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A Touch of the Poet

A Touch of the Poet

By Eugene O'Neill

A powerful play tracking the Yankee experience from innocence to corruption, from one of the twentieth century's most significant writers.

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The Hairy Ape

The Hairy Ape

By Eugene O'Neill

A nightmarish condemnation of the dehumanising effects of industrialisation on the American people.

Published in volume The Hairy Ape & All God's Chillun Got Wings
    All God's Chillun Got Wings

    All God's Chillun Got Wings

    By Eugene O'Neill

    An expressionist play about a violently dysfunctional mixed-race marriage, inspired by an old Negro spiritual.

    Published in volume The Hairy Ape & All God's Chillun Got Wings
      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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      A Doll's House

      A Doll's House

      By Henrik Ibsen Translated by Kenneth McLeish

      Ibsen's revolutionary tale of a woman's awakening to her need for a life of her own.

      Romulus Linney: Six Plays

      Romulus Linney: Six Plays

      By Romulus Linney

      Six plays from a major talent of the American theatre, endowed with Linney's lyric intensity, and augmented by his rich sense of humour.

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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 Mill on the Floss

      The Mill on the Floss (stage version)

      By George Eliot Adapted by Helen Edmundson

      A re-invention of George Eliot's classic story of loss, tragedy and the relentless nature of fate.

      The Clearing

      The Clearing

      By Helen Edmundson

      A powerful play about the effects of Oliver Cromwell's military campaign in Ireland.

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      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
        The Lament for Arthur Cleary

        The Lament for Arthur Cleary

        By Dermot Bolger

        Bestselling novelist Dermot Bolger transposes an old story of love and death to modern-day Dublin.

        Published in volume The Crack in the Emerald
          The Hamster Wheel

          The Hamster Wheel

          By Marie Jones

          When one partner in a marriage becomes unable to look after themselves and is completely dependent on the other, what happens to the relationship between them?

          Published in volume The Crack in the Emerald
            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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            Pentecost

            Pentecost

            By David Edgar

            A valuable mural is discovered in a church in war-torn Eastern Europe. Part of David Edgar's trilogy of plays about post-Communist Eastern Europe.

            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
              After the Dance

              After the Dance

              By Terence Rattigan

              Rattigan's brilliant attack on the hedonistic lifestyle of the ‘bright young things’ of the 1920s and 30s.

              Fugue

              Fugue

              By Rona Munro

              A psychological horror story about a woman suffering a mental breakdown, from the award-winning author of Iron.

              Published in volume Your Turn to Clean the Stair & Fugue
                The Maiden Stone

                The Maiden Stone

                By Rona Munro

                A wild and fantastical tale about a group of women struggling to get by in the harsh world of north-east Scotland in the early nineteenth century.

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