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Robert Burton's extraordinary 1,500 page compendium categorising all forms of melancholy, their symptons, causes and cures are here playfully and sensitively edited and reframed as a stage play. Here Burton is rehearsing his own adaptation of is best seller for the stage. A digestable form of a extraodinary and monumental work.

An amateur assassin tracks a top research chemist across Europe; when he finds her he must choose between love and duty. Told from the assasin's warped perspective, the script mixes text from improvisations with a thin disorientating language buit from tourist phrasebooks. Strange and disturbing with shafts of humour this is a bold poetic thriller

Shakespeare's Tragedy compressed, retaining the original language, to be performed in under an hour.

There is inexplicable magic at work in the city and on a rooftop four figures are frantically attempting to get control of their lives and change the world around them. This bold early playtext from Stan's Cafe is supplimented with the text work Street Spy 2 and documents from a durational outdoor performance, The Camp.

Eric Smith is an Erik Satie obsessed loner who sets up a museum to his musical hero in his Birmingham bedsit. He guides his audience through the 'treasures' he has gathered. The audience watch as his grasp on reality weakens and this one act play concludes with Smith pretending to be Satie pretending to be Socretes drinking hemlock.

An absurd comic play in which four interrogators investigate 'the events of last night'. It's never clear what the crime was, the suspect's identity keeps shifting between the four people present and the questioning is far from text book. Despite being one of Stan's Cafe's funniest plays it retains a strange poetry and philosophical undertow.

Two performers with a chess clock are each challened to relate events from the last 26 years in 26 minutes. One must relate the personal lives and adventures of the theatre company Stan's Cafe, the other is responsible for the rest of the world. The result speaks about time, individuals, society how we are all entwined and yet separate.

Kate is a young film star coming to terms with her new found fame. Kate is her make up artist, divorced with an estranged daughter and elderly father in need of care. Together in the privacy of the Make Up caravan the two women share confidences and try to find a path through the future. This warm, intimate play is about the faceswe show the world.

Two theatrical impressarios attempt to tell the nativity story in a pantomime form with the help of Mary from the audience. This play documents the terrible travesty that follows and how it is redeemed by Mary's mangled memory of the 'true' Christmas story. This is the first play by the groundbreaking theatre company Stan's Cafe.

A play for 60 actors aged 10 & 11 telling the story of the Cuban Missile Crisis. Commissioned and performed by Billesley Primary School and as set within the frame of a child worried about playground bullying this play is witty and educational, a great read and published with original production photographs.

Set in the midsts of the Dutch Tulipmania phenomena of 1637 this tightly written comic play explains the 2008 financial crisis from first principles. Engaging, playful and devestating it uses Bertolt Brecht as its model.

Acclaimed playwright Nenad Prokic's powerfull dramatisation of political manoeuvrings in Berlin, Vienna and Belgrade leading to the assassination of Archduke Ferdinand and how the 'war to end all wars' got Europe nowhere. Commissioned by London International Festival Of Theatre here in English translation and Serbian original.

Script for the beautiful and poetic Barclays New Stages award winning play about being away from home and gravity and space travel. This volume also contains scripts for So Bring Me Down a 'real time' radio drama series and documents relating to the site specific durational performance Space Station.

A beautiful, kaleidoscopic play about Birmingham's Longbridge car plant and the community round it. Created by Stan's Cafe from interviews, local testimony and historical sources, it interleaves stories to create a playful and compassionate picture how everyday lives are lived around big business. This is the production script plus extras.