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A play about joy and heartbreak, quarries and transmat beams - a love-letter to British sci-fi television.

Sal and David would rather feed their kids with leftist ideals and welfarism than fancy cuisine. When you've named each of your offspring after your socialist heroes, you've given them a lot to live up to... A new play by Jack Thorne, the end of history has its world premiere at London's Royal Court theatre in 2019.

Published alongside the acclaimed, reimagined West End revival in 2018, this edition of Sondheim's hit musical features the complete revised book and lyrics for the production, plus colour production photographs.

Winner of the 2018 Pulitzer Prize for Drama, an exquisitely original, honest and deftly funny play that explores our need to connect and be loved regardless of the gulfs that disability, race, class, and wealth place between us.

A searing exploration of unconditional love and of the personal sacrifices it demands.

An urgent play about the struggle for optimism and community amid the chaos of a world falling apart.

A painfully funny play, shining a light on one woman's struggle with the dark side of the internet

A play about a cheeky 10-year-old with a plan to win the Weston-super-Mare Beauty Contest, against the backdrop of Black British Civil Rights marches in 1960s Bristol.

An inspiring, hands-on guide to narrative improvisation, by the co-creator and director of the Olivier Award-winning improv show Showstopper! The Improvised Musical.

In this collection of plays from one of our finest dramatists, Caryl Churchill demonstrates her remarkable ability to find new forms to express profound truths about the world we live in. Complete with a new introduction by the author.

An anthology of seven of the best plays from VAULT Festival 2019, London's biggest and most exciting arts festival.

Based on the true story of Mary Barton and the Barton Brood and researched through surveys and interviews, this provocative, funny, and fascinating work imagines a series of encounters between these unknowing half-siblings.

A gripping psychological thriller. 1995, the Swiss Alps. Patricia Highsmith, the queen of the thriller, hides away in her study. A young man turns up, to persuade her to write one final instalment of her best-selling series featuring the master manipulator, Tom Ripley. It soon becomes clear that the stranger is set on something far more sinister.

A provocative new play from the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of ClybournePark.

In 2011, Lynn Nottage began spending time with the people of Reading, Pennsylvania: officially one of the poorest cities in the USA. Sweat is the Pulitzer Prize-winning play that Lynn Nottage wrote following her experience.

With the shadow of hatred festering at its core, One Jewish Boy is a bittersweet comedy fueled by rising anti-Semitism. It premiered at the Old Red Lion Theatre, London, in 2018.

Lewenstein's new play Cougar is about what--and who--people consume. Itpremiered at the Orange Tree Theatre, Richmond, in February 2019.uary 2019.

The latest in NHB's series of Good Audition Guides. Forty fantastic male speeches for teenagers, all written since the year 2000, by some of the most exciting and acclaimed writers working today, from plays that were premiered at many of the UK's most famous and respected venues.

A guide to playwriting from the author of The Libertine.

Two plays from one of the UK's most acclaimed playwrights. This new version of David Edgar's 1983 award-winning hit play, Maydays, has startling parallels to the political revolution of the Millennial Generation. Trying It On, David Edgar's one-person show, also relates the events of 1968 to the turmoil of today.

One night in a small town in County Cork, where everyone knows everyone, things spiral terrifyingly out of control. This stage adaptation of the devestating novel. Shines an unflinching light on the experience of a young woman whose life is changed for ever by a horrific act of violence.

A new play from the writer of King Charles III. Full of the warmth, wit and heartbreak of Christmas, Snowflake is an epic story about generational conflict, fathers and daughters, and whether we're living in the best or worst of times.

From actress, comedian, writer and doodler Jessie Cave, Sunrise is an honest, tender-hearted and uproariously funny story about crying in the woods, sexual misadventures at Harry Potter conventions and Instagram espionage - but also about motherhood and trying to get stuff done.

Set over one evening, Rathmines Road is a play that rages in a tiny room.A play about secret trauma and public revelation, Rathmines Road bristles with tension and interrogates catharsis to ask: when and how do we take responsibility?

A riotous royal love story. The extraordinary untold story of a young Victorian royal and her forbidden love. Victoria's Knickers was premiered by the National Youth Theatre at Soho Theatre in October 2018.

Patience is running out, times have changed. And progress isn't enough. Black British. African American. Here. There. Now. Snapshots of lives, snapshots of experiences of protest; violence vs non-violence, direct action vs demonstrations, ear for eye follows characters navigating their way through society today.

A powerfully dramatic play about Charles Darwin's voyage on board HMS Beagle - an adventure that changed not only his own life, but also the history of the entire world.

Equality is here - now what? In a supposedly `post-gay' America on the brink of passing marriage equality, a first date at a New York bar starts two men on a fearless, funny and fragmented journey leading up to a historic moment of change.

A first collection of plays from the acclaimed dramatist.