From getting him coffee to getting him laid, it's up to new assistant and aspiring screenwriter Guy to satisfy every whim of the incendiary Buddy Ackerman, powerful movie producer and the boss from he
Davey has seen something he can't forget. Anita has been forced to flee her home. These two have never met. Tonight their paths cross with devastating consequences.Thrilling, heartbreaking and darkly
After forty years of building a home in London, Agnes is retiring and moving back to Ghana. Her final wish is for her two sons to live together under the same roof when she is gone. But her eldest, S
Emma's been seeing Darren. She thinks she's in love. Her boss thinks she's in breach of contract. The situation needs to be resolved.Mike Bartlett's second play for the Royal Court is an ink-black com
Shoot/Get Treasure/Repeat is an epic cycle of plays exploring the personal and political effect of war on modern life. The plays that make up Shoot/Get Treasure/Repeat began life at the 2007 Edinburgh
Oxford Street: where the streets are paved with gold, if you just know where to look.At Total Sports, security guard Kofi and his workmates are making sure everything runs smoothly, easing the daily
It's Mother's Day and mother is dead. Now her two sons gather in her home to argue about the truth of their childhood. But a storm is gathering ... with a violent new truth all of its own.Piranha Heig
A teenage boy is dead. In the aftermath of the unspeakable yet avoidable tragedy, a family finds itself torn apart by grief and turning for comfort to Daniel, the troubled teenager who lives next door
When Dave moved south to London he left behind his family, wife Joanne and mounting financial woes in favour of a playground of riches, sex and shopping. Ten years on and Joanne wants payback with in
Radical politician Henry Trebell sees his personal and political lives collide as a casual affair with a married woman threatens his power and passionate ideals. Her insistence on a woman's right to
In ENRON, one of the most infamous scandals in financial history is transformed into a theatrical epic. Mixing classical tragedy with savage comedy, the play follows a group of flawed men and women i
Two brothers, Valene and Coleman, live alone in their father's house after his recent death. Finding it impossible to co-exist, they erupt into massive and violent disputes over the most mundane and i
Originally written in 1800 by Friedrich Schiller, the play examines the personal struggle between two extraordinary women, one French, one English, both captive to the demands of sovereignty and both
An epic family drama, shot through with dark humour, The Last Days of a Reluctant Tyrant tells the tragic story of a family disintegrating, having lost its moral values. Arina is an ambitious woman. A
Moist von Lipwig was a con artist, a fraud and a man faced with a life choice: be hanged, or put Ankh-Morpork's ailing postal service back on its feet. It was a tough decision.With the help of a golem
There is no known source for Christopher Marlowe's play The Jew of Malta, but it makes copious allusions to the famous Turkish seize of Christian Malta in 1565 that forms the international setting for
In a London psychiatric hospital, an enigmatic patient claims to be the son of an African dictator—a story that becomes unnervingly plausible. An incendiary tale of race, madness and a Darwinian power
In 1941 the German physicist Werner Heisenberg made a strange trip to Copenhagen to see his Danish counterpart, Niels Bohr. They were old friends and close colleagues, and they had revolutionised ato
Argan is a perfectly healthy, wealthy gentleman, convinced that he is seriously ill. So obsessed is he with medicinal tinkerings and tonics that he is blind to the goings on in his own household. Howe
I'll Be the Devil is an epic and brutal journey into the dark heart of occupied Ireland during the eighteenth century. Knowing chat her soldier lover is leaving for England, a local woman unleashes a
