A stunning new play by the great American dramatist

Described by Sam Shepard as 'a take-off on Republican fascism', this uncompromising black comedy was written just before the 2004 US presidential election.

Frank and Emma are American dairy farmers, alone in the Mid-West. Nothing ever happens. Nothing has happened for years. But now there's a mysterious man hiding in their basement and a government official has come knocking at their door.

The God of Hell had its European premiere at the Donmar Warehouse, London, on 20 October 2005.

'A robust new farce that] shows Shepard's gift for...

In Bernalillo New Mexico, Ray and Earl return home to mark the passing of their estranged father, Henry. Over a bottle of bourbon and a box of photographs, tales of their childhoods emerge. As they encounter Henry's bizarre collection of friends telling further stories of a wild lover, the circumstances surrounding his death provokes suspicion...

A dissection of the impact on society of the war in Iraq

When one man goes to war he leaves the city, his wife and brother. A year later only the wife and brother remain.

Christopher Shinn's new play asks what happens when people and events apparently thousands of miles away affect the heart and soul of a city.

'Christopher Shinn's clever, intricately calculated and quietly moving new play" Daily Telegraph

'Subtle, insinuating, beautifully written new play' Whatsonstage

'an impressive analysis of the collective American psyche rooted in details of real family...

A programme text edition published to coincide with the world premiere at the Royal Court Theatre, London, on 5 February 2009. As a house passes from owner to owner, and from generation to generation, the secrets buried in the garden and seeping from the walls reveal themselves. Marius von Mayenburg's new play examines the reverberations created by sixty years of German history.

A programme text of a new Bollywood musical adaptation of Bronte's classic novel, published to coincide with a UK tour produced by Tamasha Theatre company in Spring 2009. The scorched desert of Rajasthan is the setting for this musical adaptation of Emily Bronte's timeless tale of passion, jealousy and revenge.

With honesty, humour and occasional anger, performer Bette Bourne tells the playwright Mark Ravenhill about his brave and flamboyant life. Crafted from transcripts of a series of long, private conversations, actor Bette Bourne reminisces and replays scenes from his life from a postwar childhood,a stint as a classical actor in the late 60s, to living in a drag commune in Notting Hill and being an active member of the Gay Liberation Front. Bette then talks about his touring with the New York based Hot Peaches cabaret group and founding his own cabaret troop, Bloolips, which redefined the term...

Set in 1875, this Victorian ghost story by Michael Punter is playfully intelligent, emotionally resonant and quite scary.

An inventive take on the classic myth, Eurydice is by the highly-acclaimed US playwright Sarah Ruhl and includes magical, dreamlike surrealism, lyrical beauty and heart-rending pathos. Eurydice is in love with Orpheus. Her dead father has advice for her wedding but his letters can't get through to the land of the living. At last one does. With her father's words in her hand, she crashes down a flight of stairs and wakes in the underworld, her memory wiped. How will she ever get home? With a style that is light and precise, but also wildly imaginative, this play sees Alice in Wonderland meet...

You see, what this country needs is a strong government to sort out the laws, bring order Election night 1979: the sus laws made it legal for police to stop and search anyone - purely on suspicion. Two detectives on the graveyard shift in an East London police station place bets on which party will win. A black man is picked up, accused of his wife's murder. He is incensed, believing that he'll be fodder for an incoming government keen to flex its law-and-order muscles. A powerful, politicised cry against the still-current threat of institutional racism, Keeffe uncompromisingly depicts a...

This is my first tax return. Thank you...erm for offering to...for helping. I realise it's a bit weird. It's just. This is...it's the only way I can think to make it better. The only way I can think to do it. With other people. Like this. Tax is really, really taxing for Ben Edwards. Self-employed. And afraid...And now he must face his dreaded self assessment form, with every receipt evoking the good times and the bad - memories of things gone wrong, gone right, the journeys he's been on, the relationships that have begun and ended and the people he has lost. As Ben begins to stitch together...