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Tumulus

Tumulus

By Christopher Adams

A chilling, queer play-noir set amongst the shadowy hills of Hampstead Heath.

The Turn of the Screw (stage version)

The Turn of the Screw (stage version)

By Henry James Adapted by Rebecca Lenkiewicz

A chilling adaptation of Henry James's classic ghost story.

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Twelfth Night

Twelfth Night

By William Shakespeare Edited by Nick de Somogyi

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

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Twilight Song

Twilight Song

By Kevin Elyot

Kevin Elyot's evocative final play, a hilarious and heartbreaking tale of one family's hidden liaisons over half a century.

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twins

twins

By James Fritz

A short play about twins whose lives diverge, first performed at the Arcola Theatre, London, in 2015.

Two Billion Beats

Two Billion Beats

By Sonali Bhattacharyya

An insightful, heartfelt coming-of-age story and a blazing account of inner-city, British-Asian teenage life.

Two Billion Beats (short play version)

Two Billion Beats (short play version)

By Sonali Bhattacharyya

A short play about the unfairness of growing up in a world where you don't make the rules. First performed as part of Inside/Outside, a season of short plays staged at the Orange Tree Theatre, Richmond.

Published in volume Inside/Outside
    Two for the Show

    Two for the Show

    Scenes for student actors

    Edited by Brian Kennedy

    A fascinating collection of short scenes for two actors. Drawn from the work of Canada's premiere playwrights, the thirty-nine different scenes have been chosen by an experienced drama teacher, with easy directions and theatre terms explained.

    Two Ladies

    Two Ladies

    By Nancy Harris

    A powerful drama about the first ladies of France and America, as their husbands clash over an international crisis.

    two Palestinians go dogging

    two Palestinians go dogging

    By Sami Ibrahim

    A comedy that explores how the everyday becomes political and the political becomes everyday in a conflict zone.

    Two Princes

    Two Princes

    By Meredydd Barker

    A bittersweet drama about life, love, loss, and sculpture.

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    Two Sisters and a Piano and other plays

    Two Sisters and a Piano and other plays

    By Nilo Cruz

    Nilo Cruz is the most produced Cuban-American playwright in the US and was the first dramatist of Hispanic descent to receive the Pulitzer Prize.

    Two Trains Running

    Two Trains Running

    By August Wilson

    A play set in a small restaurant in the Pittsburgh Hill District in 1969. Part of August Wilson's Century Cycle, his epic dramatisation of the African American experience in the twentieth century.

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    The Tyler Sisters

    The Tyler Sisters

    By Alexandra Wood

    A funny, heartening exploration of time, and the unassuming moments that make up our lives.

    Ubu

    Ubu

    The Ubu Plays: King Ubu, Cuckold Ubu & Slave Ubu

    By Alfred Jarry Translated by Kenneth McLeish

    Alfred Jarry's trilogy of plays about the comically grotesque character of Pa Ubu, satirising power, greed, and bourgeois pretension.

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    Ugly Lies the Bone

    Ugly Lies the Bone

    By Lindsey Ferrentino

    An honest and funny play about a wounded veteran seeking rehabilitation through an experimental virtual reality therapy, from an award-winning American playwright.

    Unbalancing Acts: Foundations for a Theater

    Unbalancing Acts: Foundations for a Theater

    By Richard Foreman

    Includes essays and playscripts: The Cure, Film Is Evil: Radio Is Good, Symphony of Rats, What Did He See? and Lava, with a Foreword by Peter Sellars

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    Unbroken

    Unbroken

    By Alexandra Wood

    A radical, modern-day re-interpretation of Arthur Schnitzler’s taboo-breaking 1897 play La Ronde, with its 'daisy chain' of sexual encounters.

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    Uncle Vanya

    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.

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    Uncle Vanya

    Uncle Vanya

    By Anton Chekhov Adapted by Annie Baker

    A version of Chekhov's classic play by the celebrated US playwright, Annie Baker.

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    Uncle Vanya

    Uncle Vanya

    By Anton Chekhov Adapted by Conor McPherson

    Conor McPherson's stunning adaptation of the Anton Chekhov masterpiece, a portrayal of life at the turn of the twentieth century, full of tumultuous frustration, dark humour and hidden passions.

    Under the Blue Sky

    Under the Blue Sky

    By David Eldridge

    A triptych of love stories in a play about unrequited affection, obsession, sex, and the possibility of being happy.

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    Undesirable Elements

    Undesirable Elements

    Real People, Real Lives, Real Theater

    By Ping Chong

    A collection celebrating twenty years of Undesirable Elements, the series of community-specific theatre works that examines the lives of people living cultures, either by choice or circumstance.

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    The Unfriend

    The Unfriend

    By Steven Moffat

    Steven Moffat's hilarious satirical play about middle-class England's disastrous instinct always to appear nice.