Late August down on the Somerset levels: deep in the water and the silt, something is moving, unfurling.

The story of a railway worker's son who became one of the most powerful, outspoken and charismatic figures in European theatre.

Four plays by Richard Bean with an introduction by Chris Campbell.

We are engaged in performing four shows by night and restaging four different shows by day.

If one of the problems facing new playwrights is the expectation that each of their plays should be similar in style, Wade proved that you could radically change both form and content Not every writer delivers on their early promise.

The Picture of Dorian Gray is a stage adaptation of Oscar Wilde’s classic and controversial novel, described by Osborne as a "Moral Entertainment".

"e;I came to the city.

Includes the plays Spain, I Heart Maths and UpThe theme of self-indulgence unites the three plays in The Ego Plays collection.

Teachers' Notes by Anthony BanksSensation Nation is a vocal group founded and led by the unstoppable DD.

Champagne is flowing in Sloane Square while cash and coke changes hands in the back alleys of Soho.

Includes the plays Rattle, Mother Adam and StaircaseSir Harold Hobson (Sunday Times) coined the phrase The Lonely Trilogy to include Rattle (Garrick Theatre, 1962-3), Mother Adam (Arts Theatre, 1971) and Staircase (RSC, 1966-67), plays which have been in constant production throughout the years.

In The Taming Of The Shrew two, disguised, competing suitors clamour for the hand of beautiful Bianca whilst gold-digging Petruchio agrees to wed her viciously ill-tempered sister Kate sight-unseen.

One of Shakespeare s most original and eloquent plays, A Midsummer Night s Dream brilliantly interweaves four contrasting groups of characters to present a many-sided view of love in all its aspects: its joys and sadness, its idealism and selfishness, its physical and spiritual elements.

A riveting new stage adaptation from award-winning writer and director Yael Farber.

HEROIN by Grace Dyas, Trade by Mark O'Halloran, The Art of Swimming by Lynda Radley, Pineapple by Phillip McMahon, I ?

Set in the notorious 18th Century lunatic asylum that gives the play its name, Bedlam is the story of how a cruel and unusual institution starts to crumble, after the arrival of an unassuming country girl.

'What I intend to do is wrong, but the rage of my heart is stronger than my reason that is the cause of all men s foulest crimes.

Includes the plays Toast, Mr England, Smack Family Robinson, and Honeymoon Suite'Suddenly with four new plays opening within 12 months, Richard Bean has become the playwright of the moment and now, in Honeymoon Suite, his most prestigious premiere to date, he has written what seems like the perfect play' The Financial Times on Honeymoon Suite'Toast is as funny, touching, and brilliant an account of men at work as any we have had since David Storey's The Changing Room' The Spectator on Toast'Cunningly effective' The Times on Mr England'A brilliant black satire that plays on an Ortonesque reversal of values.

One of the most famous comedies in world theatre, Gogol's masterpiece has lost none of its bite.

Khadija is 18 is a story from the frontline of multicultural Britain, and explores the lives of two teenage refugee girls in London's East End.

In 1930s Berlin - an intriguing city of Jazz and overground cabaret overpowered by the rise of Hitler and World War II - the daughter of a Jewish family falls in love with their black shabbes goy (a term used for those who assist Jews on the Sabbath with tasks forbidden to Jews within Jewish law).

Born on a slave ship in 1729, later becoming the fellow actor and friend of David Garrick and the first black person of African origin to vote in Britain, the life of Charles Ignatius Sancho was full of surprising, moving and funny twists.

This is the first collection of plays by award-winning playwright Oladipo Agboluaje, a significant force in Black British drama.

The Gulf is a graveyard.

"e;You might at least say thank you, Jenny.

Twelfth Night is an ambiguously erotic comedy telling a twisted tale of mistaken identity, transformation and deception.

Football systems, changing room banter and a couple of mops solve the big questions of life – immortality, happiness and why England always lose, in a new play tackling the beautiful game.