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Pentecost

Pentecost

By David Edgar

A valuable mural is discovered in a church in war-torn Eastern Europe. Part of David Edgar's trilogy of plays about post-Communist Eastern Europe.

Your Turn to Clean the Stair

Your Turn to Clean the Stair

By Rona Munro

A comically sinister study of the tensions in an Edinburgh tenement.

Published in volume Your Turn to Clean the Stair & Fugue
    French Without Tears

    French Without Tears

    By Terence Rattigan

    A masterpiece of light comedy from Terence Rattigan, about a group of bright young things attempting to learn French on the Riviera amid myriad distractions.

    After the Dance

    After the Dance

    By Terence Rattigan

    Rattigan's brilliant attack on the hedonistic lifestyle of the ‘bright young things’ of the 1920s and 30s.

    The Maiden Stone

    The Maiden Stone

    By Rona Munro

    A wild and fantastical tale about a group of women struggling to get by in the harsh world of north-east Scotland in the early nineteenth century.

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    Your Turn to Clean the Stair & Fugue

    Your Turn to Clean the Stair & Fugue

    By Rona Munro

    Two plays, from the award-winning author Rona Munro.

    Fugue

    Fugue

    By Rona Munro

    A psychological horror story about a woman suffering a mental breakdown, from the award-winning author of Iron.

    Published in volume Your Turn to Clean the Stair & Fugue
      Tales of the Lost Formicans and other plays

      Tales of the Lost Formicans and other plays

      By Constance Congdon

      Four plays from one of America's finest playwrights, endowed with compassion, keen insight and an unfailing comic sensibility.

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      Desire Under the Elms & The Great God Brown

      Desire Under the Elms & The Great God Brown

      By Eugene O'Neill

      Two plays from one of the twentieth century's most significant writers, developed and conceived in tandem, drawing on the raw experience of the author's own family relationships.

      Ah! Wilderness

      Ah! Wilderness

      By Eugene O'Neill

      An affectionate and witty comedy of recollection from one of the twentieth century's most significant writers. A family-based saga set in the years just before the First World War.

      The Beaux Stratagem

      The Beaux Stratagem

      By George Farquhar

      George Farquhar's immortal comedy about two young gentlemen with a misguided plan to get enrich themselves at the expense of a series of young heiresses.

      Miss Julie

      Miss Julie

      By August Strindberg Translated by Kenneth McLeish

      Strindberg's classic naturalistic play, translated and introduced by Kenneth McLeish. In the Nick Hern Books Drama Classics series.

      The Importance of Being Earnest

      The Importance of Being Earnest

      By Oscar Wilde

      Oscar Wilde's undying comedy – in an edition to fit any handbag.

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      Desire Under the Elms

      Desire Under the Elms

      By Eugene O'Neill

      A story of greed, yearning and murder with incest and infanticide, and edged with echoes of Ancient Greek tragedy within a New England farming family.

      Published in volume Desire Under the Elms & The Great God Brown
        The Great God Brown

        The Great God Brown

        By Eugene O'Neill

        A demonstration of O'Neill's expressionistic experimentation with masks to emphasise the distinction between characters, and the lack of understanding in human relationships.

        Published in volume Desire Under the Elms & The Great God Brown
          The Machine Wreckers

          The Machine Wreckers

          By Ernst Toller Translated by Ashley Dukes

          A classic of German expressionism by an active revolutionary who was also an accomplished poet and playwright.

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          Reader

          Reader

          By Ariel Dorfman

          A compulsive, gripping and intense play from the author of Death and the Maiden.

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          A Little Night Music

          A Little Night Music

          By Stephen Sondheim and Hugh Wheeler

          An utterly sophisticated and charming musical boasting such numbers as 'Send in the Clowns' and 'A Weekend in the Country'.

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