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Chicago: High School Edition
by Maurine Dallas Watkins, Fred Ebb, John Kander, & Bob Fosse
Adapted in collaboration with iTheatrics, Kander & Ebb's legendary and award-winning musical about fame, fortune and acquittal is now widely available to be performed by High Schools across the wor...
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Regeneration
by Nicholas Wright and Pat Barker
A powerful anthem for the youth of World War One that offers a compassionate look at war and its devastating effects.
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The go-Between
by David Wood and Richard Taylor
Leo Colston - a man haunted by the events of his past - vividly recalls his unwitting role acting as a go-between for the beautiful upper-class Marian and the tenant-farmer Ted.
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The Agatha Christie Collection
Expect mystery, murder and melodrama in this newly expanded of collection of Christie’s plays.
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The Preston Bill
Andy Smith
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The Preston Bill
Andy Smith
This is a work of fiction. Any names, characters, events or locations depicted are the product of the imagination. Any resemblance to actual persons (living or dead) is entirely coincidental. It's also a kind of history play. I'll admit that there are plenty of gaps, but that's OK. You can fill them in. Let's begin. Award-winning theatre-maker Andy Smith presents a new piece of theatre telling a story from the north. The story of a life. The story of our lives. Exploring some of the events of the last eighty years alongside the experience of a man who has lived through it, the work looks to examine as well as challenge some of our ideas of identity, location and history. Created as part of Fuel's New Theatre in Your Neighbourhood project. Co-commisioned by They Eat Culture. Supported by Live at LICA.
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"Master Harold"...and the Boys
Athol Fugard
Full-Length Play, DramaLoading...
"Master Harold"...and the Boys
Full-Length Play, Drama / 3m
Fugard's searing coming-of-age story, loosely based on his own experience in South Africa, concerns the changing relationship between a white teen and the two Black men who work as waiters in his mother’s tea room.
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#aiww: the Arrest of Ai Weiwei
Howard Brenton
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#aiww: the Arrest of Ai Weiwei
Howard Brenton
A timely play based on the true story of a Nobel Laureate. On 3 April 2011, as he was boarding a flight to Taipei, the Chinese Artist Ai Weiwei was arrested at Beijing Airport. Advised merely that his travel "could damage state security", he was escorted to a van by officials after which he disappeared for 81 days. On his release, the government claimed that his imprisonment related to tax evasion. Howard Brenton's play is based on recent conversations with Ai in which he told the story of that imprisonment - by turns surreal, hilarious, and terrifying. A portrait of the Artist in extreme conditions, it is also an affirmation of the centrality of Art and of freedom of speech in civilised society.
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$38,000 For A Friendly Face
Kristin Shepherd
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$38,000 For A Friendly Face
$38,000 For A Friendly Face takes place in our time, in a small town where Bronwyn Bain lived out the last years of her life. Her two daughters, Jane and Annie, arrive less than enthusiastically for their mother's Celebration of Life, not ha…
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(I Am) Nobody's Lunch/gone Missing
Steven Cosson
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(I Am) Nobody's Lunch/gone Missing
Written and directed by Steven Cosson for The Civilians, a New York-based theatre company, with songs by Michael Friedman, Nobody's Lunch is a dark ride through the landscape of American public culture. Turning extensive interviews into a mercurial cabaret-play, the versatile cast inhabits an eccentric cast of characters, all taken from real life.
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(the fall of) The Master Builder
Henrik Ibsen, Zinnie Harris
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(the fall of) The Master Builder
Henrik Ibsen ,Zinnie Harris
Halvard Solness has arrived at the pinnacle of his career. He has just been awarded the prestigious Master Builder award, his beautiful wife still loves him, his beautiful secretary still flirts with him and Prince Charles is coming to open his new building tomorrow. Then a knock at the door propels Solness' past into everyone's future. The only way is down. Zinnie Harris's contemporary take on Henrik Ibsen's classic, The Master Builder, premiered at West Yorkshire Playhouse in September 2017
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The perfect collections of shows to get you ready to start the new school year.
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The Preston Bill
Andy Smith
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The Preston Bill
Andy Smith
This is a work of fiction. Any names, characters, events or locations depicted are the product of the imagination. Any resemblance to actual persons (living or dead) is entirely coincidental. It's also a kind of history play. I'll admit that there are plenty of gaps, but that's OK. You can fill them in. Let's begin. Award-winning theatre-maker Andy Smith presents a new piece of theatre telling a story from the north. The story of a life. The story of our lives. Exploring some of the events of the last eighty years alongside the experience of a man who has lived through it, the work looks to examine as well as challenge some of our ideas of identity, location and history. Created as part of Fuel's New Theatre in Your Neighbourhood project. Co-commisioned by They Eat Culture. Supported by Live at LICA.
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"Master Harold"...and the Boys
Athol Fugard
Full-Length Play, DramaLoading...
"Master Harold"...and the Boys
Full-Length Play, Drama / 3m
Fugard's searing coming-of-age story, loosely based on his own experience in South Africa, concerns the changing relationship between a white teen and the two Black men who work as waiters in his mother’s tea room.
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#aiww: the Arrest of Ai Weiwei
Howard Brenton
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#aiww: the Arrest of Ai Weiwei
Howard Brenton
A timely play based on the true story of a Nobel Laureate. On 3 April 2011, as he was boarding a flight to Taipei, the Chinese Artist Ai Weiwei was arrested at Beijing Airport. Advised merely that his travel "could damage state security", he was escorted to a van by officials after which he disappeared for 81 days. On his release, the government claimed that his imprisonment related to tax evasion. Howard Brenton's play is based on recent conversations with Ai in which he told the story of that imprisonment - by turns surreal, hilarious, and terrifying. A portrait of the Artist in extreme conditions, it is also an affirmation of the centrality of Art and of freedom of speech in civilised society.
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$38,000 For A Friendly Face
Kristin Shepherd
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$38,000 For A Friendly Face
$38,000 For A Friendly Face takes place in our time, in a small town where Bronwyn Bain lived out the last years of her life. Her two daughters, Jane and Annie, arrive less than enthusiastically for their mother's Celebration of Life, not ha…
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(I Am) Nobody's Lunch/gone Missing
Steven Cosson
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(I Am) Nobody's Lunch/gone Missing
Written and directed by Steven Cosson for The Civilians, a New York-based theatre company, with songs by Michael Friedman, Nobody's Lunch is a dark ride through the landscape of American public culture. Turning extensive interviews into a mercurial cabaret-play, the versatile cast inhabits an eccentric cast of characters, all taken from real life.
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(the fall of) The Master Builder
Henrik Ibsen, Zinnie Harris
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(the fall of) The Master Builder
Henrik Ibsen ,Zinnie Harris
Halvard Solness has arrived at the pinnacle of his career. He has just been awarded the prestigious Master Builder award, his beautiful wife still loves him, his beautiful secretary still flirts with him and Prince Charles is coming to open his new building tomorrow. Then a knock at the door propels Solness' past into everyone's future. The only way is down. Zinnie Harris's contemporary take on Henrik Ibsen's classic, The Master Builder, premiered at West Yorkshire Playhouse in September 2017
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10 Out of 12
Anne Washburn
Full-Length Play, Comedy -
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Multiple Authors
Richard Bean plays
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10 Out of 12
Anne Washburn
Full-Length Play, ComedyLoading...
10 Out of 12
Full-Length Play, Comedy / 6w, 8m
Anne Washburn (Mr. Burns) took notes during her tech rehearsals over the years. 10 Out of 12 is a wry and absorbing look at how work forms us and deforms us.
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100 Lunches, A Gourmet Comedy
Leo W. Sears, Jack Sharkey
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100 Lunches, A Gourmet Comedy
Full-Length Play, Comedy / 3w, 3m
In this charming romantic comedy, love blossoms when successful mystery playwright Chuck Reynolds and his nemesis, theatre critic Charity Starr, collaborate on a new play over a series of lunches.
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2 Across
Jerry Mayer
Full-Length Play, Dramatic ComedyLoading...
2 Across
Full-Length Play, Dramatic Comedy
An eighty-minute ride described by critics as "Hilarious," "Witty," "Romantic," "Poignant," and "Wonderfully entertaining."
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21A
Kevin Kling
Full-Length Play, Comedy
The Plays of Philip Ridley
Explore the ground-breaking plays of one of the most influential voices in modern British theatre
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The Preston Bill
Andy Smith
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The Preston Bill
Andy Smith
This is a work of fiction. Any names, characters, events or locations depicted are the product of the imagination. Any resemblance to actual persons (living or dead) is entirely coincidental. It's also a kind of history play. I'll admit that there are plenty of gaps, but that's OK. You can fill them in. Let's begin. Award-winning theatre-maker Andy Smith presents a new piece of theatre telling a story from the north. The story of a life. The story of our lives. Exploring some of the events of the last eighty years alongside the experience of a man who has lived through it, the work looks to examine as well as challenge some of our ideas of identity, location and history. Created as part of Fuel's New Theatre in Your Neighbourhood project. Co-commisioned by They Eat Culture. Supported by Live at LICA.
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"Master Harold"...and the Boys
Athol Fugard
Full-Length Play, DramaLoading...
"Master Harold"...and the Boys
Full-Length Play, Drama / 3m
Fugard's searing coming-of-age story, loosely based on his own experience in South Africa, concerns the changing relationship between a white teen and the two Black men who work as waiters in his mother’s tea room.
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#aiww: the Arrest of Ai Weiwei
Howard Brenton
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$38,000 For A Friendly Face
Kristin Shepherd
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(I Am) Nobody's Lunch/gone Missing
Steven Cosson
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(the fall of) The Master Builder
Henrik Ibsen, Zinnie Harris
