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Cover of Telstar
by James Hicks, Nick Moran
Language: English
Release Date: June 22, 2005

Set in the backdrop of early 60s London, Telstar is the story of the World's first Independent record producer, Joe Meek. A maverick genius who enjoyed phenomenal early success with ‘Telstar’, the biggest selling record of its time, before bad luck, depression, heart break and paranoia forced...
Cover of Joan & Bullish: Two Plays
by Lucy J Skilbeck, Milk Presents
Language: English
Release Date: September 14, 2017

JOAN is an earthy story of courage, conviction and hope. Performed by drag king champion Lucy Jane Parkinson, history’s greatest gender-warrior Joan of Arc takes to the stage, dragging up as the men she defies in this smash-hit show. In BULLISH, ancient mythology meets modern gender negotiation....
Cover of Hindle Wakes
by Stanley Houghton
Language: English
Release Date: September 7, 2012

It's holiday week in the Lancashire town of Hindle, just before the First World War. Fanny Hawthorne, a spirited, determined mill girl, has just returned from a weekend in Blackpool with her friend Mary Hollins. At least that's what she tells her parents. In fact, she's been spending the weekend with...
Cover of Light
by Simon McBurney, Matthew Broughton,
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2013

Based on the book by Torgny Lindgren A man goes on a journey in search of love and returns to his village carrying death in the form of a plague-ridden rabbit. The village is ravaged by sickness, and of those who survive, none any longer knows what is right and what is wrong. The opposing values...
Cover of Whiter than Snow & Diary of an Action Man
by Mike Kenny
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2009

Two plays for young people by one distinctive voice. Diary of An Action Man and Whiter Than Snow reveal an imagination that has raised the writer Mike Kenny onto the international stage. Renowned for producing multi-layered, stimulating children’s plays, his work often also appeals to adults. Refreshingly...
Cover of Whiskey Tango Foxtrot
by Rebecca Crookshank
Language: English
Release Date: February 19, 2016

‘Happy 17th Birthday Crookshank, how ‘bout a cup of SUCK IT THE F**K UP?!’ 'With over 4 million views on Channel 4 News online and a critically acclaimed run at the 2015 Edinburgh Fringe Festival, multi-award nominated Whiskey Tango Foxtrot is based on the true story of ex Airwoman Crookshank...
Cover of Absolute Hell
by Rodney Ackland
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2017

Set in a Soho drinking Club just after World War II, this savage, witty slice of Bohemian life in London was reviled by one critic as ‘an insult to the British people’. Its title then was The Pink Room, as close as the law would allow for a play in which one of its central characters is a drunken...
Cover of Parents' Evening
by Bathsheba Doran
Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2018

“Would you please remember that it’s not us they’re assessing.” She’s been disruptive in class. She’s rude to the teachers. And now she wants to learn the trumpet. But whose performance is really being judged? A mother and father prepare to discuss their daughter’s progress at...
Cover of Dennis of Penge
by Annie Siddons
Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2018

Wendy is downtrodden. She is one of the outcasts, the underclass, the meek and the bleakly prospected. She didn’t stand a chance of succeeding. Washed up and heartbroken, the highlight of her existence is her daily shuffle to the chicken shop. On one particularly hard day she re-encounters...
Cover of Jonathan Gems: Three Plays
by Jonathan Gems
Language: English
Release Date: August 3, 2016

Susan’s Breasts ‘Gems’s piece is a bitter dissection of the heroin generation, where bright young things attempt to maintain their rigid codes of personal freedom and loveless sex … Sparky, sexy, sterile Susan is the object of Gems’s despair, and the object of desire for her predatory...
Cover of The Incredible Adventures of See Thru Sam
by Johnny McKnight
Language: English
Release Date: September 24, 2012

Sam McTannan is just a typical 15 year old, with one exception. Sam is a Superhero! He can literally turn See-Thru when it suits him, only today something is wrong. In Superhero comics they would call it a blip. Sam's powers are failing him and the people he doesn’t want to see him start paying...
Cover of Wendy Hoose
by Johnny McKnight
Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2016

'Hooking up when you’re legless never did run smooth Laura and Jake just want sex. Late Friday night drunken sex. Nothing more. No strings attached. But getting your leg over is sometimes more difficult than you think. Wendy Hoose is a no-holds-barred smash hit comedy about two twenty-year-olds searching for love in all the wrong places!
Cover of Stop and Search
by Gabriel Gbadamosi
Language: English
Release Date: April 2, 2019

A driver picks up a young man crossing Europe. Two police officers work a surveillance case. A passenger directs her taxi to the edge of a bridge. Three conversations grow increasingly uneasy. From award-winning writer Gabriel Gbadamosi comes a visceral and poetic new play, exploring a time...
Cover of The Claim
by Tim Cowbury
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2017

The Claim gently invites you into the most British of interviews, then morphs into a dizzying onslaught of bureaucracy and prejudice. A bold, imaginative response to the stories of those seeking refuge in the UK, this play asks what happens when your life is at stake and all you have to save it are your words.
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