Drama

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Report copyright infringementby Edwin Sanchez (Author)Trapped in horrendous and cramped living conditions with his father and grandfather, Rosario Cortez battles to break his family's cycle of poverty and remove his son from the violence and squalor of the urban ghetto. "Few playwrights are persuasive enough to make an audience root for a young man who batters his girlfriend and considers kidnapping and murder to get what he wants. But from the moment we meet Rosario Cortez, singing to his in...

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Report copyright infringementby Henrik Johan Ibsen (Author), Anya Reiss (Adapted by)If I get run over tomorrow, how are you paying the Amex off?If you get run over tomorrow, why should I care because I am flinging myself into the road after you. Nora and Torvald's marriage vows are a binding contract, but when scandal threatens to wreck their lives, it's time to renegotiate the terms. Money, sex, power - this time nothing's off the table. This new version by Critics' Circle Theatre Award winn...

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Report copyright infringementby Donnie Mack (Author), Zo-Alonzo Gross (Editor), Alexia L. Zakariya (Compiled by)One man's riveting tale of survival in the streets of a city that can be both brutal & illustrious. Donnie Mack's debut is a masterpiece for its originality, candor & cinematic drama. It moves like a film that you cannot turn away from & is a book you will not be able to put down. This is real, this is ugly, this is Beautiful this is just the beginning ladies & gentl...

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Report copyright infringementby Craik (Author)This rich and challenging play ranges over the supreme myth of Oidipous and his doomed family. With its brooding imagery, extravagant language, ebullient rhetoric and scenic display it is quintessential Euripides. With its broad, yet unified, thematic sweep it offers important points of comparison with other Theban plays and valuable insights into late fifth century religion, politics and society.For this volume Elizabeth Craik has prepared a new ...

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Report copyright infringementby Phillip McMahon (Author)You can paint your placards 'til the cows come home, but until you have marched through this town in five inch heels and fishnets, you will never know what it is to truly be a faggot on the front line. Told against the backdrop of Dublin's burgeoning gay rights movement of the 1980s and 1990s and the contemporary LGBTQ+ community of today, Once Before I Go charts the close friendship of Lynn, Daithí, and the luminous Bernard, and sits on...

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Report copyright infringementby Sandy Rustin (Author)Sylvia and Beau find themselves in an English countryside cottage for their yearly rendezvous, and Sylvia knows this time it will be the beginning of their new life together. But when Beau demurs on a shared future, and their spouses arrive at the cottage, she realizes that this home-away-from-home is a refuge for determining a new path forward and decides to expose her love affair to her husband and her lover's wife. With a tip of the hat ...

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Report copyright infringementby Nicholas Pierpan (Author)He wants me to fuck about with paper clips in some office with a smile on my face, fuck him . . . but there's just one thing I've got to take care of first. I've got to do something to make this right. Four years on from the collapse of the Lehman Brothers and still we find ourselves in crisis. It's time to work out what's wrong. It's time to look at the heart of the system. You Can Still Make A Killing is the story of the normal men an...

First Light: Five Plays for the Very Young

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Report copyright infringementby Matt Bassett (Author), Tia Shearer Bassett (Author)2-10 actorsNonverbal. Hyper-engaging. Deeply artistic. Unrelentingly playful.Two robots vie for the audience's attention as they try to out-beep-boop each other. A live bass player underscores a journey deep into a cave (that happens to look like a cardboard box). A tent becomes a vast cosmos to explore with the help of a beatboxer. A rainforest wakes up into a glorious cacophony of sounds as we meet its affabl...

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Report copyright infringementby Tiggy Bayley (Author)Daisy Wright is in her early twenties, broke, furious and freshly bereaved. Taking a stopgap job as a one-to-one support assistant in an inner-city primary school, she's assigned to Paddy Connors: a sharp, chaotic Irish Traveller boy with a talent for disruption and a grief he can't name. As Daisy ricochets between the staffroom, the toilets and her sofa, an unlikely friendship begins to crack open her numbness. Brutally funny and quietly d...

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Report copyright infringementby Mark Weinman (Author)- Do you have to hold your breath? ... Can you do that?- Yeah. Anyone can.- Not me. Can't be doing without breath. I'd hate to drown. I'm a big fan of air ... 400 miles from home, James has started a new career as a rigger - two weeks onshore, two weeks offshore - existing between two very different spaces; and his daughter Dyl is with him in neither of them.Instead he has Ryan, his live-in landlord - sarcastic, free-spirited and liable to...

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Report copyright infringementby Simon Longman (Author)I think I can feel the world turning a little. It feels like it's just grinding to a halt. Mike is a 16-year-old with a bully of a brother and a mum who doesn't speak. Sarah is a weed-smoking teen who can't wait to get out of their dead-end town. One hot summer their lives collide in a blur of hormones, loneliness and dreaming as they discover that growing up is just as confusing as they say. Funny, poignant and sharply reminiscent of the...

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Report copyright infringementby Tara Robinson (Author), Steffan Donnelly (Author)Jones and Davis are fighting.There's a skeleton in the well.There's more to being Welsh than having the accent, isn't there? Written for a single performer, Tara Robinson and Steffan Donnelly's My Body Welsh is a lyrical thriller which guides the audience through Llanfair-pwllgwyngyll-gogery-chwyrn-drobwll-llan-tysilio-gogo-goch and into a world of slippery small-town myth-making. My Body Welsh is a vibrant, part...

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Report copyright infringementby Kim Wedler (Author)Bovey Tracey is in Torquay staying at "The Hamlet Inn" where he hopes to enjoy a peaceful weekend. Also enjoying their stay, are a group of senior singers from Streatham, an Elvis impersonator, his deluded wife, a part time photographer and a couple of "misunderstood" men; just the usual crowd at "The Hamlet Inn". Whilst pouring himself a pomegranate juice in the breakfast room Bovey overhears two guests conjuring up a plan to steal what they...

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Report copyright infringementby James Phillips (Author)She came to us one dawn. The girl. Far outOne dawn alone beneath the wine dark sea. One day it starts to rain and no-one knows why. And it doesn't stop. Far out on the North Sea a fisherman raises a girl in his net, miraculously alive from the deep sea. Is she one of the migrants now washing up on English shores? Or someone sent for some higher purpose?Commissioned by Hull UK City of Culture 2017 this epic and extraordinary collaboration ...

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Report copyright infringementby Harley Granville Barker (Author)We should all have been taught more of life and less good manners It is three years since Agnes, an artist, left her unfaithful husband Henry. Now he writes to her in her Kensington studio begging to reunite, but Agnes married young; her innocence has gone and her ambition and independence is growing. As she travels from London to France, Agnes finds herself torn between Otho, a worldly Danish artist and Alec, an infatuated young...

The Sugar-Coated Bullets of the Bourgeoisie: The Formation of Modern China

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Report copyright infringementby Anders Lustgarten (Author)Our China is now the worst of all worlds. Communist politics controlled by greedy capitalists, raw capitalist economics controlled by corrupt Communists. Because they're all the same people! At least under me, the people knew what they were tightening their belts for. Anders Lustgarten's epic play covers the years 1949 when Chairman Mao founded the Communist Party of China to the present day when investors swoop in to make money off th...

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Report copyright infringementby Philip Ridley (Author)A doorway to a new future is ready to open. We are the hinge of that moment. We will let the door swing wide. On a beautiful spring evening - when both moons are full - two teenagers vow eternal love. It is a moment that will have cataclysmic consequences. Not just for them, but for the world on which they live. A world where Prom Night is a matter of life or death, where weapons are grown and trained like pets, and where a chosen few are ...

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Report copyright infringementby Kefi Chadwick (Author)They don't care about the truth or changing anything. They just want to discredit us. Bury us under a load of insinuation and then shut us up by paying us off. I can't bear to bleed out my pain and it not mean anything. When Mel meets Dave at a protest, she believes she has met her kindred spirit. Dave soon becomes central to her life and her activist friends. But is he who he appears to be? An emotionally compelling drama that explores l...

Fracked!: Or: Please Don't Use the F-Word

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Report copyright infringementby Alistair Beaton (Author)How would you feel about sitting in front of that nice old village pub on a sunny afternoon while convoys of 40-ton tankers roll past six feet away? Deerland Energy's plans to drill for shale gas in the pretty village of Fenstock are going well. The company is looking at big profits. They can count on the support of distinguished scientists working in university departments funded by the energy companies while at local level, Councillor ...

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Report copyright infringementby Martin Jr. Grams (Author)This is the HARDBACK version. When Dashiell Hammett's THE ADVENTURES OF SAM SPADE made its debut over CBS in August of 1946, the series became an instant success. Howard Duff, a virtual unknown among Hollywood circles, found himself bombarded with movie offers. The early broadcasts of the series revealed a dark side of Spade: stealing money out of a dead man's wallet to sleeping with a married woman. Over time, the script writers cut do...

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Report copyright infringementby Derrick Rollins (Author)In the streets of Chicago, money talk-and Keyanna speaks it fluently.Beautiful, smart, and built for survival, Key turned her body into a business and leveled up from the corner to high-end clients who'll drop bands just to be in her presence. She ain't got no pimp, no rules, and no plans on letting a man control her-only one goal: stack enough money to get her and her son out the hood for good.But the streets don't let go easy.With her ...

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Report copyright infringementby Andrew Muir (Author)One minute I'm in The Elk watching the footie the next minute I'm at the beach with a Polish supermodel. Fucking come on. Lena meets Robbie. Girl meets Boy. Head over heels. Eyes only for each other. They don't speak the same language, but they both know the language of love, and surely that's enough for a while - until the unspeakable happens and the truth comes spewing out. As their marriage hurtles towards oblivion, Lena and Robbie desper...

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Report copyright infringementby James Phillips (Author)What happens when someone tells you that you're the answer to the riddle of life? What happens when a stranger in Starbucks gives you something that will change your world forever? What happens if the world starts to fall asleep, hour by hour?City Stories is a new type of cabaret drama, a sequence of interwoven love stories, and a love-letter to London. Composed up of five discrete yet interwoven stories, each taking the form of a monolog...

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Report copyright infringementby Paul Rudnick (Author)Andrew Rally seems to have it all: celebrity and acclaim from his starring role in a hit television series; a rich, beautiful girlfriend; a glamorous, devoted agent; the perfect New York apartment; and the chance to play Hamlet in Central Park. There are, however, a couple of glitches in paradise. Andrew's series has been canceled, his girlfriend is less than interested in connecting with him, and he has no desire to play Hamlet. When Andre...

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Report copyright infringementby Grace Ann Oberholtzer (Author)After many months of wondering and waiting, God answered their prayers, Joseph and Grace were overjoyed to find out a new baby was on the way!...But things didn't go as planned - instead of a home birth, Hannah was born in a big city hospital, 70 miles from home under the care of many highly trained doctors, at 23 1/2 weeks, long before her anticipated arrival. Hannah weighed 1 pound 7 ounces.At one week old, Hannah is in critical ...

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Report copyright infringementby Al Smith (Author)There's gossip going around that we're all like him. That we're all paper thin, that it's all been painted over, and each one of us is gonna sit down one day and not be able to stand up, like we've disappeared to ourselves. Harrogate tells the story of a father struggling to confront his obsessions head-on without destroying his family. It is a play about how we perform versions of ourselves depending on what company we keep, and how we project...

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Report copyright infringementby Molly Davies (Author)When he was small and his parents told him if he was good he would get a sweet, the boy knew it was not true. Getting the sweet had nothing to do with being good. 'Badger Do Best' has landed, bringing with it a new world of rules and regulations. But the kids in the classroom are fighting back. Tired of being guinea pigs in yet another government scheme, can the class of 4N bring down the education regime set to pacify them? After years wor...

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Report copyright infringementby Ailis Ni Riain (Author)"She's goin' back there. I can tell.She's breakin' her promise.She's breakin' my heart.She said she never would." Sive and Orlaith are twelve and thirteen. Yet despite their age, they are each responsible for the care of their respective parents. When the girls meet on a social day for carers, they forge a relationship that takes them on an epic journey through the twisting backroads of small towns, friendship and love. Desolate Heaven is...

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Report copyright infringementby Ben Weatherill (Author)Oh this ain't a farm. This is a loading dock. No such things as farms anymore, not around here. A chicken farm in rural England. New boy Tim has just arrived for his first shift. The job is pretty simple: grab chickens seven at a time by their legs and ram them into cages for shipping. All of this in the dark, stomping around in ankle-deep chicken shit, muck and mud. Tim's teammates are old-timers, with cigarettes dangling from their lips...

An Irish Immigrant: Book Two - The End of the Beginning

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Report copyright infringementby Daniel Thompson (Author)"An Irish Immigrant" follows the harsh and hopeful journey of Irish families who flee poverty in their homeland and sail to New York in search of a better life. Instead, they find a city unprepared to welcome them, where jobs are scarce and prejudice runs deep. Many are pushed into the dirtiest, lowest-paid work-or even desperate acts for survival-earning the Irish an unfair reputation that overshadows their struggle. Amid the hardship, ...

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Report copyright infringementby Simon Stephens (Author)I kept telling myself I wanted something more out of my life, something brighter. I had all these ideas in my head. Thing is, I had to go down so low just to try to lift my life up a little bit higher. Simon Stephens's exciting new adaptation of the twentieth-century classic Kasimir and Karoline is a dark, political and hilarious play that sets two young lovers in the throes of a break-up against the hypnotic whirl and bright lights of a...

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Report copyright infringementby Samuel Tuke (Author)Title: The Adventures of Five Hours. A tragi-comedy [in verse. Adapted from "Los Empen os de Seis Horas," formerly attributed to Calderon, and now to Antonio Coello].Publisher: British Library, Historical Print EditionsThe British Library is the national library of the United Kingdom. It is one of the world's largest research libraries holding over 150 million items in all known languages and formats: books, journals, newspapers, sound recor...