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Treetops

A play about the early resistance to policies of apartheid or racial segregation in Cape Town, South Africa, in the 1950s.

Published in volume Nicholas Wright: Five Plays

    Being Friends

    The first of the three plays that make up Robert Holman's acclaimed dramatic trilogy Making Noise Quietly.

      Inventing a New Colour

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

      Published in volume First Run

        The Desert Air

        A wartime comedy set in Cairo.

        Published in volume Nicholas Wright: Five Plays

          Tearing the Loom

          A searing portrait of a community divided against itself, set in a weaver's cottage in County Armagh at the time of the 1798 Rebellion.

            Enter A Gentleman

            A 15-minute play based on Restoration playwright Aphra Behn's tempestuous love affair with John Hoyle.

            Published in volume Fishskin Trousers

              Wolf Hall (stage version)

              The first part of Mike Poulton's two-part adaptation of Hilary Mantel's acclaimed novels Wolf Hall and Bring Up the Bodies. A thrilling and utterly convincing portrait of a brilliant man embroiled in the lethal, high-stakes politics of the Court of Henry VIII.

                Bring Up the Bodies (stage version)

                The second part of Mike Poulton's two-part adaptation of Hilary Mantel's acclaimed novels Wolf Hall and Bring Up the Bodies. A thrilling and utterly convincing portrait of a brilliant man embroiled in the lethal, high-stakes politics of the Court of Henry VIII.

                  The Middlemarch Trilogy: Dorothea's Story

                  Part of The Middlemarch Trilogy, adapted from George Eliot's novel by Geoffrey Beevers. Three interconnected plays, telling the story of Middlemarch from the perspective of a different set of characters: from county, town and countryside.

                  Published in volume The Middlemarch Trilogy

                    The Middlemarch Trilogy: The Doctor's Story

                    Part of The Middlemarch Trilogy, adapted from George Eliot's novel by Geoffrey Beevers. Three interconnected plays, telling the story of Middlemarch from the perspective of a different set of characters: from county, town and countryside.

                    Published in volume The Middlemarch Trilogy

                      The Middlemarch Trilogy: Fred and Mary's Story

                      Part of The Middlemarch Trilogy, adapted from George Eliot's novel by Geoffrey Beevers. Three interconnected plays, telling the story of Middlemarch from the perspective of a different set of characters: from county, town and countryside.

                      Published in volume The Middlemarch Trilogy

                        The Hospital at the Time of the Revolution

                        A forensic insight into the adjustment of morality for the sake of conscience.

                        Published in volume Caryl Churchill: Shorts

                          James I: The Key Will Keep the Lock

                          The first part of The James Plays cycle, exploring the complex character of the colourful Stewart King James I – poet, lover and law-maker.

                          Published in volume The James Plays

                            James II: Day of the Innocents

                            The second part of Rona Munro's The James Plays cycle, James II: Day of the Innocents depicts a violent royal playground from the perspective of the child King and his contemporaries, in a terrifying arena of sharp teeth and long knives.

                            Published in volume The James Plays

                              James III: The True Mirror

                              The third part of Rona Munro's The James Plays cycle, James III: The True Mirror, like the King himself, is colourful and unpredictable, turning its attention to the women at the heart of the royal court.

                              Published in volume The James Plays

                                The Custom of the Country

                                Fletcher and Massinger's bawdy Jacobean drama is transposed to 1890s Johannesburg.

                                Published in volume Nicholas Wright: Five Plays

                                  Elizabeth Gordon Quinn (original Traverse Theatre version)

                                  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 Steamie

                                    A celebration of women's work in a Glasgow wash-house set on Hogmanay.

                                    Published in volume Scot-Free