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The Importance of Being Alfred

A short play about Lord Alfred Douglas, the former lover of Oscar Wilde, and his latter years as the supporter of a prominent homophobe.

The Scorched Garden

By Juan Mayorga Translated by Nick Darke

A play about a group of inmates who have been locked up in a mental hospital since the Spanish Civil War.

Bazaar

By David Planell Translated by John Clifford

A play by young Spanish dramatist David Planell, about the hilarious attempt to get an accident video shown on TV, releasing undercurrents of racism in society.

Out of Your Knowledge

A short play that explores our changing attitudes towards the landscape.

Maisie Says She Loves Me

A one-man play about love, inheritance and not letting your feelings show.

Dean McBride

A vivid and poetic monologue play about deprivation, loss and redemption through love, telling the story of Dean, a young man hardened by suffering, who struggles in life before finding his way back to happiness.

In a Vulnerable Place

A monologue documenting Steve Waters' own journey from the Norfolk Broads to the steppes of Mongolia to explore, first hand, what is happening to the natural world and the human heart.

Bleeding Heart

A short dark comedy from Spain, in which a naive middle-aged transvestite encounters a petty thief nicknamed 'sour face'.

Finsbury Park

A short autobiographical monologue, first performed as part of the Come to Where I'm From festival at the Park Theatre, London, in 2016.

How These Desperate Men Talk

A short play published for the first time, written during the author's time working with European theatremakers.

About a Goth

A short play about a young man who volunteers in old people's homes, and suffers paroxyms of love and hate for the residents.

Published in volume Me, As A Penguin

    Notes for First Time Astronauts

    A comic monologue warning of the perils of self-abuse in zero gravity conditions.

    Published in volume Me, As A Penguin

      Dead Dad Dog

      An offbeat short comedy with a political edge, in which an unemployed young man is dogged by his deceased father.

      Published in volume Scot-Free

        Being Friends

        The first of the three plays that make up Robert Holman's acclaimed dramatic trilogy Making Noise Quietly.

          A Night in November

          The multi-award-winning playwright explores the subjects of football and sectarianism, set during the 1994 World Cup.

            Mongoose

            A strange and beguiling monologue about a loner obsessed with a malign companion called Mongoose.

            Published in volume Singular Male Voices

              Cold Comfort

              A powerful monologue about an Irish labourer living in London who returns home to Belfast to have a last, drunken 'conversation' with his recently dead father.

              Published in volume Singular Male Voices

                Brazil

                A blistering monologue set in Scotland in the near future, when Europe is at war with America, and Scotland suffers collateral damage in the clash of civilisations.

                Published in volume Singular Male Voices