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Sherlock Holmes: A Drama in Four Acts is a stage play co-authored by Arthur Conan Doyle and actor William Gillette, bringing the famous detective to life on the late Victorian stage. In this original story (set in 1880s London), Sherlock Holmes faces off against criminal mastermind Professor Moriarty while juggling a delicate romance and protecting a young woman from peril. The play condenses several Holmes adventures into one suspenseful narrative, featuring iconic elements like the Baker Street sitting room, fiendish traps set by Moriarty, and Holmess dramatic disguise and escape at a foggy moor. Gillette, who also portrayed Holmes on stage, infused the script with action, humor, and even the immortal line, "Oh, this is elementary, my dear Watson." The drama was wildly popular, solidifying Holmess image (deerstalker, pipe, and all) in the public imagination. As a published script, it offers a unique, theatrical take on Holmes, full of derring-do, comedic asides by Dr. Watson, and the ultimate triumph of good over evil under the footlights.

The Speckled Band is Arthur Conan Doyles own stage adaptation of one of his most famous Sherlock Holmes short stories, first produced in 1910. This thriller in two acts brings to life the sinister tale of a young woman terrorized by an unknown menace in an old dark manor. Holmes and Watson, invited to Stoke Moran Manor to investigate, confront the nefarious Dr. Grimesby Rylott (renamed from Roylott) a snarling villain who keeps strange company (including a dangerous swamp adder, "the speckled band"). The play intensifies the action of the original story: adding physical confrontations, a more prominent role for the vivacious heroine Violet Stonor (Julia Stoner in prose), and a climactic on-stage showdown where the deadly serpent strikes. Doyles adaptation cleverly uses lighting and sound effects such as whistle calls and sudden darkness to build suspense. The Speckled Band was a popular success on stage, praised for delivering genuine chills. It remains a prime example of Edwardian theatrical mystery, with Holmess deductive genius pitted against a gothic atmosphere of creeping dread, all resolved with a dramatic flourish as the truth slithers into view.

The Crown Diamond is a one-act Sherlock Holmes stage play written by Arthur Conan Doyle, later expanded into the short story "The Adventure of the Mazarin Stone." In this compact drama, Holmes attempts to recover a spectacular stolen diamond (part of the Crown Jewels) from an aristocratic thief in a single evening. The action unfolds in one room where Holmes employs a daring ruse: using a wax dummy of himself to draw out the culprits while he eavesdrops in disguise nearby. Taut and clever, the play is rich with Holmess signature deductive tricks from secret listening devices to bold confrontation all within about twenty minutes of stage time. Dr. Watson and Inspector Lestrade have supporting roles, mostly marveling at Holmess theatrics. The Crown Diamond offers a crystalized dose of Holmesian suspense and ingenuity, written specifically for the theater. Doyles playful use of a dummy to deceive villains gives the audience the delightful experience of outwitting criminals alongside the Great Detective.

This is what it feels like to have something to lose. This is why people only fight when theyve got nothing to lose.Its the early 1990s and recovering addict Frankie Donnelly has just been sentenced to three and a half years in jail for dealing drugs.None of Frankies fellow convicts are what they seem. In the most unexpected of places, he discovers that the revolution is not dead. Its just sleeping.Ordinary Decent Criminal by Ed Edwards is a one-man story of freedom, revolution and messy love. It was first performed on a tour of the UK in 2025 including a run at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe, where it won a Fringe First Award directed by Charlotte Bennett and starring renowned political comedian Mark Thomas. It was produced by Paines Plough, Live Theatre, Theatre Royal Plymouth and Ellie Keel Productions, in association with Synergy Theatre Project.This edition also includes the stirring short play Sanctuary which explores the true-life story of Sri Lankan communist Viraj Mendis, who spent two years seeking sanctuary in a Manchester church in the 1980s.

The Bruntwood Prize for Playwriting is the largest playwriting competition in Europe. Since its inception twenty years ago, it has received over 17,325 submissions, and awarded prizes to thirty-eight different plays across its various categories.This anthology brings together five of those extraordinary winning plays in a wide-ranging selection reflecting the history and scope of the prize and the inestimable impact it has had over the past two decades.Pretend You Have Big Buildings by Ben Musgrave (Bruntwood Prize, 2005) is a tender and funny play about identity, loss, and growing up in Romford in the shadow of Canary Wharf.Winterlong by Andrew Sheridan (joint winner, 2008) is a shattering, heartbreaking play about searching for hope in a damaged world.Three Birds by Janice Okoh (Bruntwood Prize, 2011) is a darkly comic drama about three young siblings who find themselves home alone, without adult care.Wish List by Katherine Soper (Bruntwood Prize, 2015) is a powerful exploration of what our labour is worth and how life can be lived when the system is stacked against you.untitled f*ck m*ss s**gon play by Kimber Lee (International Award, 2019) is a wickedly funny satire that wrestles with history and explodes cultural stereotypes.Also included is an incisive essay by theatre historian Rachel Clements on the impact of the Bruntwood Prize on the theatre landscape, as well as introductions by Sarah Frankcom and each of the selected authors.

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Entre gestos, silencios e respiraçes cenicas, este escrito tece a travessia de um diretor-pedagogo potiguar em formaço que se lança a aventura de criar e partilhar. No se trata de um manual, mas de um caderno de bordo sensivel, onde o ato de montar uma encenaço Seis e Meia (2019) transforma-se em espaço de escuta, invenço e descoberta. Em tres movimentos os tropeços do inicio, os encontros que moldam o caminho e os dispositivos que se revelam como farois o autor conduz o leitor por um processo criativo que e tambem um processo de si. O que se ve nascer dessas paginas e um teatro feito de afetos, de margens, de duvidas ferteis, onde cada ensaio e tambem uma pergunta aberta ao mundo. Este livro e para quem cria, para quem ensina e para quem se deixa atravessar. Um convite para habitar a cena como quem habita um poema: com o corpo inteiro e o coraço aberto.

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People arguing, that isnt theatre. People making points. And whats more, you and I dont belong in drawing rooms. Drawing rooms cant contain us. We need courts and palaces and cathedrals. Theres scale for us there. We can move our elbows. Little rooms give us no space.Henry Irving believes that theatre is the only thing that matters. Ellen Terry believes its more important to be a decent human being. Ellens daughter Edith Craig believes theatre can change society, but her son Edward Gordon Craig dreams only of a theatre free from actors and dialogue. Together, but in very different ways, they develop the paths which lead to the modern British theatre. David Hares magnificent play opened at Theatre Royal Bath, in June 2025.

Im still going to like, do charity, probably even more than I do now.Clare has it all. Shes a noblewoman living her best life in medieval Italy, trying out hairstyles, and sharing the latest gossip with her sister and maids.Everything is on track for her to marry some super-rich nobleman and live super-richly ever after. But on the streets of Assisi, she meets Francis, whos sharing some of the wildest ideas Clare has ever heard. And when she listens to what he has to say, her eyes are opened to a whole new way of living.Chiara Atiks play Poor Clare is a hilarious and off-beat comedy about wealth, sacrifice, and the cost of doing good. Premiered at the Echo Theater Company in Los Angeles in 2020, it won the 2022 American Theatre Critic Associations New Play Award and the LA Drama Critics Circle Award for Best New Play, and was shortlisted for the Susan Smith Blackburn Prize.It received its European premiere at the Orange Tree Theatre, London, in 2025, directed by Blanche McIntyre and starring Arsema Thomas and Freddy Carter.

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