A lazy Saturday for Stuart? With interruptions from a radio panel show, a threesome, the Black and White Minstrels, a nagging mother and a mouthy cat - no chance. Luckily, none of them know what he'……続きを見る
Enduringly popular less for its plots than for its verbal brilliance
and wit, The School for Scandal (1777) was the most frequently
performed play of its time. Sir Peter Teazle has made the perennia……続きを見る
Coming-of-age drama with sideways glance at evangelical and Sapphic love
'I mean, the fact that Jesus chose to turn the water into wine, rather than just decontaminating it, proves that drinking alc……続きを見る
Internationally acclaimed play of cross-cultural friendship
Paris in the 1960s. Thirteen-year-old Moses lives in the shadow of his less-than loving father. When he's caught stealing from wise old sh……続きを見る
Onassis portrays the last years of the life of the wealthy shipping magnate Aristotle Onassis, who after a notorious affair with Maria Callas, married Jacqueline Kennedy, widow of US President John ……続きを見る
Both Sheridan and Goldsmith lamented the popularity of sentimental comedy in the later eighteenth century and wrote their witty and satirical plays (though never lascivious in the manner of Restorat……続きを見る
Winner of the George Devine Award in 1993, Babies premiered at the Royal Court theatre, London in September 1994
Liverpudlian Joe Casey is twenty-four, gay and a form tutor at a south-east London co……続きを見る
Presented by the National Theatre of Scotland and the Traverse Theatre as a double-bill as part of their Debuts season, these two shorts plays take an unflinching look at the darker side of Scottish……続きを見る
A new version of one of the most influential plays of the 20th century
Six people arrive in a theatre during rehearsals for a play. But they are not ordinary people. They are the characters of a pla……続きを見る
Reissue of Aristophanes' most famous plays in the Methuen Classical Greek Dramatists series
Aristophanes was a unique writer for the comic stage as well as one of the most revealing about the societ……続きを見る
Sleeping Around is by four top British playwrights from England, Ireland, Scotland and Wales: Mark Ravenhill, Hilary Fannin, Stephen Greenhorn and Abi Morgan
Sleeping Around is about love and sex in……続きを見る
Sharp, thoughtful and mysterious, How the World Began is a powerful story about an outsider in a close-knit, devastated community.
Susan, a science teacher from Manhattan, starts work in a small rur……続きを見る
'My own business always bores me to death; I prefer other people's'
Lady Windermere has a happy marriage - or, at least, that's what she believes until one of London society's gossips, the Duchess o……続きを見る
This collaborative masterpiece of hilarious city comedy was performed
by the Children of the Revels at the Blackfriars playhouse in 1605. The
story is of an allegorical simplicity that lends itself ……続きを見る
A two-play edition featuring Anthony Neilson's companion plays, The Wonderful World of Dissocia (2004) and Realism (2006), both produced by the National Theatre of Scotland.
Produced originally for ……続きを見る
I'm eighty years old. I find that unforgivable and suddenly it's a millennium and I stink of the past century, but what can I do?
Rose is a survivor. Her remarkable life began in a tiny Russian vill……続きを見る
"Oh do not jest thy doom"
The Revenger's Tragedy is an intense tragic burlesque. Its hero, Vindice, desires to avenge the death of his betrothed. Operating in disguises he provokes discord among his……続きを見る
'I know the trade: I learned it when I was in Wittenberg'
Thus speaks Lacy, the gentleman who disguises himself as a simple shoemaker in order to win his true love, the grocer's daughter Rose. The S……続きを見る
A brand new comedy by the writer of the hit play Stitching, published to tie in with the Royal Court's Christmas production from November 2002
Constables Blunt and Gobbel have one last duty to fulfi……続きを見る
I mean, what is Thebes? A theocracy? No. A meritocracy? Certainly not. A monarchy? Kind of. A patriarchy? Less and less so. Thebes is many things, and to revolutionise that? Well, how?
From Oedipus ……続きを見る
We will fix it.
We will mend it...
In the light of a pregnancy, a faithless couple pick apart their relationship, stitch by painful stitch. Can it be mended? Anthony Neilson's dark and intimate new ……続きを見る
Onassis portrays the last years of the life of the wealthy shipping magnate Aristotle Onassis, who, after a notorious affair with Maria Callas, married Jacqueline Kennedy, widow of US President John……続きを見る
But it's just one of those days. One of those days where I feel like I'm wearing myself on the outside. My heart, my soul, all my soft bits.
Romance is a distant memory for two lonely animal lovers ……続きを見る
Tomorrow morning, you and Frank Armitage are getting wed. In my opinion, marriage is blind optimism at any time, but especially in wartime. It's an act of faith.
Taking its title from a line in Phil……続きを見る
The first fully-fledged example of a revenge tragedy, the genre that became so influential in later Elizabethan and Jacobean drama, The Spanish Tragedy (1589) occupies a very special place in the hi……続きを見る
Recent years have seen an explosion of new Welsh writing for the stage. With the advent of Theatr Genedlaethol Cymru in 2003 and the launch of National Theatre Wales in 2009, there has been a tecton……続きを見る
This guide covers assessing the potential auditioner's skills,
analysing their voice, choosing and preparing appropriate songs,
learning material in a hurry, and identifying their role within an
aud……続きを見る
From the despair of aninut, even in a short shiva, the ice inside you is thawing, Mordecai, it will open you to the world if you let it. After, shloshim. After a year, yizkor, yarhrzeit. And yes, so……続きを見る
'Miss Delaney brings real people on to her stage... she is busy recording the wonder of life as she lives it' Kenneth Tynan, Observer
A Taste of Honey became a sensational theatrical success when fi……続きを見る
In the 1990s playwright Anthony Neilson garnered a reputation for hard-hitting, morally disturbing plays that saw him labelled as one of the 'In Yer Face' dramatists who emerged from that decade.
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