Literary studies: plays and playwrights

Shortlisted for the Writers' Guild of Great Britain's "e;Best Play for Young Audiences"e; Award (2022) Don't you ever get sick of it?

Ladies, Gentlemen, and then all the legends that have realised gender is a trap introducing the Sound of the Underground.

Winner of a Fringe First Award 2024What use is paper?

In your human world you see only so much less but you claim so much knowledge.

'Do you think I'm a monster?

In this deeply moving and life-affirming tale, a mother must nurture her five-year-old son through an unfathomable situation with only the power of their imagination and their boundless capacity to love.

I have kind of become invisible.

Think how many others there are like me, hiding in the shadows, operating in the night like foxes, for fear of rejection and a life of ridicule.

Nominated for Best New Play at the 2023 Olivier Awards

I found a king in me and now I love you
I found a king in you and now I love me

Father figures and fashion tips.

You definitely want to f*ck her but you don't want to know her.

The Methuen Drama Student Edition of Twelve Angry Men is the first critical edition of Reginald Rose's play, providing the play text alongside commentary and notes geared towards student readers.

Hate your job?

Some stereotypes have an element of truth.

Nominated for an Olivier Award 2022"e;I'll tell you one more thing.

No matter how hard we try, we just can't get out.

Why do people ever see things through?

You do not feel pain.

A continuously engaging, vitally engaged play about thorny questions of identity and religion in the contemporary world, with an accent on the incendiary topic of how radical Islam and the terrorism it inspires have affected the public discourse.

Ah've got a brain for business me.

When someone tells you not to look, OPEN THE BLOODY DOOR!

"e;Matura's play not only offers a potted guide to Trinidadian ethnicity, economics and politics, but also a potent metaphor for the post-colonial process.

Some things we do for those we are responsible for, some things for ourselves, and some things we do for the ancestors.

You are not at liberty to avenge the pornography industry in this country.

Winner of the Tinniswood Award at the 2024 BBC Audio AwardsAs I walk past the funeral parlour, I see a poster next to their two-for-one offer.

Call my narcissism whatever you want.

We're family.

You do not feel pain.

The Alchemist is set during a plague epidemic in the Liberty of Blackfriars in 1610 - and was first performed on tour in 1610 by the company whose London home at Blackfriars was temporarily closed due to a plague epidemic.

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Winner of New Diorama, Underbelly and Methuen Drama's Untapped Award 2022Finalist for Best Performance Piece at the Offies Awards 2024 Sometimes I'm afraid of this play.

Winner of the 2020 Alfred Fagon Award.

Pornography looks at the events of the first week of July 2005 (the G8 summit, Live 8, the announcement of the 2012 Olympics and the 7/7 bombings) through the perspectives of eight anonymous individuals, including a terrorist.

Sometimes you surprise people into being better than they are.

Winner of a OneOff Special Award for 2023 at the Offies Awards 2024Finalist for Best Production (Plays) at the Offies Awards 2024This is just me joining the family business exposing massive global injustice.

I don't think I'll evermeet someone wholoves me as much as Ryan loves me andhates me as much asRyan hates meA loving relationship can be anything but.

And I think you can tell a lot about a person by what they choose to see in you.

So we've been cast in a post-war English Nationalist Anti-Fascist Kebab Shop reimagining of Henry V set in the future?

So we've been cast in a post-war English Nationalist Anti-Fascist Kebab Shop reimagining of Henry V set in the future?

It's nice to have a secret.

My story is about love No, it's about loss No, it's about love and loss and pain and loneliness But it's funny!

I found a king in me and now I love youI found a king in you and now I love meFather figures and fashion tips.

I came to New York when I was seventeen.

Nine teenagers flee North Korea, dreaming of a new life in the South.

In 1934, the people of Inishmaan learn that the Hollywood director Robert Flaherty is coming to the neighbouring island to film his documentary Man of Aran.

'Do you think I'm a monster?

I can tell the difference between who I am and a side effect.

A city under attack from a nuclear blast.

"e;An astonishingly powerful play with a mesmeric performance from Bilal Hasna.

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