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Mary Shelley

By Helen Edmundson

A biographical play about Mary Shelley, author of Frankenstein. Premiered by Shared Experience.

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Mary Queen of Scots Got Her Head Chopped Off

By Liz Lochhead

A modern classic about the bitter rivalry between Mary, Queen of Scots, and her cousin and fellow ruler, Elizabeth I of England - retold by Scotland's most popular playwright.

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Mary Barton (stage version)

By Elizabeth Gaskell Adapted by Rona Munro

Elizabeth Gaskell's panoramic novel of Victorian England, adapted for the stage by the author of Iron and The James Plays.

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The Maladies

By Carmen Nasr

A powerful, provocative play exploring psychogenic illness amongst groups of women throughout history, premiered by the Almeida Young Company.

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Making Noise Quietly: three short plays

By Robert Holman

An acclaimed trilogy of plays exploring the impact of war on ordinary lives.

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Making Noise Quietly (short play)

By Robert Holman

The third in Robert Holman's acclaimed trilogy of short plays, also called Making Noise Quietly.

Published in volume Making Noise Quietly: three short plays

The Maiden Stone

By Rona Munro

A wild and fantastical tale about a group of women struggling to get by in the harsh world of north-east Scotland in the early nineteenth century.

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Madame Bovary: Breakfast with Emma

By Gustave Flaubert Adapted by Fay Weldon

Flaubert's masterpiece about an infidelity with tragic consequences, dramatised for Shared Experience by the acclaimed novelist.

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Machinal

By Sophie Treadwell

A powerful expressionist drama from the 1920s about the dependent status of women in an increasingly mechanised society, based on the true story of Ruth Snyder.

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Lysistrata

By Aristophanes Translated by Patric Dickinson

The ancient Greek comedy in which the women of Greece go on a sex strike to force their husbands to end the Peloponnesian Wars. In the Nick Hern Books Drama Classics series.

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Lulu

By Frank Wedekind Adapted by Nicholas Wright

The first version of Wedekind's celebrated erotic masterpiece to be based on the author's original text, restoring the clarity, the daring and the sexual explicitness of a modern masterpiece written a hundred years before its time.