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In the winter of 2036, in a shabby apartment in Port Elizabeth, two old men search for a way to say goodbye after a lifetime spent together. In the pe...
'Tell me, please - is this a dream?' The night before he leads his troops into battle, the prince of Homburg strips off his uniform and goes sleepwalk...
On the night of 24th March 1895, Mrs Robinson, a society palm-reader, agreed to see Oscar Wilde in her London flat. Wilde's lover, Lord Alfred Douglas...
A Present for Mr Oscar Wilde
Sitting up reading late at night, the author reflects on the links between the homosexual of the 1980s and his counterparts of a century ago, between ...
It is 3 a.m. in The City, and in a dark corner of The Bar, two lovers collide in the beginnings of a passionate and violent affair. Boy: nineteen, bea...
Although his mainstream career has recently included majorwork for the RSC and the National, the five new pieces collected here show just how close pl...
Reggie Rainbow has found the perfect profession for someone who likes to keep himself to himself: it's his job to make sure that some things stay out ...
Monologues 1987-2004
Collected for the first time in print, over a decade of texts from one of British theatre’s fiercest and most individual voices, documenting the ext...
Inspired by the writings of Frida Kahlo
'I took my tears and turned them into paintings' In the electric calm of a blue-painted room, a dying woman reassembles the images of an extraordinary...
‘It is a solemn thing to hear, in a darkened room, the voice of a child...’ Using Charles Dickens’ original words, a handful of tunesstolen from...
The Picture of Dorian Gray is a stage adaptation of Oscar Wilde’s classic and controversial novel, described by Osborne as a "Moral Entertainment". ...
Pergamon Texts in Inorganic Chemistry
The Chemistry of the Monatomic Gases presents Chapters 5 and 6 from the book Comprehensive Inorganic Chemistry. The book deals with the monatomic gase...
In many scenes and several songs
"Oh, but he was a squeezing, wrenching, scraping, grasping kind of a Scrooge; a clutching, covetous old sinner..." Using only Charles Dickens' extraor...
Shortlisted for the 2007 Costa Novel Award I read "Skin Lane" with one eye closed out of sheer animal terror. Then, unimaginably, it brought me to tea...
Believe me, no civilised man ever regrets a pleasure... As London slides from one century into the next, a young man is cursed with the uncanny abilit...
After La Dame aux Camélias by Alexandre Dumas fils
"All I ever wanted was a man who wouldn't ask me questions" Across the foyer of a crowded theatre, a handsome young man catches sight of the most expe...
Includes the plays Britannicus, Phedra and Berenice Jean Racine is the greatest tragedian of the French seventeenth century, using its strict rules an...
The Triumph of Love; The Game of Love and Chance
Two tales of multiple misunderstanding by the eighteenth-century master of complex, witty comedies. In the tightly-structured, erotically-charged fabl...
Using only Charles Dickens’ extraordinary words and a chameleon ensemble of eight actors, Neil Bartlett's powerful stage version of this much-loved ...
‘... I’m sure I’m not the only one who’s thinking; hang on a minute; “I seem to have the knack of pleasing ladies.” In trousers? With shor...
Illustrates the gay history of the musical while recalling a night when Bartlett's parents were in the audience....
London. Christmas 1956. Lonely 53 year old Mr Page attempts to set his life in order dealing with the death of his lover, and his own sexual leanings....
Peter Burton in Conversation with ... Writers Writing on Gay Themes
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A Love Letter
First published in 1947, The Plague was an immediate best-seller, striking a powerful chord with readers who were struggling to understand the fascist...
“What’s the odds so long as you’re happy?” — Ernest Boulton, 1869 Alone on the darkened stage of an old music hall, a man reflects on an ext...
Alstonville Tennis Club
Castanet is a new technology for the distribution of Java-based software packages called channels over the Internet and Intranet. Each channel can be ...
Address Book is the new work of fiction by the Costa-shortlisted author of Skin Lane. Neil Bartlett's cycle of stories takes us to seven very differen...
"The quickest and easiest way to create exciting, interactive games for the Web"--P. [4] of cover. Cd-Rom includes royalty-free source code, Java game...
'I'm sure I'm not the only one who's thinking; hang on a minute; "I seem to have the knack of pleasing ladies." In trousers? With short hair? In publi...