Obsessed by his lifelong erotic fantasies of silent movie icon Louise Brooks's amoral character Lulu in the 1928 film Pandora's Box, legendary theatre critic Kenneth Tynan spent three days with the then-aging star to gather material for a New Yorker profile, as The Girl in the Black was set to launch the actress once again into the limelight after decades of anonymity.

This new comedy tells the story of an insatiably curious young man who, wishing to turn himself into a wise owl, finds himself instead transformed into an ass. His subsequent travels lead him to encounter the chaos of human desire from the perspective of a servile donkey.

It's the worst job in the world and only those what is born to it, what has gorrit in the blood, can do it.
Three generations of Hull men struggle with the legacies left to them by their fathers. A powerful and moving story of fate, choices and men at work, Under the Whaleback opened at the Royal Court Theatre in August 2002

War, poverty, corruption, spiralling taxes, bad behaviour, inter-personal violence and over-population. Do these things worry you?
Middle-aged manager Ted, hits on a utopian plan to change the way we live in this darkly funny play.

Tom and Jess have grown disillusioned with a world full of people who'll murder you as soon as look at you--or else systematically overcharge you for building work. They are going to make life simple from now on: just the two of them rescuing starfish washed up by the tides and strictly no contact with other human beings. Until the mysterious Slippy decides to die on their doorstep.

Hans, the caretaker of a building, has gone to investigate why the water has run dry above floor eight. Fatina, the lodger, awaits her lover, Kalil, who is mysteriously trapped between floor in an elevator. Franziska, the dreamy amnesiac falls asleep each night before the sun sets and forgets her day every day. And Peter, the romantic voyeur, trespasses through unlocked doors expecting what he finds.

Chained to the production line in a car factory somewhere in the Midlands, Nas, Earl, Floyd, Devlin, Turbo, Doc and Zippy have got by until now--through backchat and banter, and supplementing their income with a few dodgy deals on the side. But when a foreign take-over looms, the gang are forced to question their own loyalties--and to discover just who their real mates are.

A temp takes off, a headhunter wins a Dreamcast. A father hires a boy and a daughter needs an escort. The successful and the damaged richochet around the metropolis. Emotion becomes a commodity with violent consequences in this savage, funny play.

A reportage play. Valerie wants a job, Frank wants to run the marathon--Paul, Philip and Alan just want to hold on. This dramatic piece of reportage draws on interviews with murderers to create stark, uncompromising portraits of people rebuilding their lives.

A London churchyard becomes a sanctuary for the gardener Kabir. When a photograph of an African church appears in this little Eden, a complex drama of morality and conscience unfolds. Tanika Gupta is the author of Waiting Room.