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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 Custom of the Country

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

    Published in volume Nicholas Wright: Five Plays

      The Desert Air

      A wartime comedy set in Cairo.

      Published in volume Nicholas Wright: Five Plays

        Used Blood Junkyard

        Làzaro, his mates and his porn-star girlfriend are 'art terrorists'... Can anything stop their killing spree?

        Published in volume Mexican Plays

          Harlequinade

          A farce about a touring theatre troupe, written to accompany The Browning Version in a double-bill under the joint title, Playbill.

          Published in volume The Browning Version

            A Mouthful of Birds

            A collaborative piece written with David Lan, combining words and dance. Inspired by Euripides' Bacchae, the play explores modern experiences of 'possession, violence and other states where people feel beside themselves'.

            Published in volume Caryl Churchill Plays: Three

              The Guid Sisters

              Germaine Lauzon has won a million Green Shield stamps. She invites her female friends and relations to a party to paste the stamps into the books. The temptation to pilfer the stamps is irresistible and an enormous fight breaks out.

                The Great God Brown

                A demonstration of O'Neill's expressionistic experimentation with masks to emphasise the distinction between characters, and the lack of understanding in human relationships.

                  Daughters of the Revolution

                  A political thriller set in the midst of a bitterly fought US governor's election, from the Democrat perspective. Part of David Edgar's two-play cycle, Continental Divide.

                  Published in volume Continental Divide: two plays

                    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.

                      The Wedding

                      A one-act play by Chekhov in a translation by Chekhov expert Stephen Mulrine.

                      Published in volume Chekhov: Shorts

                        Fabulation

                        In Fabulation, playwright Lynn Nottage reimagines Esther (the character from her companion play, Intimate Apparel) as Undine, the public relations diva of today, who spirals downward from her swanky Manhattan office to her roots back in Brooklyn.

                          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: 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 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 After-Dinner Joke

                                A short play satirising the charity business, written for television. First broadcast on BBC One as part of the BBC's Play for Today series.

                                Published in volume Caryl Churchill: Shorts

                                  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