A play about the discovery of a 'wild child', examining our mythic struggles with the wilderness inside ourselves, from the author of Iron. A 'wild child' is found in the last clump of woodland left on ...
George Farquhar's immortal comedy about two young gentlemen with a misguided plan to get enrich themselves at the expense of a series of young heiresses.
A pair of London gentlemen, Archer and Aimwell, ...
Written in eight opium-sodden days, Jean Cocteau's Les Parents Terribles is a frank, ironic, bruisingly melodramatic play dealing with incest and the diseased love from which it stems.
The play was first ...
The classic manifesto on popular theatre by the founder of the 7:84 Theatre Companies.
John McGrath's manifesto is as relevant today as it was when first published in 1981. Looking at the ways different ...
Restless and discontented in her marriage, Hedda Gabler is drawn to a former admirer, Lovborg, now a brilliant writer. But he is more taken with Hedda's old schoolfriend. Driven by jealousy, Hedda destroys ...
A classic comedy of manners from the Restoration period.
Mirabell loves the heiress Millamant and must concoct a clever plan which allows him to marry her and keep her fortune despite the vengeful wrath ...
A two-part version of Goethe's great work, retaining the mighty scope, linguistic daring and philosophical intricacy of the original.
God and Mephistopheles make a bet on who can win the soul of Dr Faust. ...