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Playwrights’ Progress - Patterns of Postwar British Drama
Established dramatists like Coward, Rattigan, and Priestley continued to write successful plays after the War yet without breaking new ground Experiment lay elsewhere - for example, in the work of Ewan…
Coriolanus in Deutschland
Steven Berkoff’s journal of directing Coriolanus in Germany makes fascinating reading as one of Britain’s most controversial figures of the theatre unfolds the agonies and pleasures of creating…
Motherly Love & Pariah & The First Warning
Motherly Love (cast 4f), Pariah (cast 2m) and The First Warning (cast 1m, 4f) are part of a series of nine one-act plays that Strindberg wrote for his own small touring company “[The Gate Theatre has]…
The Father & Lady Julie & Playing with Fire
The Father (1887) is one of the most gripping psychological dramas of the modern theatre. Strindberg was working on this and Lady Julie (1888) when his first marriage was breaking up, and he wrote Playing…
Society & Ours & Caste & Progress & School & Birth
Six important plays written between 1865 and 1870 by one of the most successful playwrights of the age. They represent the peak of Robertson’s achievements during this short but prolific period of his…
St James Blues & A Bed for the Knight & Waiting for the Barbarians
Three comedies for the modern age St James’s Blues: The gentlemen on the committee of the Mariners’ Club - the Commodores as they are known - are in a quandary. They discover that they are sitting on some…
Brief Candle & Stoney Bowes & Confessions of Zeno & Da Ponte’s Last Stand
The action of Brief Candle takes place between 1873 and 1884 in various cities across Europe. The play celebrates the fascinating and all too brief life and achievement of the painter and diarist Marie…
Making Waves
Mike, father of the Tnner family, is the coswain of the local lifeboat. The demands of his job take priority over the needs of his family But he’s a hero - what can they do ? “Theatre…
Raj
RAJ is set in India during British administration. It is a play about imperialism, about power and where it lies, about divided loyalties: loyalties born, nurtured and handed down over generations of British…
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…
The Best of Friends
This unusual play by the author of Breaking the Code is adapted from the letters and writings of Dame Laurentia McLachlan, Sir Sydney Cockerell and George Bernard Shaw, close friends who exchanged a flood…
