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Writer Jonathan Harvey describes his play as an urban fairytale. Its a story of sexual awakening, set in the close-knit, working class community of the Thamesmead Estate, south-east London. Sandra works as manager of a local pub, her teenage son, Jamie is the kind of student who hates athletics and is victimized by his peers....

The Seagull (1896) is the earliest and perhaps the most fragile of Chekhov’s four masterpieces. The major themes of love and art are explored in the relationships between characters and the frustrations and failures they experience. Chekhov sought to show life as it is, devoid of the convenient moral judgements, patterns and the order that...

In Christchurch 1954, Pauline Parker and friend Juliet Hulme killed Pauline’s mother Honora Riper. While nothing can excuse what happened 50 years ago in this nice, middle-class neighbourhood of Christchurch, Foster’s play attempts to explain it, without creating a simple ‘good versus evil’ scenario. While Daughters of Heaven might seem to be more suited for...

Thomas More was born in London 1478, studied and practiced law, and entered parliament 1504. In 1515 More took on various advisaory and diplomatic tasks for Henry VIII and in 1518 helped write against the heretical teachings of Martin Luther, appointed to the Privy Council and knighted. Later he became the Speaker of the House...

Scott McPherson will be remembered primarily for this one play, first produced in 1991 and won a number of critical awards. He died of AIDS related complications in 1992 at age 33. Although not autobiographical, McPherson did draw on some of his own experiences of the US health system while writing it. While these were...

Written in 1975, American Buffalo is a landmark play, essentially a modern [im]morality tale, portraying the dysfunctional social dynamic between three small-time crooks as they plot an il-fated heist from a junk shop. Since its premiere 30 years ago, the play has intrigued, baffled and thrilled audiences with its obscenity-laced vernaular, absurd humour and pornography...

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The play is set in Dunedin. Bernard and Sally are a couple who are unable to conceive children and decide to seek a surrogate mother. Peter and Sally Boon are a couple who want to improve their lot in life and respond to the Longmans\’ quest. However, Bernard has some very set and different views...

Alan Ayckbourn is one of Britains most popular living dramatists, writing sixty plus plays since the early 1970s. Set over three consecutive Christmases we watch as the respective fortunes of the three couples change, their appearances and that of their kitchens too. We see the games they play with each other and their guests, the...