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Inventing a New Colour

Inventing a New Colour

By Paul Godfrey

A war-time Exeter family takes in an evacuee from London.

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    Cloud Nine

    Cloud Nine

    By Caryl Churchill

    A landmark play about sexual politics in colonial Africa and modern-day Britain, in which all our assumptions about sex and gender are stunningly exploded.

    Icecream

    Icecream

    By Caryl Churchill

    An unsettling look at British attitudes to America and vice versa, from one of our leading dramatists.

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    Traps

    Traps

    By Caryl Churchill

    An early play by one of our leading dramatists, written before her breakthrough successes with Cloud Nine and Top Girls.

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    The Shape of the Table

    The Shape of the Table

    By David Edgar

    An urgent political play about the collapse of an Eastern Bloc government at the end of 1989. Part of David Edgar's post-Cold War trilogy of plays.

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    Grace

    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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    A Going Concern

    A Going Concern

    By Stephen Jeffreys

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

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    The Skriker

    The Skriker

    By Caryl Churchill

    An extraordinary collision of ancient fairytale and fractured urban England.

    The Jew of Malta

    The Jew of Malta

    By Christopher Marlowe

    Christopher Marlowe's drama of religious conflict, intrigue, and revenge, set on the island of Malta. In the Nick Hern Books Drama Classics series.

    The Rivals

    The Rivals

    By Richard Brinsley Sheridan

    One of the best-known eighteenth-century comedies of manners, Sheridan's first play, and still his most popular. In the Nick Hern Books Drama Classics series.

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    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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    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.

    Berlin Bertie

    Berlin Bertie

    By Howard Brenton

    An intimate and at times savagely funny psychological study of two sisters, one of who has made her home in East Berlin and one who has stayed on in their native London.

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    The Devil is an Ass

    The Devil is an Ass

    By Ben Jonson

    Ben Jonson's 1616 comedy about a junior demon who persuades his master Satan to let him spend a day in London.

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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.

    Volpone

    Volpone

    By Ben Jonson

    Volpone is a Venetian aristocrat, a loveable rogue who enjoys the cunning pursuit of wealth more than money itself. Pretending to be mortally ill, he watches as his greedy neighbours swarm around him with expensive gifts in the hope of inheriting his fortune.

    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.

    French Without Tears

    French Without Tears

    By Terence Rattigan

    A masterpiece of light comedy from Terence Rattigan, about a group of bright young things attempting to learn French on the Riviera amid myriad distractions.

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