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Losing Venice

Losing Venice

By Jo Clifford

An epic fable set in the faraway Spanish Golden Age, about the deranged behaviour of countries that have lost an empire and still not yet found a role.

Lost

Lost

By Robert Holman

The second play in Robert Holman's acclaimed trilogy of short plays, Making Noise Quietly.

Published in volume Making Noise Quietly: three short plays
    The Lost Art of Keeping a Secret

    The Lost Art of Keeping a Secret

    By Catherine Johnson

    The alternating stories of two women (played by the same actress), both of whom 'lose' their sons - one murdered, the other a runaway.

    Published in volume Singular Female Voices
      The Lottie Project

      The Lottie Project (stage version)

      By Jacqueline Wilson Adapted by Vicky Ireland

      An adaptation for the stage of this modern children's classic by the best-selling author and 2005 Children's Laureate.

      Love and Human Remains

      Love and Human Remains

      By Brad Fraser

      A violent and sexually explicit study of young adults groping for meaning in a senseless world.

      Love and Information

      Love and Information

      By Caryl Churchill

      From one of the UK's most influential playwrights - a fast moving kaleidoscope in which more than a hundred characters try to make sense of what they know.

      Love and Other Acts of Violence

      Love and Other Acts of Violence

      By Cordelia Lynn

      A subversive and intimate love story about inheritance and the cycles of politics and history.

      Love in a Glass Jar

      Love in a Glass Jar

      By Nancy Harris

      A short play from an acclaimed Irish playwright, about a sterile liasion in a hotel room that threatens to spill over into real life.

      Published in volume Irish Shorts
        Love in Idleness/Less Than Kind

        Love in Idleness/Less Than Kind

        By Terence Rattigan

        The third in Terence Rattigan's unofficial trilogy of war plays, published alongside an earlier version of the play, Less Than Kind, never staged during Rattigan's lifetime.

        Love the Sinner

        Love the Sinner

        By Drew Pautz

        A tense and provocative play offering a remarkably fresh and painful take on our perpetual guilt in the face of poverty and brutality in the developing world.

        Love, Lies and Taxidermy

        Love, Lies and Taxidermy

        By Alan Harris

        An offbeat love story about Mr Tutti Frutti, a stuffed owl and the struggle to fit in.

        Love, Love, Love

        Love, Love, Love

        By Mike Bartlett

        Are baby boomers to blame for the fact that their children's generation is debt-ridden and adrift? Love, Love, Love takes on the baby boomer generation as it retires, and finds it full of trouble.

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        Lovesick

        Lovesick

        By Caryl Churchill

        A therapist practices aversion therapy to rid his patients of sexual/romantic obsessions which interfere with their lives.

        Published in volume Caryl Churchill: Shorts
          Low in the Dark

          Low in the Dark

          By Marina Carr

          A witty and absurdist play that dismantles the myths of motherhood and exposes the sexism of language and religious imagery.

          Published in volume The Crack in the Emerald
            Low Level Panic

            Low Level Panic

            By Clare McIntyre

            A funny, unapologetic play about the effects of society's objectification of women.

            The Low Road

            The Low Road

            By Bruce Norris

            A fable of free market economics and cut-throat capitalism.

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            Loyal Women

            Loyal Women

            By Gary Mitchell

            A gripping and explosive drama from the multi-award winning playwright.

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            Lucky Seven

            Lucky Seven

            By Alexis Zegerman

            A comedy about growing up, class, love, disappointment and hope, inspired by the Seven Up television series.

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            Lulu

            Lulu

            By Frank Wedekind Adapted by Nicholas Wright

            The first version of Wedekind's celebrated erotic masterpiece to be based on the author's original text, restoring the clarity, the daring and the sexual explicitness of a modern masterpiece written a hundred years before its time.

            Lynndie's Gotta Gun

            Lynndie's Gotta Gun

            By Enda Walsh

            A short play published for the first time, written during the author's time working with European theatremakers.

            Machinal

            Machinal

            By Sophie Treadwell

            A powerful expressionist drama from the 1920s about the dependent status of women in an increasingly mechanised society, based on the true story of Ruth Snyder.

            The Machine Gunners

            The Machine Gunners (stage version)

            By Robert Westall Adapted by Ali Taylor

            A thrilling adaptation of the beloved, award-winning children's novel.

            The Machine Wreckers

            The Machine Wreckers

            By Ernst Toller Translated by Ashley Dukes

            A classic of German expressionism by an active revolutionary who was also an accomplished poet and playwright.

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            Mad About the Boy

            Mad About the Boy

            By Gbolahan Obisesan

            A timely, urgent, razor-sharp drama about a teenage boy fighting to save his reputation, torn between the influence of his family, his friends and his school.

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