Plays

Three astonishingly original, provocative, scathingly funny plays from the Obie award-winning American writer.

A play about Mabel Tidings Bigelow, who at the age of 26 set the world record for swimming the English Channel.

A monologue by a master of the art - 100% pure high octane Bogosian.

Past and present collide on a snowy Christmas Eve for a troubled family of five. Humorous and heart-wrenching, this beautifully written play proves that magic can be found in the simplest breaths of life.

A play about a mother's extraordinary ability to heal a changing neighbourhood, despite her inability to heal herself.

Spalding Gray's extraordinary memoir/monologue, based on his experiences as an actor in the film The Killing Fields.

Three multifaceted works exploring the urgency and complexity of the Middle East’s political landscape, through the voices and bodies of the people who inhabit it.

One of Dickens's best-loved and most autobiographical stories, brilliantly and faithfully dramatised by Alastair Cording.

Acclaimed poet and playwright Liz Lochhead's Dracula stays refreshingly close to Bram Stoker's classic novel.

A classic from the Spanish Golden Age, Calderón's richly poetic, epic masterpiece explores illusion, reality, fate and destiny against the backdrop of a mythical Polish kingdom.

Renowned poet and dramatist Liz Lochhead tells the story of Frankenstein's creation.

A modern morality tale about the corrosive effect of money, joint winner of the 2008 Bruntwood Playwriting Competition.

A play about the last woman to be executed for witchcraft in Scotland, The Last Witch explores the psychological rifts that can divide close communities and drive families apart.

A powerful study of infidelity and interwoven lives, filmed as the award-winning Lantana.

An urgent exposé of the realities behind the international call centre.

A funny, painful and deeply moving play about loss - and cooking.

A charmingly offbeat, surreal comedy of knitting, penguins and Battenberg.

Robert Tressell's classic pre-First World War account of the working lives of a group of housepainters and decorators, vividly adapted by Howard Brenton.