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Prickly Heat

Prickly Heat

By Simon Donald

A surreal and sensuous comedy by a young Scottish writer-performer.

Published in volume First Run
    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
      Writer's Cramp

      Writer's Cramp

      By John Byrne

      The debut play from the author of The Slab Boys and Tutti Frutti, taking satirical swipes at Anglo-Scottish cultural pretensions.

      Published in volume Scot-Free
        The Steamie

        The Steamie

        By Tony Roper

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

        Published in volume Scot-Free
          Cyrano de Bergerac

          Cyrano de Bergerac

          By Edmond Rostand Translated by Anthony Burgess

          The nineteenth-century French classic about the swordsman-poet with the nose too large to be taken seriously, in an acclaimed English translation by Anthony Burgess.

          The Guid Sisters

          The Guid Sisters

          By Michel Tremblay Translated by Bill Findlay and Martin Bowman

          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.

          Published in volume The Guid Sisters and other plays
            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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            Dora: A Case of Hysteria

            Dora: A Case of Hysteria

            By Kim Morrissey

            A satirical feminist play debunking Sigmund Freud's theories about hysteria.

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            The Rivals

            The Rivals

            By Richard Brinsley Sheridan

            One of the best-known eighteenth-century comedies of manners, Sheridan's first play, and still his most popular. In the Nick Hern Books Drama Classics series.

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            The Hypochondriac

            The Hypochondriac

            By Molière Translated by Martin Sorrell

            Molière's classic farce in a fresh and performable translation. In the Nick Hern Books Drama Classics series.

            Three Sisters

            Three Sisters

            By Anton Chekhov Translated by Stephen Mulrine

            Chekhov's masterpiece of provincial claustrophobia, translated and introduced by Stephen Mulrine.

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            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 Illusion

            The Illusion

            By Pierre Corneille Adapted by Tony Kushner

            An enchanting argument for the power of theatrical imagination over reality, The Illusion weaves obsession and caprice, romance and murder, fact and fiction, into an enticing exploration of the greatest illusion of all – love.

            Volpone

            Volpone

            By Ben Jonson

            Volpone is a Venetian aristocrat, a loveable rogue who enjoys the cunning pursuit of wealth more than money itself. Pretending to be mortally ill, he watches as his greedy neighbours swarm around him with expensive gifts in the hope of inheriting his fortune.

            The Devil is an Ass

            The Devil is an Ass

            By Ben Jonson

            Ben Jonson's 1616 comedy about a junior demon who persuades his master Satan to let him spend a day in London.

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            Your Turn to Clean the Stair

            Your Turn to Clean the Stair

            By Rona Munro

            A comically sinister study of the tensions in an Edinburgh tenement.

            Published in volume Your Turn to Clean the Stair & Fugue
              French Without Tears

              French Without Tears

              By Terence Rattigan

              A masterpiece of light comedy from Terence Rattigan, about a group of bright young things attempting to learn French on the Riviera amid myriad distractions.

              The Beaux Stratagem

              The Beaux Stratagem

              By George Farquhar

              George Farquhar's immortal comedy about two young gentlemen with a misguided plan to get enrich themselves at the expense of a series of young heiresses.

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