Plays to perform

debbie tucker green

debbie tucker green is a playwright, screenwriter and director.

Her plays include: ear for eye (Royal Court Theatre, 2018); a profoundly affectionate, passionate devotion to someone (-noun) (Royal Court Theatre, 2017); hang (Royal Court, 2015); nut (National Theatre, 2013); truth and reconciliation (Royal Court, 2011); random (Royal Court, 2008); generations (Young Vic, 2007); stoning mary (Royal Court, 2005); trade (RSC, 2005); born bad (Hampstead Theatre, 2003; Olivier Award for Most Promising Newcomer); and dirty butterfly (Soho Theatre, 2003).

She wrote and directed the feature film, Second Coming (BFI/Film 4, 2014; International Film Festival Rotterdam Big Screen Award) and adapted her play random into a TV film for Channel 4, which won the 2012 BAFTA for Best Single Drama and the Black International Film/MVSA Award for Best UK Film.

Her work for radio includes: lament (Radio Academy Arias Gold Award), gone, random, handprint and freefall.

She was awarded the 2015 Windham Campbell Prize for Drama.

random
random
An urgent play about the senseless killing of a black schoolboy, from one of the most distinctive voices in contempor...
truth and reconciliation
truth and reconciliation
A play about the aftermath of violence, in conflicts around the world from Rwanda to Northern Ireland, and from Zimba...
born bad
born bad
A hard-hitting and original family drama.
dirty butterfly
dirty butterfly
A mesmerising and startling play about voyeurism, power and guilt.
stoning mary
stoning mary
Mysterious yet compelling, bewildering yet intoxicating, a play that mixes poetic rhythms with vernacular phrases, ra...
trade
trade
A short play dealing with the controversial topic of female sex tourism.
generations
generations
A 30-minute drama about three generations of a black South African family who contest their relative culinary skills....
nut
nut
A play about a woman who wants to withdraw from the world.
hang
hang
A shattering play about one woman's unspeakable decision.
a profoundly affectionate, passionate devotion to someone (-noun)
a profoundly affectionate, passionate devotion to someone (-noun)
Three couples. What might be. What once was. What could have been.
ear for eye
ear for eye
Snapshots of lives, snapshots of experiences of protest; violence vs non-violence, direct action vs demonstrations,