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Lay Me Down SoftlyBilly Roche
Set in rural Ireland of the early 1960s, Lay Me Down Softly introduces the colourful if seedy burlesque that is Delaney's Travelling Roadshow – and in particular its boxing hall, where prizefighter Dean takes on all comers on a nightly basis. That is, until a challenge from a professional fighter upsets the apple-cart… $19.99
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OverspillAli Taylor
In Bromley every Friday night, same time and place, Potts, Baron and Finch get ready for their weekly dose of booze, birds and burgers. But their night out takes a dramatic and terrifying twist when an explosion rocks the town centre, and a suspicious population points the finger at them. $23.99
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St Petersburg and other playsDeclan Feenan
St Petersburg comprises three scenes involving three characters, an old man, his middle-aged daughter, and a ten-year-old boy. Limbo is a monologue in which a 17-year-old girl tells us the story of her relationship with an older man and what it led to. Catherine Medbh is a bittersweet and hesitant duologue in a bar between a youngish man and woman who are ex-lovers. $19.99
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HeddaLucy Kirkwood Original author Henrik Ibsen
In Lucy Kirkwood's version of Hedda Gabler, Ibsen's nineteenth-century heroine is relocated to London in 2008, to startling effect. $29.99
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The New Electric BallroomEnda Walsh
Three sisters in a remote fishing village, trapped in the years that have passed since their halcyon days at The New Electric Ballroom, are still obsessed by darker memories of something resembling romance. $25.99
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This Wide NightChloë Moss
A tender portrayal of two women trying to start again after serving their time in prison. $27.99
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Six Characters in Search of an AuthorLuigi Pirandello Adapted by Rupert Goold, Ben Power
Pirandello's classic play, updated for the twenty-first century by Headlong. $25.99
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KindertransportDiane Samuels
Between 1939 until the outbreak of World War II, nearly 10,000 Jewish children were taken from their families in Nazi-occupied Germany and sent to live with foster families in Britain. Diane Samuels’ seminal play, Kindertransport, imagines the fate of one such child. $24.99
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Blood WeddingFederico García Lorca Translated by Jo Clifford
García Lorca's passionate, lyrical tale of longing and revenge: a twentieth century masterpiece. $15.99
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The Merry Wives of WindsorWilliam Shakespeare Edited by Nick de Somogyi
This edition accurately reproduces the text of the Shakespeare First Folio (1623), but in modern type. At a stroke the dust of ages is blown away and what Shakespeare actually intended is revealed to modern readers. $27.99
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