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A magnificent two-play epic, adapted from Tolstoys novel and first staged by Shared Experience.One of the longest novels in Western literature, Tolstoys War and Peace intertwines its epic account of Napoleons invasion of Russia with the tale of three aristocratic families.Painted on a vast canvas of locations, characters and experiences, Helen Edmundsons stirring adaptation is an intricate saga of families, love and friendship against a backdrop of war.This two-part adaptation of War and Peace by Helen Edmundson was first staged by Shared Experience on UK tour in 2008.Helen Edmundsons earlier, one-part adaptation of War and Peace was staged by Shared Experience at the National Theatre in 1996.

Rose Heineys debut play Elephants is a sharp black comedy with a tender heart that explores the paths we take in life and their repercussions on the people we love most.5.53 p.m. Christmas Eve. Richard and Sally are waiting for their friends and family to join in the festivities the tree is decorated, the wine is mulling, the presents are wrapped. But behind this shiny façade, nothing is quite right and as cracks start appearing, attempts to paper over them make for an explosive evening of revelations and dark secrets exposed.Elephants premiered at Hampstead Downstairs in December 2014 in a production directed by Tamara Harvey.

Do you know what its like to be the person whos actually sticking the knife in here? Or here? You stick a knife in close to an artery, boy do you know it. Then youre in tiger country.Nina Raines Tiger Country is a hospital play that follows a tangle of doctors and nurses in a busy London hospital.Professionalism and prejudice, turbulent staff romances, ambition and failure collide in this swirling, action-packed drama about an overburdened health service that we all depend on and the dedicated individuals that keep it going.Tiger country is where animal instinct stirs and an irrefutable eye opens. Where we make eye contact with the unknown.Tiger Country was premiered at Hampstead Theatre in 2011 and, following its sell-out run, was revived there in 2014.

Renowned poet and dramatist Liz Lochhead tells the story of Frankensteins creation.Summer 1816. A house party on the shores of Lake Geneva. Eighteen-year-old Mary and her husband Percy Bysshe Shelley, along with Marys half-sister Claire and the infamous Lord Byron, take part in a challenge to see who can write the most horrifying story. Marys contribution is to become one of the most celebrated Gothic novels of all time.Using flashbacks and the rich poetic language for which she has become admired, Lochhead weaves a spiders web of connections between Marys own tragic life and that of her literary monster.Liz Lochheads play Blood and Ice was first performed at the Traverse Theatre, Edinburgh, as part of the Edinburgh Fringe Festival in August 1982. It was later revived, in a revised version, by David McVicar at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival in 1988, and subsequently toured by McVicars company, Pen Name. It was again revived, in this published version, at the Royal Lyceum Theatre, Edinburgh, in October 2003.As Lochhead writes in the Introduction to this revised version of the play, the myth created by Mary Shelley remains potent for our nuclear age, our age of astonishment and unease at the fruits of perhaps-beyond-the-boundaries genetic experimentation.

A bittersweet romantic comedy about finding love later in life, from Scotlands greatest living dramatistScotland on Sunday.Suddenly single and with the dreaded Big Five-0 staring her in the face, Susan also has to cope with a father in his second childhood, a daughter in the throes of aggravated adolescence and an ex who, unfortunately, still has the power to wound...Set in the charity shop where Susan is a volunteer, Good Things is a poignant, hilarious play with a lot to say about finding love the second (or third or fourth) time. It was conceived by Lochhead as a loosely thematic sequel to her earlier play Perfect Days (Traverse Theatre, 1998).Liz Lochheads Good Things was first performed by Borderline Theatre Company, in association with the Byre Theatre, St Andrews and Perth Theatre, at the Tron Theatre, Glasgow in September 2004, prior to an extensive national tour.

A portrait of an eclectic family, held together by the courage to survive.In an ivy-clad house in Zagreb, Croatia, the Kos family argue and fall in and out of love as world after world is erected and then torn down around them.From the remnants of monarchy, through Communism, then democracy, war, and eventual acceptance into a wider Europe, four generations of Kos women each one more independent than the last have to adapt to survive. The one constant is the house: built by aristocrats, partitioned, nationalised, it stands witness to the passing generations.But when the family assemble for Lucijas wedding, Alisa learns that her nouveau-riche brother-in-law has bought the family home for himself and the other tenants have to move out. For the bride this is progress, for her sister its a shady act of greed. For their principled parents, finally, its one battle too many.Tena tiviis play 3 Winters premiered at the National Theatre, London, in November 2014. It won the 2015 Susan Smith Blackburn Prize.

A gripping drama about Ruth Ellis, the last woman to be hanged in Britain.A divorcee with a young child to care for, Ruth works in the kind of nightclubs where theres more than just a drink on offer. The girls work hard, play hard and dream of a movie-star life. Then she meets the wealthy, womanising David, a racing driver with whom she becomes obsessed. Fame comes - but not in the way she imagines.Why does their relationship end in murder? Why does she plead not guilty but offer no defence? Why does she show no remorse? And who is she trying to protect?Amanda Whittingtons play The Thrill of Love dramatises the true story of Ruth Ellis, the last woman to be hanged in Britain, and takes a fresh look at the woman behind the headlines.The Thrill of Love was first staged at the New Vic Theatre, Newcastle-under-Lyme, in 2013.

Two plays from one of the leading dramatists of the 20th century.In Who is Sylvia?, Mark is obsessed with a girl called Sylvia, whom he kissed just once at a garden party when he was 17. He makes a habit of pursuing physically identical girls for the rest of his life - despite having a wife and growing son.Terence Rattigans play Who is Sylvia? premiered in the West End in 1950, where it ran for over a year. He seems to be offering a bittersweet portayal of his father - and maybe of his own frustrated love life.Also included in this volume is Duologue, a short monologue play for a female actor in which a woman reminisces movingly about her dead husband.Originally written for television and appearing here for the first time in print, Duologue was broadcast in 1968 and subsequently staged in 1976 in a double bill with The Browning Version.

A comedy drama set in the seedily glamorous world of 17th-century London theatre.John Shank is an actor, talent-scout and trainer of boy players in the 1630s, when womens roles are still played by precocious boys. Up to his eyes in debt, Shanks only hope of escaping destitution is an unpromising 14-year-old would-be, Stephen Hammerton. Can he train up Stephen to be the new star of the London stage?Nicholas Wrights play Cressida was first performed at the Albery Theatre, London, in 2000, in a production by the Almeida Theatre.

A mesmerising and startling play about voyeurism, power and guilt.You ever woken up of a morning wondering if this one was gonna be your last you ever got that feelin in your stomach as you lay there wonderin that? Like butterflies gone ballistic. Like butterflies gone bad.Listening through their thin walls, Amelia and Jason are drawn into the dark and compelling world of their mutual neighbour Jo.debbie tucker greens play dirty butterfly was first performed at Soho Theatre, London, in February 2003.

Terence Rattigans After the Dance is a brilliant attack on the hedonistic lifestyle of the bright young things of the 1920s and 30s.David is a high-living, hard-drinking, successful writer involved with two women: his wife Joan and an earnest-minded younger woman, Helen. When Joan commits suicide, David considers following her, but instead returns to a life of parties and drinking.After the Dance was first produced at the St Jamess Theatre, London, in June l939. It signalled a more serious direction in Rattigans writing after the relative frivolity of the hugely successful French Without Tears. It opened to euphoric reviews, but only a month later the European crisis was darkening the national mood and audiences began to dwindle. The play was pulled in August after only sixty performances.This edition includes an authoritative introduction, biographical sketch and chronology.

A true-life play about friendship, heartbreak and business enterprise... in a seaside brothel.Tessa has set up a business: a brothel where mature women specialise in offering the Girlfriend Experience, a surprisingly caring and sympathetic service.As the women stoically strive to make a living in a competitive market, their personal lives start to crumble. Will they ever have loving relationships outside work and enjoy being girlfriends themselves?The Girlfriend Experience continues the verbatim-theatre technique Alecky Blythe developed in Come Out Eli and Cruising. The play is created entirely from conversations recorded inside an actual brothel, edited and replicated on stage in all their uncanny verisimilitude.Alecky Blythes play was first performed at the Royal Court Theatre, London, in September 2008. The production transferred to the Young Vic, London, in July 2009.

A vivid telling of the chaotic story of the partition that shaped the modern world.London, 1947. Summoned by the Prime Minister from the court where he is presiding judge, Cyril Radcliffe is given an unlikely mission. He is to travel to India, a country he has never visited, and, with limited survey information, no expert support and no knowledge of cartography, he is to draw the border which will divide the Indian sub-continent into two new Sovereign Dominions. To make matters even more challenging, he has only six weeks to complete the task.Wholly unsuited to his role, Radcliffe is unprepared for the dangerous whirlpool of political intrigue and passion into which he is plunged untold consequences may even result from the illicit liaison between the Leader of the Congress Party and the Viceroys wife As he begins to break under the pressure he comes to realise that he holds in his hands the fate of millions of people.Howard Brentons play Drawing the Line was premiered at Hampstead Theatre, London, in December 2013.

A story of lust, madness and destruction set in the backstreets of Paris. Based on Emile Zolas classic novel.The beautiful but doomed heroine is trapped in a loveless marriage to her sickly cousin, Camille. Every Thursday evening she watches her domineering aunt, Madame Raquin, play dominoes... until one day her husband brings along an old friend, the alluring and athletic Laurent. As Laurent and Therese embark on an illicit affair, a turbulent passion is unleashed that drives them ultimately to violence and murder.Helen Edmundsons sensuous adaptation of Therese Raquin premiered at the Theatre Royal, Bath, in July 2014. It was later seen on Broadway in a production starring Keira Knightley.

Written with characteristic Berkoff flair and an understanding of the subtle power and violence of the English language, this second collection of his plays includes Decadence, described by the Guardian as being enthused with Berkoffs violent, imagist, vivid wordplay. The collection also includes Kvetch, Acapulco, Harrys Christmas, Brighton Beach Scumbags, Dahling You Were Marvellous, Dog and Actor, and is introduced by the author.

Love, sex, birth, death and salsa classes. Three generations of women. One extraordinary year.Amber has fierce bad indigestion and the sambucas arent getting rid of it. Lorraine attacks a customer and her boss wants her to see a psychiatrist. Kays got an itch down there that Gem cant scratch. And if all that wasnt bad enough, Little Gem makes his presence felt and well life is never the same again.Elaine Murphys play Little Gem was first staged by Guna Nua and Civic Theatre, Tallaght, in 2008, then at the Traverse Theatre, Edinburgh, in 2009. It won the Carol Tambor Best of Edinburgh Award, the BBC Northern Ireland Drama Award in Association with the Stewart Parker Trust, and the Fishamble Award for Best New Irish Writing.

This second collection of Tony Harrisons poetry for the stage contains his adaptations of Moliere, Racine and Victor Hugo. Included are the plays The Misanthrope, Phaedra Britannica and The Princes Plays.The volume contains introductions, written by Tony Harrison, to each of the plays.

This first collection of Hamptons work includes The Philanthropist, which premiered at the Royal Court Theatre in 1970 and went on to become one of the Courts longest-running West End transfers. The volume also contains Treats, Savages and Hamptons deeply affecting drama about the relationship of the French poets Rimbaud and Verlaine, Total Eclipse.

This is a collection of three history plays, each displaying the sparkling muscularity of language that marks Berkoff out as one of the foremost wordsmiths in the English language. Set in thirteenth-century England, Ritual in Blood looks at the persecution of the Jews. Messiah begins with the image of Christ on the cross and pits His humanity and transcendent goodness against the evil of those who would kill Him. Finally, Berkoff offers a sharp and accessible adaptation of Sophocless Oedipus tragedy.

A play about grief and looking at someone that little bit more closely.Toms brother Luke is dead. This has upset a lot of people but it hasnt upset Tom. Or, rather, it has upset him, but in ways he cant explain and other people cant understand. You see, Tom and Luke were never friends. In fact, Tom didnt really like Luke at all.So its an odd decision - to try and bury Luke in the pavement of the Tunstall Estate where he was killed. But to Tom, it sort of makes sense, in a stupid-weird kind of way. As he sleeps out on the pavement, he comes across planning officials, tramps, undertakers, police officers, sisters, mothers, estate agents, ghosts, pavement elephants, sky dragons and a strange lad called Tight who wants to sell him a Travelcard.Written specifically for young people, Burying Your Brother in the Pavement was part of the 2008 National Theatre Connections Festival and was premiered by youth theatres across the UK.