Plays, playscripts

Dust: Life, Alice thinks, isn't worth living.

Eve tells the story of a child raised as a boy, when she knew all along that was wrong.

Set in a landscape of memory and dreams, The Inconvenience of Wings tackles the issues of friendship, dysfunction, addiction and angels.

So what you want, in a nutshell, George, is a mistress, housekeeper, nurse, literary executor and mother for Richard?

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Award-winning theatre company PLAY champion a new approach to new writing, with an emphasis firmly on collaboration.

“Stop behaving like a man!

A bitter sweet, dark political comedy based on one man's true story and his odyssey in search for identity, And Here I Am is an epic voyage of identity and self-discovery based on Ahmed Tobasi's personal coming of age story.

I first met Robin Hood in the Autumn of 1975, as a seven-year-old boy, and we have been good mates ever since.

Five years ago, in the middle of a shitstorm of life events, single mother, proud Londoner and theatremaker Annie Siddons found herself living in suburbia by accident.

A reclusive children's writer becomes wildly successful.

Meet Leah and Chris; raised on Harry Potter, New Labour and a belief that one day they would be as special as their parents promised.

Seanmhair(feminine: Scots Gaelic)GrandmotherA chance meeting between two children on the streets of Edinburgh leads to a terrible reckoning, leaving Jenny and Tommy forever bound together by blood and fate.

Sad Little Man is a stand-up tragedy set performed by the mind of a young man in shock.

It s Dougie s birthday.

Henry Cyril Paget, 5th Marquis of Anglesey (1875 - 1905) was born to inherit the Empire.

From the award-winning Regent s Park Open Air Theatre comes a new version of the story of Dickens beloved orphan.

A British financier and his wife host a lavish dinner party for their affluent American friends.

A bold new adaptation of Dickens' classic from one of Britain's foremost directors, tying into contemporary issues of global war, refugees, extremism.

Dead Centre s new solo work for an eleven -year-old boy is devoted to Shakespeare s only son, Hamnet, who died in 1596, only eleven himself.

Something Dark tells the true story of Lemn Sissay who as a baby was given up by his Ethiopian mother in the 1960s.

Includes the plays The Big Sea and Vinegar and Brown Paper

The Big Sea is based on the French Medieval Mardi Gras play Le Bataille de Charnau contre Caresme.

Dublin.

Based on 20 previously untranslated fragments, this is a reconstruction of Euripides lost tragic comedy, Alcmaeon in Corinth, the third part of his final trilogy, with Bacchai and Iphigeneia in Aulis.

A murdered King.

Includes the plays The Park, A Midsummer Night's Dream and Time and the Room These three plays, first published in German in the 1980s, show Strauss developing an enigmatic, unsettling and uniquely theatrical style.

The Making Mischief Festival features work from some of today’s most exciting playwrights who are challenging and questioning our society.

Ten years ago, Bella Soroush's life was ruined by one of her pupils Kane McCarthy.

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Elodie is 17.

Follow the dramatic tale of the ingenious gentleman of La Mancha, Don Quixote, and his comic adventures over land, sea and air in the search for an idealised world.

The village of Todos Os Santos is under threat from developers who want to clear the village and the forest for farmland.

Includes the plays The Four Seasons, Love Letters on Blue Paper and Lady OthelloSpanning three decades of impassioned and inspiring work, the three plays in this volume show in cross-section Arnold Wesker's development as one of the key figures of late-twentieth-century drama.

Includes the plays Broken Journey, Best Man Speech and The Last ValentineA car breaks down in a quiet place in the small hours.

A new life beckons for Lucy Snowe.

When Danielle was a child, three women loomed large in her life: her gritty, responsible mother, her wild-child Aunt, and their best friend.

During a night-long vigil preceding the funeral of their brother Kostia, Anton and Aleksander Chekhov are drawn into an agonising and explosive confrontation with each other and with deeply hidden aspects of themselves.

In this new comedy of sex and politics, an anxious group of relations and dependants struggle for supremacy in a garden in the north of England.

Includes the plays Whispers Along the Patio, Nice Dorothy, The Last ThrashIn Whispers Along the Patio retired Matthew is happy eating his breakfast on his patio in the morning sunlight.

A powerful yet comic tale of explosive family secrets and the dead hand of a corrupt patriarchy.

"e;Was it the music that made you do it?

Set in a world where how British you are is determined by the state, three women have been called in for interview.

Would the world be a better place if we were all honest?

Daniel and Oliver are about to have their first baby.

Based on the true story of her great uncle and freedom fighter Dinesh Gupta, Lions and Tigers is Tanika Gupta s most personal play yet.

Barber Shop Chronicles is a generously funny, heart-warming and insightful new play set in five African cities, Johannesburg, Harare, Kampala, Lagos, Accra, and in London.

Kidnapped as a teenage girl, Ma has been locked inside a purpose built room in her captor's garden for seven years.

The first collection from the multi-award-winning American poet and playwright Dan O Brien, including the award-winning The Body of an American.

Rory Stewart, a thirty year old former British diplomat and soldier of distinction and accomplishment, is posted to serve as governor in a province of the newly liberated Iraq.

When reclusive crime writer Daniel Quinn receives a mysterious call seeking a private detective in the middle of the night, he quickly and unwittingly becomes the protagonist in a thriller of his own.