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Mary shelley
A riveting new drama exploring the life and work of one of the 19th century's most extraordinary women.
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Debbie tucker green plays: one
A first collection of plays from the acclaimed dramatist.
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Writing music for the stage
The latest in Nick Hern Books' hugely successful So You Want...? series.
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Your turn to clean the stair and fugue
Two plays by the winner of the 1991 Susan Smith Balckburn Award for the best play by a woman in the English speaking world.
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Drama games for actors
New in the increasingly popular Drama Games series, packed with dozens of drama games that can be used in rehearsals.
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Bartholomew fair
Jonson's most ambitious and flamboyant comedy, often considered the culmination of his career.
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First episode
Publication coincides with a swelling tide of revivals to celebrate Rattigan’s centenary.
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Kanye the first
Sam Steiner's Kanye the First is a dazzlingly funny and original drama about identity, guilt, contemporary culture and the second coming of Kanye West. It premiered in September 2017 by HighTide Festival.
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The one
A viciously funny play about a couple trapped in a destructive and violent cycle of love and lust.
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Secrets of stage success
Two musical theatre stars working today answer questions submitted by the public on a wide range of theatrical topics.
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Little eagles
Commissioned by the RSC for the 50th anniversary of Yuri Gagarin’s first orbit around the Earth.
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Jude
Loosely inspired by Thomas Hardy's novel Jude the Obscure, Howard Brenton's play Jude is a modern-day tale of unexpected genius and of our struggle to accommodate extraordinary talent.
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Audition songs for women
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 trials
The near future. The climate emergency is gathering pace, and our generation is being judged.The jurors are children. But are they delivering justice – or just taking revenge?Dawn King's searing play The Trials was first performed at the Düsseldorfer Schauspielhaus in January 2022, and was a fina...
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My first play
Sixty-six miniature memoirs by leading playwrights, actors and theatre directors, celebrating 25 years of Nick Hern Books.
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The elemental actor
We are all a complex mixture of the elemental energies identified by many different cultures throughout history: Earth, Air, Fire, Water – and a fifth element called Quintessence or Spirit. As an actor, you need to be able to access each of them, so that you can draw on whichever element you need...
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Miss julie & creditors
August Strindberg's classic portrayals of secrets and lies, seduction and power – both written in the summer of 1888 – in brilliant new versions by Howard Brenton.
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The clearing
The brilliany original play by a rising young British playwright.
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Bellringers
The storms are getting worse, with rains so hard that fish are falling from the sky. But the age-old belief prevails: that the pealing of bells can dissipate the thunder and lightning. It's a perilous task – one that now falls to two young friends, Clement and Aspinall. And as the weather worse...
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Shakespeare monologues for women
Full of fresh speeches from Shakespeare's plays. Ideal for actors of all ages and experience.
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The meaning of zong
Over two hundred years ago, Olaudah Equiano changed the world. After reading reports of the British ship Zong, where 132 enslaved Africans were thrown overboard, he joins forces with anti-slavery campaigner Granville Sharp and together they set in motion events which will go on to galvanise the a...
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The crown jewels
It's 1671, and the charismatic and unpredictable Colonel Blood is planning the greatest heist of all time: stealing – in plain sight – the Crown Jewels from the Tower of London.With an audacious plan and a gang of misfits by his side, can he possibly pull it off? And is King Charles II in any moo...
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Hedda gabler
New adaptation of Ibsen's classic by Richard Eyre, who ran England's National Theatre from 1988-97.
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Fury
A chilling and powerful modern Medea about motherhood and class, taking an unapologetic look at the single young mum.
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The last noël
An innovative festive drama, The Last Noël is a funny, moving, uplifting play with original songs.
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Orca
An incisive, unflinching insight into what makes a community tolerate the unthinkable.
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The girlfriend experience
Royal Court premiere for a very funny, true-life play about the private lives of prostitutes.
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Nell gwynn
Swale's exhilarating take on the heady world of Restoration theatre premiered at Shakespeare's Globe before transferring to the West End.
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F*ck the polar bears
A funny and surreal family drama about the power of the individual in a world obscured by politics.
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Valhalla
Suffused with Norse mythology, Valhalla explores the boundaries of scientific research and tests the endurance of human love.
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Advice from the players
A host of stars from stage and screen dispense invaluable advice for those just starting on an acting career.
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The excellent audition guide
A reassuring, encouraging "how to" book that demystifies the often scary-looking process of applying to drama school.
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Nut
The latest play by acclaimed British dramatist debbie tucker green.
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The faith machine
A new play from the award-winning author of The Pride.
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Junkyard
A brilliantly honest and witty new musical from BAFTA Award-winning writer Jack Thorne with music by Stephen Warbeck , Junkyard is a coming-of-age story about friendship and standing up for what matters.
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Cyrano de bergerac
Burgess' acclaimed version of Cyrano de Bergerac.
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All for love
Dryden's retelling of Antony and Cleopatra story as a heroic tragedy.
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Charley's aunt
“A clever and relevant adaptation…As important and timely as it is charming and funny, it’s a perfect example of what breathing new life into much-loved classics can achieve.” –West End Best Friend Scheming students Charley and Jack must somehow navigate the curmudgeonly Spettigue family in orde...
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Now, i see
Two brothers, long estranged, reunite at a ceremony to honor their lost sibling's life. As they seek to let go, they must confront the past whilst rediscovering the joy that binds them together.A powerful fusion of movement, song and text, Now, I See is an exploration of identity, forgiveness and...
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I.d.
Written by actor Antony Sher, who also stars in the premiere.
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The political history of smack and crack
Crackling with anger, humour and authenticity, Ed Edwards’ play The Political History of Smack and Crack chronicles the fallout for communities crushed by the heroin epidemic at the height of Thatcherism.
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Two billion beats
Seventeen-year-old Asha is an emphatic rebel, unafraid of pointing out the hypocrisy around her but less sure how to actually dismantle it. Her younger sister, Bettina, wide-eyed and naïve, is just trying to get through the school day without getting her pocket money nicked.Between essays, homewo...
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Plays from vault 4
An anthology of seven of the best plays from VAULT Festival 2019, London's biggest and most exciting arts festival.
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Three sisters
A new adaptation of Chekhov's Three Sisters.
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Unravelling the ribbon
A moving, frequently hilarious Irish play for three women about the daily reality of breast cancer.
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The last king of scotland (stage version)
A stage adaptation Giles Foden's multi-award-winning novel The Last King of Scotland, an electrifying thriller about corruption and complicity.
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The rover
A rollicking Restoration comedy.
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Richard iii
A tie-in edition with the 2014 Trafalgar Transformed production of the Shakespearean classic, starring Martin Freeman as the villainous king.
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Anne boleyn
Commissioned specially for Shakespeare’s Globe, Howard Brenton’s epic new play that premeired there in July 2010.
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Home death
Searingly honest work from the Olivier Award winning writer.
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Dear young monster
“Powerful and well-thought through…a queer hidden gem.” –BroadwayWorld A young trans man, struggling as he begins his medical transition, drops out of university and retreats to his quiet hometown. His friends are gone. The neighbors are watching. His body is changing faster than he can make sen...
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Image of an unknown young woman
Inspired by recent headlines, a gripping dramatic treatise of events currently playing out across the Middle East and beyond.
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Rafta, rafta...
By the author of the hit play and film "East is East."
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My boy jack
Now a major TV film starring Daniel Radcliffe and David Haig.
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The contingency plan (2022 edition)
A double bill of plays from the frontline of climate change—an epic portrait of Britain in the grip of unprecedented and catastrophic floods.In On the Beach, glaciologist Will has followed in his father's footsteps, dedicating himself to studying climate change. Back from Antarctica, he visits hi...
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The secret life of plays
A fresh take on plays and playwriting by a proven authority on the subject
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Goats
Goats is a major new work by Syrian playwright and documentary film-maker Liwaa Yazj, translated by Katharine Halls.
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Pentecost
The newest play by one of England's leading playwrights.
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Fanny
Meet Fanny Mendelssohn. You'll probably know of her younger brother Felix, from nineteenth-century smash hits like 'The Wedding March'. He was such a huge star that Queen Victoria requested a private concert, during which she sang her favorite of his compositions, a song called 'Italien'.The only...
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Poison
A European-wide hit by Dutch writer Lot Vekemans, following a critically acclaimed run in New York in 2016.
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Never so good
A portrait of a fundamentally decent human being, Harold Macmillan, caught up in power politics.
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Brecht: a practical handbook
A bold and exciting new approach to Bertolt Brecht, making his theories and ideas about theatre accessible to a new generation of actors, directors, students and theatre-makers, and showing how they can be put into practice.
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The shadow factory
The Shadow Factory premiered at the Nuffield Theatre, Southampton, in February 2018.
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Stories
A new play from the writer of Tribes and Consent.
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Faust
One of the most potent of all European myths.
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Jack thorne plays: one
First collection of plays for the acclaimed dramatist(Mydidae, Let the Right One In) and award-winning screenwriter (Skins, This is England).
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The sweet science of bruising
Joy Wilkinson's play The Sweet Science of Bruising is an epic tale of passion, politics and pugilism. It premiered at Southwark Playhouse, London, in October 2018, in a production by Troupe.
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Ignorance
An absorbing study of attitudes towards outsiders, spanning two continents and sixty years.
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The malcontent
New RSC Classics series highlights rarely performed Tudor and Jacobean plays.
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Twilight song
A moving, bittersweet play from the writer of the classic comedy My Night with Reg.
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Hungry
A new play about food, love, class and grief in a world where there’s little left to savor.
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The kitchen sink
An irresistibly funny and tender play about big dreams and small changes, chosen to open the Bush Theatre’s new venue.
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2:22 – a ghost story
Jenny and Sam—and their baby Phoebe—have recently moved into their new home. But something feels frightening and wrong. Very wrong. Over the baby monitor, at 2:22 every night, Jenny hears footsteps around her daughter's cot. Could the house be haunted?When their friends Lauren and Ben come round ...
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Long time dead
Compelling new play by writer with impressive track record.
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Persuasion
Classic adaptation popular with schools and amateur theatre companies.
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Speechless
Inspired by Marjorie Wallace’s best-selling book The Silent Twins.
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The lodger
Sisters Dolly and Esther grow up in ultra-conservative Harrogate in the 1960s. Fifty years later, following the death of their mother, Dolly comes to stay with Esther – now a successful novelist and living in Little Venice with her younger, inscrutable lodger, Jude.The three go to Norway to meet ...
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London road
The extraordinary work of verbatim musical theatre about the impact of the Ipswich prostitute murders.
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Misery guts and tartuffe
A new comedy from 'Scotland's greatest living dramatist.'Scotland on Sunday
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Buckets
Adam Barnard's open-ended text can be performed by any number and composition of actors.
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Bacchae
Euripides' classic drama about the often mortifying consequences of the unbridled--and frequently hysterical--celebration of the feast of Dionysus, the God of wine.
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Someone else's shoes
A sharp and witty satire on the commodification of art and life.
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Dirty butterfly
From an urgent new black British writing talent.
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Mr. thomas
Kathy Burke's first play is a gritty, darkly funny look at attitudes to homosexuality in the 1950s, a portrait of repressed sexuality and alcoholism – and an homage to the great masters of British theatre, Wilde, Coward, Pinter and Orton.
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Russian dolls
A compassionate, revealing and immensely rewarding new play about overcoming thedifferences between generations and the concept of "broken Britain".
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Moth
By turns dark and shimmering, Moth is a fast, funny and heartbreaking story about two young people with nowhere to go.
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The approach
Both psychological puzzle and quietly devastating tragedy, Mark O'Rowe's The Approach explores the inner lives of Anna, Cora and Denise as they desperately try to make sense of their world.
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Grenfell: in the words of survivors
The early hours of Wednesday 14 June 2017. The north-west corner of the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea. A twenty-four-storey residential tower. The scene of a national tragedy.This powerful verbatim play is drawn from the testimony of residents – a group of survivors and bereaved – at th...
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Contemporary monologues for women
Fifty fantastic speeches for women, from top plays by some of the UK's most exciting contemporary dramatists.
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Speaking in tongues
Follows on from the critically acclaimed Almeida production of Bovell's When the Rain Stops Falling.
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Roaring trade
By the author of "Whipping It Up", a topical satire on bankers and their dog-eat-dog life-style.
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Dorian
Dorian Gray – handsome, hedonistic, narcissistic – sells his soul for eternal beauty. Basil and Henry join him for the ride until it all goes too far, and the hangovers become murderous...Oscar Wilde's only novel, The Picture of Dorian Gray, was a succès de scandale on its publication in 1891, ac...
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You stupid darkness!
Sam Steiner's You Stupid Darkness! is an urgent play about the struggle for optimism and community amid the chaos of a world falling apart.
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Maydays & trying it on
Two plays by a leading UK playwright.
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Feeling afraid as if something terrible is going to happen (2023 edition)
Edinburgh Fringe First Award - 2022A permanently single, professionally neurotic stand-up comedian finally meets his Mr Right – and then does everything wrong.Is Mr Right quite what he seems? And just how far will the comedian go to get a laugh?Marcelo Dos Santos's play Feeling Afraid As If Somet...
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Plays from vault 2
This anthology comprises five of the best plays from VAULT 2017, London’s biggest and most exciting arts festival.
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Bedbound & misterman
A double volume of dark plays by the author of Disco Pigs.
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A time to reap
The English translation, premiering at the Royal Court, of a controversial, dark and disturbing new Polish play.
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Night time
Edinburgh Festival premiere at Traverse Theatre of mesmeric new play by brand new Scottish-Croatian writer.
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Never have i ever
Jacq and Kas's boutique restaurant has gone bust, and telling their oldest friends Adaego and her rich husband Tobin that his investment is toast is only the start of the evening.Cash, class, identity and infidelity are all on the menu. As the last of the expensive wine flows, a dangerous drinkin...
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