The rover

A rollicking Restoration comedy.

Antigone

The ancient story by Sophocles' retold in a modern way by leading Irish playwright, Owen McCafferty.

Drama games for classrooms and workshops

A hundred-and-one great drama games for everyone from 6 upwards. For teachers, workshop leaders and directors.

The female of the species

From the author of "Honour" - A farcical comedy satirizing Germaine Greer and sexual politics.

The servant of two masters

Goldoni’s classic farce of a man trapped by his own greed. The original source material for One Man, Two Guvnors.

Inventing the truth

An accessible insider's guide to creating a play from scratch, from the award-winning author of The Reluctant Escapologist.

Anne boleyn

Commissioned specially for Shakespeare’s Globe, Howard Brenton’s epic new play that premeired there in July 2010.

Meisner in practice

The essential practical guide to the Meisner Technique, written by an expert in the field.

Arabian nights

A bright new version of a backlist classic, immensely popular with schools and amateurs.

Drama games for devising

An easy-to-use, handy pocket-sized format, this is a rich resource for hard-pressed drama teachers, workshop leaders, directors and theatre companies.

Commedia plays

A "took-kit" to construct your own Commedia entertainment.

Far from the madding crowd

Classic adaptations popular with schools and drama groups. Brought to stage by English Touring Theatre.

Thérèse raquin

National Theatre production of this intense dramatization of Zola's steamy novel by a reputable adaptor.

Exiles

New edition of Joyce's one and only play, published alongside prestigious revival at National Theatre.

Classical monologues for women

Huge demand from actors for fresh audition pieces

Restoration comedy

Announcing a new series of Drama Classic Collections.

Fefu and her friends

A new and expanded edition celebrating the fortieth anniversary of Maria Irene Fornes' beloved play.

Kindertransport

This new edition includes several personal memoirs by German-born children whose lives were saved, and transformed, by the Kindertransport.

Dara

An intense domestic drama of global consequence – for India then and for our world now.

Plays: maria irene fornes

Fornes has been an influential voice in American theatre for more than four decades.

From ritual to theatre

Turner looks beyond his routinized discipline to an anthropology of experience . . . We must admire him for this.-Times Literary Supplement

Holding the man

Based on the much loved book by Timothy Conigrave, adapted for the stage by one of Australia’s leading young playwrights.

Trade & generations

Provocative but witty new piece by a young British black playwright.

Statements

Developed in workshops with award-winning actors, these works in Fugard's canon most directly confront the dehumanizing brutality of apartheid. The tragic personal consequences of life under South Africa's apartheid laws are treated with honesty and deep compassion in these three landmark plays ...

Raised in captivity

With sharp comic turns and absurdist twists, Raised in Captivity explores the guilt, self-punishment, and redemption in the lives of two estranged and equally odd siblings when they reunite at the funeral of their mother--whose demise was caused by nothing less than an errant showerhead.

Sight unseen and other plays

Includes: Found a Peanut, The Loman Family Picnic, The Model Apartment, What's Wrong with This Picture?, and Sight Unseen.. With a palpable affection for the traditions of the stage and a taste for surreal comedy, Margulies "manages to transform what might have been kitchen-sink drama into theatr...

Sex, drugs, rock & roll

The enormously successful performance piece (and film) by premiere performer and playwright Eric Bogosian.

A bright room called day

A powerful portrayal of individual dissolution in the face of political catastrophe, by the award-winning playwright of Angels in America.

Freeing shakespeare's voice

Drunk enough to say i love you?

The newest play by Britain's brilliant Caryl Churchill.

Rabbit hole

A Pulitzer Prize-winning play about carrying on in the shadow of loss.

The actor and the target

An updated edition of Declan Donnellan's fresh and radical approach to acting.

Doubt

Winner of the 2005 Pulitzer Prize for Drama.

King hedley ii

TCG is honored to announce the addition of August Wilson to its list of playwrights.

Shakespeare's advice to the players

A major new look at the art and process of Shakespeare for actors.

Far away

The Chicago Tribune calls this chilling new play "a masterpiece from one of the most valuable playwrights working today."

Cloud 9

“Sharp comedy and a serious purpose are splendidly combined in Cloud 9, Caryl Churchill’s provocative and amusing study of sexual politics… It unlocks the imagination, liberates the mind, and leaves you weak with laughter.” –Time Out“Audacious and savagely funny. Mesmerizing.” –Washington PostClo...

The skriker

Premiered at the Royal National Theatre, this extraordinary play by one of Britain’s leading playwrights combines English folk tales with modern urban life. In terms of its language alone, it is as exciting and challenging on the page as on the stage.The play follows the Skriker, “a shapeshifter...

Assassins

Into the woods (tcg edition)

The seafarer

Another chilling play by the author of Shining City and The Weir

Girls like that

A new play specially commissioned for the West Yorkshire Playhouse's groundbreaking youth theatre company.

Egusi soup

A fast and funny family drama about intergenerational and cross-cultural relationships, from the winner of the 2011 Bruntwood Prize.

Shakespeare monologues for young women

Forty fresh speeches from Shakespeare's plays, hand-picked for young women and prefaced with easy-to-use guides.

For peter pan on her 70th birthday (tcg edition)

A bittersweet portrait of love and loss from award-winning playwright Sarah Ruhl.

The penitent (tcg edition)

A powerful new work from one of our most renowned playwrights.

American melodrama

Gerould goes a long way toward 'revisioning' the genre.--Nineteenth-Century Theatre Research