Alongside the theatre's new writing output, the long-running
Lost Classics Project focuses on the production of obscure, underperformed or unperformed plays from previous generations. In the modern history strand this has included the first uncensored productions of two of
John Osborne's supposedly lost early plays (
Personal Enemy and
The Devil Inside Him), J.P. Donleavy's
The Ginger Man, together with a successful revival of Sylvia Rayman's long-unperformed all-female play
Women of Twilight. The project's historical strand has been praised by academics for featuring "an extensive range of non-Shakespearean plays" and for seeking to "extend the repertory beyond the select group of frequently revived plays". Alongside the
Read Not Dead project at
Shakespeare's Globe and the
Royal Shakespeare Company's
Jacobethan seasons, the
Lost Classics Project is considered one of the three most influential attempts to "reshape the twenty-first-century 'early modern repertory'", with past productions including the first modern performances of
Westward Ho by
Thomas Dekker and
John Webster, and
Ben Jonson's final play,
The Magnetic Lady. ==Awards==