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Afterlife - ACTING EDITION
6 Male, 2 Female
Max Reinhardt was a man who had everything - money, friends, a beautiful home And then – pfft! It all vanished ... One the greatest impresarios of theatrical history, he had a lifelong ambition – to dissolve…
Noises Off - METHUEN EDITION
5 Male, 4 Female
This is a new edition of Michael Frayn's classic farce, which the author has revised for the Royal National Theatre's revival in September 2000 ... Noises Off is not one play but two - simultaneously a…
Frayn Plays 1 - Alphabetical Order & Donkeys’ Years & Clouds & Noises Off & More
Alphabetical Order - "A comic essay about two types of woman ... a very intelligent comedy because of its classic simplicity, and unusual in the way that the two types of women do not become stereotypes"…
Frayn Plays 3 - Here & Now You Know & La Belle Vivette
Here - ” ... about time, space and life…A touching, brilliant construction. It’s both deeply thought and deeply felt” ~ Sunday Times Now You Know -“Frayn’s light but…
Frayn Plays 2 - Benefactors & Balmoral & Wild Honey
“One of theatre’s subtlest, most sophisticated minds” ~ The Times Benefactors conjures the world of the suburbs observed through the lens of post-imperialism ” ... dazzling. This…
The Crimson Hotel & Audience
The Crimson Hotel is an absurdist comedy where two lovers escape to a discreet and charming Parisian hotel, conjured from a desert landscape As the walls, door and crimson curtains of Room 322 materialise…
The Cherry Orchard - STUDENT EDITION with Notes & Commentary
In Chekhov’s tragi-comedy - perhaps his most popular play - the Gayev family is torn by powerful forces deeply rooted in history and the society in which they live Their estate is hopelessly in debt…
Democracy
Three political parties, in and out of bed with each other like drunken intellectuals, fifteen warring cabinet ministers, and sixty million separate egos. All making deals with each other and breaking…
Copenhagen
“A masterwork” ~ Jeremy Kingston, The Times “A profound and haunting meditation on the mysteries of human motivation” ~ Paul Taylor, Independent In 1941 the German physicist Werner…
The Cherry Orchard
9 Male, 5 Female
This translation of Chekhov’s last and most elusive play captures the essence of the strong story about the beautiful trees of one proud landowner family and the need to sacrifice them to development…
Three Sisters - STUDENT EDITION with Commentary & Notes
9 Male, 5 Female
Michael Frayn’s brilliant translation of Chekhov’s most famous play As an internationally acclaimed playwright who is also proficient in Russian, Michael Frayn is ideally placed to offer us…
Three Sisters
9 Male, 5 Female
As an internationally acclaimed playwright who is also proficient in Russian, Michael Frayn is ideally placed to offer us a wholly accurate yet modern and playable translation of Chekhov’s classic…
Donkeys’ Years
8 Male, 1 Female
At a university reunion the graduates, now in their early forties and mostly in responsible, influential positions, gather to reminisce and catch up. However, as the night goes on the flowing alcohol causes…
The Seagull - STUDENT EDITION with Notes Notes & Commentary
7 Male, 6 Female
A Methuen Student Edition of Chekhov’s classic play
Number One
5 Male, 5 Female
Anouilh’s sharp and witty play about the ageing and gout-stricken playwright Leon Saint-Pe who is desperately trying to work on his new play, provisonally entitled ‘Les Miserables’, despite…
The Sneeze - Plays and Stories
4 Male, 2 Female
Translated and adapted from stories by Anton Chekhov. The acclaimed author of Noises Off and Copenhagen and translator of numerous Ibsen full-length plays has turned his skills to the best of Chekhov’s…
Alphabetical Order
4 Male, 3 Female
The library office of a provincial newspaper matches the lives of its staff - utterly chaotic! When Leslie arrives with a passion for organisation she transforms the office and its inhabitants into something…
Afterlife
4 Male, 2 Female
Afterlife is Michael Frayn‘s first new play for the UK’s National Theatre since Democracy in 2003 Investigating the life of the Austrian impressario Max Reinhardt, this is a grand epic as Reinhardt…
Alarms and Excursions - ACTING EDITION
2 Male, 2 Female
Eight short playlets examine with hilarity difficulties modern technology has added to life. In Alarms, two couples embark on a dinner party that is doomed to failure as, one by one, labor saving devices…
Benefactors
2 Male, 2 Female
This long running Broadway and London hit is about doing good and do gooding and about the way the world changes around you just when you are trying to change it yourself. An architect who believes that…
Make and Break
Large Mixed Cast Male, 2 Female
John Garrard is a successful manufacturer who is driven by a compulsion to use and consume the world and the people around him. He is briefly intensely curious about everything he comes across, particularly…
Listen to This
1 Male, 3 Female
A collection of 17 comic performance pieces - monologues, dialogues & parodies Various cast sizes - M1, F1 - M3, F2
Here
1 Male, 2 Female
Two people move into an empty room and begin to construct a life together in this work Should the bed go here and the table go there? Or the bed there and the table here? Everything inside this small space…
