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The Female of the Species
This play is about Margot Mason, a feminist writer who suffers from writer's block. A crazy former s...
FINE
FINE is piece of drama which enters the lives of Will, a counsellor in a Further Education college...
Fool for Love
This play takes place in a cheap hotel room. May, Eddie and the Old Man are the main characters. T...
Gem of the Ocean
August Wilson’s Pittsburgh Cycle begins with Gem of the Ocean, which takes place in 1904 in the Hil...
The Ghost in the Light
The nation is in the grips of a pandemic and theatres have closed. Lexy and Amy have returned to the...
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God's Favorite
Successful businessman Joe Benjamin has admittedly had a wonderful life. He has a successful busines...
Good Hidings
Kate is flying the nest for pastures new. Leaving behind her alcoholic father, older sister, and you...
Goodnight Desdemona (Good Morning Juliet)
Constance Ledbelly, a mild-mannered university professor, is on the trail of a great literary discov...
The History Boys
Set in a grammar school in Sheffield in the 1980s, The History Boys follows the path of eight sixth...
The Homecoming
Often considered one of Harold Pinter’s most ambiguous plays, The Homecoming explores issues of sex,...
I Never Saw Another Butterfly
Over 15,000 children passed through the gates of Terezin, a concentration camp 30 miles north of Pra...
In the Blood
It would be reductive to call In the Blood simply a modern adaptation of Nathaniel Hawthorne’s class...
