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Crime and Punishment

Crime and Punishment (stage version)

By Fyodor Dostoyevsky Adapted by Chris Hannan

An exciting, fresh and accessible adaptation of Dostoyevsky's masterful novel.

The Crown Jewels

The Crown Jewels

By Simon Nye

A riotous comedy based on the scarcely believable true story of the greatest heist of all time: the theft of the Crown Jewels from the Tower of London. From the creator of TV's Men Behaving Badly and The Durrells.

Crush: The Musical

Crush: The Musical

By Maureen Chadwick and Kath Gotts

An outrageously fun musical set in an all-girls school in the 60s, from the team behind Bad Girls: The Musical.

Cuba

Cuba

By Liz Lochhead

A play written for young people to perform, about two schoolgirls and their daring response to the Cuban Missile Crisis.

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The Custom of the Country

The Custom of the Country

By John Fletcher and Philip Massinger

A 17th-century play tracing the fortunes of two brothers shipwrecked in a foreign land.

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The Custom of the Country

The Custom of the Country

By Nicholas Wright

Fletcher and Massinger's bawdy Jacobean drama is transposed to 1890s Johannesburg.

Published in volume Nicholas Wright: Five Plays
    Cyrano de Bergerac

    Cyrano de Bergerac

    By Edmond Rostand Translated by Anthony Burgess

    The nineteenth-century French classic about the swordsman-poet with the nose too large to be taken seriously, in an acclaimed English translation by Anthony Burgess.

    Dara

    Dara

    By Shahid Nadeem Adapted by Tanya Ronder

    An intense domestic drama of global consequence – for India then and for our world now.

    Darknet

    Darknet

    By Rose Lewenstein

    A fascinating - and terrifying - drama that explores the world of data commodification and the uncharted deep web.

    Daughters of the Revolution

    Daughters of the Revolution

    By David Edgar

    A political thriller set in the midst of a bitterly fought US governor's election, from the Democrat perspective. Part of David Edgar's two-play cycle, Continental Divide.

    Published in volume Continental Divide: two plays
      David Copperfield

      David Copperfield (stage version)

      By Charles Dickens Adapted by Alastair Cording

      One of Dickens's best-loved and most autobiographical stories, brilliantly and faithfully dramatised by Alastair Cording.

      Death and Taxes: Hydriotaphia & Other Plays

      Death and Taxes: Hydriotaphia & Other Plays

      By Tony Kushner

      A wide-ranging collection of work from the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Angels in America.

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      Decade

      Decade

      Two towers. Ten years. Twenty plays.

      By Various

      Ten years after 9/11, twenty international writers respond to the defining event of our times.

      The Desert Air

      The Desert Air

      By Nicholas Wright

      A wartime comedy set in Cairo.

      Published in volume Nicholas Wright: Five Plays
        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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        The Devil's Charter

        The Devil's Charter

        By Barnabe Barnes

        A Jacobean tragedy narrating the sensational history of the Borgias.

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        Dexter and Winter's Detective Agency

        Dexter and Winter's Detective Agency

        By Nathan Bryon

        A madcap adventure story for young people (and older detectives) to watch, read and perform.

        Doctor Faustus

        Doctor Faustus

        By Christopher Marlowe

        The classic story of the learned Doctor Faustus who sells his soul to the devil.

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        Doctor Scroggy's War

        Doctor Scroggy's War

        By Howard Brenton

        An epic, hilarious and moving play that takes a sideways look at the First World War.

        Dogeaters

        Dogeaters

        By Jessica Hagedorn

        A hard-hitting play about the Philippines in the Marcos era, adapted by Jessica Hagedorn from her own novel of the same name.

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        The Domino Effect

        The Domino Effect

        By Fin Kennedy

        The Domino Effect is an ensemble play for teenage performers created by award-winning playwright Fin Kennedy.

        Don Carlos

        Don Carlos

        By Friedrich Schiller Adapted by Mike Poulton

        Schiller's great tragedy transformed by Mike Poulton into an intense and gripping historical thriller.

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        Don Juan

        Don Juan

        By Molière Translated by Kenneth McLeish

        Molière's comedy about the notorious womaniser, in a fresh and performable translation by Kenneth McLeish.

        Dracula: The Bloody Truth

        Dracula: The Bloody Truth

        By John Nicholson and Le Navet Bete

        A comic retelling of the story of Dracula, from John Nicholson and Exeter-based theatre company Le Navet Bete.