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Coming Clean

Coming Clean

By Kevin Elyot

Funny, fresh and packed with razor-sharp wit, Kevin Elyot’s landmark drama questions the nature of fidelity and the limits of love.

Company

Company (US edition)

By Stephen Sondheim and George Furth

Stephen Sondheim and George Furth's iconic musical comedy about life, love and marriage.

Company: The Complete Revised Book and Lyrics

Company: The Complete Revised Book and Lyrics

By George Furth and Stephen Sondheim

Published alongside the acclaimed, reimagined West End revival in 2018, this edition of Sondheim's hit musical features the complete revised book and lyrics for the production, plus colour production photographs.

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.

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.

Cougar

Cougar

By Rose Lewenstein

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

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.

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.

The Crocodile

The Crocodile

By Tom Basden Original author Fyodor Dostoyevsky

A ferociously funny, eye-poppingly theatrical play about art, animals and what happens when you try to take on the system from within... a crocodile.

Cruising

Cruising

By Alecky Blythe

A hilarious, real-life comedy about pensioners going in search of love - from the sublime to the downright saucy.

Crush: The Musical

Crush: The Musical

By Maureen Chadwick and Kath Gotts

An outrageously fun musical set in an all-girls school in the 60s, from the team behind Bad Girls: The Musical.

Crushed Shells and Mud

Crushed Shells and Mud

By Ben Musgrave

A play about conflicted desire and dangerous loyalties in a world trembling in the grip of a devastating epidemic.

Cyrano

Cyrano

By Virginia Gay Original author Edmond Rostand

A joyous, gender-flipped retelling of Edmond Rostand's classic play, first performed by Melbourne Theatre Company, and a hit at the 2024 Edinburgh Festival Fringe before transferring to Park Theatre, London.

Cyrano de Bergerac

Cyrano de Bergerac

By Edmond Rostand Translated by Anthony Burgess

The nineteenth-century French classic about the swordsman-poet with the nose too large to be taken seriously, in an acclaimed English translation by Anthony Burgess.

Dark Sublime

Dark Sublime

By Michael Dennis

A play about joy and heartbreak, quarries and transmat beams – a love-letter to British sci-fi television.

The Day I Stood Still

The Day I Stood Still

By Kevin Elyot

A poignantly funny drama from the author of My Night With Reg, about the heartbreak of unrequited love and the power of memories.

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Days of Wine and Roses

Days of Wine and Roses (stage version)

By Owen McCafferty

JP Miller's 1962 film Days of Wine and Roses, adapted brilliantly for the stage by Owen McCafferty.

The Deep Blue Sea

The Deep Blue Sea

By Terence Rattigan

Written in the early fifties when Rattigan was at the height of his powers, The Deep Blue Sea is a powerful account of lives blighted by love - or the lack of it.

Dinner With Friends

Dinner With Friends

By Donald Margulies

A rueful comedy of love, friendship and haute cuisine.

Disco Pigs

Disco Pigs

By Enda Walsh

Enda Walsh's breakthrough play, a fast and formally inventive portrait of two teenage Irish misfits

Published in volume Disco Pigs & Sucking Dublin
    Doctor Scroggy's War

    Doctor Scroggy's War

    By Howard Brenton

    An epic, hilarious and moving play that takes a sideways look at the First World War.

    Don Juan

    Don Juan

    By Molière Translated by Kenneth McLeish

    Molière's comedy about the notorious womaniser, in a fresh and performable translation by Kenneth McLeish.

    Dorian

    Dorian

    By Phoebe Eclair-Powell and Owen Horsley Original author Oscar Wilde

    A thrilling stage adaptation of Oscar Wilde's only novel, The Picture of Dorian Gray, following one man's descent from glorious debauchery to epic self-destruction.

    A Dream

    A Dream

    By Chris Bush

    A riotous musical play transporting Shakespeare's most beloved characters to the chaos of a busy modern-day hospital. In the Nick Hern Books Multiplay Drama series.