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Plays

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The Tamer Tamed

The Tamer Tamed

By John Fletcher

An irreverent and hugely entertaining 'sequel' to Shakespeare's The Taming of the Shrew.

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Got to be Happy

Got to be Happy

By Simon Burt

A poignant and tender-hearted play set in a pub kitchen.

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Beauty and the Beast

Beauty and the Beast (RSC stage version)

By Laurence Boswell

A magical re-telling of the story of Beauty and the Beast, first performed in this version by the Royal Shakespeare Company.

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The Shoemakers' Holiday

The Shoemakers' Holiday

By Thomas Dekker

A rumbustious Elizabethan comedy featuring identity fraud, love triangles and a marriage proposal disguised as a shoe fitting. In the Nick Hern Books Drama Classics series.

Scenes From the Big Picture

Scenes From the Big Picture

By Owen McCafferty

An epic, masterful twenty-plus-character play about Belfast and its multitude of urban denizens.

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After Mrs Rochester

After Mrs Rochester

By Polly Teale

A dramatisation of the extraordinary life of Jean Rhys, in which themes of femininity, literature and hysteria and madness collide with vivid force.

born bad

born bad

By debbie tucker green

A hard-hitting and original family drama.

World Music

World Music

By Steve Waters

A subtle and topical play about European attitudes to Africa.

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Nathan the Wise

Nathan the Wise

By Gotthold Ephraim Lessing Translated by Edward Kemp

Lessing's 18th-century masterpiece, a passionate plea for religious tolerance.

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The New American Musical

The New American Musical

An Anthology from the End of the 20th Century

Edited by Wiley Hausam

Four groundbreaking musicals from the end of the 20th century.

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Gum

Gum

By Karen Hartman

Set in a fictional fundamentalist country where chewing gum is outlawed, Gum explores the human need to tame nature and control desire.

Holes in the Skin

Holes in the Skin

By Robert Holman

A gripping play about the nature of violence.

Protection

Protection

By Fin Kennedy

A tough but vulnerable play about our crumbling social fabric - and the people who have to pick up the pieces.

The People Next Door

The People Next Door

By Henry Adam

A black comedy about the post-9/11 world and what happens when someone else's global problem becomes your local one.

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Tape

Tape

By Stephen Belber

An unsettling and unpredictable drama about the love-hate chemistry that endures between friends.

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Three Sisters

Three Sisters

By Anton Chekhov Translated by Nicholas Wright

Nicholas Wright's version of Chekhov's masterpiece, in which four young people are left stranded in a provincial backwater following the death of their father.

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The Fire This Time

The Fire This Time

African-American Plays for the 21st Century

Edited by Harry J. Elam, Jr. and Robert Alexander

A collection of African-American plays for the 21st century.

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Luna Park: short plays and monologues

Luna Park: short plays and monologues

By Donald Margulies

A collection of work from the Pulitzer Prize-winning author, featuring three decades' worth of short plays, one-acts and monologues.

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