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Originally premiered Off Broadway at Signature Theatre Company in the spring of 2017<p><p>
Selected as a <i>New York Times</i> Critics’ Pick<p><p>
“A Samuel Beckett for the Jon Stewart generation” – <i>New York Times</i><p><p>
Eno has been honored with the following awards: <p><p>
Pulitzer Prize finalist for <i>Thom Pain (based on nothing) </i> <p>
2012 PEN/Laura Pels International Foundation for Theater Award<p>
2004 Oppenheimer Award for best debut by an American playwright (<i>The Flu Season</i>) <p>
Horton Foote Prize for <i>Middletown</i>

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Winner of the 2016 Tony Award for Best Play Finalist for the 2016 Pulitzer Prize for Drama Winner of the Outer Critics Circle Award for Outstanding New Broadway Play Winner of the New York Drama Critics&rsquo; Circle Award for Best Play &ldquo;THE BEST PLAY OF THE YEAR&rdquo; – The New York Times, The Washington Post, New York Magazine, Chicago Tribune, The Hollywood Reporter, Time Out New York, NPR «Drawn in subtle but indelible strokes, Mr. Karam's play might almost qualify as deep-delving reportage, so clearly does it illuminate the current, tremor-ridden landscape of contemporary America. The finest new play of the Broadway season so far &mdash; by a long shot.»&mdash;Charles Isherwood, The New York Times Breaking with tradition, Erik Blake has brought his Pennsylvania family to celebrate Thanksgiving at his daughter's apartment in lower Manhattan. Unfolding over a single scene, this «delirious tragicomedy» ( Chicago Sun-Times ) by acclaimed young playwright Stephen Karam «infuses the traditional kitchen-sink family drama with qualities of horror in his portentous and penetrating work of psychological unease» ( Variety ), creating an indelible family portrait. Stephen Karam's plays include Speech &amp; Debate and Sons of the Prophet , a finalist for the 2012 Pulitzer Prize and the winner of the 2012 Drama Critics Circle, Outer Critics Circle, Lucille Lortel and Hull-Warriner awards for Best Play. Born and raised in Scranton, Pennsylvania, he now lives in New York City, New York.

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• Highly anticipated world premiere at the National Theatre in London in the fall of 2015• London production directed by Ian Rickson, with Wallace Shawn and Josh Hamilton• Four star review in The Guardian• Wallace Shawn is an accomplished playwright and well-known screen actor- Four of Shawn’s plays – The Designated Mourner, Marie and Bruce, My Dinner with Andre, and The Fever – were adapted into film. The film version of The Designated Mourner was directed by famed writer and director David Hare.– The film My Dinner with Andre went on to become a cinematic standard and highly revered material in the study of film.– Shawn translated and adapted a widely acclaimed version of the theatrical classic The Threepenny Opera by Bertolt Brecht. – His most recent work was a translation of Henrik Ibsen’s classic A Master Builder, which was also adapted for film by Jonathan Demme.

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Meet Chloe, 21 from Leytonstone. She likes the simple things in life: cherry sambuca, hairbrush-in-the-mirror karaoke with Rihanna and winding her Dad up. Oh, and she's a boxer. London, 2012. Women will step into the Olympic boxing ring for the very first time. And it's in Stratford. Down the road. As Chloe trains for the fight of her life, she is left winded by two life-changing events. In a man's world, can she prove she's still worth the title? Fighting fit from sell-out shows at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival as part of the Old Vic New Voices Edinburgh Season, you are invited ringside, for an adrenaline-fuelled, no-holes-barred one-woman show unafraid to document the blood, the sweat…and all the tears.

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On 14 September 2003, at the Haitham Hotel in Basra, Iraq, Baha Mousa and nine others were arrested by the British Army as suspected insurgents. Two days later Baha Mousa was dead. A post-mortem examination revealed that he had suffered from asphyxiation, and had received at least 93 injuries to his body whilst in the Army’s custody. In 2008 the Secretary of State for Defence announced a Public Inquiry into Baha Mousa’s death and the treatment of those detained with him. Tactical Questioning brings together scenes from the Public Inquiry which examined the shocking events that took place over those two days of detention, and the British Army’s policies towards the treatment of detainees. The production coincided with the publishing of the Inquiry’s findings in Summer 2011. “Chilling yet compelling drama… The words, in every possible way, speak for themselves.” – Evening Standard “Compelling… The facts have the power to shock.” – The Guardian

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Growing frustrated at the destruction of his rural idyll, a farmer picks up a pamphlet that encourages him on a dangerous path.... He has a great idea to secure the future of the native animals on his land – to kill all of the non-natives. With his daughter against him, and his son on the fence, his idea looks equally brilliant and insane. His goal may be achieved, but at what cost? A dark comedy pondering the effects of extremism, Bunnies is new play by up and coming young writer Kieran Lynn.

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