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King Charles III

King Charles III

By Mike Bartlett

Mike Bartlett's 'future history play' explores the people beneath the crowns, the unwritten rules of our democracy, and the conscience of Britain's most famous family.

King Lear

King Lear

By William Shakespeare Edited by Nick de Somogyi

An edition of Shakespeare's play in the Shakespeare Folios series - offering the absolute authenticity of the First Folio in a totally accessible form.

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King Leir

King Leir

By Anonymous

An anonymous Elizabethan play about the ancient king of Britain, a prime source for Shakespeare's version of the story.

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King of the Fields

King of the Fields

By Stuart Paterson

A play set in Ayrshire after the First World War, with touches of Ibsen - from the acclaimed Scottish playwright.

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King Troll (The Fawn)

King Troll (The Fawn)

By Sonali Bhattacharyya

A dystopian stage play exploring migrant experiences in all their complexity – and the troll that lives within all of us. Premiered by Kali Theatre at New Diorama Theatre, London, in 2024.

King Ubu

King Ubu

By Alfred Jarry

Alfred Jarry's surreal and hilarious satire of power, greed, and bourgeois pretension, the first of his three plays about the comically grotesque character of Pa Ubu.

Published in volume Ubu
    Kiss Me Quickstep

    Kiss Me Quickstep

    By Amanda Whittington

    Dazzling and sequin-studded, Kiss Me Quickstep is a play about the world of ballroom dance, taking us behind the fixed smiles and fake tan to look at the real lives of those for whom ballroom dancing is everything

    The Kitchen Sink

    The Kitchen Sink

    By Tom Wells

    An irresistibly funny and tender play about big dreams and small changes.

    The Knight of the Burning Pestle

    The Knight of the Burning Pestle

    By Francis Beaumont

    A classic satire on chivalric romances. In the Nick Hern Books Drama Classics series.

    The Knot of the Heart

    The Knot of the Heart

    By David Eldridge

    A grippingly insightful play about a young woman whose social drug habit has got disastrously out of control.

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    La Bête

    La Bête

    By David Hirson

    An exuberant, wildly distinctive comedy that encompasses timeless concerns about life and art.

    La Ronde

    La Ronde

    By Arthur Schnitzler Translated by Stephen Unwin and Peter Zombory-Moldovan

    Schnitzler's famous 'daisy-chain' play of sexual coupling, set in Vienna in the 1890s. In the Drama Classics series.

    Ladies Down Under

    Ladies Down Under

    By Amanda Whittington

    The funny, heart-warming sequel to the enormously successful Ladies' Day, following the lasses from Hull on their adventures down under.

    Ladies Unleashed

    Ladies Unleashed

    By Amanda Whittington

    A moving comedy for the stage, about friendship, growing older and living for today, reuniting the characters from the smash-hit plays Ladies' Day and Ladies Down Under.

    Ladies' Day

    Ladies' Day

    By Amanda Whittington

    Work, love and life are just one long, hard slog for the fish-filleting foursome Pearl, Jan, Shelley and Linda. But their fortunes are set to change when Linda finds tickets to Ladies' Day at Royal Ascot the year it relocated to York.

    Lady Dealer

    Lady Dealer

    By Martha Watson Allpress

    A mile-a-minute, one-person poem play about a young female drug dealer, exploring forgiveness, the exhaustion of trying, and mistaking self-destruction for self-preservation. Premiered at the 2023 Edinburgh Fringe Festival.

    The Lady From the Sea

    The Lady From the Sea

    By Henrik Ibsen Translated by Kenneth McLeish

    One of Ibsen's most powerful studies of female psychology, in the Nick Hern Books Drama Classics series.

    The Lady from the Sea

    The Lady from the Sea

    By Henrik Ibsen Adapted by Elinor Cook

    Ibsen's moving play about duty and self-determination, relocated to the Caribbean in the 1950s.

    Lady Windermere's Fan

    Lady Windermere's Fan

    By Oscar Wilde

    A biting satire on the morals of Victorian society, in the Nick Hern Books Drama Classics series.

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    Ladybird

    Ladybird

    By Vassily Sigarev Translated by Sasha Dugdale

    A tough but tender portrait of urban squalor, from the award-winning Siberian-born author of Plasticine.

    Lagan

    Lagan

    By Stacey Gregg

    A kaleidoscope of stories from post-Troubles Belfast, Lagan is an intimate and absorbing dramatic portrait of a city with a past like no other.

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    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
      Landmines

      Landmines

      By Phil Davies

      A stark, fast-paced and fraught play about political upheaval and the media's relationship with civil violence and terrorism in modern Britain. In the Multiplay Drama series.

      Last Dance at Dum Dum

      Last Dance at Dum Dum

      By Ayub Khan Din

      A serious comedy from the author of East is East, about the dying breed of Anglo-Indians living in Calcutta in 1985.

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