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In The Visit (original title Der Besuch der alten Dame), Claire Zachanassian, now a multimillion heiress and an older woman, returns to the impoverished town of her youth with a dreadful bargain: in exchange for returning the town to prosperity through her vast wealth, she wants the townspeople to kill the man who jilted her.

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They sing and argue, they broach dangerous ground, their profound love apparent despite themselves, until the visiting hour is up. Written during the Covid-19 lockdown of 2020, Frank McGuinness's The Visiting Hour premiered in April 2021 at the Gate Theatre, Dublin, in the first online Gate At Home production.

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Home is a moment that's quickly lost. Afterwards you can only sail throughthe ghost of it.

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An award-winning play:'a complex and epic story of how children can be corrupted by the ravages of war'.

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Readers with an interest in Russian literature, culture, or history will welcome this superb translation of Bulgakov's important early work.

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The notion of writing for interdisciplinary collaboration is at the core of the plays featured in Theatre in Pieces: politics, poetics and interdisciplinary collaboration making this a very unique collection. The extensive Introduction and practitioner notes make this an invaluable resource for any student of theatre and performance.

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There Came a Gypsy Riding is written by Frank McGuinness, best known for Someone Who'll Watch Over Me

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Home to the deadliest conflict since World War II. Home to a festival to raise awareness of Congo. That is if Stef can get it off the ground.Adam Brace's anarchic and provocative play unpacks the problems of doing something good about something bad.

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Will this lead to Tice's version of heaven or Cali's dream of hell Things of Dry Hours premiered at the Royal Exchange Theatre, Manchester, in February 2007 and transferred to The Gate Theatre, London.

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I feel so fucking sillybut I thought they meant real peace
fucking hell Katey
I thought they meant that even my body
it might stop
breaking

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Having urgently assembled the British war cabinet, the new Prime Minister is confronted with an intense game of political chess as he tries to persuade peace treaty supporters, including Neville Chamberlain, that Britain must not concede. One man has to make a monumental decision, that will shape the future of the free world.

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Russia. A beautiful country estate. The mid-nineteenth century. Patrick Marber reinterprets Turgenev's A Month in the Country.

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A dark new play by bestselling playwright Simon Stephens which is pan-Euopean, a detective story, crime thriller and a moral parable.

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'What is remarkable about Alan Ayckbourn's comedy is that it contrives to be simultaneously hilarious and harrowing. The settings are simple - a kitchen, a bedroom, a party - but the relationships between the husbands and wives are more complicated.

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Published for the first time together are three of Ayn Rand's most compellingstage plays, gathered for the 100th anniversary of Rand's birth. Includes twonever-before-produced plays--"Ideal" and "Think Twice." Original.

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Originally published: New York: Harper & Row, 1957.

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The three plays collected here mirror the era after King Charles II. In Etherege's "The Man of Mode", Dorimant meets his match. In Wycherley's "The Country Wife", Horner fakes impotence to fool husbands into giving him access to their wives. In Congreve's "Love for Love", the Valentine can win his beloved only if he loses his inheritance.

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I don't know what it is I'm going to do but I'm going to do something. I'm going to be someone. I am! I'm sick of just being me. I'm going to be someone else. Someone better. I'm going to make a difference.

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A raucously funny and romantic family drama by Beth Steel (The House of Shades, Wonderland).

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The second collection of plays from one of Wales' most important playwrights, featuring plays on the theme of politics, family, loneliness, and activism.

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After squandering his wealth with prodigal generosity, a rich Athenian gentleman finds himself deep in debt. Unshaken by the prospect of bankruptcy, he is certain that the friends he has helped so often will come to his aid. But when they learn his wealth is gone, he quickly finds that their promises fall away to nothing...

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At 11.40pm on 14 April 1912, the RMS Titanic, on its maiden voyage from Southampton to New York, struck an iceberg. It took testimony from 97 witnesses. Full of intrigue, bravery and human frailty, Owen McCafferty's Titanic retells the survivors' stories, using dialogue taken word-for-word from the hundred-year-old accounts.

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Bloomsbury Arden Shakespeare is an imprint of Bloomsbury.

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Inspired by true events, this absorbing play weaves movement and folk song into a stirring tale of militarism, corruption and the power of rebellion.