Produced at Hampstead Theatre, London, in 1980. This play was revived by the National Theatre, London, in July 2007.…

'The setting is a schoolroom near Manchester where an evening class of budding comics congregate for a final briefing from…

\nThe bark creeps up my body like a rising sea level. I wonder what will happen when it reaches my heart.\n…

• Rok vydání 1967

'This remarkable play is about a nightmare all women must have dreamed at some time, and most men...'Ronald Bryden, Observer…

Benjamin Britten, sailing uncomfortably close to the wind with his new opera, Death in Venice, seeks advice from his former…

Stuff Happens premiered at the National Theatre, London, in 2004 and has subsequently been performed around the world. This…

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• Rok vydání 2007

Fishamble's world premiere of The Pride of Parnell Street opened at the Tricycle Theatre, London, and as part of the Dublin…

A collection of poems.…

Presents a virtual wonderland that provides total sensory immersion. This book explores the consequences of living out our…

\nAn epic, life-spanning tale of friendship, music, and the moments that change a person forever.\n…

\nA captivating exploration of Britain\'s most iconic contemporary buildings, from the Barratt home to the Millennium Dome.…

This educational edition, with the full play text and an introduction to the playwright, features a detailed analysis of the…

Adapted by the author from his autobiographical memoir, The Lady in the Van tells the story of Miss Mary Shepherd, whom Alan…

\nA selection of Shakespeare\'s poems and dramatic speeches, along with the author\'s accompanying essay. It intends to show…

Not one of us must breathe a word of what we've found. It's a dark and stormy night. Treasure Island, Robert Louis…

The central character of this play is Hugh O'Neill, Earl of Tyrone, who led an Irish and Spanish alliance against the armies…

• Rok vydání 1996

Lorca's Blood Wedding is a classic of twentieth-century theatre. Lorca uses it to investigate the subjects which fascinated…

The play was revived by the Donmar Warehouse, London, in February 2018. Winner of the London Critics' Circle Award for Best…

The news that a government inspector is due to arrive in a small Russian town sends its bureaucrats into a panicked frenzy.…

\nChosen as one of Sight & Sound\'s \'Best Film Books of the Year\'John Boorman is one of the cinema\'s authentic…

\nSet inside a men\'s public toilet, Boys on the Verge of Tears is a bold, kaleidoscopic tale of violence and vulnerability.…

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• Rok vydání 2005

Whether you are a professional actor looking for fresh audition pieces, an amateur in search of competition-worthy…

• Rok vydání 2011

Luxuriating in her fading moneyed world and regardless of the increasingly hostile forces outside, she and her brother snub…

Yellow Moon is a modern Bonnie and Clyde tale that follows the fortunes of two teenagers on the run. The play premiered at…

On 1 July 1916, the 36th (Ulster) Division took part in one of the bloodiest battles in human history, the Battle of the…

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• Rok vydání 2009

Joseph Haydn is one of the greatest and most innovative of all composers, yet in some ways he is still curiously…

Throughout the remote and forgotten corners of the British Isles, Frank Hardy offers the promise of redemption to the sick…

• Rok vydání 2007

I know now, Kostya, I understand that in our work - doesn't matter whether it's acting or writing - what's important isn't…

The brain builds a narrative to steady us from moment to moment, but it is absolutely an illusion. This title features three…

\nThe people who buy paintings like this aren\'t just driven by aesthetic desire. A story that catapults them into the orbit…

Professional slackers and best friends KJ and Jasper spend their days talking music and Bukowski outside back of a coffee…

\nThe revised and updated edition of Zinnie Harris\'s powerful reimagining of Shakespeare\'s brutal tragedy, telling Lady…

Simon Weinberg is dead. And, on a November morning, six people gather at his funeral - brothers and a sister, lovers and…

When an invitation to The Ball arrives at the Ash girl's house, from Prince Amir, she can't bring herself to believe that…

\nMany of the poems in The Missing Months occupy the strange hiatus afforded by lockdown. Between the crackle of radio…

Elegy imagines a very-near future in which radical and unprecedented advances in medical science mean that it's possible to…

In 1934, a group of Ashington miners and a dental mechanic hired a professor from Newcastle University to teach an Art…

Sophie and Calliope have never been to school. Their mum ran away from home when she was seventeen to join the New Age…

I can't take care of you anymore. Martha is their mother.That Face premiered at the Royal Court Theatre, London, in April…

Or a hysterical night of name-calling, tantrums and tears before bedtime?Boys will be boys, but the adults are usually worse…

\nHallway-dwelling Semyon is unemployed and disheartened with life. On the night of the deed, a party grows towards a…

\nI was eight years old when I come to H\'Inglan\' - I travel on my mother\'s passportAugust Henderson, fifty-two years in…

A restaurant. Two curved banquettes. It's a celebration. Celebration is Pinter's new play which displays a vivid zest for…

• Rok vydání 2009

\nLiubov Ranevskya, a widowed landowner returns home more or less insolvent after five years abroad. Everything appears just…

Her flatmate Cassie is engaged in a fervent struggle against patriarchal oppression. In a city where Gumtree can feel like…

Greg is overheard admitting that his girlfriend Steph is no beauty, but that he wouldn't change her for the world. She is…

Counterpointing the experiences of a fiercely intelligent Englishwoman flown into France as a secret agent during the Second…