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Jeanine is determined to improve her life. With sex. With dance. With new hobbies, like horticulture. But self-improvement is hard. Reclaiming your dreams is hard. And personal hygiene is really, really hard.

Don Murphy is a proud Irish man, a hopeless ketamine addict and one of his generation's greatest actors. He also happens to be a chicken. A Kerry cock to be precise. Across one fateful night, the feathered Oscar winner shares his star-studded story with an intimate audience - from getting his big break, to his first bird-on-bird sexual experience, to navigating life in the (human-dominated) celebrity spotlight. But along the way Don will be confronted with some harsh truths about himself, chickenkind and humankind.Sell out run at the Edinburgh Fringe 2023. Winner of the Summerhall Lustrum Award and the Filipa Bragança award for best female-identifying solo performer at the Edinburgh Fringe 2023.

Based on the Photo Memoir Pictures from Home by Larry SultanIn the 1980s, Larry Sultan spent a decade photographing and interviewing his parents, Irving and Jean Sultan, and unearthing the memories behind their home movies. The result is a deeply intimate and comic portrait of a mother, a father, and their inquisitive son. Playwright Sharr White has transformed this landmark photo memoir into a poignant three-character play that turns its lens on family mythologies, and the truths that may or may not lie beneath the surface.

Miss Kinross has taken the Banqueting Hall, Dallochry House, Dallochry, Scotland for the wedding of her daughter Nancy but all is not as it seems. A mystery play in three acts for thirteen women.

"Last twenty nine years... You haven't had to make any decisions. I've paidevery bill, made every sacrifice... But now... You made a choice. You're gonnahave to face the consequence."Anne is tired. Tired of menopause. Tired of working in a dying NHS. And tired of her lazy sexist husband Don. But they've been together twenty-nine years. They know each other inside out. They've survived so much. Then COVID-19 plunges the country into lockdown, forcing them to isolate together. After all, the home is a place of safety... isn't it? As the world falls apart outside, Anne and Don's marriage slowly falls apart inside. But soon there will be a solution. Won't there?Inspired by true events, Jab is a black comedy drama exploring power, gender, domestic violence, conspiracy theories, ignorance, and the limits of love.

This ground-breaking production - adapted and directed by multi award-winning Kip Williams, Artistic Director of the acclaimed Sydney Theatre Company - delivers an explosive interplay of live performance and video in an astonishing collision of form.Sent to the island for 'behaviour modi cation', some of the pupils have staged a rebellion sparked by a singular dramatic event, while others simply wanted to keep their heads down and leave after they have gone through 'the programme'.This text will spark not only strong performances from teenagers, but also debates about the rights and wrongs in the script - it will see readers and performers asking the question 'what would I have done?'

Ace is twenty-two, trans, queer and sofa surfing - currently - just for now - only at the moment. They've actually just sorted out sofa number thirteen. To keep a sofa requires you to act small, smiling, and polite. But no one is perfect and eventually everyone messes up - which would be a lot easier for Ace if they weren't also unexpectedly growing extra ears, and a tiny tail! It turns out people pleasing has a price and there's only one place left for Ace to go...

A genius with language, but convinced of his own ugliness, Cyrano secretly loves the radiant Roxane. While Roxane is in love with the beautiful but inarticulate Christian.Cyrano's generous offer to act as go-between sets in motion a poignant and often hilarious love-triangle, in which each character is torn between the lure of physical attraction and the seductive power of words.Martin Crimp's adaptation of Edmond Rostand's Cyrano de Bergerac premiered at the Playhouse Theatre, London, in November 2019.

Christopher, fifteen years old, stands beside Mrs Shears' dead dog. It has been speared with a garden fork, it is seven minutes after midnight, and Christopher is under suspicion. He records each fact in the book he is writing to solve the mystery of who murdered Wellington. He has an extraordinary brain and is exceptional at maths, but he is ill-equipped to interpret everyday life. He has never ventured alone beyond the end of his road, he detests being touched and he distrusts strangers. But Christopher's detective work, forbidden by his father, takes him on a frightening journey that turns his world upside-down.Simon Stephens' adaptation of Mark Haddon's bestselling, award-winning novel, The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time offers a richly theatrical exploration of this touching and bleakly humorous tale.

When all communications are lost with an offshore privately run youth correction facility, two educational inspectors head off to work out what has happened. They get more than they bargained for in this tale which explores big issues for young people. Sent to the island for 'behaviour modification', some of the pupils have staged a rebellion sparked by a singular dramatic event, while others simplywanted to keep their heads down and leave after they have gone through 'the programme'. This text will spark not only strong performances from teenagers, but also debates about the rights and wrongs in the script - it will see readers and performers asking the question "what would I have done?" This version of Hope Springs is adapted for younger actors; it touches on some big themes but addresses them more obliquely than the more hard-hitting original.

When all communications are lost with an offshore privately run youth correction facility, two educational inspectors head off to work out what has happened. They get more than they bargained for in this tale which explores big issues for young people.Sent to the island for 'behaviour modi cation', some of the pupils have staged a rebellion sparked by a singular dramatic event, while others simply wanted to keep their heads down and leave after they have gone through 'the programme'.This text will spark not only strong performances from teenagers, but also debates about the rights and wrongs in the script - it will see readers and performers asking the question 'what would I have done?'

A delightful adaptation of four Beatrix Potter stories suitable for the entertainment of younger children. In The Story of Miss Moppet the kitten tricks the mouse by playing ill, but is outwitted in the end. The Tale of Two Bad Mice finds Tom Thumb and Hunca Munca thrown into tempers by the inedible model food in Jane's and Lucinda's doll's house. ¿The Story of a Fierce Bad Rabbit features a rabbit with savage whiskers and a turned-up tail who steals a carrot from Nice Rabbit, but meets his match in the Man with a Gun. In The Tale of Tom Kitten mother cat Tabitha discovers to her disdain that kittens will be kittens in any clothes.

In 1888, three experienced, nineteenth-century American lady adventurers, armed with umbrellas, a picnic and pith helmets, set out to explore "Terra Incognito", eagerly embracing cultures and replicas of distant civilizations(such as an eggbeater which they deduce must be "a marsupial's unicycle").Caught in a time warp, they find them selves in Eisenhower's 1950s America where they sample rock 'n' roll and discover artefacts which include "I like Ike" badges and yet more eggbeaters! The trio split when two decide to remain in 1955: Alexandra becomes an expert rock 'n' roller and Fanny falls in love with a cocktail-bar owner. It is left to Mary to continue the journey of exploration, but not before she has shed her Victorian garb for a pair of trousers!Eric Overmyer's witty, surreal play has played to acclaim through out America and was seen at the Lilian Bayliss Theatre, London, in 1989, starring Paola Dionisotti, Juliet Stevenson, Gerda Stevenson and George Irving, anddirected by Anna Furse.

Moscow, August 2018. The World Cup has just ended, and it has been aroaring success. Free metro travel. Parties in the square. The police, the oneswith guns, they were smiling! People finally saw that yeah, it's okay over hereand no, it doesn't snow in the summer, it's actually very warm. And wait, didwe mention it was an incident-free event?But when an old woman walks into a bank, she is conned into taking out ahigh-interest loan, which she immediately forgets all about. A catastrophicseries of events are set in motion...with only her cat Sally to bear witness.Winner of the 2023 Theatre503 International Playwriting Award, A WomanWalks Into a Bank is a powerful portrayal of a country in crisis. Inspired bychildhood fairytales, Roxy Cook's vibrant debut play uses biting humour tointerrogate the social apathy tearing Russia apart. How did we get here? Howcan we get out?

It's the end of year 2022, and Salty, Gail and Hobby are about to present a play which they have been working on for their B.Tech performance exam. It's the first time they have performed live; their other exams were held on Zoom. What follows is a funny, fast-moving, caustic and hard-hitting account of how Miss Nixon, a newly qualified drama teacher changed their lives. As Salty, Gail and Hobby prepare to leave state education, it appears that Miss Nixon is moving on too, to the local private school."Joyously energetic and bitter about educational inequalities." - The Guardian

This bittersweet comedy is the story of a cosmopolitan author caught in his declining years between two women, one being his wife of convenience fortwenty years, the other, one of his former loves. There is a bit of the detective story in this, too, for the former flame produces some old love letters whichshe is about to turn over to a biographer. He is dead set against it, for it would compromise his impeccable reputation until she produces still another set of love letters, even more damaging, written to a male friend of his early youth.It remains for the wife of convenience to say that she has known about this all along, and to send the old flame off with an entirely different opinion.The blackmail fails, but the rue remains. Mr. Coward, Lilli Palmer and Irene Worth played in the London production. Produced in New York under thetitle Noël Coward In Two Keys.

The Hodgsons had no idea what a poltergeist was when, in the summer of 1977, furniture and toys started moving of their own accord. An ordinary, working-class family who lived in a north London council house became the centre of one of the most famous poltergeist events in the world. This isthe story of one night in the spring of 1978 when events were approaching a climax. Based on the first-hand accounts of one of the ghost hunters, The Enfield Haunting is the true story of what happens when a dedicated single mother tries to protect her three children from something that is incomprehensible, deeply disturbing and hurtling toward a terrifying conclusion.

Imagine you're a spirited 13-year-old and you've won - actually won - a magazine competition to describe your family. The prize is a dream holiday for the lot of you, anywhere in the world. Except... Nicky's family isn't the blissfully happy bunch she's described. More like the contestants in a gladiatorial arena, in fact. Where on earth can she take them that might make her wishful thinking a reality? Winner of the 2013 UK Theatre Award for Best Musical, this hilarious musical comedy, which moves seamlessly between speech and song, is a celebration of the lifelong adventure that is family love.

In a sleepy town in the Wild West, the women drift through their days like tumbleweed. Their husbands, swept up in the goldrush, have been missing for almost a year and show no sign of returning. In fact, the town is almost cut off from outsiders entirely, with only one drunken sheriff for protection. That is until handsome bandit Jack Cannon swaggers up to the town's saloon, looking for a place to hide from the bounty hunters on his tail. Armed with whiskey and a wink, and a gun by their side for good measure, Jack's explosive arrival inspires a gender revolution, and starts a fire under the petticoat of every one of the town's repressed inhabitants. The production originally premiered at the Swan Theatre in Stratford-upon-Avon, presented by the Royal Shakespeare Company. Publishing in conjunction with the run at the RSC's Swan Theatre opening on 14th October.

¿A teenage girl steps over a barrier and destroys a painting.Another steals a lipstick. Another has her first kiss in the dark.A fourth walks into a supermarket.And starts a republic.Everyone is feeling everything at all times, even if they don't want us to know it.This is the superpower. It doesn't all happen here. It doesn't all happen now.A furious and funny new play for anyone who has ever witnessed the power ofa teenage girl.

"You're telling me you don't know the steps to a sixteenth-century Jewish exorcism?"When an event puts her aunt Mirah in hospital, seventeen-year-old Leah takes it upon herself to find the perpetrator and exact revenge. But as she puts together her plan, the lines of reality become blurred. Her search for answers becomes a search for demons - metaphorical and...not. Despite what her sister Danielle tells her, the shadows in their aunt's remote cottage seem to move. Surrounded by books about Jewish exorcisms, the two sisters fight the sinking suspicion that they're not alone.These Demons is a thrilling dark comedy-horror exploring family ties, sisterhood, and Jewish demonology.

Based on the hugely popular TV comedy series, this sequel to the popular stage production of 'Allo 'Allo continues the adventures of reluctant resistance hero and harassed cafe¿ owner, Rene¿ Artois, in German-occupied wartime France. It features many of your favourite characters from the TV series and original stage play. Still trying to repatriate a pair of British airmen, René, his wife Edith and their café waitresses, Mimi and Yvette, are embroiled in yet another complicated and life-threatening scheme. General Von Klinkerhoffen demands a fortune in francs in recompense for the loss of the infamous painting of the Fallen Madonna with the Big Boobies and René is expected to come up with the cash. But nothing is ever easy. The local undertaker, Monsieur Alphonse, is making advances on Edith. René's mother-in-law, Fanny, objects to the radio used to communicate with London being hidden under her bed. No-one can understand what Officer Crabtree (the British agent disguised as a Policeman) is saying. Michelle of the Resistance has a series of increasingly hare-brained proposals. Herr Flick of the Gestapo, Colonel Von Strohm and Captain Geering all have their own plans to get hold of the money and Lieutenant Gruber still wants to take René away for a ride in his little tank... The cash, a set of forged notes and a bomb all end up hidden in identical camembert cheeses. What could possibly go wrong?

Placing wartime and lockdown life side-by-side, Alan Ayckbourn's 85th play is a touching, tender and, of course, funny reflection on the ability of love to rise above adversity and reach across the years.Veteran actor Rob Hathaway, stuck at home during the summer of 2020 with only his sensible older sister for company, has little to do but relive his glory days. One day Rob spots a stranger hanging out the washing in the adjoining garden - but the neighbours haven't been around for months. So who is the mysterious girl next door? And why is she wearing 1940s clothing?

One of the 2023 winners of the CT-sponsored Untapped Award, we're delighted to be publishing this to coincide with the opening at the Edinburgh Fringe this year! Skewering society's ableism with real wit and humour, this is a scathing satire on the monetisation of identity politics that spares no one. We're excited to be supporting this and know it's going to be a big hit at this year's fringe! Publishing in conjunction with the production opening on 3rd August at Edinburgh Fringe Festival.

Tabitha is - or rather was - a cat, the property of Lavinia, a dear old lady, who lives with two other dear old ladies in an apartment house owned by Mrs Trellington. Now as a landlady Mrs Trellington has some very unattractive and even tactless habits: she helps herself to the old ladies' little store of whisky; she chooses to put up their rents on Christmas Eve; and - last straw of all- she has done away with the beloved Tabitha. No wonder the three old ladies are roused in indignation, and no wonder the most authoritative of them, Mrs Pendergast - widow of a colonial judge - is tempted to do away with the odious landlady. Under her instruction the others, Lavinia and Janet, dilute a bottle of whisky with the poisoned water that killed Tabitha, knowing perfectly well that even though they lock it up the landlady will find it while they are out. And if she drinks from it - well, isn't it her own fault? When, a few hours later, Mrs Trellington is found dead, the old ladies stare guiltily at each other: but they are also mystified; for didn't Lavinia and Janet relent and swap the whisky for another bottle? Or didn't they? There is only one way to find out and find out they must for Mary, Mrs Trellington's stepdaughter, whom everybody loves, is now suspected of murder. After writing a full, if muddled, account of their part in the event, they drink the whisky themselves. Hours later, a puzzled detective inspector and a mystified young doctor find three elderly ladies genteelly sleeping off the effects of strong drink. But, brought back once more to sobriety, they are able to help the detective prove that Mrs Trellington accidentally poisoned herself in the course of her nefarious occupations.