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A harrowing site-specific drama about people-trafficking by an up-and-coming writer.

A moving and darkly comic story of an Afghanistan veteran's search for redemption, and a fascinating insight into the plight of ex-servicemen in modern Britain.

THE ASTRONAUT'S CHAIR is a thrilling new play by Rona Munro about the race to space.

A short play by one of the UK's leading dramatists. Premiered at the Royal Court in October 2012. 'No one could blame me. I've been hurt. You're a monster.' A child is shut in her room, a dog is dead in the road, someone is kissing her brother in law. A family locked in hatred is sending a son to war. And meanwhile in another country... 'The best short play since Harold Pinter's Mountain Language' Mark Lawson, Front Row 'As always Churchill seems inventive, coolly socialist, bleak yet dazzling, a bit of a shaman' Evening Standard 'An intriguing work, with an underlying atmosphere of unease and menace reminiscent of Pinter... it nags away in the memory long after you have left the theatre' Telegraph

An exhilarating, challenging new play by Amnesty award-winning playwright Clare Bayley.

From the writer of the critically acclaimed plays MOMENT and BOGBOY comes HALCYON DAY - infused with Deirdre Kinahan's hallmark wry humour and humanity. A celebration of the human spirit and our quest for meaning in even the most seemingly hopeless circumstance.

In Sex & God by Linda McLean, tantalising fragments of four women's lives are woven together, transforming ordinary experiences into something extraordinary. Produced by Magnetic North, the play premiered on tour in September 2012.

1949. Small town Colorado. A group of regular American students struggle to accept a foreigner in their midst; their unthinking behaviour will have terrible consequences that are to change world history.

When an irish busker and a young Czech mother meet through a shared love of music, their songwriting sparks a deep connection and a tender, longing romance that neither of them could have expected. Based on the much-loved Oscar-winning film, Once is an extraordinary, original and irresistibly joyous celebration of love, friendship and music. It won eight Tony Awards when it opened on Broadway in 2012, including Best Book and Best New Musical. It opened in Dublin in February 2013 before transferring to the West End. 'charmingly funny and affecting... demonstrates the power of music both to express deep psychic hurt and to perform a cure of sorts' Independent 'quiet, wistful, tender... it has a delicate soulfulness and a truthful charm' Evening Standard 'there is a genuine warmth and inclusiveness to this show... best of all is Enda Walsh's script, which has great, puckish fun applying a bit of Brechtian silliness to the romcom formula' Time Out

A startling and darkly comic drama about childhood, family and fantasy. Winner of the Bruntwood Prize 2011.

A story about dystopian, modern-fairy-tale town where the lines between fact and fiction weave and snag.

A devastating new play about loss and families, by Deirdre Kinahan, one of Ireland's most exciting playwrights.

An intimate and hedonistic examination of a nineteenth-century love triangle, slope explores the affair between the poets Paul Verlaine and Arthur Rimbaud, and its impact on Verlaine's young wife, Mathilde.

A landmark volume which explores the remarkable flowering of radical, visionary and experimental design for performance in Russia from 1913-1933.

The second volume in a series of large-format, lavishly illustrated books documenting for posterity a collection of significant and influential theatrical set, costume, and lighting designs.

A portrait of an eclectic family, held together by the courage to survive.

A collection of six plays by one of the UK's most exciting young writers. Also includes a revealing Introduction by the author.

An urgent political play from the writer behind Let The Right One In and This is England '86. Hope is a funny and scathing fable attacking the squeeze on local government.

A sharp black comedy with a tender heart that explores the paths we take in life and their repercussions on the people we love most.

Many theatre practitioners think of physical theatre as one thing and text-based theatre as another. In this book, Dymphna Callery, author of Through the Body: A practical guide to physical theatre, shows how exercises and rehearsal techniques associated with physical and devised theatre can be applied to scripted plays. Working 'through the body' enables performers to discover what really makes a play work. Drawing on key practitioners, including Jacques Lecoq, Joan Littlewood, Peter Brook and Simon McBurney, The Active Text offers a complete approach to working with a scripted play, leading the reader through a process of active exploration and experimentation that includes: Uncovering a play's internal dynamics Using improvisation and theatre games Exploiting the languages of the body Getting inside the words that are spoken (as well as those that aren't!) Discovering image structures Understanding the impact on the audience Throughout the book, the author draws on a core selection of well-known texts (from Sophocles and Shakespeare to Brecht, Arthur Miller, Steven Berkoff and Sarah Kane), showing how an active approach to text can challenge assumptions about even the most familiar of plays. Packed with theatre games, improvisation exercises and rehearsal techniques, The Active Text is an inspirational guide for performers, directors, students and teachers. It will revitalise work in the rehearsal room, workshop or classroom - anywhere that dramatic text needs to be brought to life.

Eight short plays, all two-handers, from the national theatre of Ireland that represent the very best of new Irish drama.

A funny, touching and at times savage portrait of a family full of longing that's losing its grip - The Last of the Haussmans is a play examining the fate of the revolutionary generation. It premiered at the National Theatre in 2012, starring Julie Walters and Rory Kinnear. Anarchic, feisty but growing old, high-society drop-out Judy Haussman remains in spirit with the ashrams of the 1960s, while holding court in her dilapidated art deco house on the Devon coast. After an operation, she's joined by her wayward offspring, her sharp-eyed granddaughter, a local doctor and a troubled teenager who makes use of the family's crumbling swimming pool. Over a few sweltering months they alternately cling to and flee a chaotic world of all-day drinking, infatuations, long-held resentments, free love and failure. 'A knockout - entertaining, sad and outrageous. [Stephen Beresford] is going to be a major name' Observer 'Beresford's drama is frequently a hoot... you can't not enjoy' Metro 'Beresford's debut is thoughtful and fresh, delighting in the savagery of a dysfunctional family... deliciously comical... drips with smart lines' Evening Standard

A new play about biblical translation from a top UK playwright, marking the King James Bible's 400th Anniversary.

Pete and Rich are two very different brothers. Rich needs to confront ex girlfriend, Lucy, and shadows of his recent past. Pete's search is for one woman in his life he's never known and never knowingly hurt, his daughter. As they each embark on a journey of forgiveness, they discover that, even separated by sixty five miles - people never forget.

Four boys face the tricky transition to adulthood in Ella Hickson's riot of a play. Premiered at High Tide Festival 2012, then Nuffield Theatre, Southampton, and Soho Theatre, London. The Class of 2011 are about to graduate and Benny, Mack, Timp and Cam are due out of their flat. Stepping into a world that doesn't want them, these boys start to wonder whether there's any point in getting any older. How will they find the fight to make it as adults? Before all that they're going to have one hell of a party. It's hot and there'll be girls. Predict a riot. 'Marvellous... a play that both powerfully captures the mood of a generation and addresses permanent truths with exhilarating flair' Independent 'Will leave you with laughter lines' Time Out 'Heartfelt directness of writing that taps into a generation torn between action and inertia' Guardian

Mary Shelley: daughter of Mary Wollstonecraft; lover of Shelley; author of Frankenstein' Helen Edmundson's compelling play explores a crucial episode in the early life of Mary Shelley - her meeting and scandalous elopement aged sixteen with Percy Bysshe Shelley, and its consequences for her sisters, her stepmother and above all, her troubled father, the political philosopher William Godwin. 'Gripping... without ever reducing Mary Shelley to an issue drama, Edmundson suggests the destructive nature of a life lived without compromise' The Times

A virtuosic study of one man's descent into religious mania in small-town Ireland. This edition was published alongside the 2012 production at the National Theatre starring Cillian Murphy.

A unique new approach to the understanding and training of the actor's voice, with an accompanying 110-minute DVD showing the work in action.

From the acclaimed writer of BBC smash-hit comedy Him & Her, Stefan Golaszewski, comes this unflinchingly accurate portrayal of hollow lust, boredom and loneliness.