Adapted for The National Theatre by Carl Heap'The world to me is like a lasting storm'An exciting tale of shipwrecks and magic, villains and heroes, and a child's fight for survival in a foreign land.
Includes the plays The Mentalists, Under the Whaleback and The God Botherers"e;The Mentalists confirms Richard Bean as a writer of beguilling originality with a gift for both laugh-out-loud dialogue and a sympathetic understanding of the darker recesses of the human heart"e; - Charles Spencer, Daily Telegraph on The Mentalists"e;An instant modern classic"e; - Kate Bassett, The Guardian on Under the Whaleback"e;Richard Bean must have had a hell of a life"e; - Michael Billington, The Guardian on The God Botherers
Out of Joint Presents: A Dish of Tea With Dr JohnsonIrritable, generous, seriously depressed yet a great wit: meet Samuel Johnson poet, essayist and lexicographer.
When Mark Styler, a writer of glossy true crime paperbacks, tries to get an interview with Easterman, a notorious serial killer, he has no idea what he s walking into.
2013 Critics Award Scotland Best Technical Presentation WINNER2013 Critics Award Scotland Best Children and Young People's Show NOMINEESam McTannan is just a typical 15 year old, with one exception.
National Theatre Wales and Told by an Idiot bring their critically acclaimed celebration of Gwyn Thomas one of the most distinctive Welsh voices of the last century and an outstanding Welsh cast to the Edinburgh Festival.
The country's in turmoil, the spring is sprung, there s about to be a coup, a woman has been found murdered, her unborn child stolen from her womb, things can t get any worse; wait until Peter Pan turns up.
With translation assistance and a foreword by Karen Juers-MunbyFirst produced in 1998 at the famous Vienna Burgtheater, the remarkable and provocative Sports Play by Austrian playwright Elfriede Jelinek is a postdramatic theatrical exploration of the making, marketing and sale of the human body and of emotions in sport.
The story of Desdemona from Shakespeare's Othello is re-imagined by Nobel Prize laureate Toni Morrison, Malian singer and songwriter Rokia Traor , and acclaimed stage director Peter Sellars.
Winner of 'Best Off West End Production' at the 2011 What's On Stage AwardsWinner of 2011 Laurence Olivier Award for "e;Best New Opera Production"e;The writer, the lover, the artist, the flirt.
Includes: Behold the Coach, in a Blazer, Uninsured; Ladies and Gentlemen, the Rain; Enter the Spokeswoman, Gently; The Bully Composition; and Oh, the HumanityFive short plays about being alive.
Late 14th century in the Valley of Mexico and a small, unknown tribe called the Aztecs propel themselves from nomadic mercenaries to rulers of a great empire.
Dionysos, the God of wine and theatre has returned to his native land to take revenge on the puritanical Pentheus who refuses to recognise him of his rites.
In the heart of Northern England, three respectable couples, married on the same day, at the same church, and by the same vicar, join to celebrate 25 years of blissful matrimony.
Combining a lyrical text, immersive staging and an enigmatic and compelling performance style, Autobiographer draws us into the unravelling mind of its central character, Flora.
The Welsh Boy is a scintillating rediscovery of one of the hidden gems of eighteenth-century literature and brings back to life a true story of passionate love and outrageous sexual scandal in the sleepy provincial town of Ross-on-Wye.
