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Edna OBriens wonderful, wild and moving novel shocked the nation on its publication in 1960. Adapted for the stage by the author, The Country Girls, the play, is a highly theatrical and free-flowing telling of this classic coming of age story.This new edition of The Country Girls was published to coincide with its revival at the Abbey Theatre, Dublin, in 2019.

Dealers ChoiceI feel its my duty to proclaim it from the rooftops: this is it, this is the play that will remind you, at the end of a year that has contained too few stand-out new-writing hits and far too many musicals, why we go to the theatre - and just how good it can get.TelegraphCloserPatrick Marbers searing follow-up to Dealers Choice establishes him as the leading playwright of his generation.Independent on SundayOne of the best plays of sexual politics in the language: it is right up there with Williamss Streetcar, Mamets Oleanna, Albees Virginia Woolf, Pinters Old Times and Hares Skylight.Sunday TimesHoward KatzAfter Dealers Choice (1995), his gripping study of self-destructive gamblers, and Closer (1997), a thrilling account of love, sex and betrayal, this third instalment of his trilogy set in contemporary London tackles the biggest themes of all - life, death, God and the human soul. Its great to see a contemporary dramatist wrestling with such material.TelegraphDon Juan in SohoOne of the foremost dramatic chroniclers of modern British life. Line by line, this is the best written of all Marbers plays. You want to hang around its phrases (how often does that happen in the theatre?): hardly a minute passes without a satirical swipe, a gutsy joke.ObserverThe Red LionMarber, in this riveting new piece, uses the world of non-league, semi-pro football to explore issues of trust and loyalty and the larger division between individual ambition and the collective ethic. If big issues emerge naturally from the action, it is because Marber is writing about a world he knows intimately. Everything feels right. Guardian

T is the new summer hire at Cafarelli & Sons, an iconic New York butcher, but life in a messy cutting room isnt glamorous. No-nonsense boss Paula tries to keep everyone in line, but the business is struggling: when the season ends, someones for the chop.With the American dream of a better life hanging in the balance, T and her colleagues turned competitors sweat for their jobs. Alliances form, romance sparks, and loyalties shift. But how far will they go to secure their future?The Meat King! (Inc.) of Brooklyn Heights carves into the dark underbelly of Americas anti-immigration policies and the brutal sacrifices that drive the pursuit of prosperity. Winner of the 2024 Papatango New Writing Prize, Hannah Dorans fierce and blisteringly funny debut play is premiered at Park Theatre, London, in 2025, directed by Papatangos Artistic Director, George Turvey.

A Tamil teenager is preparing for their period party a traditional ritual meant to mark womanhood.But Krish isnt a girl. And this celebration feels more like the opening act of a never-ending performance. As expectations mount, Krish decides to take control. With help from their best friend Brenavee and a growing chosen family, Krish flips the script to throw the degendered party of their dreams.Set in 2010, in the aftermath of genocide, Period Parrrty is an ode to Tamil survival and self-determination. This is no ordinary coming-of-age story. This is a trans Tamil party. And youre invited.Period Parrrty (nominated for the Tony Craze Award) is the debut play from Gayathiri Kamalakanthan. It is premiered by Kali Theatre and Soho Theatre at Soho Theatre, London, in 2025.

When Brigid gets a call from her brother Niall in the middle of the night, she knows somethings wrong. After he ends up in hospital, Niall moves in with Brigid as she helps him piece his life back together.Little Brotheris a compelling exploration of a sibling relationship set in modern-day Belfast. Eoin McAndrews darkly comic and beautifully observed new play shines a light on the crisis of care in Northern Ireland, the strength of a brother-sister bond and the unpredictable journey towards recovery. Sometimes being there for the people you love is very very very difficult.Little Brother won the 2024 Verity Bargate Award, and is premiered at Soho Theatre in 2025, in a production directed by Emma Jordan.

iGirlStylishly, mysteriously, and with a soaring imagination, Marina Carr has upended the definition of feminism.Independent on SundayGirl on an AltarMesmerisingly compelling . . . Carrs words are a delight to hear, even at their most bleak. Bracingly good.Evening StandardAudrey or SorrowAll facets of Marina Carrs precious mineral are on display in this startling play.Irish TimesTo the LighthouseGloriously ambitious and inventive . . . Woolf and Carr are an inspired match, the Irish playwright detecting the absolute truths of Woolfs work with laser-sharp focus and mining them to their fullest effect. Irish ExaminerThis collection also includes Gilgamesh, Carrs adaptation of the ancient Sumerian epic, a bold exploration of its enduring themes of power, love, mortality and our ruinous relationship to the natural world.

Maybe thats what cooking is, you know. Home in a pocket.Ty, Leroy and Daniel have signed up to a new Caribbean cooking group. Its led by their Occupational Therapist, Naomi, who really needs it to go well. Believing in the healing power of food, Naomi is brimming with plans to evoke memories of Sunday dinners at home with family, to get the men to talk, share and create something special.But when youre locked in a secure hospital, too much food for thought can be a bad thing.Each Sunday the hospital is transformed with the smells and flavours of home, and together the four embark on a challenging journey of self-discovery where its not just the pans that threaten to boil over. As the heat in the kitchen rises, the group is forced to reckon with uncomfortable truths not only about who they really are, but also to face what they did that led them to become trapped within the system.The funny and affecting debut play by Sophia Griffin, After Sunday is a searing examination of the intertwining lives of four people as they fight to find hope for a better future. Premiered at Belgrade Theatre, Coventry, and the Bush Theatre, London, in 2025.

Two plays from an exciting Irish dramatist, winner of the Verity Bargate Award for Citysong.BÁN is a reworking of Lorcas The House of Bernarda Alba set in de Valeras Ireland. Like the sisters at its heart bound tightly, neither open nor tender, mourning their father, surveilled by their mother. They long for escape, power, the local eligible bachelor. The question isnt who can have which, its can any of them have any?Raw and raucous, dark but not unduly despairing, BAN is premiered at the Abbey Theatre, Dublin, on its Peacock Stage as part of the 2025 Dublin Theatre Festival. It was nominated for the prestigious Susan Smith Blackburn Prize.Absent the Wrong is an intimate and sweeping, raw and heady play about seventy years of adoptees looking for answers.A woman looking for her child is lied to. An artist pitches a memorial thats never built. A landlord raises rents. A parrot disappears. (Or does it?) Thousands of children disappear. (No question this time.) Theres family reunions, collective actions, inexplicable Mormons. Its about being the only person in the family photo who isnt white and not daring to ask why, about having multiple heritages but knowing nothing about any of them.Its about Ireland, Irishness, about a century of destroying families in the name of The Family. Its about wondering, searching, loving, losing, fighting, losing some more, and sometimes finally winning when all seems lost.Absent the Wrong was premiered on the Abbey Theatres Peacock Stage as part of the 2022 Dublin Fringe Festival.Carys D. Coburn is one of the founders of MALAPROP, whose work has won acclaim in Ireland and beyond.

All my life, all your life, Ive struggled with this - was what I did wrong?Germany, 1945. Thomas, one of thousands of children stolen by the Nazis from Eastern Europe during WWII, is under the care of Ruth, a UN relief worker. She must choose whether to try to find his parents or leave him with those hes grown up with. The choice she makes will shape his life.London, 1990. Years later, Thomas visits Ruth. As they untangle the past, the decisions Ruth made as a very young woman are called powerfully into question.David Lans remarkable play explores the shapeshifting nature of memory and morality. It opened at the National Theatre, London, in September 2025.

Your woman ranting, who said this, who said that, who said the other, all boils down to the usual rigmarole. The Oracle says dont. The clodhopper says I will if I want. The Oracle flattens him, the clodhopper cuts out his eyes or the other clodhoppers cut them out for him, the clodhopper repents, the Oracle relents, everyone dies and they all live happily ever after until the whole malarkey begins again. Marina Carr brings a contemporary lens to the pain and beauty of Sophocles Theban trilogy, in two new plays published together here. This epic, darkly funny retelling of the story of Oedipus and his family continues Carrs vivid conversation with the foundations of modern drama. The Boy and The God and His Daughter opened at the Abbey Theatre, Dublin, in September 2025. The Boy was first performed at the Abbey Theatre, Dublin, in September 2025.

Brandon Thomas riotous farce Charleys Aunt is given a glamorous glow-up in a new adaptation by Rob Madge, the award-winning creator of My Sons a Queer (But What Can You Do?).Two scheming students, Charley and Jack, must circumnavigate the curmudgeonly Spettigue to declare their feelings to love interests Amy and Kitty. The promised arrival of Charleys aunt gives them an opportunity and the best laid plans are set. One delayed arrival, one fortuitous arrival and lots of classic comic confusion later, the champagne is finally poured at a dinner party to remember.Mistaken identities, new identities and the discovery of true identities, will love old and new - triumph through it all? Charleys Aunt is premiered at the Watermill Theatre, Newbury, in 2025.

Inside the walls of HMP Drummond, Baxter, Norton and Lenny pass the time with poker, banter, and the kind of gallows humour only lifers can muster.When Lennys body starts to give out, young prison officer Mark keeps an eye on him. What begins as a duty of care becomes an unexpected friendship, exposing the cracks in a system built to punish, not to support.Darkly funny and unflinchingly honest, Evan Placeys Lifers challenges what we think we know about crime, punishment, and redemption. Do some crimes make a second chance impossible? And when the world moves on without you, what does justice really mean?A compelling look at ageing, and the stories we tell ourselves to survive, Lifers is premiered at Southward Playhouse, Borough, in 2025.

Are they hydrated? Are they oxygenated? Are they motivated? Is the medical care they are receiving in line with their values and desires? Do they have meaningful support in their lives? Has the dog been left alone in the house? How do they take their tea?On the longest night shift of the year, a hole appears in the roof of a crumbling and understaffed A&E department.Senior Charge Nurse Crea strives to deliver safe and effective care while porter Billy angles after a date. Staff Nurse Ani juggles her bursting caseload, knowing that no one is at Mr Hoppers bedside for his final moments. Septuagenarian Tersia is trapped in a disco-fuelled fever dream, while a disgruntled Fred Turnbull prepares his strongly worded complaint. And student nurse Lina has No. Idea. What. Is. Going. On.A forensic examination of life and death within the NHS, Black Hole Sign opened at the Tron Theatre, Glasgow, in September 2025 and transferred to the Traverse Theatre, Edinburgh, in October 2025.

Loves strange, isnt it? You think youre going to feel it in your chest, or your gut. But I swear, I can feel it in every cell.Jess and Robbie. A chance meeting, some disastrous dates, an extraordinary transformative love. Its the stuff of fairy tales. Or is it?Lost Atoms is a wild ride through a life-changing relationship, or Jess and Robbies recollection of it. Together they scale the soaring highs and crushing lows, relive the beats of connection, the moments of loss. But are their stories the same? And can their memories be trusted? By turns hilarious and devastating, Anna Jordans Lost Atoms tells a timeless story which explores how love shapes our lives and how we remember it. It was commissioned and produced by Frantic Assembly in 2025, as their thirtieth-anniversary production, in a co-production with Curve, Mayflower Southampton and Lyric Hammersmith Theatre, and directed by Frantic Assemblys Artistic Director Scott Graham.

An irresistible new adaptation of Jane Austens classic rom-com, swapping drawingroom duets for dance floor-fillers, taking audiences on a ride of matchmaking and mischief that ignites laughter and warms the heart.Emma Woodhouse thinks she has it all figured out. Fresh from Oxford University and back in her hometown for the summer, Emma is ready to do what she does best: sort out everyone elses lives, whether they like it or not.Her closest friend Harriet is a total dating disaster, her father keeps disappearing on mysterious errands, and George Knightley refuses to stop pointing out the flaws in her flawless plans. But Emma knows best right?Ava Picketts stage adaptation of Jane Austens Emma is premiered by The Rose Theatre, Kingston, in 2025.

You have this idea in your head of the person you could be.On a journey West to rediscover himself, Jake unexpectedly meets Chris a kindred soul working the same night shift at a Costco in a rural American town.As their bond deepens, so does their sense of adventure. Maybe they could finally give life new meaning by chasing something more like the intrepid American explorers who came before them. Together, they grapple with questions about sexuality, family and lifes dead ends.Samuel D. Hunters emotionally intimate play Clarkston is a modern frontier story that blazes a trail through friendship, acceptance, love and the hope of new discoveries.It was first performed at Dallas Theater Center, Texas, in 2015, and won a New Play Award from the Edgerton Foundation. It received its British premiere at Trafalgar Theatre, London, in 2025, directed by Jack Serio and starring Joe Locke, Ruaridh Mollica and Sophie Melville.

And what happens when the pendulum swings too far? We push back.In the 1970s, one enigmatic old lady wielded extraordinary influence, fighting against what she believed was the UKs moral decline. Armed with only a typewriter, this seemingly harmless grandmother took on the BBC and the godless media in a culture war that divided the nation.Inspired by real events, Caroline Birds wickedly funny play delves into Whitehouses most explosive battle her infamous blasphemy trial against Gay News and explores her formidable resolve to push back the tide. Was she a pearl-clutching prude or the most dangerous woman in Britain?A fascinating investigation into freedom and censorship, The Last Stand of Mrs. Mary Whitehouse was co-commissioned by Nottingham Playhouse, Eleanor Lloyd Productions and Pakenham Projects. Premiering at Nottingham Playhouse in 2025, it was directed by Sarah Frankcom and starred Maxine Peake and Samuel Barnett.

The glamorous Mitford girls cut a glorious swathe through pre-war high society, amidst the glittering world of debutantes and dukes. But as fascism rises and political storm clouds crackle over carefree country houses, the bonds of sisterhood are threatened by new and treacherous desires.Amy Rosenthals compelling, touching and witty new play explores the true story of a family riven by political extremism, seen through the eyes of Jessica (Decca) Mitford as she battles to stay true to her beliefs, whilst moving further and further from the values of her once-beloved sisters.Nancy aspires to be a celebrated novelist, Diana and Unity fall for the dangerous, charismatic leaders of the far right in Britain and Germany, and Debo sets her cap at a Duke. Meanwhile Decca crosses continents in her own passionate pursuit of love but can she ever escape her sisters and her past?The Party Girls is premiered at the Marlowe Theatre, Canterbury, in 2025 before a national tour.