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24 Hour Play!, The
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A unique platform of new short plays by Britain s brightest emerging theatre makers, entirely created in just 24 hours. All proceeds from the event support Old Vic New Voices, which supports young and emerging talent, sources and develops new work for production on The Old Vic stage and opens up The Old Vic to new and diverse audiences.
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Written by Bryony Lavery, Nina Raine, Moses Raine, Laura Wade.
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piece
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Male: 8 Female: 3 Other: -
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Consent
Two friends are the opposing briefs in a rape case
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Nick Hern Books
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Drama
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Male: 3 Female: 5 Other: -
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TR 37/2017 358 TR 38/2018 453
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Drunks, The
A darkly comic and freewheeling epic that gets to the heart of small-town politics and what it means to please all of the people all of the time. A provincial town is in search of a hero. A shell-shocked soldier downs vodka on his return from the frontline in Chechnya. As Ilya arrives home he stumbles into the epicentre of an extraordinary power struggle that threatens to tear the town apart.
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Original Playwright - Mikhail And Vyacheslav Durnenkov. from A literal translation by Maria Kozlovskaya
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RSC
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Translation
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Male: 2 Female: 17 Other: very large cast possible
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Rabbit
A fiercely funny play about what it's like to be a young woman living, working, drinking, loving and having sex in the 21st Century. It's Bella's 29th birthday. Friends and former lovers meet for a drink to celebrate. But as the Bloody Marys flow, the bar becomes a battlefield. . .
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Shortlisted for the Verity Bargate Award. Won the Most Promising Playwright Charles Wintour Evening Standard Award.
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85 min Play/Drama
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Male: 3 Female: 3 Other: -
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Stories
Anna is in her late thirties and having broken up with her boyfriend is alone. She wants to have a baby and asks all he male friends if they are willing to donate sperm
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Nick Hern Books
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Drama
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Male: 11 Female: 7 Other: -
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Tiger Country
Enter the pressurised world of a busy London hospital, where tensions and emotions run high. In a profession that allows no room for mistakes, life and death are only a slip of a scalpel apart.
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AreteBooks (14 Jan 2011)
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Play/Drama
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Male: 6 Female: 5 Other: -
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Tribes
Billy's fiercely intelligent and proudly unconventional family are their own tiny empire, with their own private language, jokes and rules. You can be as rude as you like, as possessive as you like, as critical as you like. Arguments are an expression of love. After all, you'd do anything for each other - wouldn't you? But Billy, who is deaf, is one of the few who actually listens. Meeting Sylvia makes him finally want to be heard; can he get a word in edgeways?
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Male: 3 Female: 3 Other: -
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