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A christmas carol (old vic stage version)
One bitter Christmas Eve, a cold-hearted miser is visited by four ghosts. Transported to worlds past, present and future, Ebenezer Scrooge witnesses what a lifetime of fear and selfishness has led to, and sees with fresh eyes the lonely life he has built for himself. Can Ebenezer be saved before ...
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The wife of cyncoed & idyll: two plays
In The Wife of Cyncoed, Jayne is newly retired and disappointed with her life. She's in danger of becoming her daughter's babysitting service and is desperate to make a change. When she meets a handsome stranger in the park – and an opportunity to do something for herself arises – can Jayne allow...
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Medea (national theatre of scotland version)
Medea and Jason, clinging together as refugees in Corinth, have struggled to bring up their beloved offspring in this alien and unsympathetic society. Now Jason has a plan to better integrate himself. Unfortunately, this involves abandoning his wife, the mother of his children…Spurned, destitute,...
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James iv: queen of the fight
Scotland, 1504, seen fresh through the eyes of new arrivals Ellen and Anne, two Moorish women who were expected to take their place at a royal court… but not this one.Both women now have to fight to find and keep a place in the dazzling, dangerous world of the Scottish court of James IV. It's a w...
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Metamorphosis
Gregor Samsa wakes up each morning, quietly leaves the house to take the same train, and works to pay off the family debt.But that world explodes one morning, when Gregor awakes to find himself changed. To those around him he is dangerous, untouchable vermin. Worse than that, he is a burden.Metam...
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Heavy weather
Mona is a young woman on the edge. All she sees is the Earth falling apart, but no one really seems to care. Amidst the chaos of competing and contradictory voices, she sets off on a kaleidoscopic journey to find solutions for the planet – and the truth about her family – in the hope that everyth...
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Mrs. delgado
Helen, along with sixty-seven million other people, is in lockdown. Unfortunately, Helen's neighbor, Mrs Delgado, is not.Mike Bartlett's funny and poignant play for one actor tells a story of desire, control, raised blinds and lowered boundaries.Mrs Delgado was first performed by Ellen Robertson ...
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Metamorphoses
From the everyday to the astonishing, and the ordinary to the miraculous, the Roman poet Ovid's stories of epic impossibilities explore the power of transformation, the resilience of humans, and the wonder of life.The myths of Metamorphoses have inspired generations of writers, including Shakespe...
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A child of science
In 1978, three pioneering doctors changed the world of fertility as we know it. Supported by an army of immensely brave women from all over the UK, Patrick Steptoe, Robert Edwards and Jean Purdy achieved the impossible: they created human life in vitro.Faced with fierce criticism and hostility an...
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The secret garden (open air edition)
Disregarded and disobedient, ten-year-old Mary Lennox is sent from India to Yorkshire and put into the care of an uncle she has never met.At Misselthwaite Manor, a brokenhearted house full of secrets and strange noises, Mary discovers a garden as lost and neglected as she is. If she can learn to ...
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I, daniel blake
Dan is a carpenter. A Geordie through and through. He had a heart attack recently, but he's on the mend now.Katie has just arrived from London. She's finally got a council flat, somewhere for her and her daughter, Daisy. A fresh start.In adversity, people come together. But when the system is sta...
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The secret garden
When orphaned Mary Lennox comes to live at her uncle's great house on the Yorkshire Moors, she finds it full of secrets. Left to make her own entertainment, Mary stumbles upon a garden, overgrown and locked for years. A forbidden garden.Finding her way inside, with the help of a friendly robin, M...
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After sunday
“Heartfelt and moving…After Sunday addresses important issues with humanity, empathy and humour. A thoughtful and compassionate debut.” –London Theatre Ty, Leroy, and Daniel have signed up to join a new Caribbean cooking group led by their occupational therapist, Naomi. Believing in the healing ...
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The sugar wife (new edition)
Dublin, 1850. The delicate balance at the heart of an affluent couple's marriage and family business is challenged when two visitors – a former enslaved woman and her emancipator – come to Ireland to speak to the public about trade, money and the abolition of slavery.Exploring the dark side of gl...
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The outrun
A young woman finds herself washed up back home on the Scottish archipelago of Orkney, trying to rebuild her life after a decade of addiction. The life she has left behind in London, with all its intoxicating temptations, has pushed her to the point of destruction. Now there is wildness of a di...
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Sea creatures
In a cottage by the sea, four women live in a house made for five. Meals are prepared, stories are shared and the waves break on the shore. When only one of their two expected guests arrives for the summer, life is about to change for all of them...Cordelia Lynn's Sea Creatures is a haunting play...
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Helen
Helen is forty when she loses her husband. Her daughter Becca is fifteen when her dad dies. Now it's just the two of them... what do they do next?Unfolding through snapshots of a relationship over forty years, Helen explores the threads which bind mother and daughter together, how they damage eac...
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Run, rebel
Amber is trapped – by her family's rules and expectations, and by her own fears. But on the running track she feels free. As her body speeds up, the world slows down. And the tangled, mixed-up words in her head start to make sense...It's time to start a revolution: for her mother, for her sister,...
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Bangers
It's club night and the tracks are spinning. Set against a backdrop of precarious lives in urban London, two headliners crossfade between stories of love, sex, and losing their creative spark.Bangers follows the highs and lows of two strangers as they struggle with their own pasts, while hurtling...
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Zoo
At Miami's Cherokee Valley Zoo & Conservation Centre, the most dangerous thing that ever happened was the tapir's caesarian section. That is until Hurricane Jonas sets itself on a crash course straight towards it. Now zookeeper Bonnie must rush to batten down the hatches and ensure the safety...
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Bleak expectations (west end edition)
The story Charles Dickens might have written after drinking too much gin…Follow half-orphan Pip's extraordinary exploits with sisters Pippa and Poppy and best friend Harry Biscuit, as they attempt to escape the calculating clutches of the dastardly Mr Gently Benevolent, defeat the hideous Hardthr...
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Adolescence
Emmy Award for Outstanding Limited or Anthology Series - 2025 Set in a northern English town, Adolescence tracks the aftermath of the brutal murder of a thirteen-year-old schoolgirl. When her classmate Jamie Miller is arrested in a dawn raid for the crime, his family, psychologist and the detect...
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Heart
A woman, shaken by a broken relationship, finds herself discovering love in the last place – and with the last person – she ever expected.Based on Jade Anouka's own experience, and told through poetry, HEART is a raw and honest exploration of love, loss and self-discovery, celebrating the resilie...
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The lunch punch power hour in conference room 4
In the Irish offices of a corporate firm, three employees use their lunch hour to determine how best to spend their company's annual Corporate Social Responsibility budget. Behind a locked door and out of sight of management, the task escalates into an increasingly outlandish and hilarious debate...
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Anna
Co-created by playwright Ella Hickson with sound designers Ben and Max Ringham, ANNA unfolds with all the tension of a spy thriller, and the inexorable revelations of an Ibsen play.
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Cold war
Poland, 1949. Zula is bold and brilliant, a singer who ignites the stage. Wiktor is withdrawn and damaged, a composer longing to write. Irresistibly drawn to each other, they dream of escape. But in Communist-controlled Poland, the desire for freedom can be a dangerous thing.Based on the film by ...
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Dreaming and drowning
Mustapha Matura Award - 2022Malachi's been looking forward to a fresh start at uni for months. He's settling in, he's got a stack of books to read and he's met someone new – Kojo, a musician with a megawatt smile, who's basically perfect.But something doesn't feel right. He keeps having the same ...
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Word-play
In the Downing Street Press Office an emergency meeting has been called. The Prime Minister has been ad-libbing on live TV (again) and his words are going viral.There is a flurry of accusations, and demands for an apology; but as his team debate what to do next, it's already too late. His words h...
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Medicine and the same
“One of the most fiercely individual voices in theatre today.” —New York Times John Kane is sitting on a hospital gurney, and very shortly a jazz percussionist, two women called Mary, a very old man and a giant lobster will arrive. Then everything will start. Medicine is a dark and frequentl...
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Blue mist
Chunkyz Shisha Lounge is a home away from home for Jihad, Rashid and Asif, a space where community whispers are heard, jokes are told, and new hustles are born. But its future is under threat, having become a target for local politicians.Aspiring journalist Jihad wants to fight back. After winnin...
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Patricia gets ready (for a date with the man that used to hit her)
Patricia has spent a year recovering from an abusive relationship. But when she bumps into her ex on the street, she accidentally agrees to go to dinner with him that night.Now she's got some big decisions to make. What to wear? What to say? And... whether or not to go?Martha Watson Allpress's Pa...
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Giant
A world-famous children's author under threat. A battle of wills in the wake of scandal. And a chance to make amends… It's the summer of 1983, The Witches is about to hit the shelves and Roald Dahl is making last-minute edits. But the outcry at his recent, explicitly antisemitic article won't di...
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Modest
It's 1874, and Elizabeth Thompson stuns the artistic establishment with her painting The Roll Call. Five years later, she falls two votes short of becoming the first woman elected to the Royal Academy.In between, she shoulders the hopes and dreams of female artists across the country, while fight...
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Thrown
Five wildly different women gather in the muddy fields of the Highland Games circuit to compete in the obscure art of Backhold Wrestling. Can bold beginners Imogen, Chantelle, Jo, Pamela and Helen transform themselves into a team and win the championship? Or will their differences sabotage them, ...
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Raging: three plays/seven years of warfare in ireland
A trilogy of landmark plays commemorating seven years of warfare in Ireland, from the 1916 Easter Rising to the Civil War which began in 1922.Wild Sky is a story of interlocking lives: of the politicised Josie Dunne, and of Tom Farrell, who is driven only by his love for her. As the Rising plays ...
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Biscuits for breakfast
They don't seem an obvious match. Joanne is spiky, defensive, a survivor; Paul is quiet, considered – and hiding profound grief for his father. But the pleasure he takes in cooking – and the astonishing food he prepares – creates a bond between them.When the hotel where they both work closes and ...
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Fleabag: the special edition (tcg)
A special edition of the smash-hit play that inspired the Emmy-winning TV series.
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Laughing boy
Connor is, well, Connor. He loves buses, Eddie Stobart and Lego. He also has learning disabilities. When he dies an entirely preventable death in NHS care, his mum, Sara, can't get a straight answer as to how it happened.But Sara and her family won't stop asking questions and soon an extraordinar...
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I think we are alone
From those electric moments of discovery and connection to the dark hours of isolation, we all seek community and resolution. But sometimes the things that connect us are the very things we need to escape. I Think We Are Alone was commissioned by Frantic Assembly as part of their twenty-fifth ann...
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Electric rosary
Bruntwood Prize Judges' Award - 2017Behind the crumbling walls of St Grace's Convent, an exhausted order of nuns needs resurrecting. As Easter approaches, Mother Elizabeth has just the thing.Behold 'Mary', a council-funded robot. Practical and surprisingly funny, for some a blessing, for others a...
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The 47th
2024. As America goes to the polls, democracy itself is on the brink. Who takes the White House – and at what cost?Mike Bartlett's viciously funny and foreboding The 47th is a dazzling glimpse into the underbelly of the greatest political show on earth: the US presidential race.It was first produ...
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When winston went to war with the wireless
In May 1926, Britain grinds to a halt, as workers down tools for the General Strike.With the printing presses shut down, the only sources of news are the government's British Gazette, edited by Chancellor of the Exchequer Winston Churchill, and the independent, fledgling British Broadcasting Comp...
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Debbie tucker green plays: one
A first collection of plays from the acclaimed dramatist.
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The trials
The near future. The climate emergency is gathering pace, and our generation is being judged.The jurors are children. But are they delivering justice – or just taking revenge?Dawn King's searing play The Trials was first performed at the Düsseldorfer Schauspielhaus in January 2022, and was a fina...
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Bellringers
The storms are getting worse, with rains so hard that fish are falling from the sky. But the age-old belief prevails: that the pealing of bells can dissipate the thunder and lightning. It's a perilous task – one that now falls to two young friends, Clement and Aspinall. And as the weather worse...
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The meaning of zong
Over two hundred years ago, Olaudah Equiano changed the world. After reading reports of the British ship Zong, where 132 enslaved Africans were thrown overboard, he joins forces with anti-slavery campaigner Granville Sharp and together they set in motion events which will go on to galvanise the a...
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The crown jewels
It's 1671, and the charismatic and unpredictable Colonel Blood is planning the greatest heist of all time: stealing – in plain sight – the Crown Jewels from the Tower of London.With an audacious plan and a gang of misfits by his side, can he possibly pull it off? And is King Charles II in any moo...
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Now, i see
Two brothers, long estranged, reunite at a ceremony to honor their lost sibling's life. As they seek to let go, they must confront the past whilst rediscovering the joy that binds them together.A powerful fusion of movement, song and text, Now, I See is an exploration of identity, forgiveness and...
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Two billion beats
Seventeen-year-old Asha is an emphatic rebel, unafraid of pointing out the hypocrisy around her but less sure how to actually dismantle it. Her younger sister, Bettina, wide-eyed and naïve, is just trying to get through the school day without getting her pocket money nicked.Between essays, homewo...
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Dear young monster
“Powerful and well-thought through…a queer hidden gem.” –BroadwayWorld A young trans man, struggling as he begins his medical transition, drops out of university and retreats to his quiet hometown. His friends are gone. The neighbors are watching. His body is changing faster than he can make sen...
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The contingency plan (2022 edition)
A double bill of plays from the frontline of climate change—an epic portrait of Britain in the grip of unprecedented and catastrophic floods.In On the Beach, glaciologist Will has followed in his father's footsteps, dedicating himself to studying climate change. Back from Antarctica, he visits hi...
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Fanny
Meet Fanny Mendelssohn. You'll probably know of her younger brother Felix, from nineteenth-century smash hits like 'The Wedding March'. He was such a huge star that Queen Victoria requested a private concert, during which she sang her favorite of his compositions, a song called 'Italien'.The only...
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Hungry
A new play about food, love, class and grief in a world where there’s little left to savor.
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2:22 – a ghost story
Jenny and Sam—and their baby Phoebe—have recently moved into their new home. But something feels frightening and wrong. Very wrong. Over the baby monitor, at 2:22 every night, Jenny hears footsteps around her daughter's cot. Could the house be haunted?When their friends Lauren and Ben come round ...
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The lodger
Sisters Dolly and Esther grow up in ultra-conservative Harrogate in the 1960s. Fifty years later, following the death of their mother, Dolly comes to stay with Esther – now a successful novelist and living in Little Venice with her younger, inscrutable lodger, Jude.The three go to Norway to meet ...
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Mr. thomas
Kathy Burke's first play is a gritty, darkly funny look at attitudes to homosexuality in the 1950s, a portrait of repressed sexuality and alcoholism – and an homage to the great masters of British theatre, Wilde, Coward, Pinter and Orton.
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Grenfell: in the words of survivors
The early hours of Wednesday 14 June 2017. The north-west corner of the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea. A twenty-four-storey residential tower. The scene of a national tragedy.This powerful verbatim play is drawn from the testimony of residents – a group of survivors and bereaved – at th...
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Dorian
Dorian Gray – handsome, hedonistic, narcissistic – sells his soul for eternal beauty. Basil and Henry join him for the ride until it all goes too far, and the hangovers become murderous...Oscar Wilde's only novel, The Picture of Dorian Gray, was a succès de scandale on its publication in 1891, ac...
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You stupid darkness!
Sam Steiner's You Stupid Darkness! is an urgent play about the struggle for optimism and community amid the chaos of a world falling apart.
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Feeling afraid as if something terrible is going to happen (2023 edition)
Edinburgh Fringe First Award - 2022A permanently single, professionally neurotic stand-up comedian finally meets his Mr Right – and then does everything wrong.Is Mr Right quite what he seems? And just how far will the comedian go to get a laugh?Marcelo Dos Santos's play Feeling Afraid As If Somet...
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Never have i ever
Jacq and Kas's boutique restaurant has gone bust, and telling their oldest friends Adaego and her rich husband Tobin that his investment is toast is only the start of the evening.Cash, class, identity and infidelity are all on the menu. As the last of the expensive wine flows, a dangerous drinkin...
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Rapture
"Kirkwood is the most rewarding dramatist of her generation.” —IndependentNoah and Celeste Quilter met on a blind date organized by a newspaper, fell in love, got married and had a baby. But from the very earliest days of their relationship, they were under surveillance. And when they started a f...
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…cake
A psychological drama which unapologetically queers the existing complexities of family, roots and belonging.
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Prima facie: special edition
This special edition of the international hit play Prima Facie features the definitive version of the award-winning script, together with colour photos and exclusive additional content, giving you a fascinating behind-the-scenes insight into the making of the production and the issues it explores...
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Lava
A passionate memoir-monologue that weaves lyrical storytelling with untiring protest.
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Lava (2022 edition)
A small asteroid has hit the capital city. Thousands have been displaced. And in a town far away, a young man called Vin is finding it hard to talk. The only person who seems to notice is Rach, who resolves to find out what's troubling him and help him find his voice again.But when Rach's family ...
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For the grace of you go i
A darkly funny, quick-witted, fast-moving new comedy
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Sorry, you're not a winner
Liam and Fletch grew up together. Born on the same street. Best mates since primary. Inseparable. The only difference was while Fletch was getting suspended from school, Liam was studying. And now he's going to Oxford. But with Liam gone, who's going to keep Fletch out of trouble?Sorry, You're No...
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Folkways in thomas hardy
A veritable source book of superstition, this volume seeks out the abundant examples of belief in the forces of magic and the survival of old customs among the Wessex peasantry as revealed in the works of Thomas Hardy.the fear of falling mirrors and single magpies; the belief that horses found in...
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The english country squire as depicted in english prose fiction from 1740 to 1800
This book is a volume in the Penn Press Anniversary Collection. To mark its 125th anniversary in 2015, the University of Pennsylvania Press rereleased more than 1,100 titles from Penn Press's distinguished backlist from 1899-1999 that had fallen out of print. Spanning an entire century, the Anniv...
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Out of sorts
The new history of the book has constituted a vibrant academic field in recent years, and theories of print culture have moved to the center of much scholarly discourse. One might think typography would be a basic element in the construction of these theories, yet if only we would pay careful att...
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The aesthetics of william hazlitt
This book is a volume in the Penn Press Anniversary Collection. To mark its 125th anniversary in 2015, the University of Pennsylvania Press rereleased more than 1,100 titles from Penn Press's distinguished backlist from 1899-1999 that had fallen out of print. Spanning an entire century, the Anniv...
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Corrosive solace
In Corrosive Solace, Daniel O’Quinn argues that the loss of the American colonies instantiated a complex reorganization in sociability and politics in the British metropole that has had long-lasting effects on British national and imperial culture, which can be seen and analyzed within its perfor...
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Wuthering heights
When two souls collide, the impact can resonate for all eternity. So it was – and so it is – with Heathcliff and Cathy. But if they can't be together, the world that struggles to contain them will simply shatter and burn… Andrew Sheridan's gripping reinvention of Emily Brontë's classic novel Wuth...
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Mr. incredible
A brutal one-man play about modern love and old-fashioned entitlement.
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The brightening air
You'll remember how much of living is really just forgetting. The family home is more than a building. It's a destination of pilgrimage, an inherited investment, a repository of memory or magic. But for brother and sister Stephen and Billie, home is all they've got. Mucking along in their decayi...
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Es & flo
Es and Flo fell fiercely in love in the eighties. They've been living as secret lovers ever since. As Es becomes more forgetful around their home, an unexpected carer arrives. Who sent this woman? Why? And can they trust her?As the outside world comes crashing in, Flo fights to protect the life t...
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Plays from the vault 5
This volume includes: Something Awful by Tatty Hennessy is a thrilling play inspired by the true-crime story of the Slenderman. Soph and her best friend Jel love scary stories and hunt for the best online. But then new girl Ellie turns up at school with one of her own. Second Home by Charlotte Ch...
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Othello (frantic assembly version)
Frantic Assembly's electrifying take on Shakespeare's tragedy of paranoia, sex and murder, firmly rooted in a volatile twenty-first century.In a world of broken glass and shattered promises, of poisonous manipulation and explosive violence, Othello's passionate affair with Desdemona becomes the c...
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Farm hall
Summer 1945. Hitler is dead, but the war in the Pacific rages on. When six of Germany's top nuclear scientists – including three Nobel Prize winners – are detained by Allied forces at a stately home in the Cambridgeshire countryside, they find themselves shut off from the outside world. Their onl...
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The house party
A wild party. A friendship. A cherished pet. And a night that changes everything.It's Julie's eighteenth birthday, and she's throwing a party in her father's extravagant townhouse. Her boyfriend has just dumped her and her long-suffering best friend Christine is trying to pick up the pieces. As t...
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The motive and the cue (west end edition)
Best Play - Evening Standard Awards - 20231964: Richard Burton, the firebrand Welsh actor, newly married to movie star Elizabeth Taylor, is to play the title role in an experimental new production of Hamlet under the exacting direction of John Gielgud.But as rehearsals progress, the collaboration...
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John gabriel borkman
John Gabriel Borkman, once an illustrious entrepreneur, has been brought low by a prison sentence for fraud. As he paces alone in an upstairs room, bankrupt and disgraced, he is obsessed by dreams of his comeback.Downstairs, his estranged wife plots the restoration of the family name. When her si...
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Dizzy
Qamar is a fifteen-year-old math genius who looks for patterns in everything. Desperate for answers following her brother's death, she meets Stax, an infamous graffiti artist and her brother's former mentor. Under Stax's guidance, Qamar dives into the underground world of street art, and discove...
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Sauce and all honey
Two sweet and saucy comedies from an award-winning Irish playwright.In SAUCE, Mella is a compulsive liar, Maura is a kleptomaniac – and neither has any friends. Recently out of controlling relationships, they are thrust into uneasy freedom. Can they overcome their flaws together to avoid dying al...
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Wolves on road
An adrenalised tour of on-the-pulse issues with a resonant story of intergenerational struggle. —The Times Manny dreams of being a big dog. Right now he's just hocking fake designer goods, living with his mum and putting up with her annoying new boyfriend. The glittering skyscrapers of Canary Wh...
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The whitby rebels
A joyful, (mostly) true story of British eccentricity and determination In Whitby Harbour, in the summer of 1991, something extraordinary happened. A humble pleasure boat set sail for the Arctic, with a crew of misfits, pensioners, and the vicar for Egton and Grosmont. This motley crew was asse...
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Scandaltown
When noble heroine Miss Phoebe Virtue receives worrisome news on Instagram that her twin brother Jack may be endangering his reputation in London Town, she decides she must visit herself, and investigate...Set in contemporary, post-pandemic London, full of illicit sex, political hypocrisy and the...
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Churchill in moscow
A play bubbling with timely insights about trust, truth and the hard art of compromise. —Financial Times The Kremlin, Moscow, 1942. A top-secret meeting between Winston Churchill and Joseph Stalin: one, a wealthy aristocrat from a blue-blooded line of English nobility; the other, a Georgian peas...
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The suspicions of mr. whicher
Summer 1860, an elegant country house, a young boy is found dead in an outside privy. All clues point towards the murderer being a member of the grieving household.Called to the scene is the most celebrated detective of his day, Jonathan Whicher from Scotland Yard. But this case challenges him in...
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Meat
When Ronan's former girlfriend Max turns up at his fashionable Dublin restaurant, he's determined to prove to her how far he's come. But Max has something bigger to discuss. Over the course of one winesoaked evening, old wounds are exposed and new truths uncovered. Gillian Greer's play Meat is a ...
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Bloody elle
An uplifting one-woman show about falling in love for the first time.
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The bounds
The year is 1553, the true Golden Age of English football. It's the Allen Valley Whitsun Game, and men will die today.This is the big game, and it's been raging for hours. Percy and Rowan are out in the middle of nowhere, miles from the action, when a stranger joins them. A stranger with tidings ...
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Treasure island
A riotously chaotic adaptation of Robert Louis Stevenson’s beloved Treasure Island.
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Queers
Queers celebrates a century of evolving social attitudes and political milestones in British gay history, as seen through the eyes of eight individuals.
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Macbeth
The spellbinding story of love and murder, power and paranoia, and the internal struggles of a married couple as they try to control their destiny, and one another…This official tie-in edition to the Donmar Warehouse's hotly anticipated 2023 revival of Shakespeare's extraordinary psychological dr...
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Black superhero
David is in love with King. But King is a superhero.After an unexpected encounter, David plunges himself into a world of sex, drugs and hero worship in the hope of being rescued, until fantasy and reality merge with devastating consequences.Danny Lee Wynter's play BLACK SUPERHERO is a brutal, unf...
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Jack thorne plays: two
After the breakout success of his early work for stage and screen, Jack Thorne turned for inspiration to his own family for a series of plays about hope, idealism and domestic politics. The work in this collection – five full-length plays and two shorts – showcases his extraordinary ability to co...
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Gunter
1604. A small village outside Oxford. Two boys have been murdered by local brute Brian Gunter at a football match and their mum wants justice. But Brian is also the richest and most powerful man in the village, and has an ego too fragile to tolerate public slander…A nasty feud begins, and when Br...
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Far gone
Northern Uganda. When Okumu's village is attacked by the Lord's Resistance Army (LRA), he and his brother's lives are changed forever.John Rwothomack's one-man play Far Gone is a profoundly moving story of a young boy's journey from childhood innocence to child soldier. Seen through the eyes of t...
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