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Cover of Chewing Gum Dreams
by Michaela Coel
Language: English
Release Date: May 3, 2013

Tracey Gordon, the 67 bus, friendship, sex, UK garage, school, music, teachers, friendship, periods, emergency contraceptive, friendship, raves, tampons, white boys, God, money. Friendship. Aaron, Candice, sex and Connor Jones. Chewing Gum Dreams is a one-woman play that recalls those last days of...
Cover of We're Gonna Make You Whole
by Yasmine Van Wilt
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2011

‘The Gulf is a graveyard. But come on in, the water’s fine... You’re coming with me on one fiery fucking bronco ride. Ask me nicely, and I’ll let you be on top.’ Based loosely on the testimonies of more than one hundred Gulf of Mexico residents, We’re Gonna Make You Whole is a passionate...
Cover of Reno
by Roy Smiles
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2018

Reno is the story of actress Marilyn Monroe and playwright Arthur Miller’s marriage imploding in Nevada during the making of her last movie The Misfits. Miller is the writer, Monroe the star, but Miller finds himself the referee between Marilyn and tyrannical director John Huston, as she finds comfort...
Cover of Worlds End
by Paul Sellar
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2008

Kat is moving out of the London flat she shares with ex-boyfriend, Ben. Helping her are best friend, Thea, and new man in her life, Josh. Ben (who's not even meant to be there) is hurt and angry, and still in love with Kat. But is it now too late to tell her...?
Cover of The Bee
by Hideki Noda, Colin Teevan
Language: English
Release Date: June 18, 2012

One evening, Mr Ido arrives home from work to find his house surrounded by police and TV cameras. Inside, his wife and child are being held hostage by an escaped murderer. An otherwise normal day in an otherwise comfortable life is not ending how it should. But rather than play the victim and accept...
Cover of Some People Talk About Violence
by Lulu Raczka, Barrel Organ
Language: English
Release Date: December 9, 2015

“Outside someone is screaming – Just going for it – She wonders what would happen if I just started screaming?” In a world of globalization and greed, of zero-hour contracts and The Big Bang Theory, violence worms its way into every aspect of our lives. Following their debut show Nothing...
Cover of Somewhere Fun
by Jenny Schwartz
Language: English
Release Date: May 20, 2013

Rosemary and Evelyn met “a hundred thousand years ago” in Central Park when their children were barely born. Somewhere Fun reunites the two women thirty-five years later on Madison Avenue, one windy fall day. With their children now grown and the world changing rapidly before (what’s left of)...
Cover of The Bards of Bromley and Other Plays
by Perry Pontac, Maureen Lipman
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 2015

Having produced a new Shakespearean canon in his previous collection of plays Codpieces, Perry Pontac turns his attention to other great names in European culture. The Three Seagulls is a Chekhovian comedy with representative characters drawn from each of Chekhov's major plays, as well as a selection...
Cover of School Play
by Suzy Almond
Language: English
Release Date: June 20, 2001

Fifteen-year-old Charlie has serious ambitions - to mess with teachers' heads, to front a gang, to ride the motorbike that blows all competition out of the water. But when the new music teacher, Miss Fry, arrives, things start to change.
Cover of Crossing Jerusalem & Other Plays
by Julia Pascal
Language: English
Release Date: May 9, 2017

Crossing Jerusalem describes twenty-four hours in the life of an Israeli family in March 2002, as they cross Jerusalem at the beginning of the latest intifada. During this single day, personal and political history burst into the present. A complex family drama explodes in the most politically tense...
Cover of The Yiddish Queen Lear: AND Woman on the Moon
by Julia Pascal
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2001

The Yiddish Queen Lear New York in the late 1930s: a once-famous Yiddish actress gives her theatre business over to her three daughters. The Yiddish Queen Lear is a story of love, infedelity, betrayal and exile, which examines the moment when Jewish East European and American cultures mix,...
Cover of Julia Pascal: Political Plays
by Julia Pascal
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2013

Sex and violence in Stockholm, Tel Aviv and Paris. Political murder in suburban London. Death, love and homicide in New York. War in the belly of a whale. These are the themes in Julia Pascal’s latest collection which takes place in Europe in 1982, in London in 1946 and in a whale at any time. HONEYPOT:...
Cover of The Holocaust Trilogy: The Dybbuk, Dead Woman on Holiday, Theresa
by Julia Pascal
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2000

Includes the plays Theresa, A Dead Woman on Holiday and The Dybbuk Presented as a trilogy at the New End Theatre in 1995 before touring much of Europe, The Dybbuk pays homage to Anski’s great Russian classic. Set in a ghetto in Eastern Europe in 1942, it traces the final moments of five irreligious...
Cover of Chekhov in Hell
by Dan Rebellato
Language: English
Release Date: November 4, 2010

I don't know who he is but he's old, he's got to know stuff... he's got to be like wise and stuff yeah? Anton Chekhov, masterful playwright and mirror to Russian society, awakening from one hundred years of sleep, is thrust rudely into twenty first century Britain. Reality shows, fashionistas,...
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