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Plays

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The Drawer Boy

A multi-award winning, bitter-sweet tale of the power of storytelling, friendship, and the very thin line between truth and fiction.

Flyin' West and Other Plays

A collection of work for the stage that provides a remarkable and penetrating look at the African-American experience over the last 100 years.

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A Place at the Table

A play about the dog-eat-dog world of television.

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Wit

A striking and sharply funny reflection on the frailty of existence and the complex relationship between knowledge and love.

Nicholas Wright: Five Plays

A rich selection of work by leading playwright Nicholas Wright, introduced by the playwright.

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Treetops

A play about the early resistance to policies of apartheid or racial segregation in Cape Town, South Africa, in the 1950s.

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    One Fine Day

    A play about the gulf that separates Britain and Black Africa.

    Published in volume Nicholas Wright: Five Plays

      The Custom of the Country

      Fletcher and Massinger's bawdy Jacobean drama is transposed to 1890s Johannesburg.

      Published in volume Nicholas Wright: Five Plays

        The Desert Air

        A wartime comedy set in Cairo.

        Published in volume Nicholas Wright: Five Plays

          Cressida

          A comedy drama set in the seedily glamorous world of 17th-century London theatre.

          Children of the Sun

          By Maxim Gorky Translated by Stephen Mulrine

          A Chekhovian family drama, first staged in Russia in 1905.

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          Solemn Mass for a Full Moon in Summer

          A bold, quirky play from the renowned Quebecois writer, translated into a robust and earthy Scots.

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          Mr Kolpert

          A delightfully morbid black comedy with a nod to Hitchcock's Rope.

          Albert Speer

          A panoramic historical drama about the man whose devotion to Hitler blinded him to the worst crime of the twentieth century, drawing closely on Gita Sereny's definitive and magisterial biography of Albert Speer.

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          Kes (stage version)

          A tried-and-tested stage adaptation of Barry Hines' novel A Kestrel for a Knave, about a troubled young boy who finds and trains a kestrel.

          Stones in His Pockets & A Night in November: Two Plays

          Two plays by award-winning playwright Marie Jones: the smash hit Stones in His Pockets, and an earlier monologue A Night in November.

          A Night in November

          The multi-award-winning playwright explores the subjects of football and sectarianism, set during the 1994 World Cup.

            Stones in His Pockets

            Hollywood comes to rural Ireland in this hilarious multi-award winner which ran for four years in London's West End.