Plays with Music

Set on Christmas Eve during the latter days of the Civil War, this rich and moving play weaves a tapestry of historical characters, period holiday music, marches and spirituals, and tells a story of peaceful companionship and communal hope.

An enchanting collection of witty music and skits about the Bard, devised for and first performed by the Royal Shakespeare Company.

The true story of the flourishing of a theatre in a wartime Jewish Ghetto.

Writing at the end of his own long life, in Oedipus at Colonus Sophocles depicts his doomed hero's final hours; at the moment of his death the aged Oedipus is free at last. Envisaging this meditation on mortality as a rousing service in a black church, Lee Breuer has created a remarkable text based on Robert Fitzgerald's splendid translation.

A simple and delightfully inventive re-telling of the stories from the Arabian Nights.

An acclaimed dramatisation of Dickens' well-loved Christmas story - more faithful to the original than any other published version.

Surprising and poignant, Folk is a hilarious and not-so-holy story of hope, coming together and finding your feet when your world is turned upside down.

Rona Munro's adaptation of Louis de Bernières' much-loved epic novel, set on an idyllic Greek island in 1941.

A joyous, chaotic, autobiographical play telling the story of actor, writer and social-media sensation Rob Madge as they set out to recreate a Disney parade they performed as a twelve-year-old for their Grandma.

A rip-roaring, swashbuckling, family-friendly retelling of a classic story.

An adaptation for the stage of Jacqueline Wilson's popular novel.

A simple and delightfully inventive re-telling of the stories from the Arabian Nights.

The classic tale of Sleeping Beauty's curse – as seen through the eyes of the fairy who curses her.

García Lorca's blood-soaked story of doomed love, in a version by playwright Tanya Ronder.

A wonderfully theatrical adaptation of the much-loved children's classic, with songs by Neil Hannon.

A play about grief and looking at someone that little bit more closely. Written specifically for young people, Burying Your Brother in the Pavement was part of the 2008 National Theatre Connections Festival and was premiered by youth theatres across the UK.

An incisive critique of life in an age of excess, based on the true story of John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester. This edition of the play was published alongside the 2016 production at the Theatre Royal Bath and Theatre Royal Haymarket.

A beautiful, heart-warming, laugh-out-loud coming-of-age story for our times.