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The Human Ear

$20.95

A man turns up at Lucy’s door claiming to be the brother she hasn’t seen in ten years. But why has he come? Is it really him? And what happens when there’s another knock at the door? The Human Ear confronts the messy inner workings of sibling love with its petty resentments, casual cruelty, profound betrayals and implicit understanding.

Cause Célèbre

$20.95

Based on the true story of Alma Rattenbury, who, in 1935, went on trial with her eighteen-year-old lover for the murder of her husband. Terence Rattigan pits Alma against a formidable lady juror, whose own life offers a plangent counterpoint to the central tale of love, betrayal, guilt, and obsession.

The Government Inspector

$10.95

The ever-topical satire of small-town corruption and cravenness.

Cyrano de Bergerac

$26.95

With energetically witty English verse throughout, Anthony Burgess’ translation of this well-loved 19th-century French classic about the swordsman-poet with the nose too large to be taken seriously was first acclaimed in the 1985 Royal Shakespeare Company production starring Derek Jacobi, then in the revival with Antony Sher in 1997, as well as providing the subtitles for the film version with Gerard Depardieu.

Hedda Gabler

$12.95

A brand new translation of Ibsen's classic work

Hot Irons

$34.95

A collection of writings from one of one of Britain's most controversial playwrights; includes four separate diaries published here for the first time.

Remote

$22.95

Antler steps out of her front door and throws her phone to the ground. Then she climbs the tallest tree in the park. She doesn’t want to be found, not by anyone. Over the course of one autumnal evening, seven teenagers’ lives intertwine as they make their way through the park. And everything that seemed normal becomes extraordinary.

Valhalla

$20.95

Civil unrest floods the hometown of a medical researcher and his doctor wife just as he is on the brink of a major discovery. They flee to an isolated Nordic research facility to finish the project, but fractures in their marriage start to appear. As the outside world grows increasingly hostile, they are forced to choose between conflicting allegiances.

The Solid Life of Sugar Water

$22.95

Phil and Alice are in lovefamiliar, flawed, ordinary love. They are on a journey, but their journey doesn't have a clear path from A to Z. Acclaimed playwright Jack Thorne's The Solid Life of Sugar Water is an intimate, tender play about loss, hurt, and, rediscovery that premiered at the 2015 Edinburgh Festival Fringe.

Laban for Actors and Dancers

$30.95

A handbook complete with graded exercises for teachers and students wanting a practical introduction to Laban's famous system of movement. Rudolf Laban is to movement what Stanislavski is to acting. He devised the first wholly successful system for recording human movement, a system which is increasingly influential in the training of actors and dancers.

Ross & Rachel

$22.95

A dark and uncompromising play about romance, expectation and mortality, Ross & Rachel tells the story of what happens when two friends who were always meant to be together, get together--and stay together. This duologue for one performer takes an unflinching look at the myths of modern love and our idea of "happily ever after."

hang

$22.95

His life. In her hands. A shattering play about one woman's unspeakable decision. hang premiered at the Royal Court Theatre, London, in 2015, in a production directed by the author, and featuring Marianne Jean-Baptiste, Claire Rushbrook, and Shane Zaza.

Second Person Narrative

$26.95

You're born a girl. You grow up. You grow old. You die. But who is in control of your life story? Can you actually choose your destiny? And how do you forge your own identity along the way?

Second Person Narrative is part of Platform, a new initiative aimed at addressing gender imbalance and inequality in theatre.

Feed the Beast

$22.95

A fiercely funny look at the rocky relations between our press and politicians in a world of spin-doctors and Leveson Inquiries, from the award-winning writer of Damages, Whipping It Up, Roaring Trade and the highly-acclaimed BBC programmes Sherlock and Doctor Who.

Six Characters In Search of an Author

$10.95

Much requested modern classic

Mr Foote's Other Leg

$20.95

"Delightful... the wit starts flowing from the first scene." - Telegraph

"A ripely entertaining portrait of an eccentric, forgotten celebrity and the scandalous allure of the stage." - Evening Standard

Premiered at Hampstead Theatre in September 2015, in a production directed by Richard Eyre and featuring Simon Russell Beale as Foote.

A riotously funny play exploring our obsession with celebrities, based on Ian Kelly's award-winning biography of the same name. In Georgian London no one is more famous than Samuel Foote. Satirist, impressionist, and dangerous comedian, he is a bona fide celebrity in an age obsessed with fame. He even has the ear of the King. But does fame make you mad?

Multitudes

$20.95

On the eve of a Conservative Party Conference, England is in turmoil and one of its most multicultural cities awaits a visit from the Prime Minister. As the nation questions immigration policies and military support in the Middle East, one family face their own internal conflict of faith, belonging, and who gets to call themselves British.

Lionboy

$24.95

Charlie lives in a future where phones are powered by the sun, cars are banned and companies are more powerful than countries. Charlie is a normal boy, except for one thing: he can speak to cats. When his parents are kidnapped, he sets off on a rescue mission, with help from a floating circus and its pride of lions.

F*ck the Polar Bears

$20.95

Gordon has worked hard to get where he is. But behind his perfect front door, light bulbs are blowing, the drains keep blocking, and a phone inexplicably refuses to charge. As Gordon chases the specters behind these mysterious events, he spirals out of control and his family are forced to ask whether the life they desire is worth the cost.

The Gathered Leaves

$20.95

A moving, poignant and funny family drama that sees the weight of family history, of reputation, and of expectation, all descend on one family over Easter weekend in 1997. All three generations of the Pennington family have gathered on William's 75th birthday, hoping to put the past behind them. But time is running out, especially for William.

Game

$20.95

The latest play from Britain's foremost playwright-provocateur, Mike Bartlett (Cock, King Charles III). In a housing crisis, a young couple are offered a home of their own. But at what price? Invasive and unnerving, this provocative new play invites us to spy on a family as they explore a dangerous new way to live. Game premiered at the Almeida Theatre in London in February 2015.

Deposit

$20.95

Matt Hartley’s new play throws a lively and topical spotlight on Generation Rent’ and the lengths they will go to in order to get that first step on the property ladder.

The Domino Effect and Other Plays for Teenagers

$30.95

A new collection of plays by Fin Kennedy, author of How To Disappear Completely And Never Be Found and The Urban Girl's Guide to Camping and other plays.

The Domino Effect and Other Plays for Teenagers

This Changes Everything

$26.95

A group of disillusioned young women have disappeared. On a platform out at sea, they have formed The Community a new type of society and a better way of living. But how can you change the world if you’ve taken yourself out of it?

This Changes Everything is part of Platform, a new initiative from Tonic Theatre and NHB.

Scuttlers

$26.95

It’s 1885 and the streets of Manchester are crackling with energy, youth and violence. This is the world’s very first industrial suburb and the young mill workers form the very first urban gangs, fighting over their territory with belts, fists and knives. Invisible in history, their lives, deaths, loves, lusts and defiant energy tell stories that will repeat for decades.

Bull

$22.95

A razor-sharp play about the fine line between office politics and playground bullying, Bull offers ringside seats as three employees fight to keep their jobs. Mike Bartlett's acid-tongued play opened at the Young Vic, London, in 2015. It was originally performed at the Crucible Studio Theatre Sheffield in 2013, and was subsequently produced Off-Broadway in New York.

Cans

$20.95

Jen’s dad was a chat-show host, a national treasure. But now he’s dead and Jen’s getting spat at in supermarkets. To make matters worse, Uncle Len has made it his mission to help her get over it.

Hiding from a hostile world in a shitty garage, Len and Jen and try to work out whether either of them has a future.

Deluge

$20.95

A provocative thriller set in a blighted landscape where nature is fiercely taking its course, Deluge is a gripping drama. There’s something uncanny going on at Joe and Kitty’s farm. Precious feed is disappearing from the hayshed and prized livestock is being slaughtered at night. Joe and Kitty will stop at nothing to protect themselves and their cherished land.

Being a Dancer

$22.95

This book contains advice from some of the world's best dancers and choreographers, covering subjects both motivational and mundane. How do I get hired as a dancer? Where and when should I train? How can I protect my body from injury? How do I become a choreographer? A revealing and instructive look at what it means to be a dancer.

Temple

$20.95

October 15th, 2011: Occupy London makes camp outside St Paul’s Cathedral.
October 21st: A building that had kept open through floods, the Blitz and terrorist threats closes its doors.
October 28th: City of London initiates legal action against Occupy protestors to begin removing them from outside the Cathedral.
Temple premieres at the Donmar Warehouse in May 2015, starring Simon Russell Beale.

Now This Is Not the End

$20.95

Six decades after her grandmother fled Germany, Rosie is making Berlin her new home. As she looks to the future, the secrets of her family's past begin to unravel. Set in London and Berlin, this poignant new play explores the meaning of legacy, identity and our sense of belonging, through the eyes of three generations of women.

Beached

$20.95

Arty is the world’s fattest teenager, a young man literally going nowhere...until a reality TV crew moves in to ruthlessly document Arty’s transformation from bedridden walrus to trousered sophisticate. But with the cameras rolling, something totally unexpected happens Arty falls in love.

Winner of the 2010 Patrick White Playwrights Award, Beached is "touching and sensitive...a satisfyingly chewy four-hander" (Evening Standard).

A Breakfast of Eels

$26.95

In the haze of a late summer in a London garden, the apples have all fallen to the ground. It is the day of Daddy’s funeral, and two orphans find themselves suddenly alone, with nobody to cling to but each other

Robert Holman's new play is premiered by Print Room at the Coronet, London, from March 2015.

3 Winters

$26.95

Winner, 2015 Susan Smith Blackburn Prize

A portrait of an eclectic family, held together by the courage to survive. In an ivy-clad house in Zagreb, Croatia, the Kos family argue and fall in and out of love as world after world is erected and then torn down around them.

From the remnants of monarchy, through Communism, then democracy, war, and eventual acceptance into a wider Europe, four generations of Kos women each one more independent than the last have to adapt to survive. The one constant is the house: built by aristocrats, partitioned, nationalised, it stands witness to the passing generations.

But when the family assemble for Lucija’s wedding, Alisa learns that her nouveau-riche brother-in-law has bought the family home for himself and the other tenants have to move out. For the bride this is progress, for her sister it’s a shady act of greed. For their principled parents, finally, it’s one battle too many.

3 Winters premiered at the National Theatre, London, in November 2014. It was awarded the prestigious Susan Smith Blackburn Prize in 2015, given annually to the best new English-language play by a female playwright.

Dara

$20.95

1659. Mughal India. Dara, the crown prince, has the love of the people, but brother Aurangzeb holds a different vision for India’s future. Islam inspires poetry in Dara, puritanical rigour in Aurangzeb. Can Jahanara, their sister, assuage Aurangzeb’s resolve to purge the empire? Dara was originally produced in Pakistan; this adaptation premiered at the National Theatre in 2015.

Hope

$20.95

"A critical, hard-edged play that is not cynical . . . Beautiful."—Times (UK)

An urgent political play from Jack Thorne (Let the Right One In; TV's Skins), a rising star on the British playwriting scene. Hope is a funny and scathing fable attacking the squeeze on local government. How do you save twenty-two million pounds? Mark and Hilary, the leaders of the Council, are about to find out. Hope premiered at the Royal Court Theatre in London in November 2014.

slope

$20.95

An intimate and hedonistic examination of a nineteenth-century love triangle, slope explores the affair between the poets Paul Verlaine and Arthur Rimbaud, and its impact on Verlaine’s young wife, Mathilde. Their verbal sparring is scabrous and hilarious, and their roller-coaster relationships as passionate and claustrophobic as they are cruel and ridiculous.

Rules for Living

$22.95

Everyone creates their own coping strategies or rules for living. But what happens when an extended family gathers for Christmas and they each follow those rules, rigidly? In Sam Holcroft's theatrically playful, dark comedy, long-held mechanisms for survival are laid bare and everyone, even Mum, becomes embroiled. Rules for Living premiered at the National Theatre in March 2015.

Crocodiles

$20.95

Crocodiles brings to life a dystopian, modern-fairytale town where fact and fiction weave as tightly and snag as easily as granny's knitting. In a sleepy seaside town, Cornelia Glass is busy spinning yarn. Witches are burnt in the town centre. Crocodiles lurk in the shallows. Boys who go to the big city are skinned alive by roving tramps.

Year of the Fat Knight

$34.95

Year of the Fat Knight is legendary stage actor Sir Antony Sher's account—splendidly supplemented by his own paintings and sketches—of researching, rehearsing, and performing one of Shakespeare's most iconic characters for a 2014 Royal Shakespeare Company production. This follow-up to Sher's 1985 classic Year of the King is a terrific read, rich in humor and excitement, that also stands as a celebration of the craft of character acting.

Elephants

$26.95

5:53pm. Christmas Eve. Richard and Sally wait for their guests to join in the festivities. But behind a shiny façade nothing is quite right, and as cracks start appearing, attempts to paper over them make for an explosive evening of revelations and dark secrets exposed. Elephants explores the paths we take in life and their repercussions on those we love.

Our Few and Evil Days

$20.95

Adele and her parents have always been close. But recently, that closeness
has been tainted by an increasing sense of mistrust. Tonight, a visit from a
stranger will force them to confront the terrifying reality of their relationship.

A chilling yet deeply human story about the limits of devotion, Our Few
and Evil Days premiered at the Dublin Theatre Festival.

Bird

$26.95

It’s 4AM and Leah is waiting for her boyfriend to call. Over the course of a single night she tells us what it’s like to be fourteen, fearless and in love.

Bird is a cutting-edge monologue that throws light on the experience of a teenager in contemporary Britain. This edition also includes the monologues Gypsy Girl and Where I'm From.

Jack Thorne Plays: One

$42.95

Acclaimed for his TV screenplays (Skins, This is England), as well as his original plays and adaptations (Let the Right One In), Jack Thorne is one of the most distinctive talents working in theater today. This collection of Thorne's early plays, with a revealing introduction by the author, includes the following works: When You Cure Me; Stacy; 2nd May 1997; Bunny; Red Car, Blue Car; and Mydidae.

The Initiate

$20.95

A thrilling tale of altruism, greed, and the search for a way to belong.

When a British couple are seized by Somali pirates, an East London taxi driver decides to rescue them. Meeting disbelief with determination, he dismisses the fears of his wife and flies out to negotiate their release. Speeding from the banks of the Thames to the now unfamiliar world of his homeland, he confronts the family he left behind and the bravado of the defiant men he once called brothers.

The Initiate premiered at the 2014 Edinburgh Festival Fringe in a production by Paines Plough, where it won a Fringe First Award, before touring.

Alexandra Wood's plays include an adaptation of Jung Chang's Wild Swans (ART/Young Vic); The Empty Quarter (Hampstead Theatre); The Centre (Islington Community Theatre); Decade (co-writer, Headlong); Unbroken (Gate); The Lion's Mouth (Royal Court Rough Cuts); The Eleventh Capital (Royal Court) and the radio play Twelve Years (BBC Radio 4). She is a winner of the George Devine Award and was the Big Room Playwright-in-residence at Paines Plough in 2013.

'a carefully wrought work which cleverly explores its themes an unsettling, forthright piece of writing that will leave you thinking' - Time Out

'wonderfully slippery and always intelligent offers much to enjoy in its thriller-like structure' - Guardian

Fred & Madge

$20.95

Fred and Madge are a normal couple. Or so we think until a director and an audience member start interrupting and reworking this play within a play. Full of biting satire and sardonic wit, Orton's first play mingles astutely observed social realism with myth. Written in 1959, Fred & Madge finally received its premiere in 2014 at London's Hope Theatre.

Holes

$26.95

"We are the survivors of flight BA043. We don't know where we are. You have to help us. Hello? ... Is there anybody out there? ... Hello ... ?" Stranded, four survivors wait. Surely somebody will find them. Planes don't just disappear, do they? And, if no-one's coming ... what do they do now?

Regeneration

$22.95

A powerful anthem for the youth of World War One that offers a compassionate look at war and its devastating effects. Adapted from Pat Barker's Booker Prize-nominated novel.

Craiglockhart War Hospital, Scotland 1917. Poet and soldier Siegfried Sassoon has been institutionalised in an attempt to undermine his public disapproval of the war. His Army Psychiatrist, Dr William Rivers, has been tasked with returning shell-shocked officers to the trenches, yet under Sassoon’s influence, has become tormented by the morality of what is being done in the name of medicine.

Produced to mark the centenary of the outbreak of WWI, Regeneration opened at the Royal & Derngate, Northampton, in August 2014, before embarking on a national tour co-produced by Touring Consortium.

Nicholas Wright’s plays include the acclaimed National Theatre adaptation of Philip Pullman’s His Dark Materials, Mrs Klein, Travelling Light and Vincent In Brixton, which won the Olivier Award for Best New Play in 2003. His writing about the theatre includes Changing Stages: A View of British Theatre in the Twentieth Century, co-written with Richard Eyre.

'[a] superb stage version of a work of genius... gutting and unmissable' - Independent

'shocking, tender and grimly funny... gently breaks your heart' - The Times

'deeply moving... [a] humane and enriching play' - Guardian

Ayub Khan Din: Plays One

$30.95

This collection of plays written and introduced by actor-turned-writer Ayub Khan Din charts the development of a writer able to turn the tumultuous experience of life in modern Britain into satisfying, humane and often richly comic drama.

Whether drawing on his own childhood, growing up in an Anglo-Pakistani family in Salford, or on E.R. Braithwaite's account of racial tensions in the East End in To Sir, With Love, he depicts the struggles of individuals to come to terms with their conflicting cultural legacies and he does so with unerring warmth and compassion.

East is East (1996) is an irresistible comedy set in multiracial Salford in 1970, where the Khan children are buffeted this way and that by their Pakistani father’s insistence on tradition, their English mother’s laissez-faire and their own wish to be citizens of the modern world. The film adaptation that followed, with a screenplay by the author, became one of the most successful British films ever made. The version included here is the revised text first performed at the Trafalgar Studios in 2014.

The short, elegiac play, Notes on Falling Leaves (2004), is an emotionally tender depiction of a young man as he loses his mother to dementia, 'overwhelming in its emotional impact' (Telegraph).

In All the Way Home (2011), a quarrelsome group of siblings gathers at the family home under the shadow of impending loss. Amidst the cut and thrust of spiky Salford banter, long-harboured resentments rise to the surface and family bonds unravel and unwind.

To Sir, With Love (2013), based on E.R. Braithwaite's autobiographical novel, is the uplifting story of a talented, idealistic young teacher discovering the reality of life as a black man in Britain after the Second World War as he struggles to find a way to connect with his students at a tough but progressive East End school.

Freak

$22.95

A punchy and provocative new play by the Bruntwood Prize-winning author of Yen.

Georgie is thirty with dirty secrets. She drinks in her bedroom and hides from the sun. Leah is fifteen with teenage dreams. She practices her cum face and Veets. A lot. All-meat, all-sex, all-vulnerable, all-powerful. There's a first time for everything... Isn't there?

Freak premiered at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2014.

Anna Jordan's play Yen won the 2013 Bruntwood Prize for Playwriting. Her other plays include Chicken Shop (Park Theatre, 2014), Freak (Assembly Rooms, Edinburgh, 2014), Closer To God (Best Play and Audience Award at the Offcut Festival, 2009) and Just For Fun Totally Random (Best New Writing at the Lost One Act Festival, 2009). As a director her work has included Crystal Springs (Eureka, San Francisco, 2014) and Tomorrow I’ll Be Happy by Jonathan Harvey at the National Theatre Shed as part of the 2013 Connections Festival. She is Artistic Director of Without a Paddle Theatre, and teaches acting and playwriting.

'stunningly well written... funny, raw, honest, deadpan... Jordan is a wonderful voice' - Exeunt Magazine

'Jordan’s strong script bubbles with a fierce intelligence... darkly funny' - Time Out

'Jordan’s writing is vivid and punchy... a taut, raw but also warm two-hander' - The Stage

'[has] a tenderness to match [its] dry wit... a frank new play by a fresh young voice' - A Younger Theatre

The Distance

$20.95

Good friends should be there for one another, no matter what. But when Bea returns home after five years abroad, having made a bold choice about her life, old friends struggle to support her, or even to understand. One night in Brighton, things threaten to slide into chaos. The Distance was a finalist for the 2012-13 Susan Smith Blackburn Prize.

Little Revolution

$22.95

An explosive verbatim play about the 2011 London Riots, by the author of the award-winning London Road.

In the summer of 2011, London was burning. Alecky Blythe took her Dictaphone to the streets. From the helicopters circling overhead to the burnt-out buildings on the street, Little Revolution records the voices and stories of a community from when the riots happened up to their present-day aftermath.

Little Revolution premiered at the Almeida Theatre, London, in August 2014.

Alecky Blythe is a playwright and pioneer of verbatim theatre. Her plays have been staged at the National Theatre, Arcola and the Royal Court Theatre among others.

'absolutely compelling' - Telegraph

'Alecky Blythe's work is a gold thread running through the theatre of the past decade... [Little Revolution] is needling, comic and sceptical... terrific' - Observer

My Night With Reg

$24.95

Kevin Elyot’s Olivier and Evening Standard Award-winning comedy, My Night with Reg, defined a moment in the lives of gay men and became an instant classic on its premiere at the Royal Court and in the West End.

At Guy’s London flat, friends old and new gather to party through the night. This is the summer of 1985, and for Guy and his circle the world is about to change forever. Deliciously funny and bittersweet, Kevin Elyot’s play captures the fragility of friendship, happiness and life itself.

My Night With Reg first premiered at the Royal Court Theatre, London, in 1994, and went on to win the Evening Standard and Olivier Awards for Best Comedy. This new edition was published alongside the first major revival of the play at the Donmar Warehouse, London, in 2014, directed by Robert Hastie. It includes introductions by Hastie, Roger Michell, who directed the premiere, and the Booker Prize-winning novelist Alan Hollinghurst.

Kevin Elyot was born in Birmingham in 1951. He was an actor before becoming a writer. His plays include Coming Clean, My Night with Reg, The Day I Stood Still, Mouth to Mouth and Forty Winks. All of these are published by NHB. He also wrote a successful adaptation of Agatha Christie’s And Then There Were None for the West End. His writing for television includes Clapham Junction and Twenty Thousand Streets Under the Sky. He was a senior writer on ITV’s Poirot and Marple. Kevin Elyot died in May 2014, a few months before the revival of his greatest play, My Night with Reg.

'a modern classic wickedly funny as well as deeply affecting' - Telegraph

'a play of genius... sublimely moving, genuinely funny and exquisitely observed' - Daily Mail

'beautifully funny and achingly sad what keeps the play from feeling like a period piece, irrespective of the advances in our understanding of HIV/AIDS, is its enduring grasp of human nature' - Time Out

'an instant classic a lovely, touching play about old friendships and sudden liaisons' - WhatsOnStage

'sad, funny a beautifully observant study of friendship, longing and betrayal' - Evening Standard

'often desperately sad, it always glows with compassion and is brimming with effervescent humour' - The Arts Desk

'laughter with a killer punchline' - The Times

Therese Raquin

$26.95

A story of lust, madness and destruction set in the backstreets of Paris. Based on Emile Zola's classic novel.

The beautiful but doomed heroine is trapped in a loveless marriage to her sickly cousin, Camille. Every Thursday evening she watches her domineering aunt, Madame Raquin, play dominoes... until one day her husband brings along an old friend, the alluring and athletic Laurent. As Laurent and Thérèse embark on an illicit affair, a turbulent passion is unleashed that drives them ultimately to violence and murder.

Helen Edmundson's sensuous adaptation of Thérèse Raquin premiered at the Theatre Royal, Bath, in July 2014.

'[a] compelling, poetic and fleet adaptation riveting' - The Times

'period noir, a psychological thriller that will pin you to your seat as surely as a Hitchcock film' - Daily Mail

'highly intelligent and horribly compelling' - Independent

'a superb piece of work funny, charged with erotic fissure and has a spine tingling eeriness' - WhatsOnStage

Coolatully

$20.95

Lyrical and urgent, Fiona Doyle's play Coolatully is a compassionate insight into the links between the economy, masculinity and society in the modern world.

Kilian was once Coolatully's pride and joy, its champion on the hurling field. Now the village can't muster a team, the country's shutting down, and Eilish wants to leave for a new life across the ocean. As Irish history repeats itself, Kilian must confront the demons of the past and decide whether to stay or go forever.

Coolatully was the winner of the 2014 Papatango New Writing Prize in association with the Finborough Theatre, London, where it premiered in 2014.

'invokes Martin McDonagh, Conor McPherson or Marina Carr... sad as it is, Doyle’s play is also extremely funny... an expressive and memorable play' - Exeunt Magazine

'echoes of Brian Friel Doyle's play tells us, very touchingly, what it is like to be young in rural Ireland today and pins down vividly the tendency to romanticise the past and future to make up for the disquieting present' - Guardian

'Doyle's dialogue is instinctive, her characters, distinctive, and her motifs, ripe with meaning' - Time Out

What Do I Know?

$40.95

"Richard Eyre's writing is illuminated by all he has achieved as the consummate director of our age. He is the wise and gentle expert on the human heart." - Ian McEwan

Since his successful spell running the National Theatre, Richard Eyre’s career as a director of film, theatre and opera has made him a leading cultural figure and a hugely respected commentator on the arts.

This book collects over fifty short pieces written by Eyre about people he has known and worked with, ideas he has struggled with, things that have moved, delighted or infuriated him. He writes with candour, perceptiveness and charm, and always with an eye for the telling anecdote or the revealing detail that betrays the inner life of his subject.

Here we encounter Arthur Miller recounting to Eyre the events of the first night of Death of a Salesman; Harold Pinter overheard in a characteristically pugnacious exchange; Judi Dench racing clockwork chicks across a table, her face illuminated by demented glee’. Here too are Alan Bennett, Kate Winslet, Margaret Thatcher, John Mortimer and Marlon Brando, each of them brought vividly and unforgettably to life in the space of a few hundred words.

Eyre also includes pieces about the monarchy, about the Iraq War, about Alzheimer’s Disease (from which his mother suffered), about his love of climbing (from the comparative safety of his armchair), and about the relationship between music and sexuality.

What Do I Know? is a book that tackles serious ideas with a light and often mischievous touch, and it confirms Eyre’s place as one of our foremost writers and cultural statesmen.

Richard Eyre is a theatre director, writer and former Artistic Director of the National Theatre (a position he held from 1988 to 1997). He has worked widely in theatre and opera - including in the West End, at the National Theatre and the Royal Opera House, on Broadway and in Aix-en-Provence. His film and television work includes The Ploughman's Lunch, Tumbledown, Iris, Notes on a Scandal, and Changing Stages, a six-part look at twentieth-century theatre. He has received many awards for theatre, TV and film, and was knighted in 1997.

"Highly intelligent and thought-provoking... gets right to the heart of what it means to be an actor... spectacular and highly entertaining... something for every theatre addict to enjoy." - British Theatre Guide

"Entertaining and informative... [Eyre] writes wittily and compellingly." - The Stage

"A superb collection definitive, gorgeously written and devastatingly acute a lifetime in the arts, and the institutions that matter, has rarely been so valuable, revealing or funny." - Michael Coveney, WhatsOnStage

Doctor Scroggy's War

$22.95

An epic, hilarious and moving play that takes a sideways look at the First World War.

1915. Jack Twigg, twenty-one years old, enlists in the London Regiment and goes on a journey he never imagined - nor did the rest of the world. On his way, he meets the pioneering medic Harold Gillies, who saves his life and his sanity. And who is the mysterious Doctor Scroggy who appears at night in Gillies’ hospital dispensing champagne to the patients?

Doctor Scroggy's War premiered at Shakespeare's Globe, London, in September 2014.

Howard Brenton is a prolific playwright whose plays have been staged at the Royal Court Theatre, National Theatre, RSC and Shakespeare's Globe among others. Other writing work includes collaborations with David Hare and thirteen episodes of the BBC1 drama series Spooks.

'sharp and entertaining... strikes a chord with our own intensified concern for the returning veterans of Afghanistan and Iraq' - WhatsOnStage

'appealing and engaging... one of the very finest of this year’s glut of First World War dramas' - Evening Standard

'Howard Brenton’s fine new play... hits you in the heart' - Guardian

'compelling... [a] big, warm, perceptive play' - Telegraph

East Is East

$22.95

The play that gave birth to the smash-hit film a wonderful comedy about growing up in multiracial Salford.

Pakistani chip-shop owner George Khan 'Genghis' to his kids is determined to give his six children a strict Muslim upbringing against the unforgiving backdrop of 1970s Salford. Household tensions reach breaking point as their long-suffering English mother, Ella, gets caught in the crossfire her loyalty divided between her marriage and the free will of her children.

Ayub Khan Din's 'astonishingly assured first play' (Bimingham Post) premiered in 1996, in a co-production between Tamasha Theatre Company, Birmingham Rep and the Royal Court. The film adaptation that followed, with a screenplay by the author, became one of the most successful British films ever made.

This edition contains a revised version of the play first performed at the Trafalgar Studios, London, in October 2014, in a Jamie Lloyd production featuring playwright Ayub Khan Din as George and Jane Horrocks as Ella.

'What is remarkable about this play is its mixture of dramatic sympathy and delightful comedy' - Daily Telegraph

'a bona fide classic' - Guardian

'full of intelligence, irresistible laughter and serious promise' - Sunday Times

'A hugely entertaining, highly involving, emotionally tender, politically inflamed family drama' - Time Out

The Witch of Edmonton

$20.95

In the village of Edmonton, Elizabeth Sawyer is shunned by her neighbours. A poor and lonely old woman, she is harassed and accused of being a witch. In her abject misery, she wishes that she really were bewitched and so able to have her revenge. Unluckily for Elizabeth and the villagers of Edmonton, someone with the power to grant that wish is listening.

First performed in 1621, The Witch of Edmonton was based by its authors Thomas Dekker, John Ford and William Rowley on a real-life case of a woman accused of witchcraft. The play was revived by the Royal Shakespeare Company as part of its 2014 Roaring Girls season, in the Swan Theatre, Stratford-upon-Avon, directed by RSC Artistic Director Gregory Doran and with Eileen Atkins as Elizabeth Sawyer.

This edition of the play features the text edited for the RSC production, and introductions by key members of its creative team, including Doran.

Chicken Shop

$20.95

A dark and twisted coming-of-age story by the Bruntwood Prize-winning author of Yen.

Hendrix is growing up. Or at least he’s trying to. He’s sick of his mother and her constant preaching on the virtues of an organic lifestyle. And he’s sick of her girlfriend, a twentysomething stunner who winds him up relentlessly. But most of all he's sick of the bullies at school, who think if his mum is gay then he must be too.

In a desperate attempt to prove his masculinity, Hendrix enters a very adult world - but gets more than he bargained for. He meets Luminita, a young girl enslaved in an unbearable life, and their secret friendship grows in snatched moments in a room above a chicken shop.

Chicken Shop premiered at the Park Theatre, London, in September 2014.

Anna Jordan's play Yen won the 2013 Bruntwood Prize for Playwriting. Her other plays include Chicken Shop (Park Theatre, 2014), Freak (Assembly Rooms, Edinburgh, 2014), Closer To God (Best Play and Audience Award at the Offcut Festival, 2009) and Just For Fun Totally Random (Best New Writing at the Lost One Act Festival, 2009). As a director her work has included Crystal Springs (Eureka, San Francisco, 2014) and Tomorrow I’ll Be Happy by Jonathan Harvey at the National Theatre Shed as part of the 2013 Connections Festival. She is Artistic Director of Without a Paddle Theatre, and teaches acting and playwriting.

'a fine piece of challenging theatre' - WhatsOnStage

'utterly convincing... crackle[s] with menace... [Anna Jordan is] a talented and deeply compassionate new writer' - Time Out

'Playwright Anna Jordan is the coming thing' - Guardian

Acting Through Song

$32.95

An impassioned and invaluable guide for actors and students of musical theatre.

In Acting Through Song, ? Paul Harvard takes the techniques of modern actor training including the theories of Stanislavsky, Brecht, Meisner and Laban, amongst others and applies them to the fundamental component of musical theatre: singing.

With dozens of exercises to put these theories into practice, and numerous examples from a broad range of musicals, the result is a comprehensive and rigorous acting course for those training in musical theatre or already performing, whether amateur or professional, to realise their potential and act better.

"The most methodical, thorough and practical book on the subject that I've ever read." - Daniel Evans, from his Foreword

"If you want to maximise your potential in this tough profession, this is not just a must-read - it's your bible." - Stuart Barr

"There is good advice in this useful and practical book about how to integrate acting and singing - all supported with suggestions for ways of practising and developing skills." - The Stage

"Revelatory... an important addition to the actors' library... full of good, practical advice." - ReviewsGate.com

"For anyone wishing to do justice to a musical theatre role, and definitely for those wishing to work in this genre, this guide is a must." - Teaching Drama Magazine

Paul Harvard has worked as an actor, musical director and composer at the National Theatre, in the West End, and in regional theatre. He was Head of Musical Theatre at the Urdang Academy, and currently teaches at Arts Educational Schools, the Drama Centre, Rose Bruford College, City Lit and The Centre.

Burying Your Brother in the Pavement

$26.95

A play about grief and looking at someone that little bit more closely.

Tom’s brother Luke is dead. This has upset a lot of people but it hasn’t upset Tom. Or, rather, it has upset him, but in ways he can’t explain and other people can't understand. You see, Tom and Luke were never friends. In fact, Tom didn't really like Luke at all.

So it’s an odd decision - to try and bury Luke in the pavement of the Tunstall Estate where he was killed. But to Tom, it sort of makes sense, in a stupid-weird kind of way. As he sleeps out on the pavement, he comes across planning officials, tramps, undertakers, police officers, sisters, mothers, estate agents, ghosts, pavement elephants, sky dragons and a strange lad called Tight who wants to sell him a Travelcard.

Written specifically for young people, Burying Your Brother in the Pavement was part of the 2008 National Theatre Connections Festival and was premiered by youth theatres across the UK.

The Wardrobe

$22.95

A gripping journey through British history that shows how our country was shaped and how connected we are with our past. Across seven centuries, small groups of children seek sanctuary in the same solid old wardrobe. It’s the safest place they know but is it safe enough?

The Wardrobe was commissioned as part of the 2014 National Theatre Connections Festival and premiered by youth theatres across the UK. With a variety of roles for young actors, the play can be performed by a large cast of up to twenty-eight, or a smaller cast with doubling.

Sam Holcroft’s plays include Edgar & Annabel, part of the Double Feature season at the Paintframe, at the National Theatre, London; Dancing Bears, part of the Charged season for Clean Break at Soho Theatre and Latitude Festival; While You Lie at the Traverse, Edinburgh; Pink, part of the Women, Power and Politics season at the Tricycle; Vanya, adapted from Chekhov, at The Gate; Cockroach, co-produced by the National Theatre of Scotland and Traverse (nominated for Best New Play 2008, by the Critics’ Awards for Theatre in Scotland and shortlisted for the John Whiting Award, 2009) and Ned and Sharon at the HighTide Festival. Sam received the Tom Erhardt Award in 2009, was the Pearson Writer-in-Residence at the Traverse Theatre, 200910, and was appointed Writer-in-Residence at the National Theatre Studio in 2013.

'wonderful... a powerful stimulus for creative drama work' - Drama magazine

Microcosm

$20.95

A searing new play by a Bruntwood Prize-winning playwright.

Alex has his flat. His home. He’s building a life with Clare. Nothing can derail his happiness - he just wishes those kids would stop hanging round outside his house. But they’re just kids, with nothing to do. They’re not dangerous, right?

Microcosm premiered at the Soho Theatre, London, in May 2014.

"Builds suspense marvellously... chilling and ominous." - The Upcoming

"Compelling... Hartley is particularly perceptive in capturing the sweet strangeness of people, their moments of agreement and rapture, hilarity and repugnance." - Exeunt Magazine

"Hitchcockian... an intelligent and considered piece of theatre" - Huffington Post

Matt Hartley is a playwright. His play Sixty Five Miles won the Under-26 Prize in the inaugural Bruntwood Prize for Playwriting. He has also written for radio and television.

The Middlemarch Trilogy

$30.95

Three plays based on George Eliot's classic novel, which can be performed as a trilogy or as standalone pieces.

George Eliot’s Middlemarch is peopled with some of literature’s most memorable characters. In Geoffrey Beevers’ new dramatisation, all three interconnected plays can be performed as a trilogy, but each play can also stand on its own, telling the story of Middlemarch from the perspective of a different set of characters: from county, town and countryside.

In Dorothea’s Story, set among the big houses of the local aristocracy of Middlemarch, young, intelligent Dorothea is so enamoured of the pedantic Reverend Casaubon that she marries him, much to everyone’s disbelief. But her friendship with Casaubon’s young cousin Will Ladislaw arouses suspicions in her new husband, who will do anything to thwart their mutual affection.

In The Doctor’s Story, set in the town of Middlemarch itself, where everyone wants to know each other’s business, idealistic Dr Lydgate arrives in Middlemarch determined to achieve great things. He catches the eye of the Mayor’s beautiful, self-centred daughter Rosamond but is torn between ambition and loyalty as he is drawn into an alliance with a corrupt banker.

In the poignant but light-hearted Fred and Mary’s Story, set amongst hard-working countryfolk, Fred is trying to please his parents and become a country gentleman, but his childhood sweetheart Mary will have none of it.

The Middlemarch Trilogy premiered at the Orange Tree Theatre, Richmond, in October 2013.

'a delight from beginning to end... one of the most captivating literary dramatisations I've ever encountered, as rich as a Christmas pudding' - Telegraph

'it has an elegance and wit, and, above all, it's eminently digestible' - The Times

'[a] skilful, shrewd and dashing adaptation... a phenomenal achievement' - Observer

'a terrific achievement' - Evening Standard

'as ingenious as it is entertaining' - The Stage

The Roaring Girl

$20.95

A hilarious city comedy by the authors of A Mad World, My Masters and The Shoemaker's Holiday.

Sebastian has a problem. He's in love with a girl but his father won't agree to their marriage. In desperation he turns to the one person who can help him, the fearless and feisty 'roaring girl' Moll Cutpurse. In a London fuelled by greed and desire, the charismatic, cross-dressing heroine Moll has the world wrapped around her little finger, and she has a plan. Cutting a joyously independent path through the underhand scheming and petty vendettas of the London underworld, Moll proves more than a match for any man.

This edition of The Roaring Girl was published alongside the Royal Shakespeare Company's revival of the play in 2014, and features the text edited for the RSC production, and introductions by key members of its creative team.

The White Devil

$20.95

A violent tragedy, regarded as one of the great works of Jacobean theatre.

Duke Bracciano is besotted by the beautiful Vittoria. When he makes her an indecent proposal she can't refuse, she enlists the help of Flaminio to fool her husband, and begins an illicit affair. But Vittoria and Flaminio soon find themselves snared in a web of corruption, passion and retribution as their single-minded pursuit of personal gain reaches an epic and bloody conclusion.

This edition of The White Devil was published alongside the Royal Shakespeare Company's revival of the play in 2014, and features the text edited for the RSC production, and introductions by key members of its creative team.

The Mystae

$20.95

An exhilarating coming-of-age story that explores the intensity of adolescent relationships.

Preparing to leave small-town Cornwall for the bright lights of university and beyond, best friends Ina, Holman and Tre arrange one final night together. Inspired by Ina’s Greek heritage, they gather in a sea cave late at night to perform an ancient ritual that they hope will cement their friendship forever. But as the waves rise to cut them off and the ritual unfolds, hidden betrayals emerge and they begin to fear that the cave may hold other unimaginably dark secrets.

The Mystae premiered at Hampstead Theatre in February 2014.

Nick Whitby has had his plays produced on the Edinburgh Fringe, at the Donmar Warehouse in London, and in major productions in Europe. He has written for various comedians and for TV, including sketches, sitcom, drama, comedy-drama, animation and documentary.

Same

$20.95

When Josie dies in an old people’s home, her grandchildren gather to share their memories of her, and her fellow residents feel the effects of her death as her funeral takes place. Is the gulf between the young and old as wide as it feels, or are we fundamentally the same inside whatever age we are?

Deborah Bruce’s Same was commissioned as part of the 2014 National Theatre Connections Festival and premiered by youth theatres across the UK. Originally written for young actors, but with roles from teens to eighties, Same can be performed by groups of any age.

Deborah Bruce is a writer and theatre director. Her plays include The Distance (a finalist for the 2013 Susan Smith Blackburn Prize), Godchild at Hampstead Theatre and Same for the National Theatre Connections Festival 2014.

A Handful of Stars

$20.95

A gripping but warm-spirited snapshot of life in a small southern Irish town.

In the sleepy Irish town of Wexford, where shotgun weddings are outnumbered only by random acts of violence, the pool hall is Jimmy's sanctuary. But will such a place embrace his bright ambition, or bring it down, burning, to the ground?

Originally part of Billy Roche's The Wexford Trilogy, A Handful of Stars was first performed in 1988 at the Bush Theatre, where it won the John Whiting Award and the Plays and Players Award for Best New Play. This edition was published alongside the play's first professional stand-alone revival at Theatre503, London in 2014.

'simultaneously mean and warm, stifling and nourishing, comic and sad' - The Times

'funny, rueful and tender... has the potency of truth' - Telegraph

'carefully observed... almost unbearably honest' - Time Out

'a nice balance of comedy and tension... [has] a great deal of warmth' - A Younger Theatre

A Hard Rain

$20.95

A play about what happens when you push things underground, set in New York 1969 in the sweltering few days before the eruption of the Stonewall riots. Kicked out of the military after a year in Vietnam, Ruby rocks up in Greenwich Village in high heels and a rage, and meets the street kid who will change his world. Jon Bradfield and Martin Hooper's vibrant drama unfolds in a mafia-run bar greased with smart-talking queers, bribe-happy cops and nervous Wall Street high-flyers.

A Hard Rain premiered at Above the Stag Theatre, London, in 2014.

"Some cracking lines packed with sharp gags and vibrant characters." - Time Out (London)

"A moving, colourful drama [has] heart and resonance." - The Stage

"Amidst the drama, there is plenty of humour." - Attitude

In Skagway

$20.95

A compelling and lyrical tale of the desires and loyalties of women in an American wilderness.

Fame fades. The gold in the hills runs out. For years, Francis Harmon has traded off her reputation as a star actress in the prospering American cities. Now, at the end of the nineteenth century, she and her companion May have washed up in a cabin on the Alaskan frontier, while May’s daughter prospects for gold. But the gold rush is almost exhausted, and when Francis is struck down by illness, they all must choose between facing up to a bleak future or giving in to the lure of the past.

Winner of the Irish Playwrights and Screenwriters Guild Best New Play Award, In Skagway received its UK premiere at the Arcola Theatre, London, in 2014.

"Evocative... [a] tale of survival with poetic intensity." - Time Out (London)

Karen Ardiff is a Dublin-based actress who has performed on every major stage in Ireland. In Skagway, her first play, was produced by Guna Nua Theatre Company and the Civic Theatre Dublin under the title The Goddess of Liberty. It won the Irish Playwrights and Screenwriters Guild Best New Play Award, the Stewart Parker/BBC Northern Ireland Award and was nominated for the Susan Smith Blackburn Prize. Karen is also the author of an acclaimed novel, The Secret of my Face.

Arden of Faversham

$20.95

A domestic tragedy about a woman plotting to have her husband murdered, Arden of Faversham was first published in 1592. Its authorship is unknown, although suggestions include Thomas Kyd, Christopher Marlowe and William Shakespeare.

Wealthy businessman Arden is convinced his wife Alice is cheating on him. He's right but he doesn't know the full story. Determined to free herself from her miserable marriage, Alice is in fact plotting to have him murdered. As the assassins close in on their unwitting victim, husband, wife and lover find themselves locked in a deadly game.

This edition of Arden of Faversham was published alongside the Royal Shakespeare Company's revival of the play in 2014, and features the text edited for the RSC production, and introductions by key members of its creative team.

'comically sublime... reminiscent of Quentin Tarantino and the Coen Brothers' - Telegraph

'by turns comical and exquisitely agonising' - Financial Times

'fizzes with invention and energy' - The Stage

A Tale of Two Cities

$20.95

A thrilling, fast-paced adaptation of the classic novel, considered by Dickens 'the best story I have ever written'.

An epic story of love, sacrifice and redemption, interweaving one family’s intensely personal drama with the terror and chaos of the French Revolution. This version of A Tale of Two Cities premiered at Royal & Derngate, Northampton, in February 2014, featuring a large community ensemble alongside the main cast. Mike Poulton's adaptation is ideal for any amateur theatre companies, schools or youth theatres looking to stage a bold and dramatic version of Dickens' classic.

"Gripping has a cinematic quality there isn't a dull moment." - Telegraph

"Mike Poulton's adaptation is brilliant ensures no-one unacquainted with the novel will be baffled." - Observer

"Best of times, worst of times: Mike Poulton takes them both at a gallop in an adaptation that builds up the terminal velocity of a political thriller." - Guardian

"An atmospheric, appealing adaptation of a novel that remains relevant to our times." - The Stage

Charles Dickens (1812-1870) was an English writer and social critic who is generally regarded as the greatest novelist of the Victorian period.

Mike Poulton is a playwright and translator. His work has been staged at the Donmar Warehouse, Old Vic, Almeida Theatre and for the RSC, amongst others.

Lizzie Siddal

$20.95

A gripping historical drama charting one woman's dazzling trajectory from model to lover to artist, to a tragic figure in her own right.

London, 1849. Lizzie Siddal is plucked from the obscurity of a bonnet shop to model for the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood - an intoxicating group of young painters bent on revolutionising the Victorian art world. Inspired by their passion and ambition, she throws herself headlong into their lives and their art, nearly dying in the creation of Millais' Ophelia. The painting is a triumph. But Lizzie wants more and dares to dream of being an artist herself.

Lizzie Siddal premiered at the Arcola Theatre, London, in November 2013.

"This is drama of the highest order, by turns funny, clever, provocative, infuriating, sad and enlightening." - BroadwayWorld.com

"Jeremy Green's vigorous, entertaining and ultimately haunting play." - Theatre Cat

"Does a great service in putting [this] little known story on stage." - Time Out (London)

"Peppered with laughs... [a] tale of art, idealism and romantic disillusion and disappointment." - The Arts Desk

"Remarkable... makes important arguments about the subservience of women in art." - Londonist

"Fascinating... [tackles] the still-relevant issue of how women's artistic achievements are often overshadowed by men's." - Evening Standard

The Girl's Guide to Saving the World

$26.95

A frank and funny new play about friendship, feminism and what it means to be successful.

Jane and Bella are best friends. They’re starting a revolution. But they’re falling out of step. Toby dreams of babies, buggies, and home improvement. But he can’t even care for his cat. And that boy keeps telling Jane to take what she wants. But what is that, exactly? Three thirty-somethings attempt to make sense of their own uncertain worlds. Even if it means losing sight of each other in the process.

The Girl's Guide to Saving the World premiered as part of the HighTide Festival in April 2014.

Elinor Cook is a British playwright. A former senior reader at the Royal Court Theatre, she won the Old Vic New Voices Time Warner Ignite 3 competition and the 2013 George Devine Award.

The Libertine

$20.95

A historical romp with real bite, Stephen Jeffreys's The Libertine has received several major stage productions and was filmed with Johnny Depp and John Malkovich.

John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester, is the Libertine. Poet. Friend and confidant of Charles II. Notorious rake. An anti-monarchist Royalist, an atheist converted to Christianity, his contradictory morals are never more tested than when he falls in love with the actress Elizabeth Barry.

Thoroughly modern in its attitude to Rochester’s sexual indulgence, with all the wit, flair and bawdiness of a Restoration comedy, the play is an incisive critique of an age of excess.

Originally performed on stage at the Royal Court Theatre in 1994 as part of Out of Joint's UK tour, The Libertine was given its American premiere by Chicago’s Steppenwolf Theatre Company, was adapted for radio, and became a film starring Johnny Depp and John Malkovich. This definitive edition of the play was published alongside the production at Citizens Theatre, Glasgow, in 2014. Included in this edition is Mickey Gallagher's music for the original Out of Joint tour.

Stephen Jeffreys is a playwright whose work has been produced by the Royal Court, Paines Plough and Out of Joint, amongst others. He also wrote the screenplay for the 2004 feature film adaptation of his play The Libertine, starring Johnny Depp and John Malkovich.

Chancers

$20.95

A fast and furious comedy about the lengths we will go to when our backs are against the wall. Aiden and Dee are on the verge of losing it all. They’ve had to rent out their home to some rough shower from Dublin and move their family into their nearly bankrupt convenience store. But salvation may have arrived in the form of local battleaxe Gertie Graham. She has their ticket out of the poorhouse they just need to get their hands on it without her knowing.

Chancers premiered to great acclaim at the Viking Theatre, Dublin, in 2013, before touring the following year.

Fault Lines

$20.95

A razor-sharp new comedy that exposes the dilemmas of working in charity today and asks whether doing good is always the same as being good.

7:32am. Christmas Eve. Disasters Relief’s staff parties are legendary but their aftermath cataclysmic. Nick and Abi wake amidst the carnage to breaking news: a massive earthquake has struck Pakistan. Gathering their clothes and dignity the race with rivals Oxfam begins. Who can be the first to dispatch branded aid in full view of the world media? And how far are they willing to go? With the appalling spectre of last night’s antics hanging over everything, the day rapidly spirals into a dizzying web of secrets and lies.

Fault Lines premiered at the Hampstead Theatre, London in December 2013.

Ali Taylor is a playwright whose work has been staged by Polka Theatre, Soho Theatre, Hampstead Theatre and Theatre503, amongst others. His play Cotton Wool was the winner of the Meyer-Whitworth Award. He is Artistic Director of Buckle for Dust theatre company.

Britannia Waves the Rules

$24.95

An arresting and angry look at conflict and its effect on soldiers returning home to a world they no longer know how to cope with, and a society that doesn’t know how to cope with them.

Carl doesn’t fit in at home. He doesn’t fit in anywhere. When he signs up for the Army, he sees it as a way out of his life in Blackpool. But the Army takes him to Afghanistan. And when he comes home, it’s not as a war hero but as a changed man.

Britannia Waves the Rules won a Judges' Award in the 2011 Bruntwood Prize for Playwriting. It premiered at the Royal Exchange Theatre, Manchester, in May 2014.

"A thrilling onslaught of explosive eloquence... oozes testosterone... often insolently, defiantly funny... its language, sliding in and out of verse, blends hip-hop rhymes with lyrical poeticism." - The Times (London)

"Gritty, well researched... a real tour de force." - WhatsOnStage

"Fast, furious and action-packed... filled with rage." - Manchester Evening News

Eternal Love

$20.95

A spellbinding new telling of a passionate and legendary love story.

When Abelard begins a wild affair with his brilliant student Heloise, his enemies find the perfect pretext to destroy him. Abelard is already on thin ice with the church over his contentious views and when Heloise bears his child out of wedlock, their affair becomes the scandal of the age.

Previously published as In Extremis, this new version of the play premiered in February 2014, co-produced by English Touring Theatre and the Globe Theatre.

Howard Brenton is a prolific playwright whose plays have been staged at the Royal Court Theatre, National Theatre, RSC and Shakespeare's Globe among others. Other writing work includes collaborations with David Hare and thirteen episodes of the BBC1 drama series Spooks.

The One

$20.95

A viciously funny play about a couple trapped in a destructive cycle of love and lust. Winner of the 2013 Verity Bargate Award.

Harry and Jo are up all night drawing the battle lines of a relationship based on desire, dependency and dirty games. The One premiered at the Soho Theatre, London in February 2014.

"Achingly funny... witty, brave and galling writing... a harshly realistic, intelligent discussion of the complexities of love." - Time Out (London)

"The real thing: sexy, savage and as lively as a cat on a hot tin roof... this is new writing as it should be." - The Stage

"Truly astounding frank, edgy dialogue and biting wit hypnotic to watch." - Telegraph

"Incredibly, lawlessly funny deeply and seriously engaged with femininity and feminism in the contemporary world in its willingness to say the unsayable it brings theatre one step closer to life. makes an awful lot of other plays look pallid, mealy-mouthed and, frankly, just a bit boring." - Exeunt Magazine

"A finely wrought study of toxic relationships spiky and unsettling." - Evening Standard

'Searingly accurate fierce, funny and well-observed a short, sharp glimpse into the addictive grip of toxic relationships." - Metro

"Punchy, shocking it's the bravery in Jones' writing [that] makes this piece so exciting." - Huffington Post

Vicky Jones is a director and writer. As a director, her credits include Mydidae (Soho Theatre, then Trafalgar Studios) and Fleabag (Fringe First Award, Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2013, then Soho Theatre). Her first play The One won the Verity Bargate Award. She is co-founder and co-Artistic Director of new-writing company DryWrite.

Pressure

$22.95

An intense real-life thriller centred around the most important weather forecast in the history of warfare.

June, 1944. One man’s decision is about to change the course of history. Everything is in place for the biggest invasion ever known in Europe D-Day. One last crucial question remains: will the weather be right on the day? Problematically there are two opposing forecasts. American celebrity weatherman Colonel Krick predicts sunshine, while Scot Dr James Stagg, Chief Meteorological Officer for the Allied Forces, forecasts a storm. As the world watches and waits, General Eisenhower, Allied Supreme Commander, must decide which of these bitter antagonists to trust. The decision will not only seal the fates of thousands of men, but could win or lose the entire war. An extraordinary and little-known true story, David Haig's play thrillingly explores the responsibilities of leadership, the challenges of prophecy and the personal toll of taking a stand.

Pressure premiered at the Royal Lyceum Theatre, Edinburgh, in May 2014 before transferring to Chichester Festival Theatre, in a production directed by John Dove, with the author playing James Stagg.

"Gripping... The pressure just keeps on rising." - Financial Times

"Tempestuous and highly charged... A thunderous piece of theatre." - The Stage

David Haig is an Olivier Award-winning actor and writer. As an actor, his credits include Four Weddings and a Funeral, The Thin Blue Line and The Thick of It. He wrote and starred in the play My Boy Jack, which was adapted for TV in 2007.

Unscorched

$22.95

A courageous and convincing play that sensitively tackles the important subject of child abuse.

Tom works in digital analysis, investigating crimes against children. Faced with watching recordings of the most unforgiveable acts on a daily basis, in a job that barely anyone else can endure, he struggles to retain his humanity. Meeting Emily might just mean that his life has changed for the better, but when your entire working day is spent watching horrific crimes, how do you find room for love? Unscorched was the winner of the 2013 Papatango New Writing Competition in partnership with the Finborough Theatre, London, where it premiered in October 2013.

"An amazing debut... a sensitive and thought-provoking portrayal of a difficult subject." - WhatsOnStage

"An intelligent piece... strikes a strong balance between humour and a more complex examination of the process of desensitisation." - The Times (London)

"A blessedly unsensational play about a deeply serious subject." - Guardian

"Sensitively imagined... [the] writing is observant, and there are snappy moments of humour." - Evening Standard

"A cracker... admirably crafted." - Time Out (London)

Luke Owen is a British actor and playwright. His first play, Unscorched, won the Papatango New Writing Prize 2013.

Pests

$20.95

A hard-hitting, claustrophobic drama about trying to escape your past.

Pink loves Rolly. Rolly loves Pink. And Pink loves getting bombed off her face. Sisters from the same nest. Both trapped in a tiny rotting world. Both cuffed to a past that refuses to release them. One wants out. The other needs her in. Trouble is that when you complete each other, you’re nothing on your own. Pests was commissioned by Clean Break in a co-production with the Royal Court Theatre, London, and the Royal Exchange Theatre, Manchester. It premiered at the Royal Exchanage in March 2014, before transferring to the Royal Court and touring the UK.

"Intense a blend of lyrical realism cut with social commentary." - Time Out (London)

"Raw, visceral, painfully funny and sometimes uncomfortably intimate rings, and positively screams, with authenticity." - The Stage

"Fiercely impressive powerfully intimate and tense." - The Times (London)

"Heightened language that sizzles, skitters and explodes across the stage like word grenades makes us sit up and really listen." - Guardian

"Rich, poetic unflinching, raw and gut-wrenching." - WhatsOnStage

Vivienne Franzmann’s first play Mogadishu won the 2008 Bruntwood Playwriting Competition in association with the Manchester Royal Exchange, and opened there to critical acclaim in 2011. Her other plays include The Witness for the Royal Court in 2012. Pests was written during her time as Resident Playwright for Clean Break.

Secrets of Stage Success

$18.95

Two of London’s biggest musical theater stars answer questions submitted by the public on a wide range of theatrical topics. Louise Dearman (Elphaba and Glinda in Wicked, London West End) and Mark Evans (Elder Price in The Book of Mormon, North America Tour), both West End regulars, offer an exciting glimpse behind the scenes and illuminate the mysteries that musical theater fans are most eager to uncover.

An Intervention

$22.95

A touching, funny play about what happens when you hate your best friend.

One of them went on the anti-war protest, shouted their lungs out, then got horrendously and staggeringly drunk. The other stayed at home, watched TV for a bit, and thought about the future.

An Intervention premiered at the Watford Palace Theatre in April 2014, in a co-production with Paines Plough.

"Engaged, entertaining and forthright... not only politically engaged but also fiercely uncompromising in its mission to entertain." - Exeunt Magazine

"Incisive, intimate, closely focused has Bartlett's astute wit and extraordinary ability to pinpoint the way maturity can suddenly slip away." - Financial Times

"Superb intensely dramatic." - WhatsOnStage

"Nimble and elegant [a] smart two-hander." - The Stage

Mike Bartlett is an award-winning playwright whose plays have been seen at theatres including the National Theatre, Royal Court Theatre, Bush Theatre and Sheffield Theatres in the UK, and off-Broadway in New York.

Drawing the Line

$26.95

A vivid telling of the chaotic story of the partition that shaped the modern world.

London, 1947. Summoned by the Prime Minister from the court where he is presiding judge, Cyril Radcliffe is given an unlikely mission. He is to travel to India, a country he has never visited, and, with limited survey information, no expert support and no knowledge of cartography, he is to draw the border which will divide the Indian sub-continent into two new Sovereign Dominions. To make matters even more challenging, he has only six weeks to complete the task. Wholly unsuited to his role, Radcliffe is unprepared for the dangerous whirlpool of political intrigue and passion into which he is plunged untold consequences may even result from the illicit liaison between the Leader of the Congress Party and the Viceroy’s wife As he begins to break under the pressure he comes to realise that he holds in his hands the fate of millions of people.

Drawing the Line premiered at the Hampstead Theatre, London in December 2013.

"Powerful... a fascinating play which views colonial culpability from an unexpected and singularly revealing angle." - Independent

"Brenton is a masterly storyteller... the play expertly draws you into the maelstrom." - Financial Times

"Brenton knows how to make history manifest... gives a vivid picture of the pressures of the time." - Guardian

"Fleet and fascinating." - WhatsOnStage

"Crisp, elegant and revelatory... a fascinating story of mixed intentions and rushed folly." - The Stage

Howard Brenton is a prolific playwright whose plays have been staged at the Royal Court Theatre, National Theatre, RSC and Shakespeare's Globe among others. Other writing work includes collaborations with David Hare and thirteen episodes of the BBC1 drama series Spooks.

Godchild

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A sharp, dark comedy that explores the inescapable difference between feeling 19 and being 19.

Lou is getting on with her life, carefree and without ties. But this abruptly comes to a halt when her 19 year old god-daughter Minnie moves in to take up a place at university. Minnie’s arrival shines a harsh light into the corners of Lou’s life revealing it to be not as it seems. Her relationships are complicated, her neighbors are closing in on her, and the clock is ticking. What does it mean to be a grown up?

Godchild premiered at the Hampstead Theatre in October 2013, directed by Michael Attenborough.

Deborah Bruce is a writer and theatre director. As a director, her credits include Scarborough (Royal Court), Helen (Shakespeare's Globe) and Blame (Arcola Theatre). Her play The Distance was nomnated for the 2012 Susan Smith Blackburn Prize.

To Sir, With Love

$26.95

An uplifting story of the triumph of love, inspiration and hope against all odds, laced with the song and dance of austere, 1940s Britain.

Ricky Braithwaite, an ex-RAF fighter pilot and Cambridge graduate, arrives in London in 1948. Despite his First Class degree in electronic engineering he is turned down for job after job in his chosen profession and discovers the reality of life as a black man in post-war England. Taking the only job he can get, Ricky begins his first teaching post, in a tough but progressive East End school. Supported by an enlightened headmaster, the determined teacher turns teenage rebelliousness into self-respect, contempt into consideration and hate into love, and on the way, Ricky himself learns that he has more in common with his students than he had realized.

"Funny and tough... an unlikely tale, beautifully told." - Express

"Stark and engaging... a poetic period piece." - Whatsonstage.com

"A clever re-working... beautifully judged with warmth and a lot of humour." - British Theatre Guide

Ayub Khan-Din is a British Pakistani actor and playwright. His play East is East won the John Whiting and Writers' Guild Awards and the film version won Best Film at the British Comedy Awards. Other work includes Last Dance at Dum Dum and Notes on Falling Leaves, both staged by the Royal Court.

Let the Right One In

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"A ravishing little romance of the undead that’s guaranteed to warm and break your heart, even as it chills your blood." - New York Times

A dark and visceral coming-of-age vampire love story, based on the acclaimed novel and film.

Oskar is a bullied, lonely, teenage boy living with his mother on a housing estate at the edge of town, when a spate of sinister killings rocks the neighborhood. Eli is the young girl who has just moved in next door. She doesn’t go to school and never leaves the flat by day. Sensing in each other a kindred spirit, the two become devoted friends. What Oskar doesn’t know is that Eli has been a teenager for a very long time.

Jack Thorne's adaptation of Let The Right One In premiered in June 2013 at the Dundee Rep Theatre in a production by the National Theatre of Scotland, before transferring to London's Royal Court Theatre in November 2013. It was the winner of the South Bank Sky Arts Award for Theatre, 2014.

"Extraordinary... Sets new standards in atmospheric scariness... Takes you to the edge of human experience with eye-opening candour, beauty and ingenuity." - WhatsOnStage

"Astonishing... at once beautifully intimate and bedazzingly epic." - Time Out (London)

"Exquisitely beautiful and heartbreakingly sad so painfully tender that, as you watch the show, it feels as if layers of your skin are gradually being flayed from your body." - Guardian

"Remarkable gratifyingly scary dark and striking." - Telegraph

"Moving and haunting... a rich and beautiful theatrical experience that is by turns gripping and tender." - Herald

"A chilling and moving piece of theatre, full of pain, terror and unexpected moments of comedy." - Scotsman

John Ajvide Lindqvist is a Swedish novelist and short story writer, mostly working in the horror genre. He wrote the screenplay for the 2008 Swedish-language film of his best-selling novel Let the Right One In.

Jack Thorne is an award-winning writer for radio, television, film and theatre. His plays include Fanny and Faggot (Finborough Theatre), Stacy (Arcola Theatre), 2nd May 1997 ?(Bush Theatre), Bunny (Underbelly, Fringe First Award 2010), a version of Duerrenmatt’s The Physicists (Donmar Warehouse) and Mydidae (Drywrite/Soho Theatre, then Trafalgar Studios). His work for television includes cultural phenomenon Skins, and the BAFTA-winning series This is England ’88 and The Fades.

Fishskin Trousers

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A haunting play about loss and grief, set in the mists of Suffolk.

Fishskin Trousers weaves together the haunting tales of three lost people from different eras, united by the common setting of the fishing village of Orford in Suffolk, its castle and its mysterious island, Orford Ness. From the twelfth century, Mab gives an eyewitness account of the legendary Wild Man of Orford, caught in the nets of fishermen... Eight hundred years later, at the height of the Cold War, Ben, a young Australian scientist, hears strange noises on the Ness as he tries to fix the island's radar system. While Mog, in 2003, is faced with a heartbreaking decision. Suffused by the landscape and traditional folk tales of East Anglia, their echoing voices and stories reveal how deeply and intimately their lives touch each other, though decades and even centuries separate them.

This volume also contains the short plays ?Enter A Gentleman ?and ?Time Spent on Trains?.

"Entrancing... This is storytelling theatre at its simplest, and it's always measured, never showy... gradually I found myself totally immersed in these shimmering, fishy tales from the depths of time and human experience." - Guardian

"A fascinating and lyrical piece of writing." - Time Out

Elizabeth Kuti is a playwright and winner of the Susan Smith Blackburn Prize, whose work includes The Sugar Wife (Soho Theatre) and The Six-Day World (Finborough Theatre). She is also Senior Lecturer in Drama at the University of Essex.

The Empty Quarter

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Alexandra Wood's play The Empty Quarter confronts the challenges we face in a foreign land and asks where, or to whom, we belong.

Dubai seems to offer British twenty-somethings Greg and Holly everything they could want: tax-free income, a brand-new apartment and an exotic landscape waiting to be explored. But surviving on the edge of a desert, in a society they don’t understand, proves more difficult than they could have imagined. They soon start to question why it is they came, and whether they’ll ever get home.

Alexandra Wood is a British playwright. Her work includes The Eleventh Capital (Royal Court), Unbroken (Gate Theatre) and an adaptation of Wild Swans (Young Vic / American Repertory Theatre). Her 2007 play The Eleventh Capital won her the George Devine Award for Most Promising Playwright.

Monty Python at Work

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Drawn from his published diaries, this is Michael Palin’s account of the making of the Monty Python TV and stage shows, films, books and albums.

Monty Python at Work opens on 8th July 1969 with Michael Palin’s diary entry for the first day of filming on the very first episode of Monty Python’s Flying Circus. The diary entries that follow up until the opening of their final feature film, The Meaning of Life, in 1983 chart the tumultuous story of how the now famous shows and films were conceived and brought to life.

Palin records the evolution of Monty Python’s comic style, the moments of creative inspiration as well as discord, the persistent self-doubt, and the happy accidents that shaped what are now classic comedy moments. He captures too the group’s many anarchic exploits (John Cleese in a bikini; driving a Budget Rent-a-Van up Glencoe in full chainmail; filming Scott of the Sahara’ on the beach at Torquay), as well as their battles with BBC suits, budget-conscious film producers and self-appointed censors.

Thanks to Palin’s as-it-happened accounts, we are taken behind the scenes to watch with unrivalled intimacy the creative processes that led to the finished work, seeing how it was actually put together. By distilling everything about the Pythons at work, this edition of Palin’s diaries serves as an intimate guide to the legendary shows, films, books and albums. It will delight Python fans everywhere, and be a source of instruction and inspiration to those who seek to follow in their footsteps.

"Michael Palin's rollercoaster account of Python's glory years." - The Stage

"Palin is a natural diarist and this amusing and barmy collection of day-by-day extracts gives a peek into the creative process of the comedy troupe." - Daily Mail

Michael Palin established his reputation with Monty Python’s Flying Circus and Ripping Yarns. His work also includes several films with Monty Python, as well as The Missionary, A Private Function, an award-winning performance as the hapless Ken in A Fish Called Wanda, American Friends and Fierce Creatures. His television credits include two films for the BBC’s Great Railway Journeys, the plays East of Ipswich and Number 27, Alan Bleasdale’s GBH, and the three-part BBC drama, Remember Me. He has written books to accompany his eight very successful travel series, Around the World in 80 Days, Pole to Pole, Full Circle, Hemingway Adventure, Sahara, Himalaya, New Europe and Brazil. He is also the author of a number of children’s stories, the play The Weekend, and the novels Hemingway’s Chair and The Truth. Michael’s three volumes of diaries are 19691979: The Python Years, 19801988: Halfway to Hollywood and 19881998: Travelling to Work. In 2014, Michael and his fellow Pythons performed a ten-night sell-out show called Monty Python Live at the O2 Arena, London. Between 2009 and 2012, Michael was President of the Royal Geographical Society.

Crime and Punishment

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An exciting, fresh and accessible adaptation of Dostoyevsky’s masterful novel.

Starving, destitute student Raskolnikov is surrounded by the harsh injustices of the world: the grime of poverty and prostitution, unscrupulous pawnbrokers chasing debts, and a sister about to marry someone she doesn’t love to keep her family alive. His guilt is unbearable. Only Sonya, a downtrodden prostitute, can offer any chance of redemption. As Raskolnikov enters a dangerous cat and mouse game with the examining magistrate, a psychological thriller unfolds that probes how far humanity might go when driven by disillusionment and whether any crime can be justified by a higher purpose.

"Both a classic come to life and an urgent new work which develops its own style and language rather than slavishly imitating the text and it’s all the better for it." - Independent

"Powerful... To find a theatrical structure, adaptor Chris Hannan roams freely through the novel. He turns interior monologue into direct address, thins out subplots and reconfigures the sequence of events to fashion a fluid route through the story." - Guardian

"Magnificent... a fluent, beautiful, profoundly theatrical account of one of the great stories of world literature." - Scotsman

Fyodor Dostoyevsky was an 18th century Russian novelist, short story writer, essayist and philosopher. His best-known works include Notes from Underground, Crime and Punishment, The Idiot and The Brothers Karamazov.?

Chris Hannan is a Scottish playwright and novelist. His plays include The Evil Doers (Bush Theatre), Shining Souls (Traverse Theatre) and The God of Soho (Shakespeare's Globe).

Override

$20.95

A captivating, darkly comic play that questions what it means to be human.

In a world where using technology to erase people's imperfections and disabilities is increasingly normal, one couple is going back to basics. Far from the city, Mark and Violet are looking forward to the natural birth of their first baby. But one of them has a secret that threatens to undermine their perfect world.

"Richly comic, but dark and sometimes sinister too." - Guardian

"A sci-fi nightmare and a moral maze... engages with troubling subjects such as what constitutes normality and how far we should intervene when nature comes up short." - Financial Times

"Gregg's dialogue carries conviction... brilliant." - WhatsOnStage

Stacey Gregg is an Irish playwright. Her works include Perve (Abbey Theatre, Dublin, winner of the Stewart Parker Trust / BBC Radio Drama Award), Lagan (Ovalhouse Theatre, nominated for Off West End Award for Most Promising Playwright) and I'm Spilling My Heart Out Here ?(National Theatre Connections).

Home

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A powerful, inventive play that mixes real testimonials alongside existing and original music to explore one of the most important social concerns of today: homelessness amongst young people.

Bullet doesn’t want to call a hostel home. Eritrean Girl was smuggled here in a lorry. Singing Boy dreams of seeing his name in lights and Garden Boy just wants to feel safe. In 2013, homelessness amongst young people in the UK is at a record high, so when the big society doesn't work ? where do you go? An inner city high rise hostel, Target East, offers a roof.

Home brings to life the unheard voices of the young residents and staff who live and work behind the anonymous concrete walls. A bold documentary play that asks what it really means to call somewhere home, it is offers ideal material for youth theatres and young performers.

"Raises timely political questions in a fresh and streetwise style." - Evening Standard

"Filled with a fierce eloquence... a boldly theatrical piece." - Guardian

"Extraordinary... leaves you not just moved, but awed and uplifted." - Metro

"Powerful... an honest and reflective piece of theatre." - The Stage

Nadia Fall is a director, whose credits include The Maids (Lyric Hammersmith), Hymn (National Theatre, then Duchess Theatre), The Doctor's Dilemma (National Theatre) and Disgraced (Bush Theatre), as well as working as Associate Director on the Olivier Award-winning The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night Time. She is also Artistic Director of Naach Theatre Company.

Advice from the Players

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Essential tips and advice from stars of stage and screen.

Actors know the best source of advice on the profession is other actors. Nothing compares with the wisdom and practical know-how acquired through years of working in the business.

Advice from the Players features a host of tips and guidance on every aspect of the actor’s craft, direct from some of the best-known stars of stage and screen, including Julie Walters, Lenny Henry, Harriet Walter, Simon Callow, Mark Gatiss, David Harewood, Jo Brand, Simon Russell Beale, Lesley Manville, Zawe Ashton and Mathew Horne, amongst many others.

Drawing directly on their own personal experience, they offer essential advice on topics including:
Applying to drama school; Getting an agent; Auditions; The dos and don’ts of rehearsal; Acting for camera; Acting comedy; Coping with stage fright; Surviving the tough times; Staying inspired; and much more!

Candid, passionate, sometimes contradictory, often very funny Advice from the Players is a book to turn to whenever you’re in need of guidance or inspiration, whether you’re a working actor, at drama school, or involved in amateur theatre. It is also an invaluable introduction for those considering a career in the performing arts, and a fascinating read for anyone who wants to know what it’s really like to be a working actor.

Laura Barnett is a freelance arts journalist, features writer and theatre critic, who has written for publications including the Guardian, Observer, Time Out London, Telegraph, Red magazine and The Sunday Times.

'The advice you will find in this book will stay with you one of those books which will become a vital part of your acting kit' - Actor Hub

'Really impressive... Journalist Laura Barnett has had the good fortune to draw on the wisdom of 26 leading actors in compiling a book that will prove invaluable to those seeking to follow in their footsteps but should also have appeal for general readers.' - British Theatre Guide

'A great deal of very readable, down to earth, entertaining, actorly wisdom' - The Stage

So You Want to Be a Theatre Designer?

$26.95

A theater designer needs to be able to draw on a wide spectrum of skills, work collaboratively with all the different members of the production team, and deliver designs that work in the testing conditions of performance. Written by an experienced practitioner and teacher, this book is an essential guide for any aspiring or emerging theater designer.

This May Hurt A Bit

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A witty, tender, and occasionally surreal exploration of one family's experience of the National Health Service.

A month after stating we will stop the top-down reorganisation of the NHS that has got in the way of patient care”, the government launched the biggest top-down reorganisation the service had seen in its 65-year history. Stella Feehily's play explores one family’s journey through the digestive system of the NHS, and asks: what is the prognosis for this much-loved institution? This May Hurt A Bit premiered in 2014, on a UK tour co-produced by Out of Joint, and Octagon Theatre, Bolton.

"Urgent, clever, anarchic... I defy anyone to leave without a renewed sense of pride in our greatest institution, and some serious concerns about its future." - Time Out (London)

"Surreal, hilarious and hard-hitting as theatrically entertaining as it is politically committed." - Observer

"Urgently topical a passionate defence of nationalised medicine and a call to fight for its preservation." - Guardian

Stella Feehily's plays have been staged at the Royal Court Theatre, Soho Theatre and Project Arts Centre, Dublin, among others. She was co-winner of the Susan Smith Blackburn Award 2007 for O Go My Man.