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Category: Plays
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Thyestes
Seneca Translated by Caryl Churchill

A violent tragedy by a contemporary of Nero, in a faithful and uncut translation by one of our leading dramatists.

48 Shades of Brown
Philip Dean, Nick Earls

In his final year at school, and with his parents overseas, Dan is forced to grow up fast when he moves in with his 22-year-old aunt Jacq and her eccentric friend Naomi. Light-hearted and funny, with a definite twist of insanity.

After January: the play
Philip Dean, Nick Earls

Alex is marking time while awaiting his school results—body surfing, watching TV and playing pool are meanwhile his primary concerns. So, he's not prepared for the who cuts past him on a wave and draws him into a new way of looking at the world.

A simple and delightfully inventive re-telling of the stories from the Arabian Nights.

The Spanish Tragedy
Thomas Kyd

The ghost of a murdered courtier is promised by Revenge that he will see his murderer killed by his mistress. The two ghostly figures sit down to watch the violent proceedings.

The Recruiting Officer
George Farquhar

A classic Restoration-era comedy about the sexual exploits of two officers, the womanising Plume and the cowardly Brazen, as they go about their task of recruiting soldiers in the town of Shrewsbury.

The Government Inspector
Nikolai Gogol Translated by Stephen Mulrine

A classic satire of provincial bureaucracy, which only saw the stage after the personal intervention of Tsar Nicholas I. A small, corrupt Russian town receives a letter informing them of the imminent visit of a government inspector travelling incognito. When a passing civil servant is mistaken for the inspector, panic soon sets in.

The Alchemist
Ben Jonson

Face, Subtle and Dol Common are three rogues intent on conning the gullible out of their money. Setting up a quack-doctor's practice in Lovewit's house they promise miraculous services that cost their customers dear. Everything goes swimmingly, until Lovewit returns and the three turn against each other.

The Beaux Stratagem
George Farquhar

George Farquhar's immortal comedy about two young gentlemen with a misguided plan to get enrich themselves at the expense of a series of young heiresses.

The Mill on the Floss
George Eliot Adapted by Helen Edmundson

Outgrowing - but still hopelessly devoted to - her family, Maggie befriends the disfigured Phillip Wakem, son of a local lawyer. But their fathers become embroiled in a bitter legal dispute that only the prosperous Wakem can win, and the Tullivers find fate dealing them the first harsh hand of many. With their father dead, the family must face up to their cold future together.

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