"The most distinctive, the most restless, the most obsessive imagination at work in the Irish theatre today" Brian FrielModelled on Oliver Goldsmith's classic novel The Vicar of Wakefield, Murphy buil
Stephen Poliakoff 'has been one of our sharpest and least predictable writers for the past twenty years' (Daily Telegraph)In his new play, Remember This, Stephen Poliakoff looks at the insidious role
Canary is multi-award winning playwright Jonathan Harvey's long-awaited return to the stage: a deeply moving, funny, unflinching, and often magical story about love, honesty and being brave enough to
A new stage adaptation of one of Pratchett's best-selling novelsThe Discworld's most inept wizard has been sent from Unseen University in Ankh-Morpork to the oppressive Agatean Empire to help some wel
Farquhar's last two plays, The Recruiting Officer and The Beaux'Stratagem, have been called 'the last worthwhile comedies of theRestoration tradition'. Written during Farquhar's stint in Shrewsburyas
A play by one of Britain's best-selling writers"Set in the year 2001 where the class system is numbered from one to five and only the upperclasses are allowed to breed, Ten Tiny Fingers, Nine Tiny Toe
It's at times like this I'm inspired by The Stupendous Santini. He toured the mid-West during the 1930s, entertaining farmers affected by the Dust Bowl. No one would have remembered him were in not fo
The Robben Island Shakespeare is a verbatim play derived from South African Sonny Venkatrathnam's copy of The Complete Works of Shakespeare and interviews with former political prisoners held on this
Filming's not as glamorous as it's cracked up to be. It's a bit of a miserable business if your caravan leaks, your co-star's a manic depressive, and those younger women aren't so young anymore.Carryi
Drawing together the work of 12 leading playwrights, this National Theatre Connections anthology celebrates highlights from 21 years of the Connections festival with a retrospective selection of plays
Filumena Marturano is a retired prostitute. Unbeknown to her faithless lover, Domenico, Filumena has three adult sons and has been using his money to pay for their upbringing. Feigning near death, Fil
Friday night, first thing, the tanning shop, a good nine-minute blaster!Shane is another thirty-year-old weekend millionaire, still living at home with his parents. Tonight, he's hitting the town. On
No, Alice, I don't want to become a man, I just want to stop trying to be a woman.It's New Year in Rotterdam, and Alice has finally plucked up the courage to email her parents and tell them she's gay.
Actors and Performers Yearbook is an established and respected directory that enables actors to find work in stage, screen and radio. It is the only directory to provide detailed information for each
Written in defiance of Jeremy Collier and the budding fashion forsentimental drama, this late Restoration comedy exposes the reformedrake Loveless to the temptations of London and the charms of a merr
Written for the adult players at the open-air Swan theatre in 1613,this master-piece of Jacobean city comedy signals its ironic natureeven in the title: chaste maids, like most other goods and people
'Let him kill a lion with a pestle, husband; let him kill a lion with a pestle.'So exclaims the Grocer's wife who, with her husband and servants, is attending one of the London's elite playhouses wher
The brilliant new play from the writer of Beautiful Thing"What you don't know, don't hurt you"Tony's ready to live-it-large and love again. But his efforts to step back on to the scene are hampered by
"Each play I see by Phyllis Nagy confirms me in the belief that she isthe finest playwright to have emerged in the 1990s" (Alistair Macaulay,Financial Times)Nagy'slatest play is a blend of chilling hu
The Lehrstücke (or 'learning-plays') lie at the heart of Brechtian theatre.Written during 1929 and 1930, years of far-reaching political and economic upheaveal in Germany and the period of Brecht's mo
