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Mighty Atoms

Mighty Atoms

By Amanda Whittington

Ex-boxer Taylor Flint wants to put the past behind her. Yet back on the Hull estate where she grew up, she is drawn into running a boxercise class. Amanda Whittington's play is inspired by Hull's original Mighty Atom, Barbara Buttrick.

The Middlemarch Trilogy: Dorothea's Story

The Middlemarch Trilogy: Dorothea's Story

By George Eliot Adapted by Geoffrey Beevers

Part of The Middlemarch Trilogy, adapted from George Eliot's novel by Geoffrey Beevers. Three interconnected plays, telling the story of Middlemarch from the perspective of a different set of characters: from county, town and countryside.

Published in volume The Middlemarch Trilogy
    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.

    Merit

    Merit

    By Alexandra Wood

    A thrilling two-hander that looks at the complexities of a mother-daughter relationship, the growing argument between rich and poor, and a young woman stuck in between.

    Medea

    Medea (Northern Broadsides version)

    By Euripides Adapted by Tom Paulin

    Euripides' tragedy, reworked by poet Tom Paulin into lithe and sinewy modern English.

    Medea

    Medea

    By Euripides Translated by Kenneth McLeish and Frederic Raphael

    The powerful myth of Medea, who murders her children as revenge for her husband's infidelity. In the Nick Hern Books Drama Classics series.

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    Medea

    Medea (National Theatre of Scotland version)

    By Euripides Adapted by Liz Lochhead

    Euripides' classic story of the woman who murders her own children in revenge for her husband's infidelity, here given a distinctive Scots flavour by the poet and playwright Liz Lochhead.

    Meat

    Meat

    By Gillian Greer

    A play about class, consent and transgressions buried in the past, set over the course of one winesoaked evening in a Dublin restaurant.

    The Massive Tragedy of Madame Bovary

    The Massive Tragedy of Madame Bovary

    By Gustave Flaubert Adapted by John Nicholson and Javier Marzan

    Peepolykus bring their exhilarating combination of verbal slapstick, visual surprise and anarchic comedy to Gustave Flaubert's seminal nineteenth-century masterpiece Madame Bovary.

    Mary Shelley's Frankenstein

    Mary Shelley's Frankenstein (stage version)

    By Mary Shelley and Rona Munro

    A brilliant adaptation of Mary Shelley's Gothic masterpiece that places the writer herself amongst the action as she wrestles with her creation and with the stark realities facing revolutionary young women, then and now.

    Mary Shelley

    Mary Shelley

    By Helen Edmundson

    A biographical play about Mary Shelley, author of Frankenstein. Premiered by Shared Experience.

    Mary Jane

    Mary Jane

    By Amy Herzog

    A moving play about the stalwart endurance of a devoted mother, winner of the 2018 New York Drama Critics' Circle Award for Best Play.

    Mary

    Mary

    By Rona Munro

    A political thriller for the stage, set in the 1560s and portraying events around Mary Stuart, the troubled Queen of Scots. Part of Rona Munro's breathtaking theatrical exploration of Scottish history.

    The Maladies

    The Maladies

    By Carmen Nasr

    A powerful, provocative play exploring psychogenic illness amongst groups of women throughout history, premiered by the Almeida Young Company.

    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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    Madame Ovary

    Madame Ovary

    By Rosa Hesmondhalgh

    The heartbreaking and hilarious true story of the author's own experience of ovarian cancer.

    Madame Bovary: Breakfast with Emma

    Madame Bovary: Breakfast with Emma

    By Gustave Flaubert Adapted by Fay Weldon

    Flaubert's masterpiece about an infidelity with tragic consequences, dramatised for Shared Experience by the acclaimed novelist.

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    Machinal

    Machinal

    By Sophie Treadwell

    A powerful expressionist drama from the 1920s about the dependent status of women in an increasingly mechanised society, based on the true story of Ruth Snyder.

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