Performance art

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.

You have to laugh.

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

'Tell me, please - is this a dream?

What will become of us?

'I took my tears and turned them into paintings' In the electric calm of a blue-painted room, a dying woman reassembles the images of an extraordinary life.

"e;All I ever wanted was a man who wouldn't ask me questions"e;Across the foyer of a crowded theatre, a handsome young man catches sight of the most expensive prostitute in town.

Paris, 1870.

What if four children had been kept locked away in darkness and complete isolation since birth?

Collected for the first time in print, over a decade of texts from one of British theatre s fiercest and most individual voices, documenting the extraordinary site-specific solo performances which have run parallel to Bartlett s acclaimed work as a mainstream director.

"e;He's a beast I tell you - a real animal"e;What happens when you've lived only for pleasure, and you finally run out of time?

Helen and Danny keep themselves to themselves.

Fraser and Dougie are watching a suspect.

When the canal burst its banks and a holy statue arrived through her bedroom floor, no one was more surprised than 12-year-old Veronica.

Kneehigh now finds itself celebrated as one of the UK's most exciting theatre companies.

Bitch Boxer was the winner of the Holden Street Theatres Awards 2013 at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival.

London Wall is a wryly comic look at the life of women office workers in the 1930s.

Includes the plays Fanghorn, Edred, the Vampire and Lucifer's FairFanghorn is a darkly-surrealistic comedy, which pokes fun at the Theatre of Cruelty.

Can you be a hero if you fought for Nazi Germany?

"e;This isn't a village.

Original illustrations by Jean Cocteau and Andrzej KlimowskiTwo of the seven monologues by Jean Cocteau (1889-1963) in this edition were written for dith Piaf.

Tom Jones was Henry Fielding s greatest work.

Following their acclaimed shows On Ego, On Religion, On Emotion and On Love the On Theatre now tackle empathy, in an exploration of the expanse and limits of our capacity to understand one another.

The Wish Collector by Oladipo AgbolaujeA magical epic whirling from a playground in Britain to a village in Sierra LeoneThe Acme Thunderer by Lin CoghlanA funny, moving family drama of pigeons and siblings, set amid the Blitz.

And besides, nothing ever happens here.

The Wedding is a Polish classic, continually in production in Poland since Stanislaw Wyspianski wrote it nearly a hundred years ago.

You swore that you d love me for ever Frank doesn t recognise the woman at the door.

Includes the plays Britannicus, Phedra and BereniceJean Racine is the greatest tragedian of the French seventeenth century, using its strict rules and conventions to tell stories of overwhelming passion and cruelty.

Looking for relief from boredom and a chance to get off the wing, seven young fathers in prison sign-up for an education programme.

I don't know who he is but he's old, he's got to know stuff.

Blackthorn Kate and Tom with their troubled daughter Evie decide to leave the London rat race and start afresh in the peace of the countryside.

In the year of the bicentenary of the death of Carlo Goldoni, one of Italy s most brilliant dramatists, two of his greatest comedies are brought to life in Ranjit Bolt s vibrant translations.

A play about the stupid things you do when you're f cked.

In the winter of 2036, in a shabby apartment in Port Elizabeth, two old men search for a way to say goodbye after a lifetime spent together.

To name something is to call it into life, to determine its future.

In a world ever more focused upon global warming, climate change and the increased scarcity of resources Ugly is a dark comedy set in a future where food and water are dangerously scarce.

Winner of the Writers' Guild of Great Britain Best Play for Children and Young People 2011It is summer, 2005, New Orleans.

New writing based on the fables Kalila wa Dimna, one of the masterpieces of Eastern culture.

In the newest play from this prolific Northern Irish writer, Carville turns his attention to the demons beneath the shiny surface of the new, metropolitan Belfast.

Includes the plays Missing, Crossing and MiracleThe three plays in this volume are hauntingly beautiful pieces with simple fable-like characters who are touched by magical events.

Kelly, right, Kelly the bitch decides to have a party on the very same night as my sleep over - the very same night!

FIT is a bold and groundbreaking new play for young people written and directed by acclaimed writer/director Rikki Beadle-Blair.

Includes the plays Chips With Everything, Their Very Own and Golden City, The Journalists, Badenheim 1939 and, published here for the first time, Phoenix Phoenix, Burning Bright.

With a childhood surrounded by alcoholism and petty cruelties, an adolescence of rebellion and punkish anarchy and an adulthood peppered with heroin addiction, voluntary crucifixion, failed suicide and a penchant for sex with prostitutes, Sebastian Horsley s life was always destined to become a work of art.

Sutton s Complicit is a powerful play that explores the world s current political climate and the consequences that arise when civil liberties become a privilege rather than a universal right.

Maverick theatre makers On Theatre join forces with legendary singer-songwriter Billy Bragg to explore what it means to be English in contemporary Britain.

1985; Ray and Eileen's five year old son vanishes.

London's East End 1973.