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The Last Resort proves that love not only can germinate, but can grow and flourish even in the most deathly environments.Marjorie Kendrick, a widow half paralyzed by a stroke, is dumped into a posh Long Island nursing home by her son. Most of the other elderly patients she meets in the home's recreation room are kept docile and cooperative by the use of drugs. The only exception is Henry Downs, who, as Marjorie soon learns, avoids the diet of ...

It's 1934, and the clever and combustible Lucille Wiley, Manager of the Cleveland Grand Opera Company, is ready to welcome world-class soprano Elena Firenzi for her one-night-only starring role in Carmen. Alas, Elena arrives late, her impassioned husband Pasquale has a fit of jealousy, and it remains to be seen whether Mrs. Wiley's mousy but determined assistant Jo can save the day.Based on Ken Ludwig's Tony Award-winning Lend Me A Tenor, this...

Winner! 2023 Pulitzer Prize in Drama Winner! 2023 Obie Award for Best New American Play It's 2008, and four Iranians assemble triweekly in a TOEFL (Test of English as a Foreign Language) class in Karaj, Iran. The students are led by Marjan, an anglophile who abolishes Farsi from her classroom. They translate Ricky Martin and endure major preposition confusion, they discover how to be funny in English and ponder what they will lose in the pro...

Placing wartime and lockdown life side-by-side, Alan Ayckbourn's 85th play is a touching, tender and, of course, funny reflection on the ability of love to rise above adversity and reach across the years. Veteran actor Rob Hathaway, stuck at home during the summer of 2020 with only his sensible older sister for company, has little to do but relive his glory days. One day Rob spots a stranger hanging out the washing in the adjoining garden - ...

It's the end of year 2022, and Salty, Gail and Hobby are about to present a play which they have been working on for their B.Tech performance exam. It's the first time they have performed live, their other exams were held on Zoom. What follows is a funny, fast-moving, caustic and hard-hitting account of how Miss Nixon, a newly qualified drama teacher changed their lives. As Salty, Gail and Hobby prepare to leave state education, it appears tha...

Moscow, August 2018. The World Cup has just ended, and it has been a roaring success. Free metro travel. Parties in the square. The police, the ones with guns, they were smiling! People finally saw that yeah, it's okay over here and no, it doesn't snow in the summer, it's actually very warm. And wait, did we mention it was an incident-free event? But when an old woman walks into a bank, she is conned into taking out a high-interest loan,...

A deeply moving, tenderly insightful play about friendship, memory, and the small moments that can change the course of our lives forever. Over one fateful summer, an unlikely friendship develops between Diana, a fiercely iconoclastic artist and single mom, and Alice, a free-spirited yet naive young housewife. As the Bicentennial is celebrated across the country, these two young women in Ohio navigate motherhood, ambition, and intimacy, and he...

In 1888, three experienced, nineteenth-century American lady adventurers, armed with umbrellas, a picnic and pith helmets, set out to explore "Terra Incognito", eagerly embracing cultures and replicas of distant civilizations (such as an eggbeater which they deduce must be "a marsupial's unicycle"). Caught in a time warp, they find them selves in Eisenhower's 1950s America where they sample rock 'n' roll and discover artefacts which include ...

Samantha and Leo are a team-best friends and roommates, fat girl and gay guy against the world-until a new friend upends their cozy co-dependent diet of mutual self-loathing and Grey's Anatomy marathons. An ode to the complications of friendship in its many fucked-up forms, with a special nod to a kind of love that sometimes looks a lot like rage.

Three very different sisters meet at their mothers house to await the death of their father, they gradually reveal the complexities of their own lives.

Nathaniel is a serious romantic, the human manifestation of "I Will Always Love You" (The Whitney Houston version) and every homemade Slow Jamz cassette from the 90s, he sees love as a fine art. He's looking for the Mona Lisa to his da Vinci, and tonight is the night: his date with Destiny...'s Child. Nathan Queeley-Dennis' debut play is a love letter to Birmingham, exploring Black masculinity through Beyoncé lyrics, techno raves, and the ...

One of the 2023 winners of the CT-sponsored Untapped Award, we're delighted to be publishing this to coincide with the opening at the Edinburgh Fringe this year! Skewering society's ableism with real wit and humour, this is a scathing satire on the monetisation of identity politics that spares no one. We're excited to be supporting this and know it's going to be a big hit at this year's fringe! Publishing in conjunction with the production...

Tabitha is - or rather was - a cat, the property of Lavinia, a dear old lady, who lives with two other dear old ladies in an apartment house owned by Mrs Trellington. Now as a landlady Mrs Trellington has some very unattractive and even tactless habits: she helps herself to the old ladies' little store of whisky, she chooses to put up their rents on Christmas Eve, and - last straw of all- she has done away with the beloved Tabitha. No wonder t...

Cheryl is a widow of two years, Stan is newly divorced. After failed blind dates, their best friends, Lori and Dave, convince them to try online dating with the new dating website, "Friends, Love or Whatever." With the worst dating advice in the world from their friends, Cheryl and Stan set out to find happiness and true love-online. All the trials and tribulations of online dating come to the forefront, including overcoming heartbreak and rej...

Mariela and José were once the golden couple of the Mexican artists' inner circle. Together they built a family and an artist colony to host friends Diego Rivera, Frida Kahlo and Rufino Tamayo. But now their daughter has grown up and run away, their friends are too famous to call, and artistic inspiration has been strangled by isolation and lies. Set in the northern Mexican desert in 1950, Mariela in the Desert is a deadly mystery-a layered ye...

A thoughtful and meditative two-hander, Samuel D. Hunter's extraordinary play is both intimate and expansive as it explores themes of parenthood, financial insecurity and empathy.A Case for the Existence of God unfolds in a cubicle where two seated people unexpectedly choose to bring one another into their fragile worlds. Keith, a mortgage broker, and Ryan, a yogurt plant worker seeking to buy a plot of land that belonged to his family many de...

Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright James Ijames reinvents Shakespeare's masterpiece with his new drama, a delectable comic tragedy. Juicy is a queer, Southern college kid, already grappling with some serious questions of identity, when the ghost of his father shows up in their backyard, demandingthat Juicy avenge his murder. It feels like a familiar story to Juicy, well-versed in Hamlet's woes. What's different is Juicy himself, a sensitive and...

A charming devil arrives in the quiet village of Edmonton to bargain for the souls of its residents in exchange for their darkest wishes. Elizabeth should be his easiest target, having been labeled a "witch" and cast out by the town, but her soul is not so readily bought. As the devil returns to convince her - and then returns again - unexpected passions flare, alliances are formed, and the village is forever changed. An inventive retelling of...

Based on the hugely popular TV comedy series, this sequel to the popular stage production of 'Allo 'Allo continues the adventures of reluctant resistance hero and harassed cafe¿ owner, Rene¿ Artois, in German-occupied wartime France. It features many of your favourite characters from the TV series and original stage play. Still trying to repatriate a pair of British airmen, René, his wife Edith and their café waitresses, Mimi and Yvette, a...

Nicole is smart, successful, married to a hot guy-and unapologetically fat. But her formerly fat, now obsessively thin mom, Helen, fixates on Nicole's weight. When Nicole visits her hometown for her best friend's baby shower and reveals that she's also pregnant, mom and daughter are forced to confront how Helen's difficulty accepting Nicole's body-and her own-has shaped their relationship. A deeply felt, irreverent comedy about motherhood, ant...