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After 23 years two alienated brothers are reunited in the stinking kitchen of a rotting apartment. Bob is a sociopathic slob, facing jail for throwing a man from a car; Jack seems successful and disciplined but nurses his own considerable demons. Together they piece together a dark shared history.

A child goes missing, vanishes into thin air. The witnesses' statements are inconclusive and the police struggle without a clear case or criminal motive. Two men and three women are drawn together by this tragic event and attempt to make sense of the unfathomable.

Talk about the Passion: A young child is horrifically murdered; the autobiography of the serial killer is a hit publication. Jason Carroway is forced to endure the guilt at failing to protect his son and the subsequent media attention that accompanies the controversial release of the killer's autobiography.

Since their childhood, when Heather left Jamaica for England, her half sister Bernice has claimed to be able to raise the dead. Thirty years later, when Heather returns after the murder of her son, she offers Bernice the deeds to the family house - if she can bring him back.

Published to tie in with major new production at the Royal National Theatre directed by Michael Blakemore, the play won numerous awards.

Anthony Burgess's stage play of his infamous cult novel and film of the same name. This is the story of Alex and his teenage gang, "The Droogs", their life of rape and murder, and "ultraviolence", and the moral dilemma that arises when Alex is brainwashed into good citizenship.

While Anna prepares for her wedding, her father Jack, a passionate map collector, confronts the limits of his life. Although his research proves the family is related to a famous 18th-century cartographer and plantation owner, Anna is interested that they may also be descended from a slave.

Constables Blunt and Gobbel have one last duty to fulfil before they can finish their Christmas Eve shift: to tell the old couple at number 58 some terrible news. But what if the shock is too much for them? Maybe they'd be happier not knowing. And maybe they shouldn't be involved in a lynching.

A story of crime and redemption. Starting at the mouth of the River Thames and moving across England over twenty years. It begins with a life choice for Jamie Carris and ends with a re-union with his young daughter. It is also a story about a killer.

When Cecilia, the beautiful wife of the area manager takes an interest in the running of one of a chain of DIY stores, strange upheavals begin to take place. Taking place in a simulated garden scene, this book is published to tie in with the play's opening at the Playhouse Theatre in London.

"Heggie's cut-across dialogue crackles with life; fast, funny foulmouthed" (Times Educational Supplement)

Set in a modern-day Scotland, this caustic comedy is Iain Heggie's irreverent adaptation of Marivaux's "The Double Inconstancy".

In the 1960s in Hampstead, Bruno and Anna Mosenthal, Anna's brother Leo and his wife Ottilie wait for the potential buyer of their jointly-owned cottage, bought with money from the siblings' Jewish father. But when the buyer turns out to be German, Leo demands an apology for Nazi war crimes.

Moist von Lipwig was a con artist, a fraud and a man faced with a life choice: be hanged, or put Ankh-Morpork''s ailing postal service back on its feet.It was a tough decision.With the help of a golem who has been at the bottom of hole in the ground for over two hundred years, a pin fanatic and Junior Postman Groat, he''s got to see that the mail gets through. In taking on the evil chairman of the Grand Trunk Semaphore Company, and a midnight killer, he''s also got to stay alive.Getting a date with Adora Bell Dearheart would be nice, too.In the mad world of the mail, can a criminal succeed where honest men have failed and died? Perhaps there''s a shot at redemption for man who''s prepared to push the envelope...

Tony's ready to live-it-large and love again. But his efforts to step back on to the scene are hampered by a secret his friends, Monica and Kevin, should have told him long ago. This play is a funny and caustic exploration of love and the limits of friendship.

With the debate about evolution behind him, Darwin now finds guidance from tabloid horoscopes and trashy novels in a beach house in Mailibu. But when his friend Thomas Huxley washes up on the beach with the Bishop of Oxford, he finds himself entangled in a life and death comedy.

Confusion and fear permeate society where the brutality and injustice of military rule is parodied by life inside prison. "From Zia With Love" is based on events in Nigeria in the early 1980s. "A Scourge of Hyacinths", written for radio, presents variations on the same theme.

By the author of "Shopping and F***ing", this play is a dark and often brutally funny journey through a world of virtual reality.

Two runaway teenagers are drawn into a web of heroin addiction and prostitution when their search for adventure takes an unfortunate turn.

"Complicite not only open our eyes to Bruno Schulz but turn his densely impressionistic stories into a piece of vividly imaginative theatre" (Michael Billington, Guardian)

A boy is found dead and DC Joe Stephens must return to his old neighbourhood to investigate. Shanice studiously avoids his enquiries into her boyfriend Emile's gang of friends. But when a reward is offered and Ibiza beckons, the girls and boys face the biggest test of street loyalty.

A play. The party that he and his brother Darren have been planning has been brought forward - to tonight.

This play recounts the story of a woman, returning from the USA to her hometown in Ireland. As her family learn of her years as a prostitute, she learns their attitudes and about Irish society in general.

Two plays by one of Britain's most prolific young black authors

Hippolytus, the spoiled prince, is driven to preserve his self inviolate. Emotions, particularly love, and need of any type are an unbearable threat to the prince. Phaedra, his stepmother, is in love with him. The impossibility of the situation leads to their bloody destruction.

In this exploration of love and relationships, Cannon explores how much you need to see of someone to know they are worth taking a chance on.

Investigates desire, mortality, shame and redemption in a peculiarly English setting - a small town in Derbyshire - a provincial world that is vanishing before the eyes of its inhabitants.

A reissue of Nobel Prize-winner Dario Fo's play, Accidental Death of an Anarchist - a sharp satire on police corruption. The play concerns the case of an anarchist railway worker who, in 1969, 'fell' to his death from a police headquarters' window.

Learn a good wind-up, learn the pull of cash, learn drugs, learn sex, and run wild with the market monkeys. Stay sharp in the ruthless world of Essex traders. Romford Market, 1985 - this boy has everything to learn. This work presents a story about losing your innocence, and your cherry.

"The greatest American playwright of his generation" (New York Magazine)