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Petterle & Heimann & Monaghan Published by Nick Hern Books
9781854597373

Imagine that you must choose one single memory from your life and capture it with a magic camera - everything else will be erased Imagine that choosing this memory is your only way of passing through to…

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13 - Thirteen

13 - Thirteen

Large Mixed Cast

Mike Bartlett Published by Methuen
9781408171912

"Work out what you want and go for it with all your conviction and don’t care if you seem outrageous or stupid… All that’s needed, in the end, is belief" Morning in London, Autumn 2011 ... Across the city,…

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2nd May 1997

2nd May 1997

Jack Thorne Published by Nick Hern Books
9781848420809

A smouldering new play from one of Britain’s most exciting young writers, about escaping the past, seizing the present and owning the future It’s 2nd May 1997 An historic victory - the Tories,…

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4.48 Psychosis

4.48 Psychosis

1 Male, 2 Female

Sarah Kane Published by Methuen
413748308

This is the last play from one of the UK's most controversial playwrights and in many ways anticipitates her suicide "Kane wrote simply & starkly about the world she saw around her ... a mature and vividly…

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A Clockwork Orange - The Stageplay

A Clockwork Orange - The Stageplay

Anthony Burgess Published by Methuen
9780413735904

Anthony Burgess’ stage adaptation of his infamous cult novel and film of the same name It tells the tale of Alex and his teenage gang, “The Droogs”, their life of rape and murder, and…

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A Day in the Death of Joe Egg - UK EDITION

A Day in the Death of Joe Egg - UK EDITION

2 Male, 3 Female

Peter Nichols Published by Samuel French Ltd

Biting, ironic comedy pervades this tragic story of a couple devoted for ten years to their severely brain-damaged child, but who now try to seize a life for themselves by allowing their son to die A seminal…

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A Different Way Home

A Different Way Home

1 Male, 1 Female

Jimmie Chinn Published by Samuel French Ltd

A moving and beautifully observed play consisting of two monologues from a middle-aged brother and sister in a North of England town Leslie has always lived with his mother and his narration of the events…

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A Disappearing Number

A Disappearing Number

Complicite Published by Oberon
1840028300

A Disappearing Number takes as its starting point the story of one of the most mysterious and romantic mathematical collaborations of all time Simultaneously a narrative and an enquiry, the production…

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A Family Affair adapted Andy de la Tour from Un Air de Famille

A Family Affair adapted Andy de la Tour from Un Air de Famille

3 Male, 3 Female

Agnes Jaoui & Jean-Pierre Bacri Published by Oberon

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…

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A Going Concern

A Going Concern

7 Male, 1 Female

Stephen Jeffreys Published by Nick Hern Books
9781854592705

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…

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A Hard Heart & The Very Hours of a Reviled Man

A Hard Heart & The Very Hours of a Reviled Man

Howard Barker Published by John Calder Publications

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…

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A Healthy Grave

A Healthy Grave

1 Male, 1 Female

Simon Brett Published by Josef Weinberger

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…

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A Hostage Close to Home

A Hostage Close to Home

2 Male, 1 Female

Dougie Blaxland Published by New Theatre Publications

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…

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A Letter of Resignation

A Letter of Resignation

Hugh Whitemore Published by AmberLane Press

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…

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A Life

A Life

4 Male, 4 Female

Hugh Leonard Published by Samuel French Inc

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…

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A Madhouse in Goa

A Madhouse in Goa

4 Male, 2 Female

Martin Sherman Published by AmberLane Press

Webs of personal, political, sexual, social and artistic deception unfold in the indigo nights and bright days of the Greek islands in this two part play In A Table for a King, which can also be produced…

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A Man for All Seasons

A Man for All Seasons

Large Mixed Cast Male, 3 Female

Robert Bolt Published by Samuel French Ltd

Garlands of awards and critical praise greeted this play in New York and London. Paul Scofield was pronounced brilliant for his portrayal of Sir Thomas More in his last years as Lord Chancellor of England…

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A Man for All Seasons - METHUEN EDITION

A Man for All Seasons - METHUEN EDITION

Large Mixed Cast Male, 3 Female

Robert Bolt Published by Methuen
9780413703804

This enduring modern classic dramatises the conflict between King Henry VIII and Sir Thomas More It depicts the confrontation between church and state, theology and politics, absolute power and individual…

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A Matter of Life and Death

A Matter of Life and Death

Tom Morris & Emma Rice Published by Oberon
9781840027815

Here in this tear, are love and truth and friendship, those qualities alone can build a new world today and must build a better one tomorrow It is 1945. A young airman jumps to certain death from his burning…

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A Month of Sundays

A Month of Sundays

3 Male, 3 Female

Bob Larbey Published by Samuel French Ltd

Warm-hearted drama about two men facing an uncertain future in an old people’s home “This is a play about heroism.  As such, it lifts the spirits and reinforces our humanity ... the West…

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A Number

A Number

2 Male, 0 Female

Caryl Churchill Published by Nick Hern Books
9781854597434

Caryl Churchill tackles human cloning in her latest play ... “Part psychological thriller, part topical scientific speculation, and part analysis of the relationship between fathers and their sons,…

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