Drama

Love and Information

by Caryl Churchill

A stunningly ambitious work from one of the UK's most influential playwrights.

Someone sneezes. Someone can’t get a signal. Someone shares a secret. Someone won’t answer the door. Someone put an elephant...

Eight

by Ella Hickson

Eight compelling monologues offering a state-of-the-nation group portrait for the stage. First seen on the Edinburgh Fringe, the play was produced in the West End in 2012.

Edinburgh Fringe First Award 2008

Carol...

Black Antigone: Sophocles' Tragedy Meets the Heartbeat of Africa

by George Porter

Black Antigone is a fresh and provocative interpretation of Sophocles' tragedy, based on the belief that the potent rhythms of the African people were much more a part of ancient Greece than has ever been suggested...

Steven Berkoff: One Act Plays

by Steven Berkoff

Steven Berkoff has been variously described as controversial, thrilling, electric and dynamic. A Renaissance man of the theatre, he is known equally for his writing, directing and acting.

Collecting together...

The Static and Blackout

by Davey Anderson

The Static

'We all have sick thoughts. It doesnae matter what you think, it's what you do that counts. Trouble is, my thoughts do things. Don't believe me? Just watch.'

Sparky is a bright but volatile 15-year-old...

Mess and You're Not Like The Other Girls Chrissy

by Caroline Horton

Mess: Josephine is putting on a play - Boris and Sistahl help. It's about anorexia; but don't let that put you off - they are used to the big issues - and today they will tackle a particularly thin elephant...

The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time

by Mark Haddon & Simon Stephens

My name is Christopher John Francis Boone. I know all the countries of the world and the capital cities. And every prime number up to 7507.

Christopher, fifteen years old, stands beside Mrs Shears's dead dog....

A Doll's House

by Henrik Ibsen & Simon Stephens

'I think I'm a human being before anything else. I don't care what other people say. I don't care what people write in books. I need to think for myself.'

Henrik Ibsen's A Doll's House premiered in 1879 in Copenhagen,...

Morning

by Simon Stephens

'I missed first time. I could feel his skull caving in. It was like a shell.'

Morning - a play for young people - is the latest offering from acclaimed playwright Simon Stephens, written after a workshop involving...

DruidMurphy: Plays by Tom Murphy

by Tom Murphy

This collection brings together three of Tom Murphy's finest plays, Famine, A Whistle in the Dark and Conversations on a Homecoming. Together, they tell the story of Irish emigration - of those who went and...

Birthday

by Joe Penhall

The birth of their daughter should be one of the happiest days of Ed and Lisa's life. An NHS maternity ward and their somewhat unusual circumstances make for an unsettling and satisfyingly comic sequence of...

Etiquette and Vitriol: The Food Chain and Other Plays

by Nicky Silver

The first play collection by a young master of razor-sharp wit and black humor.

Alice in Bed

by Susan Sontag

Alice in Bed is a free dramatic fantasy which merges the life of Alice James, the brilliant sister of William and Henry James, with the heroine of Lewis Carroll's Alice in Wonderland. It is a play about the...

Soul of a Whore and Purvis

by Denis Johnson

Two plays—hilarious and searing in equal measure—by one of our most essential and original authors

In his poetry, short stories, novels, and plays, the National Book Award-winning author Denis Johnson has...

Kaspar and Other Plays

by Peter Handke & Michael Roloff

Kaspar, Peter Handke's first full-length drama--hailed in Europe as "the play of the decade" and compared in importance to Waiting for Godot--is the story of an autistic adolescent who finds himself at a complete...

Clybourne Park

Pulitzer Prize for Drama 2011

by Bruce Norris

Clybourne Park spans two generations fifty years apart. In 1959, Russ and Bev are selling their desirable two-bedroom at a bargain price, unknowingly bringing the first black family into the neighborhood (borrowing...

Detroit

by Lisa D'Amour

In a “first ring” suburb outside a midsize American city, Ben and Mary fire up the grill to welcome the new neighbors who’ve moved into the long-empty house next door. The fledgling friendship soon veers...

Short Eyes

by Miguel Piñero

Winner of the New York Drama Critics Circle Award

This powerful drama of prison life is set in a house of detention where a group of young convicts-predominantly black and Puerto Rican-taunt, fight, insult, and...

Spinning into Butter

by Rebecca Gilman

Set on a college campus in Vermont, Spinning into Butter is a new play by a major young American playwright that explores the dangers of both racism and political correctness in America today in a manner that...

What Ever

by Heather Woodbury

“May be the nearest thing to an American Ulysses . . . wildly funny and infinitely sad.”

—Fintan O’Toole, The Irish times

Focusing on the lives of more than a dozen characters—among them the Oregon rave...