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Airsick

A turbulent black comedy about love, loneliness and how we shape our future.

Lucy thinks she's finally cracked the love thing. Joe, her handsome American boyfriend, is moving to London. So how come he ...

Gilt

An exciting innovation: three of Scotland's top playwrights combine forces on a single play - staged by 7:84 Scotland in Glasgow, Edinburgh and London.

Some people need help. Some people find themselves ...

Madame Bovary

Flaubert's masterpiece about an infidelity with tragic consequences, dramatised for Shared Experience by the well-known novelist.

Emma Bovary and her reviled husband are at breakfast on the morning of ...

Terrorism

The extraordinary debut play from the Royal Court by two brothers from Siberia.

A series of seemingly unrelated scenes portray the ordinary frustrations of everyday life: office workers bickering, a couple ...

Honour

Gus and Honor have been happily married for thirty-two years. She is a successful writer, he is a revered columnist. They have a perfect understanding of each other. Until a pushy young female journalist—on ...

Scenes from the Big Picture

The play takes place over the course of a hot summer’s day in an imagined area of present-day Belfast. We see a day in the life of over twenty inhabitants of the district as their stories interweave ...

Homers

It’s 1967. Alex and Mary are "homers," sent from care homes in Glasgow to live with a new family in the Islands. They are thrown into the kaleidoscope of island life: the teacher who barks in a strange ...

Playing Lear

The book is both an in-depth analysis of the play, in which Davies looks at the many possible interpretations of both play and character, and a rehearsal diary in which we see the author’s personal ...

Protection

A tough but vulnerable play about our crumbling social fabric - and the people who have to pick up the pieces.
Protection is a behind-the-scenes look at a team of social workers and their 'clients' in ...

Holes in the Skin

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 mum's new man too. But when she meets a boy in the playground and ...