As big-hearted patriarch David clings to a deal that could save both his ailing catering firm and his cherished standing in the Edgware Jewish community, his children are at loggerheads.
Nominated for the Nigeria Prize for Literature 2014 and for Best New Play in the Off West End Theatre AwardsOn holiday with her streetwise son in Lagos, a British-Nigerian mother is in turmoil.
At their stylish country retreat, Freda and Robert Caplan host a dinner party for their colleagues and friends, all executives at a transatlantic publishing company.
It is a solemn thing to hear, in a darkened room, the voice of a child Using Charles Dickens original words, a handful of tunesstolen from the vivid world of Victorian music-hall, and a chameleon ensemble of thirteen actors, Neil Bartlett s powerful version of Oliver Twist brings the dark underbelly of nineteenth-century London back to bold theatrical life.
Includes the plays The Kitchen, The Rocking Horse Kid, Denial and When God Wanted a SonThis volume of Oberon Books' Wesker series includes the author's most performed work The Kitchen (1957) produced in sixty cities from Rio de Janeiro to Tokyo, from Paris to Moscow, from Montreal to Zurich.
Moli re, undoubtedly one of the greatest writers of comedy in the history of theatre, won enormous success for The School for Wives (L'Ecole des Femmes) in Paris in 1662; yet this highly popular play, satirising ridiculous male attitudes to women, aroused as much hostility as critical acclaim.
"e;I looked around the room and I thought, I'm the only person in this room that hasn't killed anyone"e;Talking to Terrorists is a play commissioned by the Royal Court and Out of Joint.
In a world bound by iron laws and dead rituals, two young men are struggling to make their way: Steerpike, the renegade kitchen-boy who seduces and murders his way up the social ladder, and Titus Groan, heir to Gormenghast, who comes to threaten its very existence.
A brand new Christmas story for children, Holly and Ivan s Christmas Adventure is a magical tale of two brave little toys who fall off the back of Santa s Sleigh on Christmas Eve.
When the seemingly perfect Tartuffe ingratiates himself with the wealthy Orgon and his mother Madame Pernelle, he is soon welcomed into their home and into their lives.
Henry V dramatizes the legend of the heroic warrior-king who won the battle of Agincourt; but it also tells the more human story of a young king s psychological journey, learning to deal with the political realities of Church and State.
Adapted for stage, Apples is set on a Middlesbrough council estate, this astonishing piece of writing by 23 year old Richard Milward, is an electrifying collision of Irvine Welsh and Virginia Woolf.
From a version by Tim SuppleFrom the novel by Rudyard KiplingMowgli was still a toddler when he was lost in the jungle his parents feeing the tiger, Shere Khan.
"e;Together we have something and share a passion that other people will never understand"e;Mark and Angela are a father and daughter grappling with a painful past and fragile future.
Commissioned to paint a vast canvas celebrating the triumphant Battle of Lepanto, the free-spirited Galactia creates instead a breathtaking scene of war-torn carnage.
In a world where tower blocks are stone mountains and city walls are urban tapestries retelling epic fights, Michael keeps away from the warring tribes until a passerby helps him out of a tight situation.
This collection of energetic, fun and emotionally honest, tragi-comic plays explore the turbulent journey from childhood through adolescence towards eventual adulthood.
Although his mainstream career has recently included majorwork for the RSC and the National, the five new pieces collected here show just how close playwright and director Neil Bartlett has stayed to the radical queer cultural roots that first brought him to prominence in the early 1980s.
Terence Rattigan was once regarded as the golden boy of the West End stage but he suffered a sudden and catastrophic fall from favour in the mid-1950s.
