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Lizzie Siddal

Lizzie Siddal

By Jeremy Green

A gripping historical drama charting one woman's dazzling trajectory from model to lover to artist, to a tragic figure in her own right.

Liz Lochhead: Five Plays

Liz Lochhead: Five Plays

By Liz Lochhead

Five plays from the the makar (national poet) of Scotland, one of the country's best-known - and best-loved - living playwrights.

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The Lodger

The Lodger

By Robert Holman

An enlightening, cathartic and acerbic new play about identity, maturity and reconciliation.

London Assurance

London Assurance

By Dion Boucicault

A classic comedy of manners with two of the great comic roles of the English stage, published in the Nick Hern Books Drama Classics series.

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London Road

London Road

By Alecky Blythe and Adam Cork

An experimental and challenging work which reveals the ways in which even the darkest experiences can engender a greater sense of our mutual dependence.

Kenneth Lonergan: Three Plays

Kenneth Lonergan: Three Plays

By Kenneth Lonergan

A collection of plays by the acclaimed film director, playwright and screenwriter: This Is Our Youth, The Waverly Gallery and Lobby Hero.

The Long Christmas Ride Home

The Long Christmas Ride Home

By Paula Vogel

Past and present collide on a snowy Christmas Eve for a troubled family of five. Humorous and heart-wrenching, this beautifully written play proves that magic can be found in the simplest breaths of life.

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Long Day's Journey into Night

Long Day's Journey into Night

By Eugene O'Neill

A true modern classic from one of the twentieth century's most significant writers.

The Long Song

The Long Song (stage version)

By Andrea Levy Adapted by Suhayla El-Bushra

The story of a young slave girl who lives through the final turbulent days of slavery on a sugar plantation in 19th-century Jamaica. Adapted from Andrea Levy's award-winning novel.

Long Time Dead

Long Time Dead

By Rona Munro

A gripping and darkly humorous play about the camaraderie of a trio of obsessive mountaineers.

Lorca: Three Plays

Lorca: Three Plays

By Federico García Lorca Translated by Jo Clifford

Three of Federico García Lorca's most famous plays in a single volume: Blood Wedding, Yerma and The House of Bernarda Alba. Translated from the Spanish and introduced by one of Scotland's finest playwrights, Jo Clifford.

LORENZO

LORENZO

By Ben Targét

A life-affirming story about the messiness of ageing and dying. Winner of a Fringe First award at the 2023 Edinburgh Fringe.

Lose Yourself

Lose Yourself

By Katherine Chandler

A fast and wild ride into the darker side of our celebrity obsessed culture.

Losing Venice

Losing Venice

By Jo Clifford

An epic fable set in the faraway Spanish Golden Age, about the deranged behaviour of countries that have lost an empire and still not yet found a role.

Lost

Lost

By Robert Holman

The second play in Robert Holman's acclaimed trilogy of short plays, Making Noise Quietly.

Published in volume Making Noise Quietly: three short plays
    The Lost Art of Keeping a Secret

    The Lost Art of Keeping a Secret

    By Catherine Johnson

    The alternating stories of two women (played by the same actress), both of whom 'lose' their sons - one murdered, the other a runaway.

    Published in volume Singular Female Voices
      The Lottie Project

      The Lottie Project (stage version)

      By Jacqueline Wilson Adapted by Vicky Ireland

      An adaptation for the stage of this modern children's classic by the best-selling author and 2005 Children's Laureate.

      Love & Science

      Love & Science

      By Richard Foreman

      This selection of texts makes original and inimitable works of music-theatre accessible to a wide audience for the first time.

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      Love and Human Remains

      Love and Human Remains

      By Brad Fraser

      A violent and sexually explicit study of young adults groping for meaning in a senseless world.

      Love and Information

      Love and Information

      By Caryl Churchill

      From one of the UK's most influential playwrights - a fast moving kaleidoscope in which more than a hundred characters try to make sense of what they know.

      Love and Other Acts of Violence

      Love and Other Acts of Violence

      By Cordelia Lynn

      A subversive and intimate love story about inheritance and the cycles of politics and history.

      Love in a Glass Jar

      Love in a Glass Jar

      By Nancy Harris

      A short play from an acclaimed Irish playwright, about a sterile liasion in a hotel room that threatens to spill over into real life.

      Published in volume Irish Shorts
        Love in Idleness/Less Than Kind

        Love in Idleness/Less Than Kind

        By Terence Rattigan

        The third in Terence Rattigan's unofficial trilogy of war plays, published alongside an earlier version of the play, Less Than Kind, never staged during Rattigan's lifetime.

        Love the Sinner

        Love the Sinner

        By Drew Pautz

        A tense and provocative play offering a remarkably fresh and painful take on our perpetual guilt in the face of poverty and brutality in the developing world.