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Clybourne Park

Clybourne Park

By Bruce Norris

An acerbically brilliant satire that explores the fault line between race and property.

Beauty and the Beast

Beauty and the Beast (National Theatre stage version)

By Lucy Kirkwood and Katie Mitchell

Lucy Kirkwood's delightful version of the classic fairytale, first seen in a production devised and directed by Katie Mitchell at the National Theatre for Christmas 2010.

Joseph K

Joseph K

By Tom Basden Original author Franz Kafka

A darkly comic stage adaptation of The Trial, relocating Kafka's classic novel to twenty-first-century London.

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Big Ole Piece of Cake

Big Ole Piece of Cake

By Sean McLoughlin

A sparky play from the winner of the Irish Times Best New Play Award and the Stewart Parker Trust Award (for Noah and the Tower Flower).

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Red Bud

Red Bud

By Brett Neveu

A play exploring the creeping onset of middle age in a group of people increasingly disillusioned by the American Dream.

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Tribes

Tribes

By Nina Raine

A penetrating play about belonging, family and the limitations of communication.

While You Lie

While You Lie

By Sam Holcroft

A blistering play about our need for honesty in relationships and how it can sometimes bring about their downfall.

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Yellow Face

Yellow Face

By David Henry Hwang

A mock documentary that puts Hwang himself centre-stage as he uses the controversy over colour-blind casting for Miss Saigon and the racially motivated federal investigation of his own father to explore Asian identity and the ever-changing definition of what it is to be an American.

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La Bête

La Bête

By David Hirson

An exuberant, wildly distinctive comedy that encompasses timeless concerns about life and art.

The Late Middle Classes

The Late Middle Classes

By Simon Gray

A funny yet melancholic look at the frustrations, secrets and guilt of middle-class respectability in 1950s England.

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Player's Angels

Player's Angels

By Amanda Whittington

A play set in 1950s Nottingham, following a group of friends who work on the production line of the John Player tobacco factory.

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Me, As A Penguin

Me, As A Penguin

By Tom Wells

A charmingly offbeat, surreal comedy of knitting, penguins and Battenberg.

Notes for First Time Astronauts

Notes for First Time Astronauts

By Tom Wells

A comic monologue warning of the perils of self-abuse in zero gravity conditions.

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    London Assurance

    London Assurance

    By Dion Boucicault

    A classic comedy of manners with two of the great comic roles of the English stage, published in the Nick Hern Books Drama Classics series.

    Cling To Me Like Ivy

    Cling To Me Like Ivy

    By Samantha Ellis

    A sassy, offbeat comedy-drama about rebelling against your roots.

    The Drunks

    The Drunks

    By Mikhail and Vyacheslav Durnenkov Translated by Nina Raine

    A darkly comic and freewheeling epic that gets to the heart of small-town politics and what it means to please all of the people all of the time.

    Little Gem

    Little Gem

    By Elaine Murphy

    A poignant and hilarious play about love, sex, birth, death and salsa classes, following three generations of women over one extraordinary year.

    Homebody/Kabul

    Homebody/Kabul

    By Tony Kushner

    A devastating play about Afghanistan and its long, tortured relationship with the West, from the author of Angels in America.

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