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Cost of Living

Cost of Living

By Martyna Majok

Winner of the 2018 Pulitzer Prize for Drama, an exquisitely original, honest and deftly funny play that explores our need to connect and be loved regardless of the gulfs that disability, race, class, and wealth place between us.

Cotton Wool

Cotton Wool

By Ali Taylor

A gripping and darkly comic tale of young lives on the edge. Winner of the 2009 Meyer-Whitworth Award.

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Cougar

Cougar

By Rose Lewenstein

A startling play about what – and who – we consume.

The Country Wife

The Country Wife

By William Wycherley

A classically bawdy Restoration Comedy, widely regarded as one of the filthiest and funniest plays ever written.

The Crack in the Emerald

The Crack in the Emerald

New Irish Plays

Edited by David Grant

Four Irish plays from the late 1980s, selected and introduced by David Grant of the Dublin Theatre Festival.

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Creating Worlds

Creating Worlds

How to Make Immersive Theatre

By Jason Warren

A practical guide to creating successful immersive theatre productions, by an experienced theatre-maker and practitioner.

Creditors

Creditors

By August Strindberg Translated by Howard Brenton

Passionate, dangerously funny, and enduringly perceptive, a wickedly enjoyable black comedy that Strindberg considered his masterpiece.

Cressida

Cressida

By Nicholas Wright

A comedy drama set in the seedily glamorous world of 17th-century London theatre.

Crestfall

Crestfall

By Mark O'Rowe

A play about love in a dog-eat-dog world, told in Mark O’Rowe’s unique rhythmic style.

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.

CripTales: Six Monologues

CripTales: Six Monologues

By Various Curated by Mat Fraser

Six fictional monologues portraying some very real experiences of disabled people in Britain, commissioned to mark the twenty-fifth anniversary of the UK's Disability Discrimination Act.

The Crocodile

The Crocodile

By Tom Basden Original author Fyodor Dostoyevsky

A ferociously funny, eye-poppingly theatrical play about art, animals and what happens when you try to take on the system from within... a crocodile.

Crocodiles

Crocodiles

By Lee Mattinson

Lee Mattinson's extraordinary play, bringing to life a dystopian, modern-fairytale town where fact and fiction weave as tightly and snag as easily as granny's knitting.

Crossings

Crossings

By Deirdre Kinahan

A play with live music, waltzing and unexpected connections, exploring how we return, resettle and adapt.

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.

Cruising

Cruising

By Alecky Blythe

A hilarious, real-life comedy about pensioners going in search of love - from the sublime to the downright saucy.

Crumbs from the Table of Joy

Crumbs from the Table of Joy

By Lynn Nottage

An arresting, thought-provoking play about racial and social issues of the late 1950s, by the first woman to win two Pulitzer Prizes for Drama.

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.

Crushed Shells and Mud

Crushed Shells and Mud

By Ben Musgrave

A play about conflicted desire and dangerous loyalties in a world trembling in the grip of a devastating epidemic.

Cuckold Ubu

Cuckold Ubu

By Alfred Jarry

A sequel to King Ubu, Alfred Jarry's surreal and hilarious satire of power, greed, and bourgeois pretension. Cuckold Ubu continues the adventures of Pa Ubu.

Published in volume Ubu
    Curtain Up!

    Curtain Up!

    How to Stage Great Youth Productions

    Edited by Charon Williams-Ros

    A comprehensive, hands-on guide to making theatre – perfect for any school, college, youth group or amateur-theatre company.

    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

      Cyrano

      By Virginia Gay Original author Edmond Rostand

      A joyous, gender-flipped retelling of Edmond Rostand's classic play, first performed by Melbourne Theatre Company, and a hit at the 2024 Edinburgh Festival Fringe before transferring to Park Theatre, London.