Plays & playscripts
Writing for Nothing
Martin Crimp
Format: Paperback
A vibrant and varied anthology, celebrating a writer with a rare talent for illuminating the power structures behind our everyday world.
Hamburg Plays
Martin Crimp
Format: Paperback
This volume presents two plays written for Deutsches Schauspielhaus Hamburg and not yet staged in English.
Black is the New White
Nakkiah Lui
The smash-hit play, in print for the first time with a foreword and notes from multitalented playwright, writer, commentator and actor Nakkiah Lui. Winner of the Nick Enright Prize for Playwriting, NSW Premier's Awards.
True West
Sam Shepard
Format: Paperback
True West was first performed at the Magic Theatre, San Francisco, in 1980 and has since become recognised as an American classic.
When We Have Sufficiently Tortured Each Other
Martin Crimp, Samuel Richardson
Format: Paperback
Using Samuel Richardson's novel Pamela as a provocation, six characters act out a dangerous game of sexual domination and resistance.
Uncle Vanya
Anton Chekhov, translated by Terry Johnson
Format: Paperback
Featuring sex, comedy and unbearable sadness in nineteenth-century Russia, this version of Anton Chekhov's Uncle Vanya was written and directed by Terry Johnson and opened at Hampstead Theatre, London, in November 2018.
Motel Chronicles & Hawk Moon
Sam Shepard
Format: Paperback
Motel Chronicles reveals the fast-moving and sometimes surprising world of the man behind the plays that have made Sam Shepard a living legend in the theatre.
The Hogarth Plays
Nick Dear
Format: Paperback
The Hogarth Plays catch one of England's most celebrated artists at two crucial points in his career: once at the beginning, and once at the end.
To Have to Shoot Irishmen
Lizzie Nunnery
Format: Paperback
Inspired by true events, this absorbing play weaves movement and folk song into a stirring tale of militarism, corruption and the power of rebellion.
The Meeting
Charlotte Jones
Format: Paperback
The Meeting by Charlotte Jones premiered at Chichester Festival Theatre in July 2018.
