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Shush
A funny and insightful glimpse into the power of female friendship.
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Wolfie
Ross Willis's debut play is a wildly imaginative, irreverent look at life in and after the care system.
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Treasure island
Fresh and faithful new adaptation of one of the most famous children's stories.
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German skerries
This publication follows the first major revival of an award-winning play by acclaimed dramatist Robert Holman.
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Ivy tiller: vicar's daughter, squirrel killer
Entrenched in her picturesque Devonshire village, Ivy Tiller is preparing to wage a war.Her target: the invasive grey squirrel. Her goal: to oust the invaders and restore the native red squirrels as the 'rightful' inhabitants. Galvanised by her important mission, Ivy's determination swells to unc...
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Steel
This witty new play by Chris Bush (What We Wished For, A Dream) explores the last three decades of women in politics, asking what's changed and what still must.
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A time to keep
A large-scale play from our leading political playwright--a historical romp crossing Austen with Dickens.
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The libertine (2016 edition)
Revised edition for a major West End revival of this modern classic.
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Sex and god
A new play from Linda McLean, one of Scotland’s most distinctive and beguiling playwrights.
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Fixer
A new play from a new voice in political theatre. A smart, fast-paced drama throwing important light on global corruption.
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Voices from ukraine: two plays
Two powerful plays about the shattering impact of war, and the astonishing resilience of those living through it, written by two of Ukraine's leading playwrights.'They've mobilised all the living now, the fifth call took the last of the living. But the war keeps on. So high command asked us.'Sash...
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Some demon
Papatango New Writing Prize - 2023 Sam's eighteen and her life's about to start. Zoe's forty-something and hers never did. They don't have much in common. Just a love of '80s new wave, and an illness that wants them dead. Thrown together in an eating disorder unit, their most intimate secrets exp...
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The heresy of love
A powerful drama about a clash between organized religion and personal faith, full of intrigue, danger, ruthless ambitions and desire.
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Red ellen
Forever on the right side of history, but on the wrong side of life, Labour MP Ellen Wilkinson is caught between revolutionary and parliamentary politics as she fights for a better world.Battling to save Jewish refugees in Nazi Germany; campaigning for Britain to aid the fight against Franco's Fa...
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Stuff
A new play for young people about friendship and loss.
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First person shooter
A funny and foreboding play about what happens when gaming and military technology collide.
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The small hours
A new play for young performers.
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Snowflake
Mike Bartlett's play Snowflake is an epic story about generational conflict, fathers and daughters, and whether we're living in the best or worst of times.
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Orestes
New take on the "Orestes" by award-winning playwright.
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Alexi kaye campbell, plays: one
Published here alongside The Pride, Alexi’s remarkable debut, are his four subsequent plays, which together demonstrate his rare ability to harness theatricality in pursuit of emotional truth.
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Stacy & fanny and faggot
Double volume of plays from this "challenging, disturbing and distinctive new voice" (London Times).
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Dealing with clair
Martin Crimp's play Dealing with Clair premiered in 1988 at the Orange Tree Theatre, Richmond. This edition was published alongside a new production of the play at the Orange Tree, in October 2018, in a co-production with English Touring Theatre.
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Ibsen on theatre
A unique collection of everything that Ibsen wrote about the theatre.
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It's a wonderful life
Christmas Eve, 1946, Bedford Falls. Down-on-his-luck banker George Bailey feels life has passed him by, and he's at the end of his rope.But when George's guardian angel pays him a visit, he's amazed to discover what life in his beloved town would be like without him. Maybe it's a wonderful life, ...
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Plastic
An unflinchingly honest new drama about the kids who survived school, and those who didn’t, Plastic premiered at the Old Red Lion Theatre, London, in April 2018 before transferring to the Mercury Theatre, Colchester, produced by Poleroid Theatre and directed by Josh Roche.
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Let the right one in
A thrilling new stage adaptation of the cult vampire novel and film.
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Tilt
First play by the established composer/musician.
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Kabul goes pop: music television afghanistan
Afghanistan. It's 2004. Farook and Samia broadcast live every day to the whole of Kabul, delivering ninety minutes of musical bliss: Britney, Backstreet Boys and Enrique Iglesias. But when their show starts to make waves, the two young friends must take on repressive forces to build a new Afghani...
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Scorch
The award-winning play from the writer of Lagan, Perve, Override and Shibboleth.
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The nightingales
Funny, touching and thought-provoking, William Gaminara's play The Nightingales was first seen at the Theatre Royal Bath in 2018, before a UK tour.
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Talking theatre
Fascinating in-depth interviews with more than forty actors, writers, directors and producers in the theatre industry.
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Tapped
Gavi wants to inspire his community. Which is tricky when everyone wants to just stay at home and watch Bake Off. But, determined to succeed, he starts hosting amateur motivational meetings from his garage.With the help of daily mantras, goal-setting and repeatedly listening to Spandau Ballet, he...
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Red
Somalia Seaton’s Red is an unflinching and bold exploration of the internal lives of young women. It is part of Platform, an initiative from Tonic Theatre in partnership with Nick Hern Books, aimed at addressing gender imbalance in theatre.
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Wild
A darkly comic play that explores the unexpected and life-changing consequences of challenging the status quo at a global level.
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Bombshells
"Little gems, as observant as anything in Alan Bennett's Talking Heads."--Guardian
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The father and the assassin
Mahatma Gandhi: lawyer, champion of non-violence, beloved leader. Nathuram Godse: journalist, nationalist – and the man who murdered him.Anupama Chandrasekhar's play The Father and the Assassin traces Godse's life over thirty years during India's fight for independence: from a devout follower of ...
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Drama games for classrooms and workshops
A hundred-and-one great drama games for everyone from 6 upwards. For teachers, workshop leaders and directors.
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How to spot an alien
Georgia Christou's play How To Spot An Alien is ideal for space cadets age five and up to watch, read and perform. It was first produced in 2018 by Paines Plough in their pop-up theatre, Roundabout, in a co-production with Theatr Clwyd.
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The distance
A painfully funny play about motherhood (and fatherhood), about keeping control, and about letting go.
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Queen anne (new edition)
Helen Edmundson's gripping play tells the little-known story of a monarch caught between friendship and duty.
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When this is over: a blueprint for creating your own production, and the original playscript
A group of teenagers, their lives shaped by billions of seemingly random events going back to before they were born, come together onstage to share stories about their past, their present, and what might lie ahead.When This Is Over is a uniquely personal, theatrical celebration of hope, possibili...
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Happy meal
2022 Edinburgh Fringe First AwardStarting in the quaint days of dial-up and MSN, Happy Meal is a funny, moving and nostalgic story of transition, following two initial strangers on their journeys from teen to adult; from MySpace to TikTok; from cis to trans...Tabby Lamb's joyful trans rom-com was...
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Getting, keeping & working with your acting agent: the compact guide
An informative guide for actors on finding and working with agents.
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Flare path
A moving story of love and loyalty, courage and fear, based on Rattigan's experiences as a tail gunner in WWII.
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One for sorrow
Cordelia Lynn's play One For Sorrow was first performed at the Royal Court Theatre, London, in the Jerwood Theatre Upstairs, on 20 June 2018, in a production directed by James Macdonald.
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The roaring girl
A hilarious city comedy, published alongside a major 2014 revival by the Royal Shakespeare Company.
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Mosquitoes
A new play from the acclaimed writer of Chimerica. World premiere at the National Theatre.
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55 days
A gripping historical drama about the aftermath of the English Civil War and the lead-up to Charles I's execution.
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Abigail
A startling, time-fractured tale of love lost and found, from one of the most exciting young writers around.
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Bird
Raw, delicate and bold, Bird is a story of growing up outside a family but inside the fiercest of friendships.
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Wilderness
Wilderness is a searing exploration of unconditional love and of the personal sacrifices it demands.
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A chaste maid in cheapside
Preposterous - and lewd - Jacobean "city comedy."
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Plays from vault
This anthology comprises five of the best plays from VAULT 2016, London’s biggest and most exciting arts festival.
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Shed: exploded view
The smallest tremble. A smashed glass. The ripping apart of space and time.Three couples. Thirty years. Mothers and daughters. Lovers, partners, husbands and wives. Babies, teenagers, birthdays, holidays, honeymoons, fireworks, near-misses, rain. This is a play about all of it.A devastating and d...
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Lagan
A well-crafted and effective interrogation of our social structures and a poignant portrait of the individuals they affect.
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Soft animals
Holly Robinson's debut play soft animals is a tender and unflinching story about motherhood, self-destruction and the way women help each other heal.
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My father's fable
Peace didn't know what she needed when her father died. Then she found Bolu, her halfbrother from Nigeria, whom she didn't know existed. Filled with grief and a thousand questions, Peace ignores her mother's concerns, and invites Bolu to England. His arrival feels like something clicking into pla...
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After the act
Abseiling lesbians! Queers in classrooms! Perverts panicking parents! Thatcher's Section 28, which banned the promotion of homosexuality in schools, was the landmark legislation that silenced a generation, offered a global blueprint for LGBTQ+ oppression, and galvanised a movement. Billy Barret...
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This changes everything
A new play from the initiative Platform, which is aimed at addressing gender imbalance and inequality in theatre.
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Our generation
Alecky Blythe's engrossing verbatim play tells the stories of a generation. Created from five years of interviews with twelve young people from across the UK, Our Generation is a captivating portrait of their teenage years as they journey into adulthood.Often too extraordinary to be fiction, this...
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Sixty five miles
One man’s journey to find the daughter he has never met takes center stage in this moving award-winning play.
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Christmas carol: a fairy tale
This stage adaptation of Charles Dickens's Christmas tale will prove a festive gift for amateur theatre companies seeking an original, female-led version with lashings of goodwill to all men – and women.
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Hedda
Ibsen's "Hedda Gabler" radically relocated to present-day London. Premiered at the trendy Gate Theatre, London.
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What if if only
Your partner's died, could things have been different?Caryl Churchill's short play What If If Only premiered in the Jerwood Theatre Downstairs at the Royal Court Theatre, London, in September 2021, directed by James Macdonald.This edition also includes the resonant and surreal short piece, Air.
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The years
"Memory pairs the dead with the living, real with imaginary beings, dreams with history." She strikes a pose and the camera shutter clicks... A child playing in the debris of the Second World War. Click. A student discovering parties and men's bodies. Click. An activist fighting for the right to...
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The servant of two masters
Goldoni’s classic farce of a man trapped by his own greed. The original source material for One Man, Two Guvnors.
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Sex with a stranger
A bleakly comedic look at lust and love in your mid-twenties and the struggle of learning to behave like adults.
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Shakespeare's lost play
Gregory Doran spent years investigating the mystery of Shakespeare’s lost play. This is his story.
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Whisky galore
Philip Goulding's stage adaptation of Compton Mackenzie's comedy classic is a tribute to the feisty all-female touring theatre companies of the post-war years.
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O go my man
A satirical comedy of modern manners from the author of 'Duck.'
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Hang
His life. In her hands. A shattering play about one woman’s unspeakable decision.
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Driftwood
Mark and Tiny go for walks along the beach at Seaton Carew, County Durham. Their dad is dying, and their town is crumbling. Family rifts and political divides try to pull them apart, and a figure made of driftwood stalks the shore at night.Tim Foley's Driftwood is an intoxicating and mystical pla...
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Gut
A taut psychological thriller that explores who we can trust with our children – and whether it’s more dangerous not to trust at all.
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The blinding light
Howard Brenton's play The Blinding Light tells the astonishing story of August Strindberg’s “Inferno” period. For four years in fin-de-siècle Paris, Europe’s most famous playwright vanished. Most people thought he had gone insane. When he reappeared, his new plays changed theatre forever.
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So you want to write radio drama?
An essential guide for anyone who dreams of penning tomorrow's radio classics.
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All mouth
A biting comedy about actors from a husband-and-wife team. Premiered at Menier Chocolate Factory.
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Rabbit
A witty but bitter-sweet new comedy of modern manners by a very promising new writer.
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Citysong and other plays
A collection of three plays by Irish playwright Dylan Coburn Gray.
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100 great plays for women
This important, landmark survey dispels the myth that "there aren't any good plays for women."
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The strange death of john doe
Inspired by real events, Fiona Doyle's play The Strange Death of John Doe is a powerful and poignant drama that premiered at Hampstead Theatre Downstairs, London, in 2018, and was a finalist for the Susan Smith Blackburn Prize.
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Consensual
A startling, provocative new play from the best selling writer of Girls Like That.
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Natives
A rallying cry to a generation of unlikely heroes, celebrating coming of age online in a chaotic world.
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The grand old opera house hotel
When shy Aaron joins the hotel's inharmonious team, he's faced with emotionally volatile guests, apathetic staff and management that doesn't have a clue. Not to mention the rumour of singing ghosts haunting the corridors.But through all the madness, one voice stands out, capturing his ears and hi...
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Raya
A witty and tender play about whether or not we can ever turn back – or stop – the clocks.
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So you want to be a theatre designer?
The definitive guide to designing for theatre, by an award-winning designer with over 160 productions to his name.
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Arabian nightmares: three plays
Three timely one-act plays, showing the brutal and bloody impact of the current Middle Eastern crisis on ordinary people.
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The people next door
An Ortonesque black farce.
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The good life
When Tom and Barbara Good decide to exchange the pressures of the rat race for an alternative, more sustainable way of living, they set about turning their suburban home in Surbiton into a model of self-sufficiency. They grow their own fruit and veg, keep livestock in the garden, make their own c...
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A hard rain
A play about what happens when you push things underground, set in New York in 1969.
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For all i care
Unexpected connections collide in this fast-moving, touchingly funny one-woman show by Alan Harris.
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Growth
Hugely entertaining and funny, Luke Norris's new play is a brilliant, painful comedy about growing up and manning up.
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Romeo and juliet
Shakespeare's heartbreaking tale of forbidden love, brought to life in a new production co-directed by Rob Ashford and Kenneth Branagh.
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Richard iii
"A quite wonderful ideaSo blindingly obvious, I can't understand why nobody had thought of it before. I will certainly use the texts myself."-- Sir Peter Hall
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The ministry of lesbian affairs (revised edition)
"Acerbic, moving and fun, with some really terrific writing…a charming, funny and inclusive piece of work."—Evening Standard The Ministry of Lesbian Affairs, the only lesbian choir in the country, are trying to win their place on the Pride mainstage. In a run-down church hall with an OWL (Older...
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Lavender, hyacinth, violet, yew
Beautiful and deeply moving: a testament to the indomitable flowering of queer identity and found family through grief and the cracks of time. —The Stage Nineteen-year-old Pip is trying to find themselves through gardening. But with a dad more interested in plants than people and a mum stuck in ...
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Tribes
A current hit Off-BroadwayBest New Play, Off West End Theatre Awards
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Acceptance
Crackling with razor-sharp dialogue, Amy Ng’s explosive new play asks whether we can ever escape our past and investigates the destructive side of our search for acceptance.
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Drama menu at a distance
An essential "recipe" book for drama teachers that eliminates the challenges of planning lessons and workshops in the “new normal” of COVID-19 online learning.
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The hound of the baskervilles (new stage edition)
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's most celebrated Sherlock Holmes story gets a gloriously funny makeover When Sir Charles Baskerville is found dead on his estate, with a look of terror still etched on his face and the paw prints of a gigantic hound beside his body, the great detective Sherlock Holmes is ...
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Override
A captivating, darkly comic science fiction play that asks important questions about the drive for conformity and perfection.
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