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The Sleeping Beauty (stage version)

By Stuart Paterson

A variation on the classic tale of Sleeping Beauty, by the 'master of children's theatre' (Scotsman).

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Slave Ubu

By Alfred Jarry

The third and final part of The Ubu Plays, Alfred Jarry's surreal and hilarious satire of power, greed, and bourgeois pretension. Slave Ubu concludes the adventures of Pa Ubu.

Published in volume Ubu

Skunk

By Zawe Ashton

A surreal, dreamlike and hilarious play exploring the pressures and transformations that happen to teenagers as they grow up. In the Multiplay Drama series.

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Six Characters in Search of an Author

By Luigi Pirandello Translated by Stephen Mulrine

Pirandello's most famous play, about the nature of theatre and the problems of theatricality. In the Nick Hern Books Drama Classics series.

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Shush

By Elaine Murphy

A funny and insightful play about the power of female friendship.

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Shoot the Crow

By Owen McCafferty

An endearing yet hard-hitting comic portrait of how the need to work gets in the way of living.

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The Shoemakers' Holiday

By Thomas Dekker

A rumbustious Elizabethan comedy featuring identity fraud, love triangles and a marriage proposal disguised as a shoe fitting. In the Nick Hern Books Drama Classics series.

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In this entertainingly far-fetched play, Rowley combines mythical tales of the origin of St Alban's with folklore about the craft of shoemaking to produce a comic history which draws together the foundations of British nationhood.

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The Shipment

By Young Jean Lee

The Shipment is a provocative look at African-American identity in today's not-quite post-racial society.

Published in volume The Shipment and Lear: two plays

Shining Souls

By Chris Hannan

A riotously funny comedy with a gallery of unforgettable characters, published here in a revised version alongside its revival at the Tron Theatre, Glasgow, in 2003.

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Shibboleth

By Stacey Gregg

An exhilarating and unsentimental exploration of working-class life in Belfast.

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She Stoops to Conquer

By Oliver Goldsmith

The best-loved English comedy of the 18th century, a lighthearted farce full of entanglements and misunderstandings, all set over the course of single, eventful night. In the Nick Hern Books Drama Classics series.