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Bonnie & Clyde

Bonnie & Clyde

1 Male, 1 Female

Adam Peck Published by Oberon
9781849431231

"We have chosen to live lives less ordinary ..." Crossing the state border in a stolen Ford V-8 with a trunk of sawn-off shotguns and bootleg whiskey, Bonnie and Clyde have found one last place to hide…

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Bridegroom Of Blowing Rock

Bridegroom Of Blowing Rock

3 Male, 4 Female

Catherine Trieschmann Published by Samuel French Inc

Set at the end of the Civil War in a town with split loyalties, this play weaves humor and mythology into a story about women who must find ways to keep hearth and home together in the absence of "full…

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Britannicus

Britannicus

6 Male, 3 Female

Jean Racine adapt/trans Robert David MacDonald intro Nicholas Dromgoole Published by Absolute Classics

This political thriller, set in Rome at the beginning of Emperor Nero’s tyranny, lays bare the relationships at the heart of power as a world slips into moral chaos “The tragedies of Racine (1639-99)…

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Bronte

Bronte

2 Male, 4 Female

Polly Teale Published by Nick Hern Books
9781848421707

A compelling literary detective story about the turbulent lives of the Brontė sisters ... The short troubled lives of the Brontė sisters have become one the great literary myths of all time How was it…

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Camille

Camille

Large Mixed Cast Male, 6 Female

Pam Gems from Alexandre Dumas fils Published by Samuel French Ltd

Tragic classic of how beautiful Marguerite is seduced by her Marquis employer and then becomes a prostitute before falling in love with his son

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Candles to the Sun

Candles to the Sun

11 Male, 9 Female

Tennessee Williams Published by New Directions Publishing
9780811215749

Published for the first time, this is the first full-length play by novice playwright Thomas Lanier Williams to be produced It was premiered by The Mummers, a semi-professional and socially aware theatre…

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Caravaggio

Caravaggio

6 Male, 1 Female

Richard Vetere Published by Dramatic Publishing
CE2

Caravaggio is set in Rome in 1600 when the city was vibrant with artists, powerful religious leaders, the Inquisition and street violence A famous painter in his lifetime, Caravaggio kills a man in a brawl…

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Cardenio

Cardenio

Large Mixed Cast

William Shakespeare edited Greg Doran Published by Nick Hern Books
9781848421806

Shakespeare's "lost play" re-imagined ... Set in the heat and dust of Andalusia in seventeenth-century Spain, Cardenio is the story of a friendship betrayed, with all the elements of a thriller - disguise,…

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Cave of the Dragon’s Teeth - ePlay Download

Cave of the Dragon’s Teeth - ePlay Download

Deborah Craig Published by Cyberpress

The year is 700 AD in Northumbria and the Viking invasions have begun Both Pictish and Saxon coastal villages have been decimated A few surviving members, each from Pictish and Saxon villages, meet by…

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Changes of Heart

Changes of Heart

4 Male, 3 Female

Marivaux trans Stephen Wadsworth Published by Samuel French Inc

Marivaux's fabulous Harlequin pursues his country love Silvia to the palace, where the lovelorn Prince holds her against her will Flaminia, an intriguer at court, attempts to reroute the affections of…

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