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A complex and controversial play from the master playwright.

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I'm the man to do it. Nobody can doubt John Christie's passion or his formidable will: his wooing of his opera singer wife has been marked by a determination befitting a man who won the Military Cross at the Battle of Loos.

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Sometimes referred to as the Chinese Hamlet and tracing its origins to the 4th century BC, The Orphan of Zhao was the first Chinese play to be translated in the West, now adapted by James Fenton.

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A controversial play that went on to become one of the longest running West End transfers of all time

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There was a place, where the Christians and the Muslims existed in relative peace. Everyone was more or less happy, except for the Jews - who were few and had to be thankful to their Christian Overlords, for the little space they were accorded. Then one day more Jews came, and it soon became apparent to them that they'd need their own space...

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The play begins with Max and Charlotte, a couple whose marriage seems about to rupture. But nothing one sees on a stage is the real thing, and some things are less real than others. But is it the real thing The Real Thing was first performed at the Strand Theatre, London, on 16 November 1982.

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Patrick Marber's brilliant new play The Red Lion premieres at the National Theatre in June 2015.

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Bringing great writing back into print - a Faber Finds book.

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He . . . And I'm wondering if . . . To be absolutely honest with you . . . I'm even wondering if . . . Florian Zeller's The Son forms the final part in a trilogy with The Mother and The Father, all of which are translated by Christopher Hampton.

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Rosia Bay, Gibraltar, 1982. Jock and Darren have the longest, hottest summer ahead; watching pirate copies of "Rambo" and fighting the local lads. But for the sons and daughters of the British Forces, another war beginning in the South Atlantic will soon bring a dark heart to their world.

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Jung, and his decision to experiment, using Freud's controversial new method of psychoanalysis, with a young Russian patient, Sabine Spielrein.

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Under the cover of his South London pub, Peachum plies a successful trade in small-time scams. In Nick Dear's contemporary version of Gay's The Beggars' Opera, we are shown a modern London teeming with petty thieves, gangland hoods, corrupt politicians and bent coppers.

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'Neil LaBute is the first dramatist since David Mamet and Sam Shepard--since Edward Albee, actually to mix sympathy and savagery, pathos and power.' - Donald Lyons, New York Post.

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This fourth collection of Tony Harrison's poetry for stage contains his highly acclaimed translations of Aeschylus, Aristophanes and Euripides. Included are the plays The Oresteia, and The Common Chorus (Parts I and II).

This volume contains introductions, written by Tony Harrison, to each of the plays.

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Shakespeare's delightful comedy of misunderstanding and misidentification.

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This play is one of three sequential, self-contained plays which tell the story of some of the main actors in the drama of Russian radical opposition in the years pivoted on the European revolutions of 1848. The trilogy spans the early 1830s and the late 1860s.

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Provides an introduction to the world of comedy writing. From the nature of humor and the principles of comedic structure through the various forms of comedy writing, this work describes what makes modern readers and film-goers laugh - and why. It is intended for any writer wanting to master the art of comedy writing.

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Frank's got the interview; it's his big break. He just has to convince two formidable women from the corporation and he'll have his chance to get back to Russia. But somehow, history is working against them all.

Wild East premiered at the Royal Court Theatre, London, in February 2005.

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Blends the supernatural and the mundane, the illusory and the substantial. This work treats love as tragic, poignant, absurd and farcical.

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Follows the romantic intrigues of both ordinary Athenians and Oberon and Titania - King and Queen of the Fairies.

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A quirky exploration of Shakespeare and his plays, full of facts, figures and trivia to amuse, impress and entertain.