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Plays

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The Rover

The Rover

By Aphra Behn

A classic Restoration comedy by one of the earliest and most celebrated female playwrights. In the Nick Hern Books Drama Classics series.

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The Deep Blue Sea

The Deep Blue Sea

By Terence Rattigan

Written in the early fifties when Rattigan was at the height of his powers, The Deep Blue Sea is a powerful account of lives blighted by love - or the lack of it.

Separate Tables

Separate Tables

By Terence Rattigan

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

The House of Bernarda Alba

The House of Bernarda Alba

By Federico García Lorca Translated by Rona Munro

García Lorca's drama about the shattering effects of emotional repression on a family of cloistered daughters, in a version by playwright Rona Munro for the critically acclaimed Shared Experience Theatre Company.

The Winslow Boy

The Winslow Boy

By Terence Rattigan

Rattigan's 1946 play based on the real-life court case of a young naval cadet unjustly accused of stealing a five-shilling postal order.

King of the Fields

King of the Fields

By Stuart Paterson

A play set in Ayrshire after the First World War, with touches of Ibsen - from the acclaimed Scottish playwright.

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She Stoops to Conquer

She Stoops to Conquer

By Oliver Goldsmith

The best-loved English comedy of the 18th century, a lighthearted farce full of entanglements and misunderstandings, all set over the course of single, eventful night. In the Nick Hern Books Drama Classics series.

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An Ideal Husband

An Ideal Husband

By Oscar Wilde

The Rolls-Royce of English comedies, exploring corruption and morality, and bringing an act of political sin into the heart of the English home.

The Adventures of a Young Black Girl in Search of God

The Adventures of a Young Black Girl in Search of God

By Djanet Sears

Rainey Baldwin-Jackson, a country doctor, struggles to come to terms with the loss of her daughter, the disintegration of her marriage, and an eccentric elderly father on an astonishing crusade.

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Culture Clash: Life, Death and Revolutionary Comedy

Culture Clash: Life, Death and Revolutionary Comedy

By Culture Clash

Three plays from the award-winning Latino comedy trio.

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Golden Child

Golden Child

By David Henry Hwang

David Hwang invokes the age in which his great grandfather broke with Confucian tradition by converting to Christianity and unbinding his daughter's feet. Golden Child explores the impact of these momentous decisions  on succeeding generations.

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Seventh Generation: An Anthology of Native American Plays

Seventh Generation: An Anthology of Native American Plays

Edited by Mimi Gisolfi D'Aponte

This first major collection of contemporary Native American writing for the theatre ranges from the groundbreaking work of Body Indian to the experimental performance style of Spiderwoman Theater.

The Last Night of Ballyhoo

The Last Night of Ballyhoo

By Alfred Uhry

A bitter-sweet romantic comedy from the author of Driving Miss Daisy.

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Five Lesbian Brothers: Four Plays

Five Lesbian Brothers: Four Plays

By Five Lesbian Brothers

New York-based Theatre troupe Five Lesbian Brothers explore themes of homophobia and sexism with devastating humour and the occasional song. They have been committed to creating provocative lesbian theatre with positively no whining since their inception in 1989.

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Out of the Fringe

Out of the Fringe

Contemporary Latina/Latino Theatre & Performance

Edited by Caridad Svich and María Teresa Marrero

An anthology featuring ten of the most influential and prolific Latino theatre artists of recent years.

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Trying to Find Chinatown

Trying to Find Chinatown

By David Henry Hwang

David Henry Hwang is known for exploring the complex relationships which bridge Eastern and Western culture in modern America. It is a subject that has long haunted American drama: how, in a land of immigrants, does one deal with one's heritage and construct a sense of identity.

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Extreme Exposure

Extreme Exposure

Solo Performance Texts from the Twentieth Century

Edited by Jo Bonney

An anthology of excerpts from the works of more than fifty solo writer/performers including: Eric Bogosian, Laurie Anderson, Lenny Bruce, Andy Kaufman, Richard Pryor and Whoopi Goldberg.

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Dublin Carol

Dublin Carol

By Conor McPherson

A magical, compelling play from the author of The Weir.

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