Drama on 3
Series of drama performances, ranging from experiment works to the Classics. Get in touch... [email protected] Call: 03700 100 300
Drama on 3 - A Disappearing Number
Adapted for radio by Simon McBurney and Ben Power. A play about our relentless compulsion to understand, exploring mathematics and the nature of creativity.
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Drama on 3 - A Long Way from Home
A Long Way from Home, by Caryl Phillips: A play about the singer Marvin Gaye's final years, spent in Begium, where he composed the song Sexual Healing shortly before his murder.
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Drama on 3 - A Small Family Business
Martin Jarvis directs a starry cast in Alan Ayckbourn's award-winning 1987 play about the gradual corruption of a family in the furniture business.
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Drama on 3 - A Whistle in the Dark
Tom Murphy's powerful modern classic play, set in the early 1960s and centring on the reunion of an Irish family in Coventry. With John Kavanagh, Aidan McArdle and Martin McCann.
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Drama on 3 - After the Quake
After the Quake, by Haruki Murakami. Translated by Jay Rubin. These elegant, touching stories take a surprising look at the lives of people affected by the Kobe earthquake of 1995.
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Drama on 3 - All Quiet on the Western Front
Written by Erich Maria Remarque. The haunting, comic, lyrical and desperate story of a group of young German soldiers enduring and coming to terms with the realities of World War I.
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Drama on 3 - All the Colours of Love, by Pat McCabe
All the Colours of Love, by Pat McCabe. When Redmond is left by his wife and child, he resolves to get them back – whatever the cost.
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Drama on 3 - All's Well That Ends Well, by William Shakespeare
All's Well That Ends Well, by William Shakespeare: Shakespeare's play tells of the extraordinary lengths a young woman will go to to win the hand of the young man she loves.
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Drama on 3 - Alone Together
By Neil McKay. A portrait of the lives of poet RS Thomas and his wife artist Elsi Eldridge, inspired by Byron Rogers's biography The Man Who Went into the West.
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Drama on 3 - Amadeus
Peter Hall's 1983 version of Peter Shaffer's award-winning play Amadeus, featuring the original National Theatre cast. With Paul Scofield, Simon Callow and Felicity Kendal.
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Drama on 3 - Amazonia
Garry Lyons' portrait of author Arthur Ransome before he found fame, when he lived a double life as a journalist and agent for both the Bolsheviks and the Foreign Office.
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Drama on 3 - An Enemy of the People
An Enemy of the People, by Martin Lynch. While the killing of a Catholic man in Belfast leads to his own community hiding from the truth, one woman wants justice for him.
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Drama on 3 - An Ideal Husband
Wildean wit and the elegance of English society is woven into Oscar Wilde's classic drama, featuring Geoffrey Palmer, Alex Jennings and Janet McTeer.
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Drama on 3 - And So Say All of Us...
Dan Rebellato's play about modern life's complexity. A couple start dismantling their house; a pregnant woman refuses to give birth; an election grinds to a halt when no one votes.
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Drama on 3 - Antony and Cleopatra
Frances Barber and David Harewood star in Shakespeare's tragedy Antony and Cleopatra, the story of the Roman triumvir, the Egyptian queen and the leadership of the Roman Empire.
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Drama on 3 - Arms and the Man
By George Bernard Shaw. Romantic comedy exploring the ideals and realities of war, hypocrisy and nationalism. With Rory Kinnear, Lydia Leonard and Tom Mison.
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Drama on 3 - Babel's Tower, by Mike Walker
Mike Walker's play imagines the Jewish-Russian writer Isaac Babel being interrogated after his arrest by the Soviet secret police in 1939. With Antony Sher and Robert Glenister.
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Drama on 3 - Baghdad Wedding, by Hassan Abdulrazzak
Baghdad Wedding, by Hassan Abdulrazzak: When members of a wedding party are killed in an attack in Baghdad, the lives of three friends are torn apart with terrible consequences.
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Drama on 3 - Bazajet
Jean Racine's play set in in far-off Byzantium, in a harem deep within the Sultan's palace, where Bazajet is told by the Emperor's wife that he must marry her or die.
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Drama on 3 - Becket or The Honour of God
Written by Jean Anouilh and translated by Lucienne Hill. Toby Stephens and David Morrissey star in of one of the classic French plays of the second half of the 20th century.
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Drama on 3 - Between Two Worlds
Drama by Adrian Bean and David Hendy. Having invented the wireless, grieving Edwardian scientist Sir Oliver Lodge believed he had found a way to communicate with his dead son.
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Drama on 3 - Beware the Kids
A new drama by Newcastle writers Fiona Evans and Karen Laws, performed at the Baltic Centre, which tackles the themes of family and responsibility.
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Drama on 3 - Beyond Words
By Maurice Maeterlinck. Patrick McGuinness introduces three short plays: The Intruder; The Seven Princesses; and Interior. With John Rowe, Lizzy Watts and Paul Rider.
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Drama on 3 - Black Watch
By Gregory Burke. Based on interviews conducted by Burke with former soldiers who served in Iraq, the play reveals what it means to be part of a venerable Scottish regiment.
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Drama on 3 - Blood Wedding
By Federico Garcia Lorca. A meditation on fate, war, tradition, passion and repression, inspired by the true story of a fatal feud between two families in Almeria.
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Drama on 3 - Blue Wonder
A story of love and deception set during the Cold War in the 1960s and early 1970s, in which a young secretary unwittingly becomes romantically involved with an East German spy.
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Drama on 3 - Bring Me the Head of Philip K Dick
Gregory Whitehead's surreal fantasy, in which the android head of science-fiction Philip K Dick invades time and space to wreak chaos upon America.
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Drama on 3 - Caligari
Caligari, by Amanda Dalton: A play centring on Francis, who tells of mesmerist Dr Caligari and his slave Cesare, who seem to be responsible for a series of murders in Holstenwall.
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Drama on 3 - Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, by Tennessee Williams: An adaptation of the classic drama in which, greed and secret passions overcome a family as they fight over a dying father's millions.
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Drama on 3 - Charles and Mary
Carlo Gebler's new play dramatises the extraordinary relationship between Charles and Mary Lamb, the brother and sister who in 1807 wrote The Tales Of Shakespeare.
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Drama on 3 - Crossing the Bar
A plunge into the sea-narratives of Alfred Lord Tennyson, with sea-songs from acappella trio Coope, Boyes and Simpson, centred on his popular work Enoch Arden.
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Drama on 3 - Cyrano de Bergerac
By Edmond Rostand. Set in 17th-century France, the play features the eponymous poet-swordsman with a mis-shapen nose who falls in love with the beautiful Roxane.
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Drama on 3 - Darger and the Detective
A play drawing on the writings of reclusive artist Henry Darger, and focusing on two obsessions - of the hunter Detective and his prey.
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Drama on 3 - Doctor Faustus
Christopher Marlowe's classic play about a man who sells his soul to the Devil in return for 24 years of knowledge and power on Earth. With Paterson Joseph, Ray Fearon, Toby Jones.
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Drama on 3 - Don Quixote, by Thomas D'Urfey
Don Taylor's adaptation of a stage version of Cervantes's classic picaresque novel, with music by Purcell and Eccles. Starring Paul Scofield as the Don and Roy Hudd as Sancho Panza.
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Drama on 3 - Donation
Sean Buckley's play about our bodies, the medical and spiritual implications of organ donation, what we wish for and what survives of us.
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Drama on 3 - Echoes of War
Gary Mitchell's play, specially written for Radio 3, which explores the loose ends left by the 1998 Good Friday Agreement.
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Drama on 3 - Edward the Second
By Christopher Marlowe. Toby Jones stars in a portrait of a king in thrall to his passions, who pays the ultimate price for choosing his heart over his political responsibilities.
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Drama on 3 - Embers
An adaptation of Samuel Beckett's play, directed by Stephen Rea. A man sits on the strand haunted by the sound of the sea, conjuring up memories from his past.
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Drama on 3 - Faith Healer
Faith Healer, by Brian Friel: Classic play in which an Irish faith healer returns to his native land to a potentially terrible fate. With Owen Roe, Lia Williams and Phil Daniels.
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Drama on 3 - Fall
An adaptation of Zinnie Harris' play, set in a nation haunted by its war crimes. It asks the question - to make your future, do you have to murder the past?
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Drama on 3 - Faust
By Goethe, with Samuel West and Toby Jones. Directed by David Timson. A fresh adaptation of one of the pillars of Western literature.
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Drama on 3 - Fences
August Wilson's award-winning play about race relations in America in the 1950s. The civil rights movement is kicking in, but once-famous baseball player Troy Maxson can't see it.
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Drama on 3 - Free Thinking 2010
A performance given in front of an audience at the BALTIC Centre for Contemporary Art in Gateshead for Radio 3's 2010 Free Thinking festival of ideas
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Drama on 3 - Free Thinking - Drama on 3
A new play about abortion by award-winning TV dramatist Tony Marchant, recorded in front of an audience in the Bluecoat arts centre for Radio 3's Free Thinking festival 2008.
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Drama on 3 - Gilead
Mike Kenny's adaptation of Marilynne Robinson's novel about a minister facing death, who decides to write a family history to leave to his young son.
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Drama on 3 - Giovanni's Room
James Baldwin's classic novel in its world premiere radio production, set in Paris in 1954. Dramatised for radio and directed by leading theatre director Neil Bartlett.
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Drama on 3 - Girlfriend in a Coma
By Douglas Coupland. Karen Ann McNeill goes into a coma. When she wakes up, voices in her head tell her the world is going to end, but she won't believe them.
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Drama on 3 - Glengarry Glen Ross
Glengarry Glen Ross, by David Mamet: Another chance to hear the broadcast premiere of David Mamet's adaptation of his Pulitzer Prize-winning drama.
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Drama on 3 - Gone
Written by Debbie Tucker Green. A young woman has gone missing. She is described by a group of people whose lives she touched in some way on the last day she was seen.
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Drama on 3 - Goodnight to Flamboro'
Douglas Hodge stars as composer William Baines, who died at 23. The story traces the most prolific period of his short life.
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Drama on 3 - Great Escape
Andrew Whaley's satirical play set in Zimbabwe in 2005, during the Mugabe government's slum demolitions, in which two men try to dig their way out of the country.
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Drama on 3 - Harold Pinter Double Bill
Radio 3's tribute to Harold Pinter, who died in December 2008, features another chance to hear his 1993 play Moonlight and his 2005 radio piece Voices.
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Drama on 3 - Henry VIII
To mark the 500th anniversary of Henry VIII's accession to the throne, a rare chance to hear Shakespeare's last play, starring Matthew Marsh and Patrick Malahide.
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Drama on 3 - Home, by David Storey
A poignant, often darkly funny play which looks at the lives of five people - but who are they and where are they? With Michael Maloney, Adrian Scarborough and Julia McKenzie.
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Drama on 3 - Hum
Anne Reid, Con O'Neill, Neil Dudgeon and Rory Kinnear star in a contemporary drama about the insidious presence of noise in our lives.
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Drama on 3 - Hyde Park-on-Hudson
A play by Richard Nelson, blending history and conjecture, and focusing on George VI's visit to the United States in 1939.
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Drama on 3 - I'm Still the Same Paul
By Annie Caulfield. Lenny Henry stars as singer and political activist Paul Robeson in a play about the mysterious events surrounding Robeson's suicide bid in Moscow in 1961.
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Drama on 3 - In the Absence of Geoff
Award-winning writer Charlotte Jones's comedy about love, loss and identity. The story centres on a man who tries to solve his problems by faking amnesia.
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Drama on 3 - Krapp's Last Tape
Samuel Beckett's classic stage play, broadcast as a tribute to actor Corin Redgrave, who died in April 2010. Redgrave stars as the man who records a tape every year on his birthday.
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Drama on 3 - La princesse de Cleves
By Madame de la Fayette. A classic tale of a naive young lady who becomes helplessly and dangerously caught up in matters of love. Translated and freely dramatised by Jo Clifford.
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Drama on 3 - Living with Princes
Stephen Wakelam's play in which 17th-century French essayist Michel de Montaigne is sent on a diplomatic mission by the Queen Mother - to sort out the succession.
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Drama on 3 - Mendelssohn Weekend - A Midsummer Night's Dream
A rare chance to hear Shakespeare's play and Mendelssohn's complete incidental music for it, in a recording from Middle Temple Hall. Tim Carroll talks about the production.
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Drama on 3 - Migrant Mother
Drama inspired by the events which led to Dorothea Lange's iconic photograph of Florence Owens Thompson, which captured the hardship of those affected by the Great Depression.
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Drama on 3 - Mrs Warren's Profession, by George Bernard Shaw
Mrs Warren's Profession, by George Bernard Shaw: The issue of Victorian prostitution is examined as Mrs Warren reveals to her daughter the source of her income.
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Drama on 3 - My Brother God and the Ban Yan Tree
Dusty Hughes's play set in the 1910s against the backdrop of the struggle for Indian independence, where a young boy is made a religious figurehead. How will he cope?
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Drama on 3 - Natural Born Caretakers
Sarah Daniels's new play about the realities of social work in Britain. David's already hectic life takes a new turn when he is called on to deal with the case of an injured child.
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Drama on 3 - Othello
Othello, by William Shakespeare: A production from London's Donmar Warehouse, with an award winning performance by Chiwetel Ejiofor in the title role as the jealous Moor Othello.
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Drama on 3 - Pericles
Shakespeare's romantic adventure full of tyrants, incest, murder, knights, teenagers, pirates, brothels, sublime poetry, young love, a great hero and the goddess Diana.
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Drama on 3 - Perpetual Light
By Melissa Murray. When Bill Hellier dies his wife has an avatar of him created and puts him on a cyber memorial site. Is he software or is his soul trapped there?
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Drama on 3 - Piper Alpha
By Stephen Phelps. A play based on Lord Cullen's Public Enquiry, chronicling the events of the Piper Alpha oil rig disaster, which, in July 1988, claimed the lives of 167 men.
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Drama on 3 - Pornography
A controversial dramatic response to the London bombings of 7 July 2005, charting the lives of eight people in the city before and after the events.
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Drama on 3 - Professor Bernhardi
Professor Bernhardi, by Arthur Schnitzler. In Vienna in 1900, a distinguished Jewish doctor prevents a Catholic priest from administering last rites to a dying patient.
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Drama on 3 - Rudolpho's Zest
Rudolpho's Zest, by Tanika Gupta. Rudolpho has a secret - he cannot age beyond mid-life. But when Rudolpho tells Mel about his immortality, he finds his powers no longer work.
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Drama on 3 - Samson Agonistes
By John Milton and adapted for radio and directed by John Tydeman. A new production of Milton's dramatic poem, for Radio 3's Milton 400th anniversary celebrations. NB: Finishes at 10.05 pm
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Drama on 3 - Sarah and Ken
Rebecca Lenkiewicz's story about love between two former foster siblings - one successful and married; the other with a lifetime spent in mental institutions.
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Drama on 3 - Say Goodbye Twice
Young playwright Oladipo Agboluaje's new Peckham-set comedy noir play, written to mark the 50th Anniversary of Nigerian independence from Britain.
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Drama on 3 - Scandinavian Dreams
By Steve Chambers. In the 18th century, writer Mary Wollstonecraft embarked alone on a journey to Scandinavia to recover her husband's lost treasure ship. Music is by Martin Kiszko.
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Drama on 3 - Season of Migration to the North
Philip Palmer's dramatisation for Radio 3 of Sudanese novelist Tayeb Salih's sensual and shocking thriller, often described as the most important Arab novel of the 20th century.
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Drama on 3 - Season of Migration to the North, by Tayeb Salih
An adaptation of the late Tayeb Salih's famous novel. A young man returning from studying in Europe to his beloved village near the Nile unravels a tale which will lead to murder.
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Drama on 3 - Seeing It Through
Seeing It Through, by Neil Brand. In 1914 Charles Masterman used the literary and artistic elite to unite the nation.
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Drama on 3 - Shylock
By Arnold Wesker. When Shylock's close friend Antonio needs a loan, the two agree to a forfeit of a pound of flesh. However, their breaking of Venetian law may turn to tragedy.
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Drama on 3 - Slaughterhouse 5
Adapted by Dave Sheasby. Kurt Vonnegut's great anti-war story centres on Billy Pilgrim, who hops back and forth in time, reliving moments in real and fantasy lives.
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Drama on 3 - Soldiers in the Sun, by Michael Symmons Roberts
Soldiers in the Sun, by Michael Symmons Roberts: A drama documentary looking at the psychological consequences of war. A soldier comes across a sight that changes his life.
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Drama on 3 - Swan Song
Swan Song, by Anton Chekhov: A tribute to the late Paul Scofield, who portrays an elderly Russian actor confronting his ghosts and asking if he ever really did have 'talent'.
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Drama on 3 - Synge: 100 Years On
Two productions by one of the giants of Irish theatre, JM Synge: the country farce The Tinker's Wedding and the great tragedy Riders to the Sea.
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Drama on 3 - Tamburlaine: Shadow of God
By John Fletcher. As war swirls around them, three major figures in Middle and Near Eastern history are brought together in fierce debate: how can a successful society be built?
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Drama on 3 - Tartuffe
A Liverpool Playhouse production of Roger McGough's version of Moliere's comedy. With John Ramm, Joseph Alessi, Simon Coates, Rebecca Lacey and Eithne Brown.
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Drama on 3 - The Adding Machine
Expressionist classic play. Mr Zero has spent years adding up figures and dreaming of promotion, but when the boss finally calls him into his office he receives a surprise.
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Drama on 3 - The Carhullan Army
The Carhullan Army, by Sarah Hall. An adaptation of Hall's prize-winning novel set among the women of a post-apocalyptic commune in a totalitarian Britain.
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Drama on 3 - The Changeling
A new production of Thomas Middleton and William Rowley's Jacobean classic about obsession, lust, madness and death, set in Alicante, Spain, in the 1920s.
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Drama on 3 - The Cherry Orchard
Anton Chekhov's tale of a Russian aristocratic family forced to sell their house and beloved cherry orchard during the great 19th century social transitions.
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Drama on 3 - The Contingency Plan
Steve Waters's chilling contemporary drama imagining a government in crisis as it deals with the biggest storm to hit Britain since the 1950s.
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Drama on 3 - The Cool Bag Baby, by Katie Hims
The Cool Bag Baby, by Katie Hims: A baby in a bag is left outside a cafe in the hope that the owner will give it a home. But when the cafe stays closed, lives start to change.
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Drama on 3 - The Country Wife
The Country Wife, by William Wycherley: A raunchy Restoration comedy about a rake who spreads the false rumour that he is impotent in order to gain access to other men's wives.
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Drama on 3 - The Deep Blue Sea
A new adaptation of Terence Rattigan's celebrated play. It is post-war Britain around 1950 and Hester Collyer has left her husband, an eminent judge, to be with an ex-RAF pilot.
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Drama on 3 - The Devil Was Here Yesterday
The Devil Was Here Yesterday, by Colin Teevan. Will civil servant Simon give the report the evidence seems to support or the one the minister seems to want the evidence to support?
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Drama on 3 - The Duchess of Malfi
This new production of one of the great Jacobean plays focuses on the personal tragedies of a powerful family rent by lust and betrayal. With Sophie Okonedo in the title role.
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Drama on 3 - The Gambler
A comic drama based on Dostoevsky's experiences as a young man, portraying the power of love and money. With Sam Crane, Nicholas Le Prevost, Patricia Routledge and Siobhan Hewlett.
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Drama on 3 - The Government Inspector
Translated by Alistair Beaton, Gogol's satire on corruption and sleaze in which a penniless clerk is mistaken for an important official. Starring Toby Jones and Paul Ritter.
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Drama on 3 - The Great Game
Robin Lustig introduces four plays tracing the history of war in Afghanistan to the present day, from Stephen Jeffreys, David Greig, Ben Ockrent and Simon Stephens.
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Drama on 3 - The Hairy Ape
Eugene O'Neill's classic, tragic drama about a stoker whose world is turned upside down by the appearance of a young heiress in the engine room of an ocean-going liner.
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Drama on 3 - The Homecoming, by Harold Pinter
The Homecoming, by Harold Pinter: Pinter himself takes on the role of Max, the head of the Hackney family to which a professor and his wife return one night from America.
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Drama on 3 - The Hybernaculum
A play depicting a summer's day at The Wakes, the house of 18th-century amateur naturalist the Rev Gilbert White. With John Bett, Madeleine Worrall, Simon Scott and Crawford Logan.
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Drama on 3 - The Idylls of the King
An adaptation by Michael Symmons of Tennyson's The Idylls of the King, narrated by Tim Pigott-Smith, with John Keeble (Arthur), Simon Harrison (Lancelot), Kathryn Hunt (Guinevere).
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Drama on 3 - The Lady from the Sea
A new version of Henrik Ibsen's drama in which a woman must choose between her husband and a sailor to whom she had promised herself years earlier, before she married.
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Drama on 3 - The Lamplighters, by Jackie Kay
The Lamplighters, by Jackie Kay. A lyrical drama that explores the heart of enslavement through the experiences of four women, Constance, Mary, Black Harriot and The Lamplighter.
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Drama on 3 - The Leopard
By Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa. Don Fabrizio, a member of the old Italian aristocracy, contemplates his obsolescence amid the social changes of the Risorgimento.
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Drama on 3 - The Light of Darkness
By Louis Nowra. As Turkey enters the First World War, an American consul takes up the offer of a diplomatic game of poker in order to smuggle Armenians into Russia.
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Drama on 3 - The Marriage of Figaro
A rare chance to hear Beaumarchais' original play, on which Mozart's opera was based. With Rupert Degas, Nicholas Rowe, Joannah Tincey and Clare Wille.
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Drama on 3 - The Pattern of Painful Adventures
Antony Sher stars in a play about the life of William Shakespeare. Business is going well, but the Bard urgently needs a collaborator for his latest play.
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Drama on 3 - The Picture Man, by David Eldridge
The Picture Man, by David Eldridge: Neil despairs of the uncaring behaviour he sees around him. But when he begins to take pictures of incidents, it has disastrous consequences.
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Drama on 3 - The Pitman Painters, by Lee Hall
The Pitman Painters, by Lee Hall: Billy Elliott writer Lee Hall questions why arts belongs to the privileged few through a tale based on a meeting of miners 70 years ago.
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Drama on 3 - The Promise
Aleksei Arbuzov's classic of the Soviet theatre. Three teenagers are thrown together during the 1942 siege of Leningrad. With Ruth Wilson, Harry Lloyd and Russell Tovey.
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Drama on 3 - The Researches of Herodotus
Celebrated writer Tom Holland's new adaptation of his own translation of Herodotus' Histories - considered one of the most important books in history writing.
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Drama on 3 - The Rivals, by Richard Brinsley Sheridan
The Rivals, by Richard Brinsley Sheridan: It's 1775 and the fashionable world descends on Bath, to take the waters and embroil themselves in a little romantic intrigue.
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Drama on 3 - The Royal Game
Adaptation of Stefan Zweig's novella about chess madness. Imprisoned by the Gestapo, Dr Berg steals a book of chess puzzles and learns to play inside his head.
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Drama on 3 - The Seagull
Siobhan Redmond and Paul Higgins star in a new production of Chekhov's classic drama. When actress Irina Arkadina arrives at her brother's estate, tempers inevitably get frayed.
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Drama on 3 - The Steps, by Mike Bartlett
Contains some strong language. Haunted by her past Rosie (Geraldine McEwan) escapes from her old people's home, and meets a woman (Julia Ford) and a girl, both of whom are on the run.
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Drama on 3 - The Threepenny Opera
Berthold Brecht and Kurt Weill's famous 1928 play with music, featuring a collaboration between BBC Radio Drama and the BBC Philharmonic under HK Gruber.
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Drama on 3 - The Time Machine
Robert Glenister stars in Philip Osment's dramatisation of HG Wells's classic story of a time-traveller's journey to the future, where mankind has diverged into two species.
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Drama on 3 - The Trial and Death of Socrates
A play focusing on the mystery surrounding Socrates's trial and subsequent execution, the reasons for which have long puzzled historians. With Joss Ackland and Michael Feast.
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Drama on 3 - The Twyborn Affair
DJ Britton's adaptation of Nobel Prize-winner Patrick White's provocative and mysterious novel about sexual identity. With Julian Rhind-Tutt and Penny Downie.
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Drama on 3 - The Unfortunates, by BS Johnson
Adaptation of BS Johnson's novel in which a sports journalist's memories of his dear, dead friend are triggered after he is sent to a northern city to cover a football match.
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Drama on 3 - The Vertical Hour
By David Hare. Nadia, an American academic, is comfortable with her opinions and her relationships - until she meets her boyfriend's father for the first time.
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Drama on 3 - The White Devil
John Webster's 1612 revenge play is here set in a 1950s underworld of shifting alliances and sudden violence. Stars Patrick Kennedy and Anna Maxwell Martin.
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Drama on 3 - The Wild Duck
One of Henrik Ibsen's most powerful dramas, the play explores the tragic impact on the lives of a young girl and her family when an old friend insists on family secrets being told.
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Drama on 3 - These Are the Times: The Life of Thomas Paine
Written by Trevor Griffiths. Drama about author and intellectual Thomas Paine, who influenced the American and French Revolutions.
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Drama on 3 - True West
Screenwriter Austin's work on a film script is disrupted by the arrival of his elder brother Lee. Shepard's best known and arguably finest play.
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Drama on 3 - Tulips in Winter
Michelene Wandor's play, inspired by various paintings and etchings, explores the life of the enigmatic 17th-century philosopher Baruch Spinoza.
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Drama on 3 - Two Men from Delft
By Stephen Wakelam. In 1675, at the time of the death of his close friend Johannes Vermeer, Antony Van Leeuwenhoek made an astonishing discovery.
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Drama on 3 - Yerma
Told with poetic imagery and song, Lorca's powerful tale of a woman's desperate yearning for a child that leads her to murder.
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Drama on 3 - Yesterday an Incident Occurred
Yesterday an Incident Occurred, by Mark Ravenhill: After an unprovoked attack takes place in a shopping centre, no one comes forward as a witness. How can justice be done?
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Drama on 3 - Your Only Man
By Annie Caulfield. A play imagining what might have happened had the author Brian O'Nolan's two alter egos, Flann O'Brien and Myles na gCopaleen, got together.
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