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Inventing a New Colour

Inventing a New Colour

By Paul Godfrey

A war-time Exeter family takes in an evacuee from London.

Published in volume First Run
    Cloud Nine

    Cloud Nine

    By Caryl Churchill

    A landmark play about sexual politics in colonial Africa and modern-day Britain, in which all our assumptions about sex and gender are stunningly exploded.

    Traps

    Traps

    By Caryl Churchill

    An early play by one of our leading dramatists, written before her breakthrough successes with Cloud Nine and Top Girls.

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    Dead Dad Dog

    Dead Dad Dog

    By John McKay

    An offbeat short comedy with a political edge, in which an unemployed young man is dogged by his deceased father.

    Published in volume Scot-Free
      Elizabeth Gordon Quinn

      Elizabeth Gordon Quinn (original Traverse Theatre version)

      By Chris Hannan

      A contemporary classic set during the Glasgow Rent Strike of 1915, with one of the best women's roles ever to emerge from Scottish theatre, an unforgettable tragicomic heroine with an extraordinary power to repel and attract.

      Published in volume Scot-Free
        The Letter-Box

        The Letter-Box

        By Ann Marie Di Mambro

        A short play about domestic abuse, and its terrifying impact on families.

        Published in volume Scot-Free
          Long Day's Journey into Night

          Long Day's Journey into Night

          By Eugene O'Neill

          A true modern classic from one of the twentieth century's most significant writers.

          Mourning Becomes Electra

          Mourning Becomes Electra

          By Eugene O'Neill

          A trilogy of full-length plays relocating Aeschylus' Oresteia to New England in 1865, just after the end of the American Civil War.

          Grace

          Grace

          By Doug Lucie

          A far-reaching, comic portrait of the effects of hypocrisy and corporate greed on the values of late-twentieth-century England.

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          A Going Concern

          A Going Concern

          By Stephen Jeffreys

          A play about a washed-up family business, from the author of The Libertine.

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          All God's Chillun Got Wings

          All God's Chillun Got Wings

          By Eugene O'Neill

          An expressionist play about a violently dysfunctional mixed-race marriage, inspired by an old Negro spiritual.

          Published in volume The Hairy Ape & All God's Chillun Got Wings
            A Touch of the Poet

            A Touch of the Poet

            By Eugene O'Neill

            A powerful play tracking the Yankee experience from innocence to corruption, from one of the twentieth century's most significant writers.

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            Medea

            Medea

            By Euripides Translated by Kenneth McLeish and Frederic Raphael

            The powerful myth of Medea, who murders her children as revenge for her husband's infidelity. In the Nick Hern Books Drama Classics series.

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            A Doll's House

            A Doll's House

            By Henrik Ibsen Translated by Kenneth McLeish

            Ibsen's revolutionary tale of a woman's awakening to her need for a life of her own.

            Les Parents Terribles

            Les Parents Terribles

            By Jean Cocteau Translated by Jeremy Sams

            Jean Cocteau's frank, ironic, bruisingly melodramatic play dealing with incest and the diseased love from which it stems.

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            The Mill on the Floss

            The Mill on the Floss (stage version)

            By George Eliot Adapted by Helen Edmundson

            A re-invention of George Eliot's classic story of loss, tragedy and the relentless nature of fate.

            The Hamster Wheel

            The Hamster Wheel

            By Marie Jones

            When one partner in a marriage becomes unable to look after themselves and is completely dependent on the other, what happens to the relationship between them?

            Published in volume The Crack in the Emerald
              After the Dance

              After the Dance

              By Terence Rattigan

              Rattigan's brilliant attack on the hedonistic lifestyle of the ‘bright young things’ of the 1920s and 30s.

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