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The Game Of Love And Chance

The Game Of Love And Chance

By Pierre Marivaux Translated by Stephen Mulrine

The best known play by one of the most performed French playwrights - a sparkling 18th-century comedy of manners. In the Nick Hern Books Drama Classics series.

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The Gatekeeper

The Gatekeeper

By Chloë Moss

A darkly comic play about the disintegration of a family get-together.

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The Gift

The Gift

By Janice Okoh

An outrageous play about imperialism, cross-racial adoption, cultural appropriation... and tea.

The Ginger Ale Boy

The Ginger Ale Boy

By Enda Walsh

Walsh's very first, previously unpublished play, is a Cork cabaret about a ventriloquist who loses control.

The Girl's Guide to Saving the World

The Girl's Guide to Saving the World

By Elinor Cook

A frank and funny new play about friendship, feminism and what it means to be successful.

The Gist of It

The Gist of It

By Rodney Lee

A fast and furious drama of misunderstandings, about three people who desperately want to be loved.

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Gloria

Gloria

By Branden Jacobs-Jenkins

A razor-sharp comic drama about ambition, office warfare and hierarchies, where the only thing that matters is selling out to the highest bidder.

Goats

Goats

By Liwaa Yazji Translated by Katharine Halls

A play about the impact of war on a small town in Syria, by a leading Syrian playwright and documentary film-maker.

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The God of Soho

The God of Soho

By Chris Hannan

A hectic and hilarious morality tale for the modern world.

God's Dice

God's Dice

By David Baddiel

Science and religion go head to head in this electric tragicomedy: a ferociously funny battle for power, fame and followers.

Godchild

Godchild

By Deborah Bruce

A sharp, dark comedy that explores the inescapable difference between feeling 19 and being 19.

A Good House

A Good House

By Amy Jephta

A funny, thrilling and provocative play exploring race, resentment and community politics, from a leading South African playwright.

The Good Life

The Good Life

By Jeremy Sams Original author John Esmonde and Bob Larbey

A witty reimagining of a television classic for the stage, with a wellyful of laughs that's sure to delight audiences everywhere.

Good Things

Good Things

By Liz Lochhead

A bittersweet romantic comedy about finding love later in life, from 'Scotland's greatest living dramatist' Scotland on Sunday.

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The Government Inspector

The Government Inspector

By Nikolai Gogol Translated by Stephen Mulrine

A classic satire of provincial bureaucracy, in an English translation by Stephen Mulrine. In the Nick Hern Books Drama Classics series.

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Grace

Grace

By Doug Lucie

A far-reaching, comic portrait of the effects of hypocrisy and corporate greed on the values of late-twentieth-century England.

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The Grand Old Opera House Hotel

The Grand Old Opera House Hotel

By Isobel McArthur

An uplifting ensemble comedy set to some of the most popular opera songs ever written. Premiered at the Traverse Theatre, Edinburgh, and Dundee Rep.

The Guid Sisters

The Guid Sisters

By Michel Tremblay Translated by Bill Findlay and Martin Bowman

Germaine Lauzon has won a million Green Shield stamps. She invites her female friends and relations to a party to paste the stamps into the books. The temptation to pilfer the stamps is irresistible and an enormous fight breaks out.

Published in volume The Guid Sisters and other plays
    Habibti Driver

    Habibti Driver

    By Shamia Chalabi and Sarah Henley

    A heartwarming and hilarious play exploring the clashes, compromises and comedy that come with living in a mixed-culture family in today's Britain.

    Hamish

    Hamish

    By Jack Thorne

    A short monologue play exploring the challenges facing a young wheelchair user, commissioned by the BBC as part of CripTales, a television series marking the twenty-fifth anniversary of the UK's Disability Discrimination Act.

    Published in volume CripTales: Six Monologues
      Hand in Hand

      Hand in Hand

      By Simon Block

      A fierce and funny play from the author of Not a Game for Boys.

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      Handbagged

      Handbagged

      By Moira Buffini

      The hit play about Queen Elizabeth, Margaret Thatcher, handbags, hairspray and sensible shoes.

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      Handbagged

      Handbagged (one-act version)

      By Moira Buffini

      A short play about the working relationship between Mrs Thatcher and the Queen.

      Happy Meal

      Happy Meal

      By Tabby Lamb

      A joyful trans rom-com for the stage, following two initial strangers on their journeys from teen to adult; from MySpace to TikTok; from cis to trans...