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Jumpers for Goalposts

Jumpers for Goalposts

By Tom Wells

A hilarious and heart-warming comedy about football, friendship and finding your way.

The Jungle Book

The Jungle Book (Birmingham Stage Company version)

By Rudyard Kipling Adapted by Stuart Paterson

Rudyard Kipling's classic jungle tales, in an acclaimed stage adaptation by Stuart Paterson.

Junkyard

Junkyard

By Jack Thorne

A brilliantly honest and witty coming-of-age drama, with music by Stephen Warbeck.

Just the Three of Us

Just the Three of Us

By Simon Gray

A stylish mix of the comic and the macabre, exploring ideas about love, both platonic and romantic.

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Kabul Goes Pop: Music Television Afghanistan

Kabul Goes Pop: Music Television Afghanistan

By Waleed Akhtar

A play inspired by the true story of Afghanistan's first youth music programme, exploring a world following the US invasion that is complex, contradictory and shocking – all to a soundtrack of early noughties' pop.

Kanye the First

Kanye the First

By Sam Steiner

A dazzlingly funny and original drama about identity, guilt, contemporary culture and the second coming of Kanye West.

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katzenmusik

katzenmusik

By Tom Fowler

A darkly comic story about social inequality and upheaval, told in reverse. In the Multiplay Drama series.

Kensuke's Kingdom

Kensuke's Kingdom (stage version)

By Michael Morpurgo Adapted by Stuart Paterson

The story of a young boy's fantastic adventure after being washed up on a Pacific island.

Kes

Kes (stage version)

By Barry Hines Adapted by Lawrence Till

A tried-and-tested stage adaptation of Barry Hines' novel A Kestrel for a Knave, about a troubled young boy who finds and trains a kestrel.

Killer Joe

Killer Joe

By Tracy Letts

A tense thriller that asks where the moral line is drawn in the fight for survival.

Kindertransport

Kindertransport

By Diane Samuels

A modern classic about one woman's struggle to come to terms with her past - brutally separated from her German Jewish parents at the age of 9 and brought to England with the promise of a new life...

King Charles III

King Charles III

By Mike Bartlett

Mike Bartlett's 'future history play' explores the people beneath the crowns, the unwritten rules of our democracy, and the conscience of Britain's most famous family.

King of the Fields

King of the Fields

By Stuart Paterson

A play set in Ayrshire after the First World War, with touches of Ibsen - from the acclaimed Scottish playwright.

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King Troll (The Fawn)

King Troll (The Fawn)

By Sonali Bhattacharyya

A dystopian stage play exploring migrant experiences in all their complexity – and the troll that lives within all of us. Premiered by Kali Theatre at New Diorama Theatre, London, in 2024.

King Ubu

King Ubu

By Alfred Jarry

Alfred Jarry's surreal and hilarious satire of power, greed, and bourgeois pretension, the first of his three plays about the comically grotesque character of Pa Ubu.

Published in volume Ubu
    The Kiss

    The Kiss

    By Zoe Cooper

    A tender, funny and beautifully observed study of lives in limbo, and a glimmer of hope for what lies ahead. First performed as part of the Orange Tree Theatre's Inside/Outside season.

    Published in volume Inside/Outside
      Kiss Me Quickstep

      Kiss Me Quickstep

      By Amanda Whittington

      Dazzling and sequin-studded, Kiss Me Quickstep is a play about the world of ballroom dance, taking us behind the fixed smiles and fake tan to look at the real lives of those for whom ballroom dancing is everything

      Kitchen

      Kitchen

      By Enda Walsh

      A short play from the author of Disco Pigs and The Walworth Farce.

      Published in volume Arlington
        The Kitchen Sink

        The Kitchen Sink

        By Tom Wells

        An irresistibly funny and tender play about big dreams and small changes.

        The Knot of the Heart

        The Knot of the Heart

        By David Eldridge

        A grippingly insightful play about a young woman whose social drug habit has got disastrously out of control.

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        La Ronde

        La Ronde

        By Arthur Schnitzler Translated by Stephen Unwin and Peter Zombory-Moldovan

        Schnitzler's famous 'daisy-chain' play of sexual coupling, set in Vienna in the 1890s. In the Drama Classics series.

        Ladies Unleashed

        Ladies Unleashed

        By Amanda Whittington

        A moving comedy for the stage, about friendship, growing older and living for today, reuniting the characters from the smash-hit plays Ladies' Day and Ladies Down Under.

        Lady Dealer

        Lady Dealer

        By Martha Watson Allpress

        A mile-a-minute, one-person poem play about a young female drug dealer, exploring forgiveness, the exhaustion of trying, and mistaking self-destruction for self-preservation. Premiered at the 2023 Edinburgh Fringe Festival.

        The Lady From the Sea

        The Lady From the Sea

        By Henrik Ibsen Translated by Kenneth McLeish

        One of Ibsen's most powerful studies of female psychology, in the Nick Hern Books Drama Classics series.