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A girl sits on a sofa, not knowing what to do with herself. She argues with her mother and envies her older sister. She also longs for her absent father, a seaman. A middle-aged woman paints a portrait of herself as a young girl, sitting on a sofa...

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A young man lives alone with his mother and his beloved dog in a house in a small village overlooking the fjord. The dog has run off and gone missing. This has never happened before... In The Dead Dogs, lives are shockingly disrupted by an event t...

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An influential and controversial work by Joost van den Vondel (1587-1679), the colossus of Dutch literature, regarded as a major influence on Miltons Paradise Lost. An angel returns from Eden, his wings singed by the beauty of Adam and Eves world,...

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Camus sparse parable about the human condition is one of the great stories of the 20th Century, here adapted for the stage by Booker prize winner Ben Okri. A faceless man who can no longer pretend, Mersault commits a senseless murder under the gla...

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Jon Fosse has been called the Beckett of the 21st century (Le Monde), and the Royal Court production of Nightsongs was dubbed Waiting for Godot without the gags. Just as Becketts plays and those of all great playwrights grew out of their time, and...

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Thomas Bernhard is widely considered to be one of the most important German playwrights in the post-war era. Highly acclaimed, he has written over twenty plays and novels and gained a reputation as one of Austria's most controversial authors....

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Therese Raquin is a clinically observed, sinister tale of adultery and murder among the lower orders in nineteenth-century Paris. Emile Zolas dispassionate dissection of the motivations of his characters, mere human beasts who kill in order to sat...

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Fraud, theft, extortion and sexual corruption are the themes in this eighteenth-century masterpiece of French comedy.

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"A comedy written for the Shakespeare's Globe, telling the story of an insatiably curious young man who, wishing to turn himself into a wise owl, takes the wrong drug and finds himself transformed into an ass. His subsequent travels lead...

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"The Mayor of Zalamea, Life's a Dream, The Great Theatre of the World In The Mayor of Zalamea, commissioned by the Royal National Theatre, peasants' honour clashes with military discipline. Life's a Dream is Calderon's mos...

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" Don Juan Comes Back from the War, Figaro Gets Divorced Two modern classics by Austrian dramatist, Odon von Horvath. Hampton's Don Juan Comes Back from the War was first performed at the Royal National Theatre. Figaro Gets Divorced, in ...

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"Monsieur Jordan is greedy for culture at all costs and aspired to dizzy social heights. Moliere's ferociously funny interchanges between the gullible hero and a succession of dancing masters, philosophy tutors, dubious tailors and penni...

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In The Game of Love and Chance, a pair of prospective lovers each swap places with their servants, while their relatives, fully apprised of both deceptions, look on in amusement. Neil Bartlett's adaptation, first performed at the Lyric Hammer...

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"In the year of the bicentenary of the death of Carlo Goldoni, one of Italy's most brilliant dramatists, two of his greatest comedies are brought to life in Ranjit Bolt's vibrant translations. The Venetian Twins is a classic tale of...

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The extraordinary career and impressive literary output of the 'Father' of Polish comedy, Aleksander Fredro, are the subject of much celebration in Poland in 1993, the bicentenary of his birth. These new translations by Noel Clark of thr...

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Kenneth McLeish's stunning translations of three plays exploring the Trojan War, by one of the great Athenian dramatists. Each play shows the aftermath of war from a different standpoint. Women of Troy is set amongst a group of captives waiti...

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"Madness in Valencia, in a version by David Johnston, exploresthe thin divide between sanity and madness in a world where no one is quite what they appear to be. Peribanez and the Comendador of Ocana, in a version by Nick Drake, is the tale o...

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Georges Feydeau, master of farce, displays all his tricks of the trade in this witty, seamless and acutely funny translation. An Absolute Turkey was a West End hit following its London premiere at the Globe Theatre in 1993. Sharp, natty, decorousl...

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The only collection of plays by "the father of Portuguese theatre" available in English, this deeply religious trilogy judges the whole of humanity at the point of death.

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This translation of one of Calderns greatest plays was premiered by the RSC. An ageing painter is driven to double vengeance when his young brides lover returns from the dead. Cast size: 16

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This Spanish golden age drama blends seventeenth-century Spanish revenge drama with the Old Testament. It tells the story of the rape of Tamar by her half-brother Ammon.

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It's 1967 in Detroit. Motown music is getting the party started, and Chelle and her brother Lank are making ends meet by turning their basement into an after-hours joint. But when a mysterious woman finds her way into their lives, the sibling...

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'Not as if I always lived here, mind youI started off in Govan. Never dreamt in those days Id end up this side of the river. Real step up in the world that wasIm grateful for it. Despite everything, Im grateful for it' Glasgow, the 1970s...

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Too old to move with the times; too young to let go of their dreams Village school teacher Platonov is a man who is loved by women. Despite his best intentions he is drawn into a series of extra-marital affairs that all hold the promise of escape ...

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Fergus has lived in England for almost seven years. He hasn't been back to his hometown in five. Using animation, storytelling and spoken word, my heart is hitchhiking down peachtree st is a one man show about living far away from home. It&ap...

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Strepsiades lives in Greece. He has debt. A lot of debt. And thats because his son, Phiddy, has a penchant for betting and isnt so keen on working. At a loss, Streps has an idea: Phiddy can go to Socrates' Academy and learn how to talk himsel...

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In this inspirational new manual, Andy Hinds shares what he has learnt over thirty years of teaching the speaking and acting of Shakespeares texts. In simple steps he brings the reader to a full understanding of how Shakespeares language works, lu...

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Richard III brings the Wars of the Roses cycle of history plays to a close in bloody fashion. Arguably Shakespeares most villainous king, we watch in horror and delight as Richard murders his way to the throne, unable to resist his cruel wit and d...

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The Comedy of Errors is a brilliant piece of theatrical mechanism, a story of mounting confusion involving two pairs of twins. But it also explores the relations between lovers and between husband and wife, and ends with the warmth and reconciliat...

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From Morning To Midnight, among the most frequently performed German Expressionist works, charts the life of a cashier who steals money from the bank and flees to Berlin. The un-named protagonist's bid to escape his middle-class daily life is...

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