Drama

The Man

by James Graham

"This is my first tax return. Thank you...erm for offering to... for helping. I realise it’s a bit weird. It’s just. This is...it’s the only way I can think to make it better. The only way I can think to...

Cock

by Mike Bartlett

’But that’s what this is, isn’t it? The ultimate bitch fight.’

When John takes a break from his boyfriend, he accidentally meets the girl of his dreams. Filled with guilt and indecision, he decides there...

A History of Falling Things

by James Graham

’Oh, you do look...really good, though. You know. In the face.

Oh and, uh, I love you.’

Prisoners of their fear of falling things - keraunothetophobiacs - Jacqui and Robin are restricted to living indoors....

The 'Speculator' & 'The Meeting'

by David Greig

Two plays about cultural identity from Scotland and Catalonia, which received their English-language premières in August 1999 at the Royal Lyceum Theatre as part of the Edinburgh International Festival in Traverse...

Rewrites: A Memoir

by Neil Simon

A winning combination of touching personal memories and reflections, anecdotes about the writing life, and hilarious stories about some of the biggest names in the entertainment business, "Rewrites" is "one...

Junk: Adapted for the stage

by Melvin Burgess

Tar loves Gemma, but Gemma doesn’t want to be tied down - not to anyone or anything. Gemma wants to fly. But no one can fly forever. One day, somehow, finally you have to come down. Commissioned and produced...

On Blindness

by Glyn Cannon

Glyn Cannon’s brilliantly dark and mischievous debut

In this darkly witty exploration of love and relationships Cannon explores how much you need to see of someone to know they are worth "taking a chance on"....

TheSpeckled People

by Hugo Hamilton

Adapted for the stage from the best-selling memoir, The Speckled People tells a profoundly moving story of a young boy trapped in a language war. Set in 1950s Ireland, this is a gripping, poignant, and at times...

Di and Viv and Rose

by Amelia Bullmore

'How do you want to live here? I mean we could come and go and lead separate lives. Or we could really live together. What do you think?'

Aged 18, three women join forces. Life is fun. Living is intense. Together...

Some Explicit Polaroids

by Mark Ravenhill

From the celebrated and controversial writer of Shopping and Fucking

Some Explicit Polaroids premiered at the New Ambassadors Theatre, London in October 1999 in a production directed by Max Stafford-Clark for...

Landscape with Weapon

by Joe Penhall

"’Qualms?’ Oh yeah, sure, I have ’qualms’. Everybody has qualms. But I’ll overcome them."

To his family’s horror, Ned reveals he’s the brains behind a new military technology so sophisticated, so extraordinary,...

Gone Too Far!

by Bola Agbaje

Nigeria, England, America, Jamaica; are you proud of where you’re from? Dark skinned, light skinned, afro, weaves, who are your true brothers and sisters? When two brothers from different continents go down...

Shoppers

by Denis Johnson

"Perfection is not the basis of what I'm talking about," says a member of the Cassandra family, which forms the center of Denis Johnson's plays, Hellhound on My Trail and Shoppers Carried by Escalators Into...

Beowulf

by Neil Gaiman & Roger Avary

Who will come to the aid of beleaguered King Hrothgar, whose warriors have become the prey of the vengeful outcast monster Grendel?

In the able hands of #1 New York Times bestselling author Neil Gaiman (Anansi...

Mongrel Island

by Ed Harris

Mongrel Island is a dazzlingly powerful and dreamlike comic play.

Marie is losing herself in her grey office existence, trapped by endless piles of paperwork and the same people saying the same things every single...

Shades

by Alia Bano

’How religious are you?

I never know how to answer that question. I mean how do you measure religiousness?’

London worships many gods, but it often seems that Cupid isn’t one of them. Sabrina, a single girl-about-town,...

Ivan and the Dogs

by Hattie Naylor

’All the money went and there was nothing to buy food with. So Mothers and Fathers tried to find things they could get rid of, things that ate, things that drank or things that needed to be kept warm. The dogs...

Kwei-Armah Plays: 1: Elmina’s Kitchen; Fix Up; Statement of Regret; Let There Be Love

by Kwame Kwei-Armah

Few playwrights have been as successful as Kwame Kwei-Armah atbringing a distinctive new voice and examination of our culture to thestage in recent years. This collection of his work includes his trilogyof plays...

Darker Shores

by Michael Punter

Darker Shores is a Victorian ghost story which manages to be playfully intelligent, emotionally resonant and also quite scary. Its ghoulish atmosphere, biblical fanaticism and dark, knowing wit results in a...

The Retreat from Moscow: A Play About a Family

by William Nicholson

How well do we know the people we marry? Is it wrong to decide it’s time to be honest? Is love enough to save a family? In The Retreat from Moscow, William Nicholson, the celebrated author of Shadowlands,...