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The Collected Poems and Performances 1976-1986

By Lee Breuer

A 'doo-wop opera' inspired by Lee Breuer's coming of age amidst the pop culture of the 50s.

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Six Acts of Love

By Ioanna Anderson

A bittersweet play about the rich complexities of life, love and death.

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Six Characters in Search of an Author

By Luigi Pirandello Translated by Stephen Mulrine

Pirandello's most famous play, about the nature of theatre and the problems of theatricality. In the Nick Hern Books Drama Classics series.

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Six Characters in Search of an Author (Headlong version)

By Luigi Pirandello Adapted by Rupert Goold and Ben Power

Pirandello's classic play, updated for the twenty-first century by Headlong.

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The Six-Days World

By Elizabeth Kuti

An emotionally involving family play that evokes the poignancy and the poison of the festive season - from the award-winning writer of The Sugar Wife.

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Sixty Five Miles

By Matt Hartley

A devastating drama about family and the ties that bind us together. Winner of the Under-26 Award at the 2005 Bruntwood Prize for Playwriting.

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Skin & Liars: Two Plays

By Dennis Foon

Two plays from one of Canada's leading writers and directors of theatre for young people.

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The Skriker

By Caryl Churchill

An extraordinary collision of ancient fairytale and fractured urban England.

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Skunk

By Zawe Ashton

A surreal, dreamlike and hilarious play exploring the pressures and transformations that happen to teenagers as they grow up. In the Multiplay Drama series.

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Skyscraper Lullaby

By James Fritz

A powerful drama about two parents trying to come to terms with the disappearance of their toddler, written and first performed as an audio drama for Audible Original.

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Slave Play

By Jeremy O. Harris

A play that rips apart history to shed new light on the nexus of race, gender, and sexuality in twenty-first-century America. New edition published alongside the West End production in 2024.

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Slave Ubu

By Alfred Jarry

The third and final part of The Ubu Plays, Alfred Jarry's surreal and hilarious satire of power, greed, and bourgeois pretension. Slave Ubu concludes the adventures of Pa Ubu.

Published in volume Ubu

The Slaves of Solitude (stage version)

By Patrick Hamilton Adapted by Nicholas Wright

A fascinating blend of dark hilarity and melancholy, woven from Patrick Hamilton’s much-loved story about an improbable heroine in wartime Britain.

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Sleep Deprivation Chamber

By Adam P. Kennedy and Adrienne Kennedy

A gripping examination of the conflicting realities of the black experience of twentieth-century America.

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Sleeping Beauty (stage version)

By Rufus Norris

The classic tale of Sleeping Beauty's curse – as seen through the eyes of the fairy who curses her.

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The Sleeping Beauty (stage version)

By Stuart Paterson

A variation on the classic tale of Sleeping Beauty, by the 'master of children's theatre' (Scotsman).

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slope

By pamela carter

An intimate and hedonistic examination of a nineteenth-century love triangle between the poets Paul Verlaine and Arthur Rimbaud, and Verlaine's young wife, Mathilde.

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A compassionate and probing play about youth and aging, nostalgia and regret, and the dangers of refusing to get old. In the Nick Hern Books Multiplay Drama series featuring large-cast plays specifically written to be performed by and appeal to young people.

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The Small Hours

By Katherine Soper

A National Theatre Connections play about teenagers, nightlife, and the small choices that have momentous consequences.

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small hours

By Lucy Kirkwood and Ed Hime With Katie Mitchell

A collaborative theatre piece created by playwrights Lucy Kirkwood and Ed Hime with theatre director Katie Mitchell, dissecting the claustrophobic world of a new mother struggling to cope on her own.

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Small Island (English Mastery Secondary set text)

By Andrea Levy Adapted by Helen Edmundson

A stage version of Andrea Levy's epic novel tracing the tangled history of Jamaica and Britain - set text edition for the English Mastery Secondary programme.