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Sunset at the Villa Thalia

A funny and passionate play from the author of The Pride and The Faith Machine.

Summerfolk

By Maxim Gorky Translated by Stephen Mulrine

Gorky's magnificent play about the Russian bourgeois social class and the changes occurring around them in the middle of the first decade of the twentieth century. In the Nick Hern Books Drama Classics series.

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  • Ebook£3.99 £3.19

The Suitcase Kid (stage version)

An adaptation for the stage of Jacqueline Wilson's popular novel.

The Sugar Wife

Love, lust, prostitution and slavery in a 19th-century Quaker household. Winner of the 2006 Susan Smith Blackburn Prize.

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The Sugar Wife (new edition)

Love, lust, prostitution and slavery in a 19th-century Quaker household. New edition published alongside the 2024 revival at the Abbey Theatre, Dublin.

  • Paperback£10.99 £8.79
  • Ebook£10.99 £8.79
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Sugar Baby

A one-man comedy-drama about a small-time drug dealer in Cardiff, from critically acclaimed writer Alan Harris.

A Sudden Violent Burst of Rain

A poetic fable for the stage, about an impenetrable immigration system that mirrors our own.

Stuff

A play about friendship and loss – and the way people try to do the right thing for their mates when there isn't really a right thing to do. Written specifically for young people as part of the 2019 National Theatre Connections Festival.

The Strongbox

A story of domestic servitude and abuse of power.

Strangers in Between

Tommy Murphy's unflinching and constantly surprising drama about how we make sense of who we are through our often fraught relations with others.

The Strange Death of John Doe

A powerful and poignant drama about the search for the identity of a young man whose body is found face down in a suburban street.

Stories

A funny and touching new play about the fertilisation of an idea.