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Lava

Lava (2018 edition)

By James Fritz

A timely play about grief, masculinity and the power of expression, exploring what happens when the capital city is hit by a small asteroid.

Lazarus: The Complete Book and Lyrics

Lazarus: The Complete Book and Lyrics

By David Bowie and Enda Walsh

The extraordinary musical inspired by the book The Man Who Fell to Earth by Walter Tevis and its cult film adaptation starring David Bowie, and incorporating some of Bowie's most iconic songs.

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The Learned Ladies

The Learned Ladies

By Molière Translated by A.R. Waller

Molière's satire of intellectual snobbery, in a translation first performed by the Royal Shakespeare Company. Published in the Nick Hern Books Drama Classics series.

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Lemons Lemons Lemons Lemons Lemons

Lemons Lemons Lemons Lemons Lemons

By Sam Steiner

A play about what we say and how we say it; about the things we can only hear in the silence; about dead cats, activism, eye contact and lemons, lemons, lemons, lemons, lemons.

Lemons Lemons Lemons Lemons Lemons

Lemons Lemons Lemons Lemons Lemons (West End edition)

By Sam Steiner

A new, revised edition of Sam Steiner's startling play about what we say, how we say it, and what happens when we can't say anything any more. Published alongside the West End production starring Jenna Coleman and Aidan Turner.

Les Parents Terribles

Les Parents Terribles

By Jean Cocteau Translated by Jeremy Sams

Jean Cocteau's frank, ironic, bruisingly melodramatic play dealing with incest and the diseased love from which it stems.

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Let the Right One In

Let the Right One In (stage version)

By John Ajvide Lindqvist Adapted by Jack Thorne

A dark and visceral coming-of-age vampire love story, based on the acclaimed novel and film.

The Libertine

The Libertine

By Stephen Jeffreys

An incisive critique of life in an age of excess, based on the true story of John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester. This edition of the play was published alongside the 2016 production at the Theatre Royal Bath and Theatre Royal Haymarket.

The Light in the Piazza

The Light in the Piazza

By Craig Lucas and Adam Guettel

The book and lyrics of the hit Broadway musical based on Elizabeth Spencer's 1960 novella.

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Limbo

Limbo

By Declan Feenan

A monologue play in which a 17-year-old girl tells us the story of her relationship with an older man and what it led to.

Published in volume St Petersburg and other plays
    Liolà

    Liolà

    By Tanya Ronder Original author Luigi Pirandello

    A funny and touching new version of Pirandello's high-spirited drama, set at the heart of a rural community where property and family unleash fierce passions.

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    Little Gem

    Little Gem

    By Elaine Murphy

    A poignant and hilarious play about love, sex, birth, death and salsa classes, following three generations of women over one extraordinary year.

    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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    Little Women

    Little Women (stage version)

    By Louisa May Alcott Adapted by Anne-Marie Casey

    A joyful and spirited adaptation of one of the best-loved novels of all time.

    Lizzie Siddal

    Lizzie Siddal

    By Jeremy Green

    A gripping historical drama charting one woman's dazzling trajectory from model to lover to artist, to a tragic figure in her own right.

    Lose Yourself

    Lose Yourself

    By Katherine Chandler

    A fast and wild ride into the darker side of our celebrity obsessed culture.

    Love and Information

    Love and Information

    By Caryl Churchill

    From one of the UK's most influential playwrights - a fast moving kaleidoscope in which more than a hundred characters try to make sense of what they know.

    Love and Other Acts of Violence

    Love and Other Acts of Violence

    By Cordelia Lynn

    A subversive and intimate love story about inheritance and the cycles of politics and history.

    Love in a Glass Jar

    Love in a Glass Jar

    By Nancy Harris

    A short play from an acclaimed Irish playwright, about a sterile liasion in a hotel room that threatens to spill over into real life.

    Published in volume Irish Shorts
      Love in Idleness/Less Than Kind

      Love in Idleness/Less Than Kind

      By Terence Rattigan

      The third in Terence Rattigan's unofficial trilogy of war plays, published alongside an earlier version of the play, Less Than Kind, never staged during Rattigan's lifetime.

      Love the Sinner

      Love the Sinner

      By Drew Pautz

      A tense and provocative play offering a remarkably fresh and painful take on our perpetual guilt in the face of poverty and brutality in the developing world.

      Love Upon the Throne

      Love Upon the Throne

      By Patrick Barlow

      A gleefully comic retelling of the Charles and Diana story, designed to be performed by two (male) actors.

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      Love, Lies and Taxidermy

      Love, Lies and Taxidermy

      By Alan Harris

      An offbeat love story about Mr Tutti Frutti, a stuffed owl and the struggle to fit in.

      Love, Love, Love

      Love, Love, Love

      By Mike Bartlett

      Are baby boomers to blame for the fact that their children's generation is debt-ridden and adrift? Love, Love, Love takes on the baby boomer generation as it retires, and finds it full of trouble.

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