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In a manner evoking Ian McEwan's "Atonement" and Nick Hornby's "About a Boy," acclaimed author Maynard weaves a beautiful, poignant tale of love, sex, adolescence, and devastating treachery as seen through the eyes of a young teenage boy.

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Inspired by the recent global financial crisis, the latest play from rising theatre star Beth Steel tells the story of the similar crisis that hit US banks and Latin American countries in the 70s and 80s.

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A young man arrives in a dying city with seashells in his pockets. He doesn't know who he is, or how he got here. He goes by the only name he can think of: Lanark.

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Over the next thirty years, his life there will be dominated by three women. In this funny and touching new play, we see behind the faade of 'the Bard of Humberside' and into his complex private life. Larkin With Women premired at the Stephen Joseph Theatre, Scarborough, in November 1999.

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Chancellor Rieger is leaving office. While his former secretary, and the former to his former secretary, grapple with the mechanics of change and his family prepare to vace an uncertain future, the chancellor himself considers his legacy amid visits from journalists, an infatuated student and his arch-rival and possible successor, Patrick Klein.

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Les Liaisons Dangereuses is Christopher Hampton's masterful adaptation for the stage of Pierre Choderlos de Laclos's famous novel, about the conspiracy to corrupt a young girl barely out of her convent. Winner of the Evening Standard Award for Best Play and the Laurence Olivier Award for Best New Play in 1986.

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I'm an award-winning business woman. Beneath the surface, though, the cracks are starting to show. Linda by Penelope Skinner premiered at the Royal Court Theatre, London, in November 2015.

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In Local, Liz takes the audience on a journey through the rural landscape and environment of her home, reconnecting with voices from the past and her young family now.

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The genius of Dickens meets PJ Harvey's fierce, lyrical songs in this romantic and propulsive thriller adapted by Ben Power (The Lehman Brothers).

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Long Day's Journey into Night was written in 1940 but not staged until 1956, after O'Neil's death. Unashamedly autobiographical, it is, as he puts it himself in the dedicatory note, 'a play of old sorrow, written in tears and blood', a harrowing attempt to understand himself and his family.

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Ferdinand, King of Navarre and his lords Berowne, Dumaine, and Longaville agree to form an austere academy, taking a solemn to have no contact with women for three years. But when the Princess of neighbouring France arrives with her female attendants, their pledge is quickly placed under strain.

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Rebecca Gilman's Luna Gale received its UK premiere at the Hampstead Theatre, London, in June 2015.

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But to keep control of the story, and how they tell it, the women must fight against a rising tide.

Penelope Skinner's passionate, searingly funny play opened at the Harold Pinter Theatre, London, in October 2023.

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In Aristophanes' most popular play, sex is a powerful agent of reconciliation. As war ravages ancient Greece, a band of women, led by Lysistrata, promise to deny their husbands all sex until they stop fighting. And the battle of the sexes begins. Revised reissue.

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A drama about an armaments king, his daughter in the Salvation army and a foundling Professor of Greek. The society that makes Barbara necessary is repellent, but should we admire or condemn do-gooders like her

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Mametz by Owen Sheers is one of a choice of six set plays on WJEC's A level Drama specification.

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Explores the role of the artist, the function of women in society, and the author's theory of Creative Evolution. This title intends to expose the eternal struggle between the sexes.

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This third richly varied collection of plays by Marina Carr was published to coincide with the Royal Shakespeare Company's premiere of Hecuba at the Swan Theatre, Stratford-upon-Avon, in September 2015. Sixteen Possible Glimpses imagines sixteen fleeting moments in Anton Chekhov's short life and work.