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Buchner is often considered the father of modern German drama, and "Woyzeck"was his most influential work. Beneath the utter simplicity of itsbasic story, there are complex themes of human motivation, victimisation, guilt, class, and the meaning and nature ofexistence. This edition incorporates recent research and full Introduction and Notes."

A brilliant new translation of Nocturnal (originally written in Spanish). Two neighbors. One works by night, the other by day. One enjoys literature, the other enjoys model trains and tinkering with broken objects. They seem to have little in common, until they run into each other in a local cafe.

Carthage asks who should raise our children when even the systems designed to protect them can be abusive.

Acclaimed Chilean playwright Juan Radrigan's 1981 classic.

Mrs Barbour's Daughters (**** The Herald, **** The Scotsman) by award-winning playwright AJ Taudevin (Some Other Mother, Chalk Farm) charts a family history of sisterhood and betrayal interwoven in a social history of women's resistance incorporating worker, protest and popular songs from the last 100 years.

Four new short plays inspired by the 800th anniversary of the Magna Carta by internationally renowned playwrights Howard Brenton, Anders Lustgarten, Timberlake Wertenbaker and Sally Woodcock.

A play by the poet and playwright Jon Fosse. This version is translated for the stage by playwright Gregory Motton. Two lovers have conflicting interests when they have a child together.

A hilarious epic comedy by British playwright Peter Oswald, inspired by the Latin novel Metamorphoses of Apuleius, this new play premiered at Shakespeare's Globe theatre.

Trevor's in trouble with the law - again. But this time it's serious. He faces twelve years behind bars. Roddy, Trevor's dad, came to Britain in the Sixties and did the right thing - worked seven days a week to put food on the table and a roof over his family's head. But now things have changed. Not only is he about to lose his son, but also his job and his marriage. And just when things couldn't get much worse, Trevor's uncle Monty shows up.Wrong Place 'Whether a man innocent or guilty, a black man is guilty by virtue of the colour of his skin. I learn that a long time ago. That's how the white man see it. That's how it stay.'Produced at the Soho Theatre, London, in October 2003.

A dark, painful and very funny play by Serbian writer Ugljesa Sajtinac.

Luke Barnes's brash bold voice and fine eye for a rowdy tale combine in this play about a family's tradition and one last storytelling competition.

English translation of Nobel laureate Elfriede Jelinek's Sports Play, a provocative postdramatic theatrical exploration of sport as a form of war. First produced in Vienna in 1998, this English version was produced in the UK to coincide with the London 2012 Olympics, and has subsequently toured internationally.

A contemporary reimagining of Sophocles' Antigone, for children and young audiences.

A stunning monologue which is a haunting and often fiercely funny meditation on life as a state of permanent exile.

A bestselling stage adaptation of F Scott Fitzgerald's classic American novel.

Historical drama set in the midst of the Suez Crisis in 1956.

A young lawyer, Myles, is seduced into a rapport with a notorious historian he has been hired to defend. But the sinister nature of the historian's crimes soon become clear, sending him into an ethical and emotional collision with his own identity. As he defends a Holocaust denier, he becomes embroiled in the human rights paradox of free speech.

It is the winter of 1819. The most famous wit and dandy of them all, the man who taught a generation of Englishmen how to dress, friend and confidant to lords, ladies and royalty, is preparing to receive the Prince of Wales. But this is not Bath or Bri

It's the worst job in the world and only those what is born to it, what has gorrit in the blood, can do it. Three generations of Hull men struggle with the legacies left to them by their fathers. A powerful and moving story of fate, choices and men at work, Under the Whaleback opened at the Royal Court Theatre in August 2002.

A sharp new drama from acclaimed playwright, Ryan Craig.

"On Emotion" by award-winning director, Mick Gordon asks, "Are we just the puppet of our emotions?"

Matthew Dunster's crackling, candid and captivating coming-of-age drama.

A play from Niklas Radstrom which looks into the 1993 killing of James Bulger. A hard-hitting and emotional play. Winner of the inaugural Anglo-Swedish Literary Foundation Award 2008.

S-27 won the first Protect The Human Playwriting Competition in 2007.

An innovative new twist on an original comedy.

New play from award winning Australian writer.

This is the long-awaited first opera from Luke Bedford featuring the libretto of award-winning poet Glyn Maxwell.

Prize winning adaptations of four seminal Russian plays collected together for the first time. A collection of plays from Richard Crane, these four plays flourished out of a unique collaboration of author and director, which saw them progressing from fringe to mainstream, West End and Off-Broadway.

Brilliantly reviewed comedy from up and coming playwright.

A provocative new play by international dramatist, poet and theorist, Howard Barker.