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Contractions

Contractions

By Mike Bartlett

An ink-black comedy about the boundaries between work and play.

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Conversations with Anne

Conversations with Anne

Twenty-four Interviews

By Anne Bogart

In this volume of interviews, director and teacher Anne Bogart dissects the driving forces behind some of the world's foremost theatre practitioners. 

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Conversations with Miller

Conversations with Miller (Centenary Edition)

By Mel Gussow Foreword by Richard Eyre

More than a dozen conversations between Arthur Miller, America's greatest playwright, and New York Times critic Mel Gussow, covering subjects personal and political.

Conversations With Pinter

Conversations With Pinter

By Mel Gussow

Detailed interviews with the Nobel Prize-winning playwright, conducted over twenty years from 1971-1993 by the Drama Critic of the New York Times.

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The Convict's Opera

The Convict's Opera

By Stephen Jeffreys

The world's first ever musical, The Beggar's Opera, is performed on board a creaking convict ship bound for Australia.

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Coolatully

Coolatully

By Fiona Doyle

Lyrical and urgent, Fiona Doyle's play Coolatully is a compassionate insight into the links between the economy, masculinity and society in the modern world. Winner of the Papatango New Writing Prize.

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Cootie Shots

Cootie Shots

Edited by Norma Bowles and Mark E. Rosenthal

A unique assortment of plays, songs and poems for primary school children to read and perform - an ideal resource for teachers and schools looking for creative ways to explore contemporary moral and ethical issues in a fun and stimulating way.

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Coram Boy

Coram Boy (stage version)

By Jamila Gavin Adapted by Helen Edmundson

A heartbreaking tale of orphans, angels, murder and music - dramatised from the Whitbread award-winning novel set in 18th-century England.

The Cord

The Cord

By Bijan Sheibani

An honest and moving play about the challenging truths of family dynamics, focussing on a couple in the weeks after the birth of their child. Premiered at the Bush Theatre, London.

Cornermen

Cornermen

By Oli Forsyth

An exhilarating play about human triumph, ambition, self-doubt, and pride, set in the world of boxing.

Corrina, Corrina

Corrina, Corrina

By Chloë Moss

A gripping theatrical thriller set at sea, exploring power dynamics, superstitions and revenge, and what happens when we think no one is watching.

Corsicana & Evanston Salt Costs Climbing: two plays

Corsicana & Evanston Salt Costs Climbing: two plays

By Will Arbery

Two plays by acclaimed American playwright Will Arbery, exploring communities of outsiders who strive to help one another in the face of despair.

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Cosmic Scallies

Cosmic Scallies

By Jackie Hagan

A witty and touching new play about class, friendship and absence.

Cost of Living

Cost of Living

By Martyna Majok

Winner of the 2018 Pulitzer Prize for Drama, an exquisitely original, honest and deftly funny play that explores our need to connect and be loved regardless of the gulfs that disability, race, class, and wealth place between us.

Cotton Wool

Cotton Wool

By Ali Taylor

A gripping and darkly comic tale of young lives on the edge. Winner of the 2009 Meyer-Whitworth Award.

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Cougar

Cougar

By Rose Lewenstein

A startling play about what – and who – we consume.

The Country House

The Country House

By Donald Margulies

A witty and compelling play that takes a piercing look at a family of performers coming to terms with the roles they play in each other’s lives.

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The Country Wife

The Country Wife

By William Wycherley

A classically bawdy Restoration Comedy, widely regarded as one of the filthiest and funniest plays ever written.

The Crack in the Emerald

The Crack in the Emerald

New Irish Plays

Edited by David Grant

Four Irish plays from the late 1980s, selected and introduced by David Grant of the Dublin Theatre Festival.

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Creating Worlds

Creating Worlds

How to Make Immersive Theatre

By Jason Warren

A practical guide to creating successful immersive theatre productions, by an experienced theatre-maker and practitioner.

Creditors

Creditors

By August Strindberg Translated by Howard Brenton

Passionate, dangerously funny, and enduringly perceptive, a wickedly enjoyable black comedy that Strindberg considered his masterpiece.

Cressida

Cressida

By Nicholas Wright

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

Crestfall

Crestfall

By Mark O'Rowe

A play about love in a dog-eat-dog world, told in Mark O’Rowe’s unique rhythmic style.

Crime and Punishment

Crime and Punishment (stage version)

By Fyodor Dostoyevsky Adapted by Chris Hannan

An exciting, fresh and accessible adaptation of Dostoyevsky's masterful novel.