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Absence of WomenA fine example of theatre at its small-scale best.Evening StandardTitanicOwen McCaffertys rigorous verbatim play provides an antidote to Titanic fatigue... Two months of hearings from 97 witnesses are whittled down to nine... What remains, even after a century, is a disturbing sense of moral ambiguity: 1, 517 dead and no one to blame.GuardianQuietlyVibrates with a violent tension so taut that if you were a bystander... youd hardly dare to breathe.New York TimesRemarkable. inspired. The piece packs sweeping questions about forgiveness and accountability into a tightly plotted encounter.Daily TelegraphThe most powerful theatrical production I have had the privilege of seeing... McCaffertys script is perfectly taut... This play is extraordinary and completely unmissable.Metro HeraldUnfaithfulMcCafferty excels with tight plotting and pithy, painful dialogue.The TimesMcCafferty writes with empathy and a wry humour that makes for an absorbing - if painful - hour.Financial TimesOwen McCafferty is a sly observer of the human heart.GuardianDeath of a ComedianDespite the humour, McCaffertys play is a tragedy. his most accomplished work to date.Belfast Telegraph

Drama Classics: The Worlds Great Plays at a Great Little PriceA fresh, performable version by John Clifford of Goethes unstageable masterpiece.God and Mephistopheles vie for the mortal soul of Dr Faust. Signing a pact with the nihilistic spirit, Faust is privy to knowledge unbound and sensual delights of which most men can only dream. But before long, the Doctor comes to realise that you should always be very careful what you wish for.Goethe began working on Faust in about 1772-5. He published a first fragment of it in 1790, then the whole of Part One in 1808. He saw the first performance of Part One in Brunswick in 1829, and was still making minor revisions to Part Two shortly before his death in March 1832.This two-part English version by John Clifford, in the Nick Hern Books Drama Classics series, was first performed at the Royal Lyceum Theatre, Edinburgh, in February 2006.

Filthy Talk for Troubled Time is one of LaButes earliest plays. A downbeat night at a topless bar exposes the gulf between the twitchy clientele and the waitresses who serve but despise them. The Mercy Seat examines a couple who, on the day after a world-changing atrocity, toy with exploiting it to start a new life. Some Girl(s) follows a young writers panicked retreat from his imminent wedding as he seeks out old girlfriends and opens new wounds, while in This Is How It Goes the breakdown of a seemingly successful marriage is complicated by submerged bigotry. The collection also includes two short plays about relationships in crisis - A Second of Pleasure and Helter Skelter - which are in equal part tender and chilling. Together these plays form a complex and compelling portrait of the sexes - sometimes warring, sometimes loving, but never fully at peace.

This third collection by Brian Friel contains two original works: Performances, which considers the relationship between the private life and public work of the composer Leos Janácek; and The Home Place, set in Ballybeg, Donegal, at the dawn of Home Rule. There are three masterful plays based on stories by Chekhov; and Friels exquisite versions of Three Sisters and Uncle Vanya, of Ibsens Hedda Gabler and of Turgenevs A Month in the Country.PerformancesA minor work the way Thomas Manns Death in Venice or Becketts Endgame is a minor work. Deceptively brisk and light in tone but taut and gravely pregnant with meaning... for Friel, life creates its own symbolism and poetry, and so it does in this play.Sunday TimesThe Home PlaceA rich, allusive, densely layered play, which has echoes of Friels masterly Translations while reminding one that he has spent much of his recent life adapting and translating Chekhov... Friel hauntingly conveys the pathos of exile and the delusion of ownership.GuardianHedda GablerAcross the gulf of the 20th century one great playwright is talking to another... neither a simple translation nor, as the official title has it, or a new version, but something altogether larger.The Irish Times

Owen McCaffertys first collection brings together one short- and four full-length plays set in the authors home city of Belfast. Shoot The CrowTragicomedy of character and circumstance that makes McCafferty look like a ribald Northern Irish Chekov.Guardian.Scenes From The Big PictureAn epic that attempts to put the whole of human life on stage - birth, death, love, sex, work, families - the whole damn thing... McCafferty offers us a wise and compassionate view of the human heart.TelegraphClosing TimeThe existence of a writer as good as McCafferty induces a perverse, paradoxical hope.GuardianMojo MikiboA razor sharp evocation of time and place. Irish Times

A playwright known for dazzling structural inventiveness combined with emotional intelligence and wit, James Fritz is a unique voice in British theatre. His work, reflected in these six plays covering the first decade of his career, confronts the fault lines in our culture with thrilling imagination, an unflinching moral seriousness and a warm, compassionate sense of humour.Four Minutes Twelve Seconds (Hampstead Theatre, 2014; Trafalgar Studios, 2015; winner of the Critics Circle Award for Most Promising Playwright) is a morally terrifying drama (Evening Standard) that unpicks the trust between parents and their teenage offspring in an age of selfies and sexting.Ross & Rachel (Edinburgh Fringe, 2015; Off-Broadway, 2016) is a dialogue for one that takes an incisive look at the myths of modern love. Shockingly good a virtuosic piece of writing, playful, post-modern and devastatingly serious, all at once Time OutParliament Square (Royal Exchange Theatre, Manchester, and Bush Theatre, London, 2017; winner of the Judges Award, Bruntwood Prize for Playwriting) is a searingly powerful exploration of what one individual can do to effect change. There are few playwrights working in Britain today whose work is as slick and unsettling as James Fritzs ExeuntLava (Nottingham Playhouse/Fifth Word, 2018; revived 2022) is a funny, tender and moving story about friendship and reconnection in the aftermath of catastrophe. Compassionate, warm and funny Fritzs plays find reservoirs of humour in places you wouldnt expect The StageSkyscraper Lullaby (Audible Original, 2022) is a powerful drama, first written as an audio play, about two parents trying to come to terms with the disappearance of their toddler, a haunting examination of the ways we cope with tragedy, complicity and remorse.Also included is a previously unpublished short play, twins (Arcola Theatre, 2015), as well as a playful and illuminating introduction written by the author.

A collection of modern Spanish and Catalan plays in translations by practising English playwrights, commissioned and first staged by the Royal Court Theatre.This volume contains:Sergi Belbels Caresses translated by John London A disturbing picture of contemporary society against a background of urban alienation.Juan Mayorgas The Scorched Garden translated by Nick Drake About a group of inmates locked up in a mental hospital since the Spanish Civil War.David Planells Bazaar translated by John Clifford Undercurrents of racism surface poisonously during the course of a hilarious attempt to get an accident video shown on TV.Antonio Onettis Bleeding Heart translated by Oscar Ceballos and Mary Peate Set in contemporary Seville where a naive, middle-aged transvestite encounters a petty thief nicknamed sour face.Lluisa Cunilles Roundabout translated by Oscar Ceballos and Mary Peate A fascinating study of obsession and delusion.Paloma Pedreros Wolf Kisses translated by Roxana Silbert A young woman returns to her rural village home to await her Parisian lover despite the hostility of the villagers.

With an Introduction by the author.The prolific master of suburban mayhem has still got his mojo.Evening StandardTime of My LifeOne of Mr. Ayckbourns most virtuosic experiments in postmodern narrative.Wall Street JournalNeighbourhood WatchAyckbourns tartly topical, pitch-black comedy, a startling evocation of the panic induced by nightmarish notions of "broken Britain"... An arresting, nastily comic cautionary tale.The TimesArrivals and DeparturesAyckbourns genius lies in his ability to write what you might call sad comedies, uproariously funny farces that are at second glance deeply serious, at times despairing portraits of modern middle-class life and its discontents. On occasion, as in Arrivals & Departures, he puts the despair at centre stage, and what results is a play that at bottom can no longer be called a comedy at all.Wall Street JournalHeros Welcome Alan Ayckbourn is the poet laureate of missed connections. In play after pensive, droll and acid play, Ayckbourn anatomizes how we fail to understand and trust our lovers and friends.GuardianA Brief History of WomenAs A Brief History of Women follows Spates at twenty year intervals through the next sixty years, it becomes progressively more funny, more tender, more Ayckbourn. Ayckbourn knows that moments of real connection between people are hard-won and hard to forget.The Times

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This anthology comprises five of the best plays from VAULT 2018, Londons biggest and most exciting arts festival.Young men are dying and everyone assumes theyre just casualties of Londons chemsex scene. Everyone, that is, but Anthony, who is determined to investigate. Tumulus by Christopher Adams is a chilling, queer play-noir set amongst the shadowy hills of Hampstead Heath. Critically acclaimed during its run at Edinburgh Festival Fringe, Lucy Burkes Glitter Punch set in Greater Manchester charts a troubling new relationship between mysterious John and sixteen-year-old Molly, a love that will change their lives forever. Powerful (The Stage).Set in a Wigan taxi, Burkas and Bacon Butties by Shamia Chalabi and Sarah Henley is a heart-warming comedy about taxi-driver Ashraf and his twenty-something daughter, Shaz, as they negotiate the ups and downs of living in a mixed-culture family.When bereaved mother Mary finds a disembodied arm, a conspiracy builds: maybe her child isnt quite so dead after all. Shortlisted for Soho Theatres Tony Craze Award, Sami Ibrahims Wind Bit Bitter, Bit Bit Bit Her is an enthralling monologue about love and loss.The Strongbox by Stephanie Jacob is a story of domestic servitude and abuse of power, as authoritarian Kat, her ageing mother, Ma, and their teenaged slave, Maudie, jostle for power and affection in their dilapidated London home.A major London festival showcasing new and rising talentIndependent on VAULT Festival

Made in China. Sold in Britain. Worn by you.From the factory floor to the catwalk, from Shanghai to London, World Factory weaves together the untold stories of people connected by the global textile industry.This published edition of World Factory: The Game adapts the highly successful, provocative and participative theatre production for the page, offering readers the opportunity to play as individuals or in teams the managers of a clothing factory in China and recreate the experience of the game.Like a Choose Your Own Adventure novel, the game has multiple routes and outcomes, interlinking questions of ethics, fashion, consumer capitalism, environmental impact, working conditions, migration and globalisation. In a cross between Monopoly and poker, players trade in workers and money, but it is a game about values will you be an ethical factory owner or will profits always come first? In the rag trade, can anyone ever really win?World Factory was created and produced in 2015 by the performing arts company METIS, in co-production with the New Wolsey Theatre, Young Vic, and Company of Angels. It was performed at the Young Vic, London, and on tour of the UK.

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.In On the Beach, Will Paxton, a glaciologist, returns from months in Antarctica to tell his parents that he will take up a role within Government. Thirty years ago, his father silenced his own radical thinking on climate change. Yet behind the reunion with his father lies thirty years of secrecy and bitterness. As the truth surfaces, the family is torn apart, and Wills parents must face the rising tide alone.In Resilience, the Tory Government that has just come to power wants radical answers to the imminent floods. Their newly appointed expert, Will Paxton, puts an extreme scenario on the table: England, from its coastline to its capital, faces catastrophe.Impressive in scale and chilling as a prediction of our immediate future, the two plays are complementary but can also stand alone.Steve WatersThe Contingency Plan was first performed at the Bush Theatre, London, in April 2009.

This second volume of plays from award-winning playwright Fin Kennedy features three ensemble plays for large casts of young people aged thirteen to nineteen, each developed via a long-term, collaborative process with the target age group.In The Dream Collector, a school group on a Media Studies field trip to the isolated country house of a black-and-white movie pioneer enter a sinister dreamworld when they go exploring after dark. Once they step through the movie screen, each of the young friends meets their dream double, the sinister NeverbornIn Fast, a twenty-four-hour school fundraiser in a semi-rural town takes on a new urgency when farmers daughter Cara refuses to eat again until the supermarkets she holds responsible for her fathers suicide agree to her demands.In The Domino Effect a five-star hit at the 2014 Edinburgh Festival Fringe a silent girl finds her voice, and her mother, when a mysterious East End antiques dealer teaches her how small actions lead to big effects, and how to master the law of unintended consequences.With their flexible, mixed casts, the plays are particularly suited to performance by young peoples groups, who will enjoy the demands and challenges of playing roles specifically created for teenage actors.

A collection of wide-ranging and ambitious short plays reflecting the complexities of women and political power in the United Kingdom.The five plays in this volume look at the impact and influence that women have today.In Acting Leader by Joy Wilkinson, Margaret Beckett finds herself Acting Leader of the Opposition after the sudden death of John Smith.The Panel by Zinnie Harris is about the power politics underlying the selection of any candidate.Playing the Game by Bola Agbaje is about the election of a new President of a Students Association.In Pink by Sam Holcroft, a millionaire businesswoman is confronted by an unexpected visitor.You, Me and Wii by Sue Townsend is set in a council house in a small Leicestershire town at election time.The plays were first performed at the Tricycle Theatre, London, as part of the Women, Power and Politics season in June 2010.The other plays presented in the season are available in the companion volume, Women, Power and Politics:Then.

A collection of wide-ranging and ambitious short plays reflecting the complexities of women and political power in the United Kingdom.The four plays published here look back to the moments in history when women possessed - or achieved - power, and what they did with it.The Milliner and the Weaver by Marie Jones, about the Suffragette movement in Ireland, as the question of Home Rule divides the nation.The Lioness by Rebecca Lenkiewicz is about Queen Elizabeth I, the myth and the reality.Handbagged by Moira Buffini, about the working relationship between Mrs Thatcher and the Queen.Bloody Wimmin by Lucy Kirkwood, about the protests at Greenham Common, a political landmark in the fight for nuclear disarmament.The plays were first performed at the Tricycle Theatre, London, as part of the Women, Power and Politics season in June 2010.The other plays presented in the season are available in the companion volume, Women, Power and Politics: Now.

A collection of plays from the acclaimed author of My Night With Reg, spanning twenty years of work from a playwright who brilliantly captured the comedy of pain.Included in this volume are:Coming Clean (Bush Theatre, London, 1982), Elyots first play, winner of the Samuel Beckett Award, an examination of infidelity within a gay relationship. A very funny and acute comedy about the gay lifeSunday Times. In time, it will be recognised as the first mature play about homosexualityMail on SundayMy Night With Reg (Royal Court Theatre, London, 1994) His breakthrough play, winner of the Evening Standard and Olivier Awards for Best Comedy, a heartbreaking play about the fragility of friendship, happiness and life itself. Sharply witty and humanely wise drama about gay manners and morals in the age of AIDSIndependentThe Day I Stood Still (National Theatre, London, 1998) A poignantly funny drama about the heartbreak of unrequited love and the power of memories. What begins apparently as a very English comedy about avoiding the issue... ends as something both tragic and hearteningSunday TimesMouth to Mouth (Royal Court Theatre, 2001) A brilliantly acerbic tragicomedy that transferred to the West End, starring Lindsay Duncan. An ingenious, brilliantly intricate work of artFinancial TimesAlso included is a foreword by the author.There is an unsentimental compassion about Elyots writing that is deeply affecting, and a sharp observation of contemporary life that is often richly comicDaily TelegraphGuilt, loss, unrequited love these are the themes weve come to expect from Kevin ElyotThe Times

Five plays from the the makar (national poet) of Scotland, one of the countrys best-known (and best-loved) living playwrights.Liz Lochhead is the author of many highly inventive original plays, adaptations and translations, all crafted with her special blend of the vividly colloquial and the energetically poetic. This volume brings together five of her best original plays ranging over three decades and several, contrasting styles.Her first play, Blood and Ice (1982), is about the creation of Frankenstein, and weaves a spiders web of connections between the literary monster and Mary Shelleys own turbulent life.The modern classic Mary Queen of Scots Got Her Head Chopped Off(1987) retells the familiar tale of enmity between Elizabeth I and Mary Queen of Scots, with Lochheads own brand of ferocious iconoclasm and boundless wit.Quelques Fleurs (1991) is a portrait of a marriage, both funny and tragic, and told through interlaced monologues.The last two plays, Perfect Days (1998) and Good Things (2004), mark a womans fear of turning, respectively, forty and fifty. In the first, Barbs, 39, a celebrity hairdresser, determines to do something to drown out the ticking of her biological clock. In the second, Susan, 49, sets out to find love the second (or is it third or fourth?) time roundThis rich collection of plays carries a new and candid introduction by the author, specially written for the volume.Funny, feisty, female, full of feeling Liz Lochhead possesses the deeply Scottish qualities of independence,inquisitiveness and inventiveness Carol Ann Duffy

This collection of plays written and introduced by actor-turned-writer Ayub Khan Din charts the development of a writer able to turn the tumultuous experience of life in modern Britain into satisfying, humane and often richly comic drama.Whether drawing on his own childhood, growing up in an Anglo-Pakistani family in Salford, or on E.R. Braithwaites account of racial tensions in the East End in To Sir, With Love, he depicts the struggles of individuals to come to terms with their conflicting cultural legacies and he does so with unerring warmth and compassion.East is East (1996) is an irresistible comedy set in multiracial Salford in 1970, where the Khan children are buffeted this way and that by their Pakistani fathers insistence on tradition, their English mothers laissez-faire and their own wish to be citizens of the modern world. The film adaptation that followed, with a screenplay by the author, became one of the most successful British films ever made. The version included here is the revised text first performed at the Trafalgar Studios in 2014.The short, elegiac play, Notes on Falling Leaves (2004), is an emotionally tender depiction of a young man as he loses his mother to dementia, overwhelming in its emotional impact (Telegraph).In All the Way Home (2011), a quarrelsome group of siblings gathers at the family home under the shadow of impending loss. Amidst the cut and thrust of spiky Salford banter, long-harboured resentments rise to the surface and family bonds unravel and unwind.To Sir, With Love (2013), based on E.R. Braithwaites autobiographical novel, is the uplifting story of a talented, idealistic young teacher discovering the reality of life as a black man in Britain after the Second World War as he struggles to find a way to connect with his students at a tough but progressive East End school.

Love in Idleness is the third in Terence Rattigans unofficial trilogy of war plays (after Flare Path and While the Sun Shines). It is published here alongside an earlier version of the play, Less Than Kind, which was never staged during Rattigans lifetime.Michael, eighteen, returns to wartime London from schooling in Canada, brimming with youthful left-wing convictions. Reunited with his mother, he is alarmed as he begins to realise that she is the mistress of a leading member of the war cabinet. Sparks fly between the idealistic younger man and the pragmatic politician, while the mother is torn between them...Love in Idleness was first staged at the Lyric Theatre, London, in December 1944, in a version rewritten by Rattigan at the request of the productions stars, Alfred Lunt and Lynn Fontanne.The earlier version of the play, Less Than Kind, was never staged and remained unpublished until 2011, the centenary of Rattigans birth. That version was premiered at Jermyn Street Theatre, London, in January 2011.This volume presents both plays in full so that readers may judge for themselves which is the better.This edition includes an authoritative introduction by Dan Rebellato, a biographical sketch and chronology.

A thrilling version of Ibsens epic play, charting the true odyssey of an astonishing man as he struggles to find spiritual fulfilment and political pre-eminence.Made Emperor in Rome, Julian attempts to abolish Christianity and restore the old gods. But met with fierce resistance, this great free-thinker becomes a tyrant more hated than his brutal predecessor, Constantius. And in arousing the Christians from their apathy he advances their cause, his life and death altering the course of history in stark opposition to his intent.Ibsens little-known masterpiece sweeps across Greece and the Middle East from AD351, covering twelve crucial years in the history of civilisation. Completed and published in 1873, Emperor and Galilean was premiered in Leipzig in 1896.This newly created version by Ben Power was first staged at the National Theatre, London, in June 2011, marking the first time that Emperor and Galilean had been performed on the stage in English. The production was directed by Jonathan Kent, with Andrew Scott as the Emperor Julian, and Ian McDiarmid as Maximus.