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ThyestesSeneca Translated by Caryl Churchill
A violent tragedy by a contemporary of Nero, in a faithful and uncut translation by one of our leading dramatists. $27.99
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LuluFrank Wedekind Adapted by Nicholas Wright
Lulu is the story of the decline and fall of a young woman possessed of a fatal combination of sexuality and innocence. She passes from German and Parisian high society to the streets of Jack the Ripper's London – destroying, and ultimately destroyed by, her lovers. $23.99
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Two plays by award-winning playwright Marie Jones: the smash hit Stones in His Pockets, which ran for four years in London's West End; and an earlier monologue, A Night in November, exploring the subjects of football and sectarianism, set during the 1994 World Cup. $27.99
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KesBarry Hines Adapted by Lawrence Till
Billy, a disaffected young boy, has problems at school and at home: he's neglected by his mother, beaten by his brother and bullied on all sides. He adopts a fledgling kestrel and treats it with all the tenderness he has never known. Slowly, he begins to see for the first time what he could achieve – if only he tried. $24.99
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Mr KolpertDavid Gieselmann Translated by David Tushingham
Mr Kolpert is a delightfully morbid black comedy about a dinner party and a dead body. $24.99
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Dublin CarolConor McPherson
Present day Dublin. Christmas Eve. Undertaker John Plunkett is sharing memories of funerals over the years and dispensing advice to his young assistant. But the arrival of his daughter Mary – estranged, grown-up – shows him the time has come to face up to his own disastrous past. Otherwise, he will never be able to create some kind of truce with his fear of the future. $23.99
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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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