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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.

Two plays from Gotthold Lessing and translated into English by Anthony Meech and Ernest Bell. These plays contrast one another. Sara is a play based on tragedy and Minna Von Barnhelm is a comedy. A good base to start exploring the different genres of Lessing.

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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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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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The need for love is intensified by grief. When the last guests leave Vince's wake, his immediate family turn to each other, longing to connect. But the family proves to be a burden as well as a refuge as they struggle to find the comfort they crave.

Love Me Tonight premiered at the Hampstead Theatre, London, in October 2004.

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The Mercer family's fortune started in eighteenth-century England, increased via South African gems in the nineteenth, and is managed on an ethical basis today.

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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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Includes the plays De Sade Show, Persons Unknown and Salto Moltale A second series of plays, originally written for and performed by the Glasgow Citizens' Theatre.

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The newest volume in Michael Frayn's comic trio: thirsty 'pre-loaded' new text files in a no-fuss, non-digital entertainment system.

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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.

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This second collection of Martin Crimp's work includes the plays Attempts on Her Life, The Misanthrope, No One Sees the Video and The Country. 'Crimp writes with extraordinary precision . . . The outside world is described with almost hallucinatory clarity . . .

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The latest collection of plays confirms Martin Crimp's reputation as one of the most original and exciting talents writing for the theatre today.