Plays & Poetry

Class is back in session! Professor of "Swifterature" Dr. Elly McCausland is ready to take you even deeper into the tortured poetry of Taylor Swift with line by line and word by word analysis of 46 more of Swift's most celebrated and hotly debated songs from Taylor Swift to The Life of a Showgirl.

From the Academy Award-winning actor and #1 New York Times bestselling author of Greenlights, an inspiring collection of personal poetry and prayers for finding purpose, hope, and satisfaction in a rapidly changing world, filled with his one-of-a-kind McConaughey wisdom

John McCullough's Crowd Voltage addresses yearnings for community. It probes fragmentation within groups and individuals - disturbances within the body of the crowd and the crowd of the body. Engaging with working-class and queer experiences, the poems move between solitude and togetherness, haunted by ghosts from history.

What is he, twelve? As shots ring out from the warring mainland, on the island of Inisherin it's the rift between old drinking pals Padraic and Colm that leads both men to ever more alarming action. Winner: Best Screenplay, Venice Film Festival 2022. Nominated: Best Screenplay, Golden Globe Awards 2023.

In a townhouse in Copenhagen works Hans Christian Andersen, a teller of exquisite and fantastic children's tales beloved by millions. But the true source of his stories dwells in his attic upstairs, her existence a dark secret kept from the outside world. Dangerous, twisted and funny, Martin McDonagh's new play travels deep into the abysses of the imagination. A Very Very Dark Matter premieres at the Bridge Theatre, London, in October 2018, and is sure to travel worldwide.

I'm just as good as bloody Pierrepoint. In his small pub in Oldham, Harry is something of a local celebrity. Amongst the cub reporters and sycophantic pub regulars, dying to hear Harry's reaction to the news, a peculiar stranger lurks, with a very different motive for his visit. Don't worry.

The second in McDonagh's Connemara trilogy of plays. Mick Dowd is hired annually to disinter the bones in certain sections of his local cemetery, in order to make way for the new arrivals. As the time comes for him to dig up those of his own late wife, strange rumours also resurface.