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‘The last thing I want is all these total strangers, who live literally inches away from me, knowing every last detail of my life.' When a young woman buys her first flat it seems that all her dreams are coming true. Then she meets him. Overbearing, brash, and prone to spectacular gaffs,...

Dickens in America is an imaginary lecture given by Charles Dickens on his travels to America in the nineteenth century. Drawn from his many letters, speeches and his book American Notes, this play – first produced at Bristol Old Vic in 1998 – is a gripping journey into Dickens’ life and work.

Cornish conspiracy theorist Virgil Ploy is paranoid. He thinks that everyone is out to get him – that includes his mother and her new husband, Dusty. He might well be right. It’s hard to know who to trust these days. But then, living on top of a secret M.O.D. chemical weapons plant can do strange...

Although his mainstream career has recently included major work for the RSC and the National, the five new pieces collected here show just how close playwright and director Neil Bartlett has stayed to the radical queer cultural roots that first brought him to prominence in the early 1980s. Commissioned...

Adapted for The National Theatre by Carl Heap 'The day is hot, the capulets abroad, And, if we meet, we shall not scape a brawl; For now, these hot days, is the mad blood stirring.'What's in a name? Imagine being born into the wrong family in the wrong place at the wrong time; and then you...

Mogadishu, 1993. Paul is a Canadian photojournalist who is about to take a picture that will win him the Pulitzer Prize. Princeton, the present day, Dan is an American writer who is struggling to finish his play about ghosts. Both men live worlds apart but a chance encounter over the airwaves sparks...

'He was scared shitless every minute he was in there. And he knew. He knew you lot was after him.' Tommy Anderson was born in a prison, and he died in one too. The last moments of his life are recorded on CCTV, and yet no one can answer the simple question: whose fault was it? His...

Times are tough for the family in the wood They'd eat like kings if only they could But hunger gnaws - famine stalks the land Something quite wicked has the upper hand! Poor mother and father must do "what is best"... And Hansel and Gretel will be put to the test! Armed with their very last...

‘If I died tomorrow, I would have died having done nothing. So I made a promise there and then that we would live tonight like it was our last’ He’s been let down, belittled and ignored but tonight none of that matters – it’s Friday and Joe is getting smashed....

An incendiary piece of experimental storytelling from three-time Fringe First winner Chris Goode. Framed by two violent deaths – the apparently inexplicable suicide of a young gay man, and the murder of Drummer Lee Rigby outside the Royal Artillery Barracks in Woolwich in May 2013 – Men...

Charlotte is fifteen and grieving over the loss of her beautiful mother. Her relationship with her father is put to the test as she discovers sex, ambition and ‘beauty product’. Inspired by Euripides but with its sights set firmly on contemporary America, A Brief History of Helen...

Shrubs of broom grow black and twisted As if by Devil's fingers And the wind that never ceases, Like a chorus from the dead. Those who lived here it's for certain, would grow dark and tortured too' In Jamaica Inn, at the heart of the bleak Bodmin Moor, young Mary Yellen soon discovers mysterious goings-on...

If you could lie without flinching, corrupt without caring and succeed at all costs – how far could you go…how much could you make? From the early promise of the 70s through to unrelenting capitalism of the 80s and 90s, follow Gorge on the journey from innocence to savage greed and knotted...

December 1914. As families across Europe gather to celebrate Christmas, a generation of young men find themselves far away from their loved ones in the trenches of the Western Front. There they face a world seemingly devoid of any peace or goodwill. But on Christmas Eve 1914, as the men of the Warwickshire...