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Five plays are intertwined in one in this story of fringe dwellers living in an age of social, economic, and moral deprivation. Mostly without work, and politically disengaged, they work at survival. "With intelligence, well-judged humour and the searching qualities of truly memorable theatre, the play peels away political propaganda and notions of correctness to present a candid, difficult, searing portrait of the poor and marginalised." - Sydney Morning Herald. Who's Afraid of the Working Class? was adapted into the feature film Blessed.

Winner of the 2022 Pulitzer Prize for Drama. James Ijames' Fat Ham reinvents Shakespeare's masterpiece in startling and hilarious ways amidst the backdrop of a family barbecue in the American South. Winner of the 2024 Lambda Literary Award for LGBTQ+ Drama. Juicy—a young, queer, Southern man, who is grappling with questions of identity—is visited by the ghost of his father (Pap) at his mother's wedding/family barbecue. Pap demands that Juicy avenge his recent murder.

Winner of the 1984 Pulitzer Prize. David Mamet's scalding comedy is about small-time, cutthroat real estate salesmen trying to grind out a living by pushing plots of land on reluctant buyers in a never-ending scramble for their fair share of the American dream. Here is Mamet at his very best, writing with brutal power about the tough life of tough characters who cajole, connive, wheedle, and wheel and deal for a piece of the action - where closing a sale can mean a brand new Cadillac but losing one can mean losing it all.

Movie tie-in edition of the film from Lions Gate starring Nicole Kidman, Aaron Eckhart, and Dianne Wiest. Life for a happy couple is turned upside down after their young son dies in an accident.

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' Circle Award for Best Play. "The best play of the year" – 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.

Winner of the 2010 Pulitzer Prize for Drama. "Rock is alive and rolling like thunder in Next to Normal. It's the best musical of the season by a mile...an emotional powerhouse with a fire in its soul and a wicked wit that burns just as fiercely." – Rolling Stone – "No show on Broadway right now makes as a direct grab for the heart—or wrings it as thoroughly—as Next to Normal does...It focuses squarely on the pain that cripples the members of a suburban family, and never for a minute does it let you escape the anguish at the core of their lives.

Tarantino meets Deadwood in this full-throttle drama of our colonial past, written by the indomitable Leah Purcell. Henry Lawson's story of the Drover's Wife pits the stoic silhouette of a woman against the unforgiving Australian landscape, staring down a serpent - it's our frontier myth captured in a few pages. In Leah's new play the old story gets a very fresh rewrite. Once again the Drover's Wife is confronted by a threat in her yard in Australia's high country, but now it's a man. He's bleeding, he's got secrets, and he's black.

An electrifying, bittersweet love story with echoes of Romeo and Juliet, set in a society divided by racial bigotry and a world rocked by terrorism. Adapted from Malorie Blackman's best-selling novels. Sephy (a Cross) is the daughter of the Deputy Prime Minister. Callum is the son of a Nought agitator. United by a shared sense of injustice as children, and separated by intolerance as they grow up, their desire to be together begins to eclipse all family loyalty – sparking a political crisis of unimaginable proportions.

From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Angels in America comes this powerful portrayal of individual dissolution and resolution in the face of political catastrophe. —"It's brash, audacious and... intoxicatingly visionary." —Sid Smith, Chicago Tribune.

Bruno has a friend called Shmuel. Like Bruno, Shmuel is nine years old. Their birthdays are on the same day. But Shmuel lives on the other side of a fence, and he's always wearing striped pyjamas... Based on the best-selling novel by John Boyne, The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas is a heart-wrenching tale of an unlikely friendship between two innocent boys. Angus Jackson's deeply affecting adaptation was produced by The Children's Touring Partnership and Chichester Festival Theatre on a UK tour in 2015. 'Heart-breaking...