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The Little Foxes

Lillian Hellman

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LA Theatre Works

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...Lillian Hellman examines a wealthy southern family and the greed that tears them apart. Regina’s brothers have inherited their father’s wealth, while after years of neglect, her dying husband is determined to see she gets nothing...

Treasure Island

Bryony Lavery

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Robert Louis Stevenson

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National Theatre

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...For learning resources, visit this page. Age recommendation: 9+ Recorded through National Theatre Live on 22nd January, 2015. It's a dark and stormy night. The stars are out. Jim, the inn-keeper's granddaughter, opens the door...

Timon of Athens

William Shakespeare

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The Royal Shakespeare Company

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..."Simon Godwin has taken exactly the right approach to this new production of one of the Bard's most obscure, least performed plays. With a swashbuckling candour and refreshing energy, he's filleted and reformed the piece as a brisk...

Timon of Athens

William Shakespeare

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Stratford Festival

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...Year of Release: 2018 Timon’s compulsive generosity makes him the most popular man in Athens – until his funds run out. Now, embittered by ingratitude, what will he do when his city comes under attack? This stirring production from...

Mizlansky/Zilinsky

Jon Robin Baitz

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LA Theatre Works

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...Italian shoes, a house in the hills, a gift for stretching the truth, and a petulant assistant to pick the scallions out of his Szechuan noodles – Hollywood producer Davis Mizlansky has it all. But he’s about to lose it to the IRS unless he...

McTeague

Frank Norris

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LA Theatre Works

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...Stacy Keach stars in this shocking tale of a Polk Street dentist and his wife in 1899 San Francisco. Frank Norris’ powerful insights into the depths of the human soul make this a story of compelling narrative force. This seminal novel about...

Enron

Lucy Prebble

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LA Theatre Works

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...Fasten your seatbelts for a rapid-fire, sophisticated thrill-ride that propels you through one of the most infamous financial scandals in history! With a spicy blend of humor, pathos and music, the big biz machinations of Kenneth Lay...

Hot Pepper, Air Conditioner and the Farewell Speech  

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Toshiki Okada

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Aya Ogawa

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Aya Ogawa

~playauthor~Written by~ Toshiki Okada , Aya Ogawa ~playauthor~Translated by~ Aya Ogawa

Methuen Drama, 2014

Bloomsbury Publishing

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Scenes: 19, Roles: Total (1), Female (0), Male (0), Unassigned (1)

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...Depicts the insecurity of office workers in the last financial crisis through fragmented, colloquial and hyper-realistic language through extensive choreography and movement.  ...

The Alchemist on the Stage

Elizabeth Schafer

Elizabeth Schafer

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Emma Cox

Emma Cox

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The Alchemist : A Critical Reader

The Arden Shakespeare, 2013

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...A performance history of The Alchemist has to confront the fact that theatre is an intrinsically collaborative activity and that Ben Jonson sometimes found the messy, unstable process of creating performance very difficult. Famously...

When Cows Go Boom

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Stacey Gregg

~playauthor~Written by~ Stacey Gregg

Nick Hern Books, 2013

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Scenes: 4, Roles: Total (2), Female (1), Male (1), Unassigned (0)

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...Stacey Gregg's short play When Cows Go Boom is an oblique parable of love set against a horrific imagined landscape. It was first performed as a rehearsed reading at the Peacock Theatre, Dublin, in 2008 as part of the 20:Love play-reading...