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Break Away

Break Away

by Dameon Garnett

Bloomsbury Publishing

"...Do ya think you'll ever get any genuine love from them kind o' people, do you think they'll ever really accept you? Wake up Barbie! You'll never be one o' them." Leaving behind her home in Speke, …

Carthage

Carthage

by Chris Thompson

Bloomsbury Publishing

Winner Pearson Playwright Award 2014 Nominated Best New Play and Most Promising New Playwright 2014 Offie Awards. Tommy Anderson was born in a prison, and he died in one too. The last moments of his …

Checkpoint Chana

Checkpoint Chana

by Jeff Page

Bloomsbury Publishing

Poet Bev Hemmings is in the eye of a storm after she publishes a poem that the world seems to believe is anti-Semitic. She's convinced she's innocent, but everyone else – including her PA, Tamsin – wa…

Chicken Dust

Chicken Dust

by Ben Weatherill

Bloomsbury Publishing

Oh this ain't a farm. This is a loading dock. No such things as farms anymore, not around here. A chicken farm in rural England. New boy Tim has just arrived for his first shift. The job is pretty si…

Coolactully

Coolactully

by Fiona Doyle

Nick Hern Books

Lyrical and urgent, Fiona Doyle's play Coolatully is a compassionate insight into the links between the economy, masculinity and society in the modern world. Kilian was once Coolatully's pride and joy…

Cornelius

Cornelius

by J. B. Priestley

Bloomsbury Publishing

"So all the time, while you were pretending to work, you've been having the most astonishing adventures in that corner?" A forgotten masterpiece from one of Britain’s greatest dramatists, J.B. Priest…