Modern Plays
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A Family Affair adapted Andy de la Tour from Un Air de Famille
3 Male, 3 Female
A family get-together like no other when Henry’s mother, brother and sister-in-law turn up to celebrate a birthday But Henry’s missed his brother’s crucial television appearance, his…
A Going Concern
7 Male, 1 Female
The technological revolution has not yet reached Chapel & Sons, an ailing family business making billiard tables In the dilapidated workshop, three generations conspire against each other for control of…
A Hard Heart & The Very Hours of a Reviled Man
A Hard Heart is about knowledge, self-knowledge, and the gulf between Its protagonist, a strategist and innovator, is a culture’s last defence against barbarity During a long siege she provides the intellectual…
A Healthy Grave
1 Male, 1 Female
Robert and Hillary Travers, a childless married couple in their seventies, have had careers around the world as academics but in retirement their horizons have shrunk to a small cottage in the Cotswolds…
A Hostage Close to Home
2 Male, 1 Female
Set in a university city in present day England, this explores what happens when two British students take the daughter of a Middle Eastern politician hostage Although they pretend initially that their…
A Letter of Resignation
1963 was an amazing year. President Kennedy’s assassination. The Great Train Robbery. Beatlemania. The Profumo Affair. Life was changing Britain was becoming a different place and to many people the Prime…
A Life
4 Male, 4 Female
For the first time in six years Drumm visits his neighbour Mary who describes her new kitchen to him But when she takes him into it, it is as it was forty years ago, and seated at the table is her young…
A Life of Galileo
Arguably Brecht's greatest play, A Life of Galileo charts the seventeenth century scientist's extraordinary fight with the church over his assertion that the earth orbits the sun The figure of Galileo,…
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