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A provocative and witty play about an uncompromising voice in dangerous times.

Jude will stop at nothing to achieve her dream - but she remains oblivious to the hidden barriers that her background has placed in her path...Howard Brenton's latest play, loosely inspired by Jude the Obscure, is a modern day tale of unexpected genius and of our struggle to accommodate... číst celé

Autumn 1940. The Battle of Britain rages. Southampton is home to Britain's only hope of victory: the Spitfire. But when the Luftwaffe drops 2,300 bombs in three devastating raids, the city goes up in flames and the Woolston Supermarine Spitfire factory is destroyed. From the ashes, a story of chaos, courage and community spirit emerges.

A powerful new play about the life of playwright August Strindberg, focusing on what he called his `Inferno period', when he suffered a notorious breakdown in Paris in 1896.

August Strindberg's Miss Julie was written at a time of industrial and social unrest, a ground-breaking masterpiece that still provokes and shocks audiences today. Award-winning playwright Howard Brenton brings Strindberg's genius to life in this brilliant new adaptation premiering in July 2017.

First staged at London's National Theatre in 1980, having been commissioned by Peter Hall, The Romans in Britain contrasts Julius Caesar's Roman invasion of Celtic Britain with the Saxon invasion of Romano-Celtic Britain, and finally Britain's involvement in Northern Ireland during The Troubles of the late twentieth century. As these scenes bleed into one another, Brenton suggests what it might have been like for these people to meet. Three Roman soldiers sexually assault a young druid priest. A lone, wounded Saxon soldier stumbles into a field, a nightmare made real. An army intelligence officer begins to lose his mind in the Irish fields. Brenton's sinewy vernaculars summon a lost history of cultural collision and oppression, of fear and sorrow. This edition features an introduction by Philip Roberts, Emeritus Professor of Drama & Theatre Studies at the University of Leeds, and a foreword by director Sam West.

19-year-old Jack Twigg enlists in the London Regiment and embarks on an unimaginable journey, in this epic, hilarious and moving play that takes a sideways look at the First World War.

Featuring a diverse collection from ten prominent playwrights, this anthology provides young performers aged thirteen to nineteen with an exciting array of plays. It includes works from both established and contemporary writers, making it ideal for performance, reading, or study. The selection aims to inspire and engage the next generation of theater artists.

A timely play based on the true story of a Nobel Laureate.

A vivid telling of the chaotic story of the partition that shaped the modern world.