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Drinks Before Dinner

Drinks Before Dinner

By E.L. Doctorow

A theatrical tour-de-force of language and ideas about Eighties' America, by the best-selling author of Billy Bathgate and Ragtime.

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Widows

Widows

By Ariel Dorfman and Tony Kushner

A smouldering political allegory about a political protest in a country ruled by a military junta. From the author of Death and the Maiden, written in collaboration with Tony Kushner, author of Angels in America.

East is East

East is East

By Ayub Khan Din

A wonderful comedy about growing up in multiracial Salford.

King Ubu

King Ubu

By Alfred Jarry

Alfred Jarry's surreal and hilarious satire of power, greed, and bourgeois pretension, the first of his three plays about the comically grotesque character of Pa Ubu.

Published in volume Ubu
    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
      Slave Ubu

      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
        Flight

        Flight

        By Mikhail Bulgakov Adapted by Ron Hutchinson

        A rich and poetic play set during the Russian Civil War, by the author of The Master and Margarita.

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        Tearing the Loom

        Tearing the Loom

        By Gary Mitchell

        A searing portrait of a community divided against itself, set in a weaver's cottage in County Armagh at the time of the 1798 Rebellion.

        Published in volume Tearing the Loom & In a Little World of Our Own
          Life is a Dream

          Life is a Dream

          By Pedro Calderón Translated by John Clifford

          A masterpiece of the Spanish Golden Age, in an English version by John Clifford.

          Separate Tables

          Separate Tables

          By Terence Rattigan

          Two linked one-act plays set in a run-down residential hotel in Bournemouth.

          A Place at the Table

          A Place at the Table

          By Simon Block

          A play about the dog-eat-dog world of television.

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          Treetops

          Treetops

          By Nicholas Wright

          A play about the early resistance to policies of apartheid or racial segregation in Cape Town, South Africa, in the 1950s.

          Published in volume Nicholas Wright: Five Plays

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            Olivia Hirst & David Byrne
            Amanda Whittington

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            13–18 May 2024
            Wharf Theatre, Devizes