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The Birthday Party
In one of Pinter’s most memorable works, The Birthday Party, Meg and Petey Boles run a boarding hous...
The Cripple of Inishmaan
On the island of Inishmaan, off the coast of Ireland, there is not that much to do. A young man name...
Don Juan
Juan has proposed to Francesca, but she’s unsure of his true commitment. Francesca decides to use a...
Educating Rita
Educating Rita is a witty yet poignant look at a working class woman’s attempts to change her social...
The Ferryman
The Ferryman is set in Northern Ireland in 1981, during the height of the Troubles. Quinn, a former...
Gruesome Playground Injuries
It’s not your typical love story: Doug and Kayleen meet at the nurse’s office in their elementary sc...
How I Learned to Drive
Paula Vogel’s groundbreaking and controversial play How I Learned to Drive tells the story of a youn...
Intimate Apparel
New York circa 1905 is a time and place where rigid social divides along the lines of race, religion...
Men on Boats
In 1869, ten explorers set off to chart the Green and Colorado Rivers, under the guidance of John We...
Noughts & Crosses
Noughts & Crosses follows the doomed love story of Sephy and Callum, two teenagers kept apart by bi...
The Odd Couple (female version)
Neil Simon’s revision of his hugely successful play, The Odd Couple, sees the lead characters transf...
Pandemonium
Who killed Zeus? That is the question that private detective Minerva Owler is trying to answer in mo...
