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Love Upon the Throne

A gleefully comic retelling of the Charles and Diana story, designed to be performed by two (male) actors.

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Love, Lies and Taxidermy

An offbeat love story about Mr Tutti Frutti, a stuffed owl and the struggle to fit in.

Love, Love, Love

Are baby boomers to blame for the fact that their children's generation is debt-ridden and adrift? Love, Love, Love takes on the baby boomer generation as it retires, and finds it full of trouble.

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Lovers' Quarrels

Translated by Richard Wilbur

An English verse translation of Molière's second verse comedy, featuring a heroine masquerading as a man, yet unable to evade Cupid.

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Lovesick

A therapist practices aversion therapy to rid his patients of sexual/romantic obsessions which interfere with their lives.

Published in volume Caryl Churchill: Shorts

    Loving Longing Leaving

    Three Plays by Michael Weller

    With stark truth and piercing detail, Loving, Longing, Leaving, a marriage trilogy, takes us through the lives of three intersecting couples immersed in three distinct stages of love. Michael Weller is also the author of Moonchildren and Loose Ends.

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    Low in the Dark

    A witty and absurdist play that dismantles the myths of motherhood and exposes the sexism of language and religious imagery.

    Published in volume The Crack in the Emerald

      Low Level Panic

      A funny, unapologetic play about the effects of society's objectification of women.

      The Low Road

      A fable of free market economics and cut-throat capitalism.

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      Loyal Women

      A gripping and explosive drama from the multi-award winning playwright.

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      Lucky Seven

      A comedy about growing up, class, love, disappointment and hope, inspired by the Seven Up television series.

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      Luise Miller

      A masterpiece of power and politics that explores the battle between honour and corruption, between truth and betrayal.

      Lulu

      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.

      Luna Park: short plays and monologues

      A collection of work from the Pulitzer Prize-winning author, featuring three decades' worth of short plays, one-acts and monologues.

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      Lynndie's Gotta Gun

      A short play published for the first time, written during the author's time working with European theatremakers.

      The Lyons

      A deliciously savage family comedy.

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      Lysistrata

      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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      Ma Rainey's Black Bottom

      Set in Chicago in 1927, Ma Rainey's Black Bottom is a play dealing with issues of race, art, religion and the historic exploitation of black recording artists by white producers.

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      Macbeth

      An edition of Shakespeare's play in the Shakespeare Folios series, offering the absolute authenticity of the First Folio in a totally accessible form.

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      Macbeth (Donmar Warehouse edition)

      Shakespeare's most extraordinary psychological drama in a version premiered at the Donmar Warehouse in 2023, starring David Tennant and Cush Jumbo, directed by Max Webster. With behind-the-scenes material exploring how the production was conceived and developed.

      Machinal

      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.

      Machinal (2018 edition)

      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.

      The Machine Gunners (stage version)

      A thrilling adaptation of the beloved, award-winning children's novel.

      The Machine Wreckers

      A classic of German expressionism by an active revolutionary who was also an accomplished poet and playwright.

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