Michael Frayn's 'gorgeous farce' about a university reunionpremiered thirty years ago at the Globe Theatre, London. Returning tothe West End in a sparkling new production, it remains a classiccomedy.
"David Storey is a writer who genuinely extends the territory of drama" (Guardian)The Changing Room: "It's about exactly what it is: Storey offers us, with an unforced tenderness, the shifting moods o
The Accrington Pals is a poignant and harrowing play set in the early years of the First World War as the country's jingoistic optimism starts to wane and the true terror of warfare gradually becomes
A play and production from one of the world's most innovative theatre companiesMnemonic is about memory, people's personal histories, shared memories and discordant recollections - exhuming the past i
Comprising four one-act comic vaudevilles and four short stories adapted for the stage by Michael Frayn, The Sneeze introduces readers to a less familiar selection of work by one of the greatest precu
Bernarda Alba is a widow, and her five daughters are incarcerated in mourning along with her. One by one they make a bid for freedom, with tragic consequences. Lorca's tale depicts the repression of w
Dryden's audiences in 1671, both aristocratic and middle-class, wouldhave been quick to respond to the themes of disputed royal succession,Francophilia and loyalty among subjects in his most successfu
In a chapel service in rural Wales, all is not what it seems . . . A stage adaptation of one of the most celebrated and controversial short-story collections in the history of Anglo-Welsh literature.
There's gossip going around that we're all like him. That we're all paper thin, that it's all been painted over, and each one of us is gonna sit down one day and not be able to stand up, like we've di
Sometimes when I can't stand on my own two feetOr the voices in my head feel cracked and incompleteI turn up the volume of my Broken BeatsThe Big Heavy Bass sends moves flowing to my feetMelodic rhyme
Etonians aren't exactly noted for their grey matter, but I've always found them perfectly adjusted to society.Jack, a possible paranoid schizophrenic with a Messiah complex, inherits the title of the
Arguably the most perfectly poised of Restoration wit comedies, The Man of Mode is a finished exercise in dramatic sprezzatura, or nonchalance, matching the beguiling 'easiness' and 'complaisance' of
Over 50 years after his first appearance on the theatre scene, Edward Bond remains a hugely significant figure in the history of modern British playwriting. His plays are the subject of much debate an
An iconic play in twentieth-century British theatre, co-authored by Howard Brenton and David Hare, which looks at the corrupt world of journalism, the tabloid ethic and the media industry as a get-ric
From Uxbridge to Stockport to Manchester and back again, Harper Regan navigates the UK, exploring family, love and delusion. This Modern Classics edition features a new introduction by Dr Jacqueline B
