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Set in one of Britain's most privileged schools, three teenage girls are in possession of an envelope whose contents will determine the rest of their lives. But one of them is not the sort of young woman the school is supposed to produce. There is porn on her laptop and pills in her book bag, and she is prepared to do anything to get where she wants.

From the last lonely wilderness, the last dark corner of these overlit times, in the camouflage of the common man, Thom Pain takes the stage, fumbling with his heart, squinting into the light. With terrible timing and impeccable regret, over-educated in the wrong ways, and wounded in the right ones, he appears. Teeth bared, as he picks a piece of lint off his suit.Listen to the language writhe, as he tries to say hello. Meet Thom Pain. A man w...

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Phil Porter is the winner of the Arts Council Childrens' Award for his play "Smashed Eggs.

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You self sabotage. You're always on your phone. You procrastinate. Your bathroom has mold on the shower. You don't exercise regularly. You don't eat your recommended five a day.But it's not too late - it's never too late! Things can be different! You can make a change - you're the master of your own destiny after all. It's all down to you. Society's not going to change for you, so you need to change for society.A New and Better You asks you to...

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Condemned as a "libel on the British people" when it was first produced in 1951, "Absolute Hell" is set in a decaying West End drinking club at the end of the Second World War. The 1995 production at the Royal National Theatre starred Judi Dench and was directed by Anthony Page.

Contemporary pieces with particular appeal to young audiences

Silent Planet is a passionate and poetic fable about the power of literature in a world in which the wrong words can get you killed. At the height of the Cold War, dissident writer Gavriil is detained in a Soviet mental prison. His interrogator Yurchak offers to protect him from torture in exchange for sharing the "forbidden stories".

An unsettling and startingly authentic examination of complacency culture and the politics of beauty.

It is the Jubilee Queen Victorias Golden Jubilee, 1887. At Tilbury Docks, Rani and Abdul step ashore after the long voyage from India. One has to battle a society who deems her a second class citizen, the other forges an astonishing entanglement with the ageing Queen who finds herself enchanted by stories of an India she rules but has never seen.The Empress uncovers remarkable unknown stories of 19th century Britain, the growth of Indian natio...

Since U Been Gone is a moving and powerful autobiographical account about teenage rebellion, growing up queer in the mid-noughties, and finding yourself while losing a friend.

A dark comedy about the epic battles and alliances within the psyche, and the beautiful power of the mind to protect itself from pain.

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Eve Leigh's new play explores what the internet means for those who are disabled - what does an online life feel like to those whose bodies are deemed out of the ordinary by the rest of society?

Colonial Trinidad 1939. Three sisters endure a mundane but privileged life in the capital, Port of Spain. Living with their simpleton brother and his domineering wife, the women pass the time entertaining and being entertained by the local Volunteer Regiment. They occupy their lives with empty marriages and petty liasons whilst dreaming of returning to their adopted home country Cambridge, England where they spent their cosmopolitan youth. But...

Set amidst a contemporary British community, Gurpreet Kaur Bhatti's new play about a group of working-class friends dreaming of a better life for their children questions the dream of class mobility, and what happens when the odds are stacked against you.

The Story is a Kafkaesque psychological thriller that interrogates the language surrounding the current refugee 'crisis', and the stories we tell ourselves to justify violence.

A new version of this classic French romantic comedy.