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So you want to be a playwright?
A manual for would-be playwrights--how to develop your play from conception to opening night.
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The white bike
What if, one day, you didn’t come home? The new play The White Bike looks at the personal cost of road death, through the eyes of the victim.
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Seeds
It's Michael Thomas's birthday. A cake sits in his mother Evelyn's living room, its candles burning undisturbed. On the fifteenth anniversary of Michael's fatal stabbing, Jackie wants to clear her conscience, whilst Evelyn's got a big speech to deliver. Are some things better left unsaid? Mel Pen...
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Overspill
Winner in the Metamorphosis 08' playwriting contest, about what life is really like for young people.
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I caught crabs in walberswick
Winner of the Edinburgh Fringe First Award, this ia a quirky new play about teenage life.
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No particular order
A despot has come to power. The population is listless, submissive and scared.But beneath every violation of civil autonomy, there are real human beings; behind every act of resistance, there is an individual willing to risk everything. And these people aren't heroic or remarkable – they're just ...
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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 complete brecht toolkit
A practical, hands-on guide for actors, directors, teachers and students to Brecht’s theory and practice of theatre.
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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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Hope
A play about the moral challenges of cutting local government services, written with Jack Thorne's trademark wit, intelligence and humanity.
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Dexter and winter's detective agency
A madcap adventure story for young people (and older detectives) to watch, read and perform.
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Two ladies
A new drama of diplomacy and suspicion about the First Ladies of France and America.
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King of the fields
First "adult" play from renowned children's author.
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Kes
"Splendid new version" (The Times) of the well-known film and novel--a bestseller for over thirty years.
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If only
An explosive, topical drama from one of the UK's top political playwrights.
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Folk
A hilarious and not-so-holy story of hope, coming together and finding your feet when your world is turned upside down.
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Mrs. klein
The first major revival of a 1988 West End and Broadway hit about the controversial child psychoanalyst Melanie Klein.
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Rathmines road
Set over one evening, Rathmines Road by Deirdre Kinahan is a play that rages in a tiny room.
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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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Perfect days (new edition)
A funny, sad and truthful romantic comedy about beating the biological clock.
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The widowing of mrs. holroyd
The most famous and successful play by one of the 20th century’s greatest writers.
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Drama menu
Packed full of drama games, ideas and suggestions, Drama Menu is a unique new resource for drama teachers.
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Blue sky
An exhilarating, challenging new play by Amnesty Award-winning playwright Clare Bayley.
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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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Written on the heart
A new play about biblical translation from a top UK playwright, marking the King James Bible's 400th Anniversary.
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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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Shakespeare monologues for men
Full of fresh speeches from Shakespeare's plays. Ideal for actors of all ages and experience.
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An intervention
A touching, funny play about what happens when you hate your best friend, from the acclaimed writer of Cock.
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Comment is free & start swimming
Two plays by award-winning writer James Fritz, each asking urgent, pointed and complex questions of the times we live in. Ideal for schools, youth theatres and amateur companies to perform, these versatile and incisive plays demonstrate an innovative playwright at the top of his craft.
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Feed the beast
A fiercely funny look at the rocky relations between our press and politicians.
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Hand in hand
Ronnie is fresh off the plane from Israel, looking to move back into his old room in Dave’s flat and pick up where he left off. But life has moved on. And when his younger sister Cass and her new relationship with Dave become the target of Ronnie’s interference, her belief that blood is thicker t...
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Contemporary duologues: two women
Helping you select and perform the audition piece that is best suited to your performing skills.
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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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Four play
A comic play about sex and commitment in the 21st century.
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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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Anna weiss
An explosive and disturbing play about the phenomenon of False Memory Syndrome by an acclaimed Scottish playwright.
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Game
An invasive and unnerving new play from celebrated writer Mike Bartlet (Cock, King Charles III).
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Education, education, education
Education, Education, Education is The Wardrobe Ensemble’s inventively theatrical and irreverently funny love letter to the British schools of the 1990s that asks big questions about a country in special measures, exploring what we are taught and why, and where responsibility lies.
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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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Again
A once close-knit family of four is reunited after a long period of estrangement. This time, this time, it must go right.
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Nuremberg
A "gripping, meticulous reconstruction" (Independent) of the 1946 War Crimes Trial.
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Theatre in scotland
A fascinating personal overview of Scotland and its culture from one of the country’s most acclaimed arts and political writers.
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Contemporary monologues for teenagers: male
An invaluable collection of forty contemporary monologues for male performers, specially selected to be performed by teenagers.
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Small island
Hortense yearns for a new life away from rural Jamaica. Gilbert dreams of becoming a lawyer. Queenie longs to escape her Lincolnshire roots. Three intimately connected stories, tracing the tangled history of Jamaica and Britain.Andrea Levy's epic novel, adapted for the stage by Helen Edmundson, j...
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The lightest element
Boston, 1956. Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin, one of the most eminent astronomers of the twentieth century, is about to be appointed Chair of Astronomy and the first woman to head a department at Harvard University. Only two things stand in her way: a covert investigation aimed at exposing her as a Com...
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Travesty
Debut play from the double Edinburgh Comedy Award nominee.
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French without tears
The play that established Rattigan's name and ran for over 1000 performances in the '30s.
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Emperor and galilean
Ibsen’s little-known masterpiece sweeps across Greece and the Middle East, covering twelve crucial years in the history of civilization.
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Jumpers for goalposts
A charming comedy about Britain's national sport, soccer, penned by one of the UK's most exciting young playwrights.
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So you want to be a theatre director?
A hands-on, step-by-step guide to directing plays--by one of Britain's leading theatre directors.
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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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The reporter
From Olivier Award-winning author comes timely subject matter about stresses faced by a war reporter.
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World factory: the game
From the factory floor to the catwalk, from Shanghai to London, World Factory weaves together the untold stories of people connected by the global textile industry.
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Teaching voice: workshops for young performers
An inspiring, practical guide to working with young people on their voices, by a highly experienced teacher, actor and director.
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Pronoun
A love story about transition, testosterone, and James Dean.
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Ghosts
Acclaimed director Richard Eyre's new adaptation of Henrik Ibsen's classic drama premiered at the Almeida Theatre in September 2013.
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Superhoe
Nicôle Lecky's play Superhoe premiered by Talawa Theatre and the Royal Court at the Royal Court Theatre, London, in 2019.
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Tomcat
Winner of the 2015 Papatango New Writing Prize, Tomcat asks how far we will go to keep humanity healthy.
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Ten tiny toes
A play about effects of military service in Iraq on an ordinary family.
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Ghost stories
Keep telling yourself it's only a show...Andy Nyman and Jeremy Dyson's worldwide cult phenomenon, in print for the first time.
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Flight
A bold new adaptation of Bulgakov's epic satire by renowned author Ron Hutchinson.
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The ragged trousered philanthropists
Robert Tressell’s classic pre-First World War account of the lives of a group of housepainters is vividly adapted by Brenton.
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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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Here in america
On a rainswept afternoon in 1952, Hollywood and Broadway's leading director Elia Kazan met his closest collaborator, the playwright Arthur Miller. As the anti-Communist crusade of McCarthyism blacklisted hundreds of their colleagues, Kazan and Miller faced a stark choice. Should they betray their...
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Dark sublime
A love-letter to British sci-fi television, both those that make it and those that adore. It asks the question, can you really be friends with a fan?
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Audition songs for men
The Good Audition Guides: Helping you select and perform the audition piece that is best suited to your performing skills.
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The glove thief
Inspired by the tapestries created when Mary Queen of Scots was imprisoned by her cousin Queen Elizabeth I, The Glove Thief by Beth Flintoff is part of Platform, an initiative from Tonic Theatre in partnership with Nick Hern Books. Aimed at addressing gender imbalance in theatre, Platform compris...
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Pieces
A first play from a young actor that premiered at Clwyd Theatr Cymru, Wales’ major drama-producing theatre.
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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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Out of love
A tale of friendship, love and rivalry over thirty years from award-winning playwright Elinor Cook.
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Three birds
A startling comic drama and winner of the 2011 Bruntwood Prize, the UK’s biggest national playwriting competition.
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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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Developing your emotional health: the compact guide
This practical, empowering guide provides performers and creatives with a toolkit of techniques to improve, manage and maintain good emotional wellbeing – helping you navigate and overcome the pressures and demands of a career in the arts. Inside, you'll find key, evidence-based concepts and id...
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The gatekeeper
In this darkly comic play from one of Britain’s best young writers, long-forgotten secrets threaten a family get-together.
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The house keeper
A darkly humorous psychological thriller exploring the nature of possession, inheritance and corruption.
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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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The playwright's journey
A new guide to the process of writing a producing a play from an experienced playwright and teacher.
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The fall (new edition)
James Fritz's play The Fall takes a funny, moving and candid look at young people's relationships to older people, confronting the frightening prospect of ageing in a country undergoing crises of housing and care.
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The massive tragedy of madame bovary
Peepolykus bring their exhilarating combination of verbal slapstick, visual surprise and anarchic comedy to Gustave Flaubert's seminal nineteenth-century masterpiece.
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Immaculate
Laugh-out-loud comic variation on the virgin birth, published following a sold-out run.
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Medea
"Tom Paulin's new version is robust, flecked with poetry but still down to earth"-Guardian
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The crocodile
Based on Dostoyevsky’s short story, The Crocodile is a ferociously funny, eye-poppingly theatrical play.
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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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Winterlong
A shattering and heartbreaking new play, which was joint winner of the Bruntwood Playwriting Competition.
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Big ole piece of cake
A new play from the winner of the Irish Times Best New Play Award and the Stewart Parker Trust Award.
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Churchill: plays three
Includes:Ice Cream, Mad Forest, The Shriker, Lives of the Great Poisoners and A Mouthful of Birds, as well as an introduction by the author.
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Yen
This Bruntwood Prize-winning play explores a childhood lived without boundaries and the consequences of growing up on your own.
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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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Becoming an actor
A brilliant new handbook, full of insider information on the realities of attending drama school and pursuing an acting career.
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Limehouse
Waters' thrilling new drama takes us behind closed doors to imagine the personal conflicts behind the making of political history.
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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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Stoning mary
New play from the 2004 Olivier Award winner for Most Promising Newcomer.
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Family
An intrigung and provocative triple bill of new plays by three very different writers.
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Burnt by the sun
Original movie won Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film and Grand Prix at Cannes.
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