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Dickens in America is an imaginary lecture given by Charles Dickens on his travels to America in the nineteenth century. Drawn from his many letters, speeches and his book American Notes, this play – first produced at Bristol Old Vic in 1998 – is a gripping journey into Dickens’ life and work.

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The Snow Palace is the story of Polish playwright Stanislawa Przybyszewska, a pathfinder and a brave, lonely woman, as she writes her great play The Danton Affair. She died in her thirties of hypothermia in her unheated hut.

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In 1993, black teenager Stephen Lawrence was stabbed to death in a racist attack by a gang of white youths. The police investigation failed to provide sufficient evidence to convict.Based on the harrowing transcripts of the public inquiry, this is a dramatic reconstruction of the first hearings which reflected the national outcry at the police's mishandling of the case. First seen at the Tricycle Theatre, London, this remarkable production received instant acclaim and subsequently transferred to the West End.

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A brilliantly moving and funny play from the writer of the award-winning Under the Whaleback , Harvest and One Man, Two Guvnors . Another Sunday night shift. The smell of bread baking. The industrial thump, thump, thump of the machines that never stop. The ovens are cranked up to full blast, the factory is humming, and everyone wants to be somewhere else. But this shift is going to be different. Because when a crisis hits the factory, the men have more to lose than just their wages…

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As London slides from one century into the next, a young man is cursed with the uncanny ability to remain both young and beautiful while descending into a life of heartless debauchery. With its glittering dialogue, provocative imagery and radical questioning of sexual and moral freedoms all brought sharply into focus by this brand-new adaptation, Oscar Wilde’s infamous parable has lost none of its power to provoke and disturb. Using Wilde’s original words, a company of sixteen actors and all of adaptor Neil Bartlett’s trademark theatricality, this new stage version of Wilde’s black-hearted parable was commissioned by and first produced at the Abbey Theatre, Ireland’s national theatre in the autumn season of 2012.

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