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Plays

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World Factory: The Game

World Factory: The Game

By Zoë Svendsen and Simon Daw

A participative theatre experience about global consumer capitalism, offering readers the opportunity to play – as individuals or in teams – the managers of a clothing factory in China.

Angels in America

Angels in America

By Tony Kushner

A magnificent, two-part epic drama set during the Reagan years in America - now recognised as one of the greatest plays of the twentieth century.

Ode to Joy

Ode to Joy

By Craig Lucas

A sensitive drama about the interplay between illness, addiction and love, from the acclaimed American playwright Craig Lucas.

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Three Sisters

Three Sisters

By Anton Chekhov Translated by Tracy Letts

An energetic and vitalizing adaptation of one of Anton Chekhov's most beloved plays.

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Plays from VAULT 3

Plays from VAULT 3

Five new plays from VAULT Festival

An anthology of five of the best plays from VAULT 2018, London’s biggest and most exciting arts festival.

The Seagull

The Seagull

By Anton Chekhov Translated by Richard Nelson, Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky

A unique edition of Chekhov's play in a brilliant translation by a world-renowned team of translators.

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The Contingency Plan

The Contingency Plan (2022 edition)

Two plays

By Steve Waters

A double bill of plays from the frontline of climate change – an epic portrait of Britain in the grip of unprecedented and catastrophic floods.

MALAPROP: plays

MALAPROP: plays

By Carys D. Coburn With MALAPROP Theatre

Four plays from the award-winning collective of Irish theatremakers: bold, playful, genre-spanning work, all premiered at the Dublin Fringe Festival between 2017 and 2023.

The Contingency Plan

The Contingency Plan (2009 edition)

Two plays

By Steve Waters

A double bill of plays from the frontline of climate change - an epic portrait of an England of the near future, in the grip of unprecedented and catastrophic floods. Original 2009 edition.

Love & Science

Love & Science

By Richard Foreman

This selection of texts makes original and inimitable works of music-theatre accessible to a wide audience for the first time.

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Spunk

Spunk

By George C. Wolfe

A dazzlingly entertaining dramatisation of three stories by the celebrated black iconoclast, Zora Heale Hurston: a rich folk tapestry of rural and urban black America in the 20th century.

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Stories I Ain't Told Nobody Yet

Stories I Ain't Told Nobody Yet

By Jo Carson

Fifty-four monologues and dialogues drawn from ‘found’ stories told by everyday people living everyday lives in East Tennessee and the Appalachia region of the USA.

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The Floating Island Plays

The Floating Island Plays

By Eduardo Machado

In this tragi-comic quartet, Cuban-American dramatist Eduardo Machado explores the meaning of his homeland's history. The plays tell the stories of several extended families, linked by marriage and then by exile in the United States.

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Self Torture & Strenuous Exercise

Self Torture & Strenuous Exercise

By Harry Kondoleon

These plays are not only jet-black comedies. They are fairy tales, fables, passion plays, masquerades...

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Full Moon and other plays

Full Moon and other plays

By Reynolds Price

Three plays delicately exploring issues of love, faith, family and race.

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Three Hotels: Plays and Monologues

Three Hotels: Plays and Monologues

By Jon Robin Baitz

‘A work of burning anger and bruising emotional power’ about the foisting of powdered milk on Third World infants. Plus seven monologues.

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Raised in Captivity

Raised in Captivity

By Nicky Silver

The story of two siblings reunited at their mother's funeral.

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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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