Literature

1995: Brightlingsea, a small port in rural Essex. Two women, Alice and Linda, wake up to find lorries thundering through their town, carrying live ...

In this acclaimed one-woman play, the true story of Mary Seacole is brought vibrantly to life, revealing how this fearless medical practitioner use...

Robert Minhinnick is a Welsh poet exploring the coves and caves of his home town, recalling its history, aware of its dangers. With 'Wild Swimming ...

This book combines Kaethe Fine's play Wollstonecraft Live! and the story of the 10-year campaign to raise funds and erect a statue on Newington Gre...

Three women, two children, one story. Set in present day Senegal, Bavaria and post WW2 Sudentenland, Three Mothers immerses the audience in the per...

The Portuguese visual artist Paula Rego has inspired this trilogy of plays. Her paintings CrivellI's Garden, The Prey and Breaking China became the...

A South African gunrunner turned Buddhist monk. A gullible startup millionaire. His radical feminist ex wife. Their aid worker daughter. The y...

'Becoming Nicole is a powerful and illuminating book about one couple's journey in coming to accept and nurture their transgender daughter. It's a ...

Miguel de Cervantes (1547-1616) is Spain's most famous author primarily because of his celebrated novel ÊDon QuixoteÊ. His first love however wa...

Ê5-Minute PlaysÊ is the latest collection from veteran editor Lawrence Harbison a man who has spent his career championing new and established pla...

If you were attending school in the late-nineteenth century, it's very likely that your teacher would have taught you to memorize lines from The Vi...

Comedy / 6m, 6f, a larger ensemble may be used In this fractured folk tale based on a story by Isaac Bashevis Singer, Mazel and Shlimazel, the spir...

In ÊRest AreaÊ Clay McLeod Chapman offered a view into the lives of Southern Gothic monstrosities. Now the 40 tales of ÊNothing UntowardÊ delve i...