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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 ...

World Music

A subtle and topical play about European attitudes to Africa.

The troubled and bloody relationship between Africa and Europe spills into the personal lives and loves of two generations. Drawing on the ...

born bad

A hard-hitting and original family drama, winner of the 2004 Olivier Award for Most Promising Newcomer.

A blood-related black family. A Dad, a Mum, a Daughter, two Sisters, a Brother. A family argument. ...

Icecream

An unsettling look at British attitudes to America and vice versa, from one of our leading dramatists. 'The idea of Oregon, the word, just the word Oregon really thrills me'. 'You can't help loving England. ...

After Mrs Rochester

 

Jean Rhys was obsessed with Jane Eyre—and more particularly with Bertha Mason, the first Mrs. Rochester and the "madwoman in the attic." Placing Bertha on stage throughout as Jean’s alter ego, Polly ...

The Shoemaker's Holiday

By Thomas Dekker
Introduction by Peter J. Smith
Series: Drama Classics

A rumbustious Elizabethan comedy featuring identity fraud, love triangles and a marriage proposal disguised as a shoe fitting.

Thomas Dekker's play The Shoemaker's Holiday was first staged in London ...

Got to Be Happy

A poignant and tender-hearted play set in a pub kitchen.

When fifty-something Connie starts work in a pub kitchen one sweltering summer, she proves to be the catalyst for change in everyone's lives: Charley, ...

Mother Teresa is Dead

A gripping play exploring Western guilt towards the Third World, from an author well-known for her award-winning adaptations for Shared Experience and the National Theatre.

Mark arrives in a village in ...

A Mad World, My Masters

A masterly satire of London society at the turn of the 17th century, abounding with Middleton's craft and wit. Disjointed and dysfunctional families wrangle and plot, cuckold and gull, 'but women's wit ...