Nowra’s vibrant play is set inside a psychiatric institution where Lewis, a university student, has been employed to direct a show. He becomes emotionally involved with his patients-cum-actors as his operatic production lurches forward and anti-Vietnam protests rage outside.

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Revived at the National in 1995 with Judi Dench and boasting such numbers as 'Send in the Clowns', A Little Night Music is 'heady, civilised, sophisticated and enchanting... Sondheim's breathtaking lyrics have the kind of sassy poetry that Cole Porter mastered' New York Times.

Middle-aged actress Desirée Armfeldt – presided over by her formidable mother – attempts to rid herself of one lover in order to marry another. Based on Ingmar Bergman's film, Smiles of a Summer Night.

Three plays from Claire Luckham.

Trafford Tanzi, performed throughout the world, is a highly original, gritty and comic play with music. Set in a wrestling ring, it tells the story of Trafford Tanzi from battered baby to queen of the wrestling ring, and then to the fight of her life against her husband.

Published with The Dramatic Attitudes of Miss Fanny Kemble and The Seduction of Anne Boleyn.