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I dont know how I became so filled with hate. I find it shocking that I did. Somebody said to me that war affects us in all kinds of ways, and that drinking is only one of them. Perhaps hating people is another. Perhaps sex is too.1943, Henley-on-Thames. Miss Roach is forced by the war to flee London for the Rosamund Tea Rooms boarding house, a place as grey and lonely as its residents. From the safety of these new quarters, her war effort now consists of a thousand petty humiliations, of which the most burdensome is sharing her daily life with the unbearable Mr Thwaites.But a breath of fresh air arrives in the form of a handsome American lieutenant and things start to look distinctly brighter. Until a new boarder moves into the room next to Miss Roachs outwardly friendly, she soon starts upsetting the precarious balance in the house.Nicholas Wrights play The Slaves of Solitude weaves a fascinating blend of dark hilarity and melancholy from Patrick Hamiltons much-loved story about an improbable heroine in wartime Britain. The play premiered at Hampstead Theatre, London, in October 2017.

People like us are unhappy in this world and in the next: if we made it to heaven, wed have to help make it thunder.The multi-award-winning Jack Thorne, the playwright behind Harry Potter and the Cursed Child, breathes new life into Georg Buchners existential masterpiece, Woyzeck, one of the most extraordinary plays ever written.Its 1980s Berlin. The Cold War rages and the world sits at a crossroads between Capitalism and Communism. On the border between East and West, a young soldier and the love of his life are desperately trying to build a better future for their child.But the cost of escaping poverty is high in this searing tale of the people society leaves behind.Jack Thornes version of Woyzeck premiered at the Old Vic Theatre, London, in May 2017, in a production starring John Boyega in the title role.

Three timely one-act plays set in war-torn Syria and Iraq, by one of our best new playwrights (The Times), featuring the epic and bloody adventures of an Iraqi translator, a London schoolgirl and a crackshot sniper..The Collector is a tale of creeping darkness, set during the Coalitions occupation of Iraq, as a team of prison guards become brutalised by war. Outstanding new writing first class (Scotsman)Echoes is a bloody story of colonialism ancient and modern and the rhyme of history, drawing astonishing parallels between the lives of a Jihadi bride and a Victorian pioneer. A dark and daring look at colonial cruelty hugely impressive (Guardian)Angel is set in a Syrian town, where the apparently indestructible Angel of Kobane a crackshot sniper with a hundred kills to her name is all that stands between the towns citizens and the fearsome approach of ISIS. War reportage at its best and great theatre (The Times) All three plays premiered at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe between 2014 and 2016, and have subsequently toured the UK and globally, including runs in London, around Australia and at New Yorks 59E59 Theaters. They have won eleven major international fringe awards, including several Fringe Firsts, and Angel was one of The Times Top 10 Best Plays of 2016.

Ben doesnt even like Anna that much. She doesnt take life seriously enough. And then a couple of years go by and hes in absolute floods and she just wishes things could be different. This is a play about gender, the ethical dimensions of modern love, and a mandatory sillier third theme to make the whole thing seem less serious, in this case lemon tart.Travesty is the debut play by Liam Williams, double Edinburgh Comedy Award nominee and the voice of a generation (Independent). It was produced by Fight in the Dog and premiered at the 2016 Edinburgh Festival Fringe.The Fringes most articulate and original chronicler of twenty-something angstTelegraph

Terence Rattigans epic and probing drama about the man immortalised as Lawrence of Arabia.Arrogant, flippant, withdrawn and with a talent for self-concealment, the mysterious Aircraftman Ross seems an odd recruit for the Royal Air Force. In fact the truth is even stranger than the man himself.Behind the false name is an enigma, a man named Lawrence who started as a civilian in the Map Office in 1914 and went on to mastermind some of the most audacious military victories in the history of the British Army. These victories earned him an enduring and romantic nom de guerre: Lawrence of Arabia.Rattigans 1960 play reveals the unusual and deeply conflicted Englishman behind the heroic legend. This edition, with an Introduction by Dan Rebellato, was published alongside the revival at the Chichester Festival Theatre in 2016, directed by Adrian Noble and starring Joseph Fiennes as Ross.

She wanted spontaneity, adventure I said I can be spontaneous I just need a little bit of time to plan.Peta is new in town and ready for whatever London has to throw at her. Shes looking for romance, for friendship, for exciting people to lead her on big adventures. But being an independent woman in the new millennium isnt easy, especially when theres a constant reminder of the life youre trying to escape.With each new encounter, Peta flirts with what might have been, but has the journey to London put enough distance between her and her past?Chloe Mosss play How Love Is Spelt is a fascinating and funny play, which premiered at the Bush Theatre, London, in 2004. It was revived by Brickdust and Project One at Southwark Playhouse in 2019.

A gripping play about the nature of violence.15-year-old Kerry and her mum have moved to a council estate. Kerry hates it. She hates her mums new man too. But when she meets a boy in the playground and asks him to do something about it, she finds herself adrift in a landscape of physical brutality, drugs - and, eventually, love.Robert Holmans play Holes in the Skin was first performed at the Chichester Festival Theatre in June 2003.

The Old CrowdA Private FunctionPrick Up Your Ears102 Boulevard HaussmannThe Madness of King George Starring characters as diverse as George III, Marcel Proust, Joe Orton, and a pig called Betty, Alan Bennetts masterful work for the screen gives as much enjoyment in the reading as it did in the viewing. This classic collection contains a new essay by Alan Bennett, besides the original introductions to A Private Function, Prick Up Your Ears and The Madness of King George. Two companion volumes of Alan Bennetts TV plays are published as Me, Im Afraid of Virginia Woolf and Rolling Home.

Helen Edmundsons celebrated and exemplary (The Times) adaptation of Leo Tolstoys enduring classic is a vibrant and deeply moving meditation on the nature of love.Anna is beautiful and admired but empty until a chance meeting throws her into emotional turmoil and a scandalous affair. Contrasting with this tale of destructive love is the story of Levin, an idealistic man striving to find meaning in life and a self-portrait of Tolstoy himself.Helen Edmundsons stage adaptation of Anna Karenina was first performed by Shared Experience at the Theatre Royal, Winchester, in January 1992 at the start of a nationwide tour. The production went on to win the Time Out Award for Outstanding Theatrical Event of 1992.This edition of the play was published alongside a revival at the Arcola Theatre, London, in 2011.

DinnerA cracking black comedy that has you laughing uproariously one moment and jumping with shock the next . . . For those with strong stomachs, Dinner offers a delicious feast of comedy and the macabre.Daily TelegraphDying for ItA subversive Russian classic: one that addresses the ultimate question of "why live?"GuardianThe play, freely adapted by Moira Buffini, presents a glorious gallery of comic types.IndependentWelcome to ThebesIts thrilling. Moira Buffinis strange and daring play is moving, wise, funny, horrifying . . . Full of resonances you werent expecting, jokes you didnt see coming . . . It raises huge questions with wit.The TimesHandbaggedWinner of the 2014 Olivier Award for Outstanding Achievement in an Affiliate TheatreA phenomenon.Sunday TelegraphPerfectly pitched between the comic and the serious.Guardian

Cruel and TenderA mordantly knowing modernisation of Sophocless Trachiniae... . The approach here manages to be at once lethally level and capable of surges of anguished feeling... Highly recommended.IndependentFewer EmergenciesA triptych of vicious modern fairy tales that brings the nightmare right back and stabs you through the soul.GuardianThe CityAlthough this is the most disquieting play in London, there is a curious exhilaration about both the performance and Crimps confrontation with our perpetual unease.GuardianDefinitely the BahamasA summation of a life lived vicariously, at the margins of other lives, between suffocating suburban walls; and the play is as unflinching as it is unnerving.The TimesPlay HousePlay House concerns the volatility and vulnerability of love, as a young couple, Simon and Katrina set up home... Unusually for Crimp, the play both begins and ends with moving declarations of love. Suddenly this usually chilly dramatist seems unexpectedly blessed with a warm heart.Daily TelegraphIn the Republic of HappinessCrimp goes so far as to call it "an entertainment in three parts," and it rocks along like a dystopian vaudeville... The actors are imprisoned and liberated at once, their strange between-worlds condition a source of joy, intemperateness and above all a care for our diversion... My favourite play of the year.Whats on Stage

An exhilarating and unsentimental exploration of working-class life in Belfast.Development. Hotels, spas, Nandos, boutiques. Belfast is changing, but for some people, progress means new barriers.A group of construction workers is building an extension to the Peace Wall that separates Them-ens from Us-ens. When Polish worker Yuris daughter starts having serious problems with her boyfriend, they rally round in support. But good intentions can easily go too farStacey Greggs play Shibboleth premiered at the Abbey Theatre, Dublin, as part of the 2015 Dublin Theatre Festival.This edition includes an Afterword by the author.

In the late 1600s, in a convent in Mexico, a gifted and progressive writer finds herself at the centre of a deadly battle of ideas. Celebrated by the Court but silenced by the Church, she is betrayed by the very people she thought she could trust.Inspired by the extraordinary life of Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz, Helen Edmundsons The Heresy of Love is a powerful drama about a clash between organised religion and personal faith, full of intrigue and danger, ruthless ambitions and illicit desire.Premiered by the Royal Shakespeare Company in 2012, The Heresy of Love was revived in a new production at Shakespeares Globe, London, in 2015.

She is a young woman in a yellow dress. She has been shot by the police. As a video goes viral, a revolution begins to stir.Ali and Leyla are panicking they uploaded the footage and now the authorities are after them. Across town, Yasmin is desperate to know if her missing mother is still alive. Halfway around the world, a woman in London wants to help. As a tornado of dissent and violence spreads, everyones life is going to change.A startlingly theatrical look at what happens when it all kicks off, Elinor Cooks play Image of an Unknown Young Woman premiered at the Gate Theatre, London, in June 2015.

An uplifting story of the triumph of love, inspiration and hope against all odds, laced with the song and dance of austere 1940s Britain. Ricky Braithwaite, an ex-RAF fighter pilot and Cambridge graduate, arrives in London in 1948. Despite his First Class degree in electronic engineering he is turned down for job after job in his chosen profession and discovers the reality of life as a black man in post-war England. Taking the only job he can get, Ricky begins his first teaching post, in a tough but progressive East End school. Supported by an enlightened headmaster, the determined teacher turns teenage rebelliousness into self-respect, contempt into consideration and hate into love, and on the way, Ricky himself learns that he has more in common with his students than he had realised.Ayub Khan Dins play To Sir, With Love is based on E.R. Braithwaites 1959 autobiographical novel of the same name. The play was first performed at Royal & Derngate, Northampton, in September 2013, and subsequently toured the UK.

The first collection of plays by Marina Carr introduces the work of a major new voice in playwriting. Low in the DarkOne of the most exciting, new and absolutely original aspects of Carrs writing is the manner in which the sexism of the language and religious imagery is exposed... Marina Carr is a playwright to be watched.Sunday TribuneThe MaiThe writing is at once gentle and raucous... capable of articulating deep-seated woes and resentments in a manner you rarely find outside Eugene ONeill.ObserverPortia CoughlanA play of precocious maturity and accomplishment.Irish TimesPortia Coughlan packs a hell of a punch. It hurts to look at it. But it has to be seen.Irish IndependentBy the Bog of Cats...A poetic realism steeped in the past... Carr has an extraordinary ability to move between the mythic and the real.GuardianA great play... a great work of poetry... the word should soon carry across both sides of the Atlantic.Independent

This first collection of Nick Dears work for the stage displays the breadth and achievement of one of the most talented and inventive dramatists writing in Britain today. The volume contains two of his re-workings of eighteenth-century history, The Art of Success and In the Ruins, his intelligent and original political parable Zenobia and his chilling adaptation of Henry Jamess The Turn of the Screw.

Cardiff EastAs scene melts into scene, ones appetite for knowing more and more about these people is constantly whetted, even for the ones one would avoid in real life. Each and every [character] rings true and resonates further... A play which is never less than gripping.Mail on SundayCertain Young MenThe play is marked by a fast turnover of scenes, lots of brusque, vivid, wryly funny dialogue... articulate, arresting and as freshly performed as anything in town.The TimesThe York Realist: Winner of the London Critics Circle Award for Best New PlayAs a love story, The York Realist is riveting and heart-rending, performed with fine-tuned naturalism thats quiet and unhurried. Gill is always terrifically perceptive about male tenderness. Overall, the personal and political are subtly united in a study of English masculinity, class and culture. Such outstanding work.Independent on SundayOriginal SinHauntingly powerful.Guardian

On Rafterys HillThis is a play that howls to be seen; its courage is matched only by its dramatic power.Sunday IndependentArielAn astonishing piece of theatre. Interweaving themes drawn from Irish, Greek and biblical myth, she spins a tale of power that is honest, emotional, dark and true . . . Die to see it.Irish ExaminerWoman and ScarecrowDrama doesnt come much richer or stranger than this death-bed lament. Ravishing in its dense, literary language, it is as visceral as it is intellectual. It lingers not only in the ear and brain, but in the imagination and the gut. An extraordinary brew, bittersweet and totally intoxicating.The TimesThe Cordelia DreamA brave piece and clearly charged with deep feeling. . . This is certainly unsettling territory and Carr boldly goes for it.Financial TimesMarbleAn extraordinary play that lures us in with a promise of the recognisable only to drag us screaming into the soaring, magnificent possibilities of love and the destruction that it wreaks.Irish Independent

This first collection of Peter Gills plays spans his work from 1965 to 1987. The plays are studies of love and time, loss and the fear of loss. The collection includes the plays The Sleepers Den, Over Gardens Out, Small Change, Kick for Touch, In The Blue and Mean Tears, and is introduced by John Burgess.