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Salad Day

By Deirdre Kinahan

A short play about an elderly couple who, trapped in a nursing home, plot a daring escape into the sunshine.

Published in volume Irish Shorts

The Mirror and the Light (stage version)

By Hilary Mantel Adapted by Hilary Mantel and Ben Miles

The final part of Hilary Mantel's hugely acclaimed Wolf Hall trilogy, adapted by the author with the actor Ben Miles and staged by the Royal Shakespeare Company.

Paperback

The Village Church

By Tamara von Werthern

A short play about faith, families, and fitting in.

Ebook~~£2.99~~ £2.39
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Uncle Vanya

By Anton Chekhov Translated by Stephen Mulrine

Chekhov's great play about an elderly professor whose plans to sell off his rural estate threaten the livelihoods of those who have worked tirelessly to keep the estate going.

Paperback~~£3.99~~ £3.19
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Ghosts

By Henrik Ibsen Translated by Stephen Mulrine

An English version of Ibsen's great play, published in the Nick Hern Books Drama Classics series.

Paperback~~£4.50~~ £3.60
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The Master Builder

By Henrik Ibsen Translated by Kenneth McLeish

Ibsen's study of the corrosive effects of a guilty conscience. In the Nick Hern Books Drama Classics series.

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The House of Bernarda Alba

By Federico García Lorca Translated by Jo Clifford

Lorca's extraordinarily powerful drama, the last he wrote before his assassination, explores the darkness at the heart of repression.

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St Nicholas

By Conor McPherson

An eccentric, teasing yarn from the multi-award-winning author of The Weir.

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That Almost Unnameable Lust

By Rebecca Lenkiewicz

A short play about a writer holding workshops with older women in a prison.

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Mud

By Robert Holman

A group of lonely people converge on the North Yorkshire moors, in Robert Holman's first full-length play.

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Other Worlds

By Robert Holman

A gorilla is taken for a French spy by an eighteenth-century fishing community on the isolated North Yorkshire coast, in a play that explores fears of the unknown.

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The Overgrown Path

By Robert Holman

An aspiring academic arrives on a Greek island to interview a reclusive scientist, in a play about history and the stories we tell each other to make sense of ourselves.