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The Strange Death of John Doe

The Strange Death of John Doe

By Fiona Doyle

A powerful and poignant drama about the search for the identity of a young man whose body is found face down in a suburban street.

Strange Interlude

Strange Interlude

By Eugene O'Neill

A controversial work of extraordinary power, remarkable length (9 acts), and use of asides to express the characters' unspoken thoughts. An outstanding, somewhat Freudian play from one of the twentieth century's most significant writers.

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A Strange Loop

A Strange Loop

By Michael R. Jackson

A blistering original musical about a young artist at war with a host of demons. Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Drama, as well as Best Musical and Best Book of a Musical at the Tony Awards.

Strangers in Between

Strangers in Between

By Tommy Murphy

Tommy Murphy's unflinching and constantly surprising drama about how we make sense of who we are through our often fraught relations with others.

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strangers, babies

strangers, babies

By Linda McLean

The chilling story of one woman's desperate attempts at a future that's worth living.

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Strategic Love Play

Strategic Love Play

By Miriam Battye

A Fringe First-winning play that, with acid wit, takes a scalpel to modern romance.

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Strawberries in January

Strawberries in January

By Evelyne de la Chenelière Translated by Rona Munro

A biting, heart-warming comedy of love and fate in contemporary Montréal, in a version by Rona Munro.

Strictly Dishonourable and other lost American plays

Strictly Dishonourable and other lost American plays

Edited by Richard Nelson

Four lively dramas from the twenties and thirties evoking a world of gangsters, crooked cops, intrepid newpaper hacks and slightly tarnished damsels in distress.

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The Strongbox

The Strongbox

By Stephanie Jacob

A story of domestic servitude and abuse of power.

Stuff

Stuff

By Tom Wells

A play about friendship and loss – and the way people try to do the right thing for their mates when there isn't really a right thing to do. Written specifically for young people as part of the 2019 National Theatre Connections Festival.

Stunning and other plays

Stunning and other plays

By David Adjmi

The first collection by a striking new voice in American theatre.

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The Substance of Fire and other plays

The Substance of Fire and other plays

By Jon Robin Baitz

This collection contains Jon Robin Baitz's debut play, The Film Society, alongside two more recent works: The End of the Day and the title play, The Substance of Fire.

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subUrbia

subUrbia

By Eric Bogosian

An updated version of Bogosian's theatrical tour de force.

Sucking Dublin

Sucking Dublin

By Enda Walsh

A fierce and uncompromising short play about a group of five individuals tormented by a rape in a claustrophobic, drug-infested Dublin.

Published in volume Disco Pigs & Sucking Dublin
    A Sudden Violent Burst of Rain

    A Sudden Violent Burst of Rain

    By Sami Ibrahim

    A poetic fable for the stage, about an impenetrable immigration system that mirrors our own.

    Suffs

    Suffs

    By Shaina Taub

    An epic musical about the unsung trailblazers of the American women's suffrage movement. Winner of the 2024 Tony Awards for Best Book of a Musical and Best Original Score.

    Sugar Baby

    Sugar Baby

    By Alan Harris

    A one-man comedy-drama about a small-time drug dealer in Cardiff, from critically acclaimed writer Alan Harris.

    The Sugar Wife

    The Sugar Wife

    By Elizabeth Kuti

    Love, lust, prostitution and slavery in a 19th-century Quaker household. New edition published alongside the 2024 revival at the Abbey Theatre, Dublin.

    The Suitcase Kid

    The Suitcase Kid (stage version)

    By Jacqueline Wilson Adapted by Vicky Ireland

    An adaptation for the stage of Jacqueline Wilson's popular novel.

    Summerfolk

    Summerfolk

    By Maxim Gorky Translated by Stephen Mulrine

    Gorky's magnificent play about the Russian bourgeois social class and the changes occurring around them in the middle of the first decade of the twentieth century. In the Nick Hern Books Drama Classics series.

    Sunday in the Park with George

    Sunday in the Park with George

    By Stephen Sondheim and James Lapine

    The Pulitzer-winning musical inspired by Georges Seurat's pointillist masterpiece, celebrating the art of creation and the creation of art.

    Sunrise

    Sunrise

    By Jessie Cave

    An honest, tender-hearted and uproariously funny story from actress, comedian, writer and doodler Jessie Cave – with colour illustrations throughout.

    Sunset at the Villa Thalia

    Sunset at the Villa Thalia

    By Alexi Kaye Campbell

    A funny and passionate play from the author of The Pride and The Faith Machine.

    Sunset Song

    Sunset Song (stage version)

    By Lewis Grassic Gibbon Adapted by Alastair Cording

    A classic of Scots literature, brilliantly adapted for the stage.

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