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Manon / Sandra

By Michel Tremblay Translated by John Van Burek

A controversial but humane play about an obsessively religious girl and a sex-obsessed transvestite, by the renowned Quebecois writer.

Published in volume The Guid Sisters and other plays

Albertine in Five Times

By Michel Tremblay Translated by John Van Burek and Bill Glassco

A simultaneous portrait of a woman at five different ages. Five actresses portray Albertine at different times of her life whilst conversing freely with each other and with their sister Madeleine.

Published in volume The Guid Sisters and other plays

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

Light in the Village

By John Clifford

A devastatingly effective modern parable about poverty and corruption in an Indian village.

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Sweeney Todd

By Stephen Sondheim and Hugh Wheeler

The gruesomely fascinating musical about the 'Demon Barber of Fleet Street', one of Sondheim's greatest hits.

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Self Torture & Strenuous Exercise

By Harry Kondoleon

These plays are not only jet-black comedies. They are fairy tales, fables, passion plays, masquerades...

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Angels in America Part One: Millennium Approaches

By Tony Kushner

Part One of the two-part Angels in America, an epic drama set during the Reagan years in America - now recognised as one of the greatest plays of the twentieth century.

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A Moon for the Misbegotten

By Eugene O'Neill

The last work from one of the twentieth century's most significant writers, continuing the semi-autobiographical cycle centring on the Tyrone family.

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Through the Leaves and other plays

By Franz Xaver Kroetz Translated by Roger Downey

Three plays from the controversial German playwright whose works have helped reshape world drama.

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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.

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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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Peer Gynt

By Henrik Ibsen Translated by Gerry Bamman and Irene B. Berman

A fresh translation of one of the last great epics of the nineteenth century.

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A Going Concern

By Stephen Jeffreys

A play about a washed-up family business, from the author of The Libertine.

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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.