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Future Conditional tackles the nightmare of British schooling through a myriad of characters.

'The Dice House' unfolds in a commune run by maverick psychiatrist Dr Ratner where the patients are encouraged to surrender all their decisions to the roll of the dice. When Ratner's rival Dr Drabble hurls one of his own patients into the clinic to kidnap an inmate - his wife - a comic romp ensues.

In their mock Georgian house on an exclusive estate, Rob and Hattie are preparing Sunday lunch for friends and neighbours - but all is not going to plan. Their seemingly cosy world of comfort and safety is about to explode. When you've got everything you thought you wanted, how come you still want more?

A daring new play written specifically for the Sam Wanamaker Playhouse in response to Christopher Marlowe's Edward II, After Edward is Edward II as you've never seen him before: a chaotic world of pride and shame, with moments of elation, outrageous humour and heart-breaking tenderness.

Individual stories of first loves and old flames, alliances and abandonment, missed opportunities and new chances intertwine to paint a vivid picture of Eighties Britain

Acclaimed Danish playwright Line Morkeby shines a light on how we talk about death in I Run: a fast-paced, explosive and moving one-man play about running, grief and missing someone we love.

David Finnigan's daring new play Kill Climate Deniers asks: what would it take to stop climate change? Science? Recycling? Experts? Or maybe: techno, guns and revolution?

In PEN America award-winning The House in Scarsdale, playwright Dan O'Brien traces the roots of his estrangement from his family, uncovering deep-buried secrets and rumours along the way.

Life, Alice thinks, isn't worth living. So she kills herself. But she's stuck. A fly on the wall. Forced to watch the aftermath of her suicide and its ripple effect on her family and friends, Alice quickly learns that death changes people. And discovers that death isn't the change she hoped for.

With songs and searing honesty, Shuck 'n' Jive is the laugh-out-loud story of two friends trying to break out of racist typecasting and create a story for themselves.

The Girl who Fell is a poignant and darkly funny play about loss, guilt and Snapchat from the "provocative and entertaining" Sarah Rutherford

Inspired by real events and a lawsuit initiated by Stevens herself, Scrounger drives towards the realities of how Britain is failing its most vulnerable and the extreme cost paid by those seeking justice.

A reportage play. Valerie wants a job, Frank wants to run the marathon--Paul, Philip and Alan just want to hold on. This dramatic piece of reportage draws on interviews with murderers to create stark, uncompromising portraits of people rebuilding their lives.

Henry, now in the autumn of his years, is transported back to the key episodes of his life. At once ironic and affectionate, he speaks with his younger self both man and boy, offering warnings of a life to come and advice on how he might live it without the small self-delusions and regrets that leave him ultimately unfulfilled.Warm, funny and entertaining Hock and Soda Water is a nostalgic lament for a life never lived.

Two plays from two German playwrights. This collection, published by Oberon Books, is translated by David Tushingham and Meredith Oakes. Includes the plays The Man Who Never Yet Saw Woman's Nakedness and Warweser

A black political farce set is a seedy hotel in Central Europe by OEdoen von Horvath.

Duncan Macmillan takes on some of the most pressing issues of our time.

Funny and moving - an insight into 30's Hollywood and an epic of laughter.

OEdoen von Horvath's startling tale of displacement and isolation in the aftermath war, boldly adapted by Duncan Macmillan.

Buchner is often considered the father of modern German drama, and "Woyzeck"was his most influential work. Beneath the utter simplicity of itsbasic story, there are complex themes of human motivation, victimisation, guilt, class, and the meaning and nature ofexistence. This edition incorporates recent research and full Introduction and Notes."

Carthage asks who should raise our children when even the systems designed to protect them can be abusive.

Acclaimed Chilean playwright Juan Radrigan's 1981 classic.

Mrs Barbour's Daughters (**** The Herald, **** The Scotsman) by award-winning playwright AJ Taudevin (Some Other Mother, Chalk Farm) charts a family history of sisterhood and betrayal interwoven in a social history of women's resistance incorporating worker, protest and popular songs from the last 100 years.

Four new short plays inspired by the 800th anniversary of the Magna Carta by internationally renowned playwrights Howard Brenton, Anders Lustgarten, Timberlake Wertenbaker and Sally Woodcock.

A play by the poet and playwright Jon Fosse. This version is translated for the stage by playwright Gregory Motton. Two lovers have conflicting interests when they have a child together.

A dark, painful and very funny play by Serbian writer Ugljesa Sajtinac.

Luke Barnes's brash bold voice and fine eye for a rowdy tale combine in this play about a family's tradition and one last storytelling competition.

English translation of Nobel laureate Elfriede Jelinek's Sports Play, a provocative postdramatic theatrical exploration of sport as a form of war. First produced in Vienna in 1998, this English version was produced in the UK to coincide with the London 2012 Olympics, and has subsequently toured internationally.

A contemporary reimagining of Sophocles' Antigone, for children and young audiences.

A stunning monologue which is a haunting and often fiercely funny meditation on life as a state of permanent exile.