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A selection of plays by the award-winning Italian playwright – Luigi Pirandello Luigi Pirandello was an Italian playwright, novelist, and short-story writer, winner of the 1934 Nobel Prize for Literature. This collection features a selection of his most renowned plays. Six Characters in Search...

She thought marriage meant forever. Until one message, one night, changed everything. Nyla Jayston has been trying to conceive for months — trusting, hopeful, and sure her life with Clark Sumner is solid. Then a late-night text appears on his phone from a woman named Jordyn: a selfie, a seduction, a lie. What looks like a mistake becomes the first crack in a carefully built world. When Nyla follows a stranger’s taunting message to a villa at 4 a.m., she finds the proof she never wanted to see. Betrayed, humiliated, and hollowed by anger, she runs from the life she thought was ...

Four satirical spoof shows from the multi-award-winning Patrick Barlow The National Theatre of Brent is a two-man company founded in 1980 and led by Patrick Barlow as his comic alter ego, Artistic Director and Chief Executive Desmond Olivier Dingle. Helping him to realise his enormously...

Five fantastical tales, each with a magical twist Discover a lady with a taste for immortality, a man who becomes a dragon, a man-eating witch and a modern retelling of Beauty and the Beast. Perfect for fans of fantasy, these epic tales are packed with magical elements, fantastical creatures...

A superb selection of Emlyn Williams’ finest plays Emlyn Williams was one of the brightest stars of Welsh stage and screen. An acclaimed playwright, actor and director, he made over 40 film and TV appearances, re-invented the one-man show with his virtuoso portrayals of Charles Dickens and...

Joanna Lumley and Roger Allam return in the seventh series of Conversations from a Long Marriage. Playing a long-married couple who met in the Summer of Love and have stayed together ever since, their conversations are practical, passionate, hilarious - and familiar to every couple. Written by...

Ten contemporary reimaginings of Ovid’s iconic tales, with star-studded casts including Toby Jones, Shaun Dooley and Robert Glenister The Roman love poet Ovid has influenced writers past and present, with his witty, sexy tales inspiring authors from Shakespeare to Ezra Pound. Included here are...

When the world drowns and there is no land left to stand on — where do you go? Welcome to No Place But the Water, a haunting, full-cast drama set in a future flooded world. It begins at a hotel on the edge of the water, and with a messy family of dreamers in the middle of nowhere: their last...

A collection of dramas by the Pulitzer Prize-winning author David Mamet A novelist, playwright, filmmaker and director, David Mamet ranks among America’s most famous living writers. He has penned more than 40 stage plays and over 20 screenplays, won numerous awards including the Pulitzer Prize...

*Winner: Best Original Series at the 2026 BBC Audio Drama Awards* *Winner: Connor Finch: The Marc Beeby Award for Best Debut Performance at the 2026 BBC Audio Drama Awards* What is life really like behind prison walls? In six interlinked full-cast plays, acclaimed playwright James Fritz take us...

Brenda Blethyn, Lesley Manville and Phil Davis star in this special Mike Leigh collection, featuring the iconic hit Abigail’s Party and a banned play from the BBC archives One of Britain's most prolific and influential writers, Mike Leigh has directed some of the best British films of the last...

Daniella “Dani” Matthews has one goal: her business. Love? She doesn’t have time for it—especially after her heart was shattered by her ex. But when a new client gives her an unusual challenge—working at their year-round Christmas store for a month to secure their account—Dani can’t resist. What she didn’t expect was small-town life… or Bryson McKinney. Bryson is just as driven as she is and has sworn off love—until Dani shows him that maybe there’s more to life than work. As they team up to transform the town into a sparkling Christmas wonderland, sparks fly—and a ...

An anthology of plays and original radio dramas from the prolific playwright Born and brought up in the East End of London, Bernard Kops came to fame in the late 1950s as part of British drama’s ‘New Wave’. A lyrical chronicler of Jewish family life, he is often compared to Arnold Wesker...

En una pequeña aldea provinciana de Venezuela, el autor presenta en su expresión más simple, lo complejo que resultan ser las elecciones en el país. En la casa de un sacerdote pueblerino, cuya alma ya no está a la venta, desfilan, representadas por diferentes personajes tipificados, las tendencias políticas que compiten, perturbando, con sus visitas en demanda de apoyo político, al clérigo que parece estar muy ocupado en asuntos amorosos con María, único personaje digno de la situación. Entre el 15 y el 25 de octubre del 2008 se realizó en la capital gala, el III Festival de ...

When business turns personal and duty meets desire… Vikram Khurana, a strikingly handsome billionaire and co-owner of an award-winning startup, has always approached life like a boardroom meeting. Calm, calculated, and controlled. He never wanted to inherit the powerful Khurana Empire. But when tragedy strikes, the crown he avoided is thrust upon him, along with a clause binding him to the one woman he never truly forgot: Mahika Jaykar. She’s no longer just a memory or the girl next door who once trailed after his brother. She’s a force he never saw coming and the only woman capable ...

The Hippocratic Oath: A Tale of Attraction and Discord between Doctors and the Inevitable Outcome to Both is a play in three acts that exolores moral dilemmas, hypocrisy and incompetence in the medical profession.

Welcome to the Anything Box Puppet Plays. This collection of puppet plays teaches familiar and not-so-familiar Christian character principles. The plays show how to solve problems while remaining faithful to the truth of Scripture. The characters represent real people and present the gospel, life choices, and principles for growing to be like Christ.

Evan Rook has spent his life trying to preserve what time erodes—mending brittle pages, stitching torn bindings, restoring words from the brink of disappearance. But when his own body begins to fail, preservation is no longer a vocation. It becomes impossible. Haunted by his mother’s final request to keep her garden alive, estranged from a daughter who has grown beyond his reach, and stalked by the quiet accumulation of dust in his empty house, Evan finds himself confronting the inevitability of loss. Each room becomes a museum of absence, each breath a reminder that even memory ...

Joshua ben David—tech prodigy, billionaire heir, and king of Manhattan’s concrete Olympus—has everything the world worships: power, privilege, precision-engineered perfection. From penthouses above the clouds to yachts slicing through moonlit seas, his life is a frictionless masterpiece of indulgence. But when an otherworldly vision shatters his meticulously crafted empire, Josh is thrust into a spiritual free fall that money can’t cushion. In one night, the gilded veneer cracks, revealing a soul starving for meaning beneath mountains of wealth. The man who once manipulated markets ...

The Nightingale's Cage: The Northwood Seven, Book 7 In the gripping conclusion to the acclaimed Northwood Seven series, The Nightingale's Cage follows Sara Fowler, a young hospital volunteer whose desperate need for validation ensnares her in a web of obsessive desire. At Northwood General Hospital—a place where healing and heartbreak intertwine—Sara’s burgeoning fixation on Dr. Julian Hayes, a kind and dedicated resident, threatens to unravel her dreams of a medical career. Mistaking professional admiration for personal connection, she constructs elaborate fantasies of shared purpose...