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Pipeline

Pipeline

By Dominique Morisseau

A deeply moving story of a mother's fight to give her son a future — without turning her back on the community that made him who he is.

Superior Donuts

Superior Donuts

By Tracy Letts

An entertaining comedy-drama set in a local donut shop in the heart of one of Chicago's most diverse communities. By the Pulitzer Prize winning author of August: Osage County.

Rock / Paper / Scissors

Rock / Paper / Scissors

Three Plays

By Chris Bush

Three intricately interwoven plays about family, heritage and legacy, centring around a Sheffield manufacturing family.

Birth and After Birth and Other Plays

Birth and After Birth and Other Plays

By Tina Howe

Four plays from the award-winning American playwright which together form a complete 'marriage cycle'.

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Drinks Before Dinner

Drinks Before Dinner

By E.L. Doctorow

A theatrical tour-de-force of language and ideas about Eighties' America, by the best-selling author of Billy Bathgate and Ragtime.

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The Middlemarch Trilogy

The Middlemarch Trilogy

By George Eliot Adapted by Geoffrey Beevers

Three plays based on George Eliot's classic novel, which can be performed as a trilogy or as standalone pieces.

World Factory: The Game

World Factory: The Game

By Zoë Svendsen and Simon Daw

A participative theatre experience about global consumer capitalism, offering readers the opportunity to play – as individuals or in teams – the managers of a clothing factory in China.

The Fleer

The Fleer

By Edward Sharpham

A bawdy, satiric and theatrically allusive comedy that was extremely popular with seventeenth-century readers.

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The Contingency Plan

The Contingency Plan (2022 edition)

Two plays

By Steve Waters

A double bill of plays from the frontline of climate change – an epic portrait of Britain in the grip of unprecedented and catastrophic floods.

The Contingency Plan

The Contingency Plan (2009 edition)

Two plays

By Steve Waters

A double bill of plays from the frontline of climate change - an epic portrait of an England of the near future, in the grip of unprecedented and catastrophic floods. Original 2009 edition.

Apologia

Apologia

By Alexi Kaye Campbell

A disastrous family reunion is the occasion for a sharp and perceptive look at what has happened to 60s idealists and their children.

Tiger Country

Tiger Country

By Nina Raine

A hospital play that follows a tangle of doctors and nurses in a busy London hospital.

The Political History of Smack and Crack

The Political History of Smack and Crack

By Ed Edwards

An angry and passionate play chronicling the fallout for communities crushed by the heroin epidemic at the height of Thatcherism.

One Jewish Boy

One Jewish Boy

By Stephen Laughton

A bittersweet comedy addressing anti-Semitism through one young family's struggle against prejudice.

Separate Tables

Separate Tables

By Terence Rattigan

Two linked one-act plays set in a run-down residential hotel in Bournemouth.

ear for eye

ear for eye

By debbie tucker green

Snapshots of lives, snapshots of experiences of protest; violence vs non-violence, direct action vs demonstrations, ear for eye follows characters navigating their way through society today.

So Here We Are

So Here We Are

By Luke Norris

A play about what can happen when nothing happens, a compassionate look at young lives cut short and a touching portrait of childhood friendships under strain in adult life.

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Fragile!

Fragile!

By Tena Štivičić

A darkly humorous play about the people behind the tabloid stories of migrant workers and sex-trafficking in today's Europe.

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