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A contemporary tragedy set in small-town Ireland, by one of Irelands most exciting playwrights.What does it feel like to lose everything? To explain? What does it take to forgive the unforgivable?In small-town Ireland, father-of-one Conor is desperate to hold on to a life that is disintegrating before his eyes. Susan is a mother searching for reason in the darkness of her teenage daughters killing. When they finally meet, a contemporary tragedy comes to light.Deirdre Kinahans play Spinning was first performed by Fishamble: The New Play Company as part of the Dublin Theatre Festival in 2014.

Passionate, highly entertaining and gloriously funny - Robert Tressells classic pre-First World War account of the working lives of a group of housepainters and decorators is vividly adapted by Howard Brenton.The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists recounts the little daily successes and the disasters of a group of working-class men, living under the constant fear of being laid off by employers forever looking for new corners to cut. Both workers and bosses are caught in a system spiralling out of control, but why is it the workers always come out worse?Howard Brentons stage adaptation, first performed at the Everyman Theatre in Liverpool in June 2010 in a co-production with Chichester Festival Theatre, lays bare the many social injustices perpetrated on these men whilst capturing their individual characters with touching truth to life.

A witty, tender, and occasionally surreal exploration of one familys experience of the NHS.A month after stating "we will stop the top-down reorganisation of the NHS that has got in the way of patient care", the government launched the biggest top-down reorganisation the service had seen in its 65-year history.Stella Feehilys play explores one familys journey through the digestive system of the NHS, and asks: what is the prognosis for this much-loved institution?This May Hurt A Bit premiered in March 2014, on a UK tour co-produced by Out of Joint and Octagon Theatre, Bolton.

A thrilling, fast-paced adaptation of the classic novel, considered by Dickens the best story I have ever written.An epic story of love, sacrifice and redemption, interweaving one familys intensely personal drama with the terror and chaos of the French Revolution.This version of A Tale of Two Cities premiered at Royal & Derngate, Northampton, in February 2014, featuring a large community ensemble alongside the main cast.Mike Poultons adaptation is ideal for any amateur theatre companies, schools or youth theatres looking to stage a bold and dramatic version of Dickens classic.

Six plays by some of the most exciting and distinctive female voices in British theatre, exploring the heartbreaking truth about the lives of women in the criminal justice system.The plays were commissioned and premiered by Clean Break, a theatre and education company working with women whose lives have been affected by the criminal justice system.Included in this volume:Fatal Light by Chloe Moss, about a young mothers inability to cope with separation from her daughter.Taken by Winsome Pinnock, about a mother confronted by the child she had to give up.Dream Pill by Rebecca Prichard, about two children forced into prostitution.Doris Day by E V Crowe, about two police officers and their different expectations of the job.Dancing Bears by Sam Holcroft, about the twisted loyalties and violence in teenage gangs.That Almost Unnameable Lust by Rebecca Lenkiewicz, about a writer holding workshops with older women in a prison.The plays were first performed at Soho Theatre, London, in November 2010.

Steven Berkoff is a phenomenon. Among the artists working in the theatre today he is probably the most theatrical - his special combination of speech, movement and spectacle is uniquely powerful. This first collection of his plays includes East, described by Berkoff as an outburst or revolt against the sloth of my youth and a desire to turn a welter of undirected passion and frustration into a positive form. Also included in this collection are the plays West and Sink the Belgrano!

The first volume of Alan Ayckbourns collected work contains his morality plays from the 1980s. It includes the plays A Chorus of Disapproval, A Small Family Business, Henceforward . . ., and Man of t

This second collection of Timberlake Wertenbakers plays contains her work from 1995 to 2001. Diameira is published here for the first time. The collection also includes The Break of Day, After Darwin, Credible Witness and The Ash Girl, and is introduced by the author.

New Anatomies, Grace of Mary Traverse, Our Countrys Good, Love of a Nightingale & Three Birds Alighting on a Field

A comedy drama about an all-female theatre company touring Britain during the darkest days of World War Two, written by the well-known actress and premiered in the West End.While the men are fighting Hitler and the bombs are falling on London, a girls only theatre company sets out in a battered 1920s Rolls-Royce to bring Shakespeare to a culture-starved Britain.Imogen Stubbs play We Happy Few was inspired by the real-life Osiris Players, whose travelling productions during the War inspired many to take up the profession - Judi Dench to name but one.We Happy Few was premiered at the Gielgud Theatre in the West End in June 2004 in a production directed by Trevor Nunn and starring Juliet Stevenson and Patsy Palmer. An earlier version of the play was performed in 2003 at Malvern Theatres.

This third volume of Alan Ayckbourn plays includes Haunting Julia, Sugar Daddies, Drowning on Dry Land and Private Fears in Public Places, with an introduction by the author.Haunting JuliaA play for today. It touches on the failures of education and parenting, on media pressure and overdoses. Kurt Cobain comes to mind. More universally, Haunting Julia mourns how in adolescence and adulthood, we do our loves wrong.Financial TimesSugar DaddiesA timely warning about the dangers of role-playing and pretence . . . But the real fascination lies in watching Ayckbourns own transformation from social observer to impassioned moralist.GuardianDrowning on Dry LandAyckbourn at the top of his game.GuardianA coruscatingly acid and funny play.The TimesPrivate Fears in Public PlacesAyckbourns construction has a masterly clarity; his writing combines ruthless observation with mature tolerance. Nobody else writing today can create a sense of a complicated little world in 90 minutes, or make banal lives seem so unforgivably interesting. Listen: its a masters voice.Sunday Times

A treat to read and a joy to perform, this second collection of Alan Ayckbourns work is a cornucopia of some of his wonderfully inventive childrens plays. From the story of the teenage Lucy in Invisible Friends who revives her childhood imaginary friend when things get difficult at home, onto the storytellers in My Very Own Story and This Is Where We Came In and, finally, to young Ernie who illucinates all sorts of wild and weird happenings with astonishing results.

In Lucy Kirkwoods version of Hedda Gabler, Ibsens nineteenth-century heroine is relocated to London in 2008, to startling effect.Hedda, still mourning for the father she adored, returns from honeymoon with a husband she doesnt love, to a flat and a pregnancy she doesnt want. Trapped by her past and terrified of her future, bored by her life but too cowardly to walk away from it, she finds herself caught between three men. And in the end, something has to give.Lucy Kirkwoods play Hedda was first performed at the Gate Theatre, London, in August 2008.

Bein you means not bein me, see, a deficit already - before you even started we running at a loss.Elayne doesnt want company but company wont leave her alone. Everyones got an opinion but no ones listening and things are starting to slip.debbie tucker greens play nut is a drama about a woman who wants to withdraw from the world. It premiered at The Shed at the National Theatre in October 2013, directed by the author.

This revised third volume of Harold Pinters work includes The Homecoming, Old Times, No Mans Land, four shorter plays, six revue sketches and a short story. It also contains the speech given by Pinter in 1970 on being awarded the German Shakespeare Prize.The HomecomingOf all Harold Pinters major plays, The Homecoming has the most powerful narrative line... You are fascinated, lured on, sucked into the vortex.Sunday TelegraphThe most intense expression of compressed violence to be found anywhere in Pinters plays.The TimesOld TimesA rare quality of high tension is evident, revealing in Old Times a beautifully controlled and expressive formality that has seldom been achieved since the plays of Racine.Financial TimesHarold Pinters poetic, Proustian Old Times has the inscrutability of a mysterious picture, and the tension of a good thriller.IndependentNo Mans LandThe work of our best living playwright in its command of the language and its power to erect a coherent structure in a twilight zone of confusion and dismay.The Times

Sharp, funny and clever . . . What a pleasure to re-encounter a play that combines unabashed intelligence and zinging wit with a rare generosity of spirit.Daily Telegraph on The Common PursuitGrays stature as one of the handful of great tragi-comic English dramatists of the second half of the twentieth century would appear now to be undisputed. Howard Jacobson, Critical QuarterlyHidden LaughterA sad divine comedy, superbly written. Gray nurses his characters and cares for them, but he never pampers them, or pities them, or presumes to use them as his spokesman. In this respect, he has become an English Chekhov... At the same time, Gray dispenses some of the incandescent malice and moral savagery of Coward at his acid best... But, of course, comparisons can only help you get your bearings. Gray is entirely his own man in this painful, querulous, warm, hard and mature play.Sunday Times

ButleyWhat is so wondrous about a play so basically defeatist and hurtful is its ability to be funny. The stark, unsentimental approach to the homosexual relationship, the cynical send-up of academic life, the skeptical view of the teacher-pupil associations are all stunningly illuminated by continuous explosions of sardonic, needling, feline, vituperative and civilised lines.Evening Standard

A superbly written play, a funny play, an agonising play. It is, moreover, a play of truth and insight. A play to savour.Punch on Otherwise EngagedLife in the theatre hasnt brought me anything more rewarding than directing Simon Grays plays. Harold PinterPlaintiffs and DefendantsExceptionally good... the play gave such a rending picture of married mess that it was hard to know where to look. Clive James, ObserverSimon Gray is the one [TV playwright] whose work I most relish seeing for his acerbic wit, wonderful ironies and above all for his care with our mother tongue. Dennis Potter

The brave little lives that Gray so compassionately illuminates could be lived by any of us, and thats why they arouse emotions that are anything but small.New York Times on Quartermaines Terms

With the production of Philadelphia, Here I Come! in 1964, Brian Friel established his claim to be the true heir of such distinguished predecessors as Yeats, Synge, OCasey and Beckett. Since then his work has consistently demonstrated that his strength is an equal awareness of the conditions of individual lives and the historical and political forces affecting them. The plays in this first volume (Philadelphia, Here I Come!, The Freedom of the City, Living Quarters, Aristocrats, Faith Healer and Translations) are introduced by Professor Seamus Deane of University College, Dublin.