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Separate TablesTerence Rattigan
Two linked one-act plays set in a run-down residential hotel in Bournemouth. In the first of the plays, Table by the Window, a lonely divorcee tracks down her former husband in order to resume a kind of half-life with him. In the other, Table Number Seven, a repressed young spinster offers brave moral support to a fake major accused of importuning women in a local cinema. $29.99
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The Deep Blue SeaTerence Rattigan
Written in the early fifties when Rattigan was at the height of his powers, The Deep Blue Sea is a powerful account of lives blighted by love - or the lack of it. $24.99
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The House of Bernarda AlbaFederico García Lorca Translated by Rona Munro
García Lorca's drama about the shattering effects of emotional repression on a family of cloistered daughters, in a version by playwright Rona Munro for the critically acclaimed Shared Experience Theatre Company. $27.99
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Peer GyntHenrik Ibsen Translated by Kenneth McLeish
Henrik Ibsen's mighty epic, by turns fantastic and tragic, based on the Norwegian fairy tale Per Gynt. $14.99
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Arabian Nights (Young Vic Version)Dominic Cooke
A simple and delightfully inventive re-telling of the stories from the Arabian Nights. $27.99
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The ClinkStephen Jeffreys
Elizabeth I is tottering at death's door. Conspirators are everywhere. Lucius Bodkin, an Elizabethan stand-up comedian, becomes unwillingly involved in the political skullduggery and jiggery-pokery surrounding the ailing queen. $24.99
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OedipusSophocles Translated by Kenneth McLeish
The story of the mythical Greek king of Thebes, the archetypal tragic hero who accidentally fulfills a prophecy that he will end up killing his father and marrying his mother, thereby bringing disaster down upon his city and family. $14.99
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Howie the RookieMark O'Rowe
A white-knuckle ride through a nightmare Dublin, where enemies and allies are interchangeable. $24.99
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BacchaeEuripides Translated by Kenneth McLeish, Frederic Raphael
At the whim of Dionysos, a son is torn to pieces by his own mother during the famous women-only Bacchanalian ritual. The story of revenge by the half-man half-god on Pentheus, King of Thebes, and all his people. $14.99
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Life is a DreamPedro Calderón Translated by Jo Clifford
It is foretold that Prince Sigismund will become a tyrant. Alarmed, his father, the king, imprisons him. When he is released for a day as an experiment he proves the omens only too right, and, as a result, is incarcerated once more. Sigismund persuades himself that all that has passed is a dream and emerges to rule wisely and justly. $14.99
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