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Rachel

Rachel

by Angelina Weld Grimké

Bloomsbury Publishing

The first play by an African American woman ever produced professionally. Rachel is a young, educated, middle-class woman. But she is born into an African-American family in the early 20th century –…

Returning to Haifa

Returning to Haifa

by Ghassan Kanafani, Adapted by Ismail Khalidi and Naomi Wallace

Faber & Faber

A compelling story of two families - one Palestinian, one Israeli - forced by history into an intimacy they didn't choose. In 1948, Palestinian couple Said and Safiyya fled their home during the Nakba…

Run the Beast Down

Run the Beast Down

by Titas Halder

Bloomsbury Publishing

Charlie has stopped sleeping. His neighbour’s cat has been dismembered. And worse, he’s being haunted by an urban fox. In a haze of neon-soaked insomnia, lines blur between reality and fantasy. A wild…

S-27

S-27

by Sarah Grochala

Bloomsbury Publishing

Inspired by the work of the photographer Nhem En, who photographed the inmates of the Tuol Sleng prison in Cambodia under the rule of the Khmer Rouge, and by painter Van Nath who painted Pol Pot and w…