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A Bright Room Called Day

A Bright Room Called Day

By Tony Kushner

From the author of Angels in America, A Bright Room Called Day was Kushner's first major play. Written against the backdrop of Reagan's America, it is a powerful portrayal of individual resolution in the face of political catastrophe.

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Flyin' West and Other Plays

Flyin' West and Other Plays

By Pearl Cleage

A collection of work for the stage that provides a remarkable and penetrating look at the African-American experience over the last 100 years.

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Superior Donuts

Superior Donuts

By Tracy Letts

An entertaining comedy-drama set in a local donut shop in the heart of one of Chicago's most diverse communities. By the Pulitzer Prize winning author of August: Osage County.

Mary Jane

Mary Jane

By Amy Herzog

A moving play about the stalwart endurance of a devoted mother, winner of the 2018 New York Drama Critics' Circle Award for Best Play.

Rock / Paper / Scissors

Rock / Paper / Scissors

Three Plays

By Chris Bush

Three intricately interwoven plays about family, heritage and legacy, centring around a Sheffield manufacturing family.

Three Sisters

Three Sisters

By Anton Chekhov Translated by Paul Schmidt

A clear, colloquial and accurate translation of Chekhov's play about the Prozorov family's dream of returning from the provinces to an idealised Moscow.

Gum

Gum

By Karen Hartman

Set in a fictional fundamentalist country where chewing gum is outlawed, Gum explores the human need to tame nature and control desire.

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.

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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Kenneth Lonergan: Three Plays

Kenneth Lonergan: Three Plays

By Kenneth Lonergan

A collection of plays by the acclaimed film director, playwright and screenwriter: This Is Our Youth, The Waverly Gallery and Lobby Hero.

Coastal Disturbances: Four Plays

Coastal Disturbances: Four Plays

By Tina Howe

Four plays by Tina Howe: Coastal Disturbances, Museum, The Art of Dining and Painting Churches.

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Trying to Find Chinatown

Trying to Find Chinatown

By David Henry Hwang

David Henry Hwang is known for exploring the complex relationships which bridge Eastern and Western culture in modern America. It is a subject that has long haunted American drama: how, in a land of immigrants, does one deal with one's heritage and construct a sense of identity.

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The Resistance Trilogy

The Resistance Trilogy

By Ariel Dorfman

Three powerful political plays in one volume - with a substantial introduction by the author.

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Bingo!

Bingo!

By Daniel MacIvor

Just because we’re all grown up doesn’t mean we have everything figured out. As five old friends try to reclaim their high school glory days, they charge headfirst into the secrets they all tried to run so far from. 

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True Love Lies

True Love Lies

By Brad Fraser

From the Canadian author of Cold Meat Party and Love and Human Remains, in sharp, non-stop dialogue, True Love Lives tears open the nuclear family and finds the heart that is often lost and forgotten. 

 
Decade

Decade

Two towers. Ten years. Twenty plays.

By various

Ten years after 9/11, twenty international writers respond to the defining event of our times.

Faust: Parts I & II

Faust: Parts I & II

By Johann Wolfgang Goethe Adapted by Howard Brenton

A two-part version of Goethe's great work, retaining the mighty scope, linguistic daring and philosophical intricacy of the original.

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Drinks Before Dinner

Drinks Before Dinner

By E.L. Doctorow

A theatrical tour-de-force of language and ideas about Eighties' America, by the best-selling author of Billy Bathgate and Ragtime.

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