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Dracula and Frankenstein: Two Horror Plays brings together two classic horror tales updated for the 21st century and adapted for the stage by two of Britain’s leading playwrights.Bram Stoker’s Dracula adapted by Bryony LaveryThis is the modern world. Its inhabitants can go anywhere, even toTransylvania. They can communicate globally in the blink of an eye. Buttheir feet, in their modern shoes, walk upon the gravestones of a vastcosmic graveyard. Count Dracula is still alive. He could always comethrough walls, arrive on a moonbeam but, in the modern world, he hasemails, smartphones, webcams and the worldwide web…Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein adapted by Lisa EvansMary is imprisoned in a present-day psychiatric hospital, convicted ofmurdering her baby daughter. During her incarceration she becomesobsessed with Mary Shelley’s famous novel. The novel comes to lifewithin her imagination, and we are left to question just who the realmonster really is, Mary or Frankenstein himself…
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Meet the couple every couple wants to be. Attractive and immaculately turned out, they are the perfect team. Tomorrow they will be in Stockholm, a city where, in summer, the sun shines 24/7 and sometimes it’s dark all day long. Today it’s his birthday and she’s going to give him all his presents and treats and surprises.Treading a fine line between tenderness and cruelty, Stockholm reveals a relationship unravelling. It’s beautiful, but it’s not pretty.Stockholm unites leading physical theatre company Frantic Assembly with award-winning playwright Bryony Lavery and designer Laura Hopkins (Black Watch, Mercury Fur) to deliver an extraordinary perspective on the nature of modern love.Stockholm opened at the Theatre Royal Plymouth in September 2007.
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Nora loves her husband above everything. But when she risks her reputation in order to save him, the consequences force her to examine her devotion, and she finds herself struggling for her own life. Henrik Ibsen's ground-breaking play created a huge sensation at its premiere in 1879 and is as fresh and pertinent as ever, with an unfading capacity to shock.
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One of the high points of world drama, Chekhov's bittersweet tale of frustrated lives and unrequited loves – by turns witty, playful, nostalgic and tragic – is captured in all its complexity by Bryony Lavery's spirited, sharply-written adaptation, first produced at Birmingham Rep in 2007
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Bryony Lavery brings to life Mary Webb's classic novel of loves lost and found.