The Convict's Opera
The world's first ever musical, The Beggar's Opera, is performed on board a creaking convict ship bound for Australia.
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Antigone
A muscular version of Sophocles' timeless masterpiece, offering a profound reflection on the nature of power, democracy and human rights.
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£9.99£7.99Seven Jewish Children
A short play written in response to the situation in Gaza at the time of writing in January 2009.
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Morte d'Arthur (stage version)
By Thomas Malory Adapted by Mike PoultonAn adaptation for the Royal Shakespeare Company of Sir Thomas Malory's classic telling of the Legend of King Arthur and his Knights of the Round Table.
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Arthur & George (stage version)
By Julian Barnes Adapted by David EdgarThe gripping story of the sensational, real-life case in which Sir Arthur Conan Doyle found himself playing detective.
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£8.99£7.19The Late Middle Classes
By Simon GrayA funny yet melancholic look at the frustrations, secrets and guilt of middle-class respectability in 1950s England.
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£9.99£7.99The City Madam (RSC edition)
A waspish city comedy attacking the vices of hypocrisy, greed, self-indulgence and social pretension.
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Home Death
By Nell DunnInspired by real-life stories, Home Death is a courageous, compassionate play about how our society deals with the reality of dying, raising urgent questions about palliative care in the UK.
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Much Ado About Nothing (West End edition)
A consummate romantic comedy that dramatises the battle of the sexes with a dazzling display of Shakespeare's wit and wordplay.
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The Faith Machine
Travelling from America to Britain to a remote Greek island, The Faith Machine explores the relationship between faith and capitalism and asks fundamental questions about the true meaning of love.
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£9.99£7.99Double Feature: Two
By Prasanna Puwanarajah and Tom BasdenDouble Feature brings together – in two volumes of paired short plays – four of the most exciting new voices in UK theatre, in their first commissions for the National Theatre.
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£9.99£7.99Mad Forest
A play written in response to the Romanian revolution of 1989, exploring the reactions of ordinary people to events.
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£9.99£7.99The Duchess of Malfi
By John WebsterThe macabre Jacobean tragedy, in the Nick Hern Books Drama Classics series.
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Hamlet: A User's Guide
An intensely practical account of the way Hamlet actually works on stage, by an acclaimed actor and director.
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£9.99£7.99The Machine Wreckers
By Ernst Toller Translated by Ashley DukesA classic of German expressionism by an active revolutionary who was also an accomplished poet and playwright.
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Mary Stuart
By Friedrich Schiller Translated by Jeremy SamsSchiller's grand historical tragedy, a battle of wits between Mary Queen of Scots and her captor, Queen Elizabeth I.
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£9.99£7.99An Italian Straw Hat
By Eugène Labiche Translated by Kenneth McLeishA classic 19th-century French farce, in the Nick Hern Books Drama Classics series.
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£4.99£3.99John Gabriel Borkman (National Theatre version)
By Henrik Ibsen Adapted by Nicholas WrightNicholas Wright's sensitive version of Ibsen's late play, about a family brought low by the disgrace and imprisonment of its patriarch.
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