Drama

Sing Yer Heart Out for the Lads epub

by Roy Williams

Saturday 7 October 2000. England v Germany, The King George v The Duke of York. Keegan resigns and Barry plays a blinder. Tensions erupt in a South London pub as England lose again.

First produced at the National...

The Malcontent

by John Marston & W. David Kay

"This Malevole is one of the most prodigious affections that ever conversed with nature: a man, or rather a monster, more discontent than Lucifer." The Malcontent is a striking example of the new satiric tone...

Market Boy

by David Eldridge

Gloriously raucous rites-of-passage drama set in Romford Market

’You’ve got to talk to them son. Listen to them. Look for a way in. You’re a handsome bloke - they’ll love you. Give me a year and I’ll teach...

Swimming with Sharks

by George Huang & Michael Lesslie

From bringing him coffee to getting him laid, it’s up to new assistant and aspiring screenwriter Guy to satisfy every whim of the incendiary Buddy Ackerman, powerful movie producer and the boss from hell. Blinded...

John Gabriel Borkman

by David Eldridge & Henrik Ibsen

Disgraced and destitute following a fraud scandal and imprisonment, John Gabriel Borkman paces alone in an upstairs room. Downstairs, his family is trapped in the claustrophobic atmosphere of a household bound...

From Morn to Midnight: A Play in Seven Scenes (1922)

by Georg Kaiser

This early work, originally published in 1922, is both expensive and hard to find in its first edition. Written by the German dramatist Georg Kaiser, one the most successful Expressionist dramatists of his age....

Society

by Misty Lichelle Bishop

Society: The Struggles of Hatred and Righteous Betrayal is a screenplay that revolves around a young African American woman by the name of Ashlyn Richardson who moves from a black community in Inglewood, California,...

The Pochsy Plays

by Karen Hines

Beckett meets Betty Boop in this trilogy of monologues by Canadian cult heroine Pochsy, a nasty, vapid, utterly charming vixen. In Pochsy's Lips, she's in the hospital, convinced she's sick because she's got...

'Ten Plagues' and 'The Coronation of Poppea'

by Mark Ravenhill

In London

Came the plague in sixteen sixty five

One hundred thousand dead

But I alive.

London is infected. The dead fall in the streets. As the plague pits fill, the people of London struggle to maintain a society...

Into Thy Hands

by Jonathan Holmes

Into Thy Hands is a play about faith, sex, and the translation of the Bible. Set four hundred years ago, it is centred around John Donne and his parallel roles as the first English translator of Galileo, accomplice...

The King of Scotland and The Tobacco Merchant’s Lawyer

by Iain Heggie

The King of Scotland is an award-winning, dark comedy and a free adaptation of Gogol’s A Diary of a Madman.

Long term unemployed Tommy McMillan joins a government funded retraining scheme ’Up The Ladder’....

After the Accident

by Julian Armitstead

A child’s life is snuffed out by a joy-rider. Four years on, the parents and the young lad meet.

In this award winning drama, writer Julian Armitstead explores the process of Restorative Justice, by which victim...

Wastwater and T5

by Simon Stephens

"You make one decision. It stays with you. It’s like the consequences of it get into your bones."

Set on the edges of Heathrow Airport, Wastwater is an elliptical triptych - a snapshot of three different couples...

The Usual Auntijies

by Paven Virk

Aunti-ji - noun. a term sometimes used to address women older than oneself. Ji is traditionally used after someone’s name to show respect, mainly by the communities of the Indian sub-continent.

Somewhere in...

Pinero: Three Plays: The Magistrate; The Second Mrs Tanqueray; Trelawny of the ’Wells’

by Sir Arthur Wing Pinero

Pinero: Three Plays: The Magistrate ; The Second Mrs Tanqueray ; Trelawny Of The 'Wells'

Seven Streams Of The River Ota

by Robert Lepage & Eric Bernier

Of all Lepage’s magic boxes, this is the masterpiece (Independent on Sunday)

Early one August morning in 1945, several kilos of uranium dropped over Japan changed the course of human history. Fifty years later,...

Gogol Three Plays: The Government Inspector; Marriage; The Gamblers

by Nikolai Gogol & Stephen Mulrine

This collection contains Gogol’s three completed plays

The Government Inspector, which satirises a corrupt society was regarded by Nabokov as the greatest play in the Russian language and is still widely studied...

The Gift

by Roy Williams

A new play by the award-winning writer, which premiered at the Birmingham Rep in 2000 and transferred to London’s Tricycle theatre

"Yu gwan on about love, you can’t even si love when it right under yer nose"...

Joe Guy

by Roy Williams

Joe Boateng, the ’David Beckham’ of his generation, is Ghanaian.Naomi, his childhood sweetheart is British and of Jamaican parentage.With Joe’s escalating celebrity status comes huge sacrifices,accusations...

The Last Days of a Reluctant Tyrant

by Tom Murphy

An epic family drama, shot through with dark humour, The Last Days of a Reluctant Tyrant tells the tragic story of a family disintegrating, having lost its moral values.

Arina is an ambitious woman. As a servant...