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The Power of Yes
On 15 September 2008, capitalism came to a grinding halt As sub-prime mortgages and toxic securities continued to dominate the headlines well into 2009, the UK’s National Theatre asked David Hare…
The Blue Room
Schnitzler described Reigen, his loose series of sexual sketches, as ‘completely unprintable’. The company that first presented them was prosecuted for obscenity in 1921. It was only when Max…
Via Dolorosa & When Shall We Live?
‘My whole life, it’s been assumed, Western civilisation is an old bitch gone in the teeth. And so people say, go to Israel. Because in Israel at least people are fighting. In Israel, they’re…
The Permanent Way
In 1991, before an election they did not expect to win, the Conservative government made a fateful decision to privatize the railways Now, as a result of that privatization, the taxpayer subsidizes rail…
Plenty
“Plenty” by David Hare is a fascinating portrait of a woman searching for happiness and stimulation after a secret, thrilling youth working for the French Resistance
Racing Demon
8 Male, 3 Female
The Church of England is struggling, finding itself attracting unwanted publicity and wracked by the dissension of its members on matters of doctrine and practice. In this climate the Reverend Espy and…
A Map of the World
7 Male, 4 Female
This play “is an ambitious work which brings together in heated discussion a young left wing journalist and a right wing expatriate Indian novelist. The settings are a Bombay hotel where they are…
Fanshen
7 Male, 2 Female
In vividly dramatic form, this play tells how a remote Chinese village comes to terms with Communism. Every revolution creates new words. The Chinese revolution created a whole new vocabulary in which…
The Judas Kiss
6 Male, 1 Female
This compelling depiction focuses on Oscar Wilde just before and after his imprisonment Act One captures him in 1895 on the eve of his arrest. He still has a chance to flee to the continent but chooses…
The Vertical Hour
3 Male, 2 Female
Nadia Blye is a young American war reporter turned academic who teaches Political Studies at Yale A brief holiday with her boyfriend brings her into contact with a kind of Englishman whose culture and…
The Secret Rapture
2 Male, 4 Female
The children of light and darkness battle in this brilliant play by the author of Racing Demon. Gentle Isobel happily runs a small graphics design business with her husband until her sister Marion and…
Skylight
2 Male, 1 Female
Kyra is surprised to see the son of her former lover at her apartment in a London slum. He hopes she will reconcile with his distraught, now widowed, father. Tom, a restless, self made restaurant and hotel…
