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Precious Little Talent

Precious Little Talent

By Ella Hickson

A touching and funny play about 20-somethings graduating into a world that's sold them down the river.

The President of an Empty Room

The President of an Empty Room

By Steven Knight

Voodoo, heroin and tobacco in a Cuban cigar factory, from the award-winning screenwriter of Dirty Pretty Things.

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The President's Holiday

The President's Holiday

By Penny Gold

Part political thriller and part personal drama, The President's Holiday is a gripping and deeply moving play about Gorbachev's final hours as President of the USSR.

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Pressure

Pressure

By David Haig

An intense real-life thriller centred around the most important weather forecast in the history of warfare.

Pretend You Have Big Buildings

Pretend You Have Big Buildings

By Ben Musgrave

A tender and funny play about growing up in Romford in the shadow of Canary Wharf, winner of the Bruntwood Prize for Playwriting.

The Price of Everything

The Price of Everything

By Fiona Evans

A tense and gripping drama, loaded with dark humour, about the price we pay for material possessions and the effect it has on those we love.

The Pride

The Pride

By Alexi Kaye Campbell

The powerful debut play from Alexi Kaye Campbell, examining changing attitudes to sexuality.

Pride's Crossing

Pride's Crossing

By Tina Howe

A play about Mabel Tidings Bigelow, who at the age of 26 set the world record for swimming the English Channel.

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Prima Facie

Prima Facie

By Suzie Miller

A brilliant, powerful play for a solo actor, about a young, successful barrister forced to confront the patriarchal power of the law. Winner of Best New Play at the Olivier Awards and WhatsOnStage Awards in 2023.

Prima Facie: Special Edition

Prima Facie: Special Edition

By Suzie Miller

A special edition of the international hit play, featuring the definitive version of the award-winning script, together with colour photos and exclusive additional content.

Primadonna

Primadonna

By Rosie Kellett

A one-woman play that lays bare the world of the celebrity PA as a young first-timer navigates impossible tasks, difficult conversations and fearsome passive aggression.

Primary Trust

Primary Trust

By Eboni Booth

A deeply affecting stage play about the careful structures we build to contain oceans of feeling and what happens when those structures begin to crumble. Winner of the 2024 Pulitzer Prize for Drama.

Princess & The Hustler

Princess & The Hustler

By Chinonyerem Odimba

A play about a cheeky 10-year-old with a plan to win the Weston-super-Mare Beauty Contest, against the backdrop of Black British Civil Rights marches in 1960s Bristol.

The Princess and the Goblin

The Princess and the Goblin

By Stuart Paterson

A rich and magical play for all the family, from a master of storytelling.

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Princess Essex

Princess Essex

By Anne Odeke

A riotous, satirical comedy based on the amazing true story of the first woman of colour to enter a beauty pageant in the UK. First performed at Shakespeare's Globe, London, in 2024.

The Prisoner

The Prisoner

By Peter Brook and Marie-Hélène Estienne

A provocative study of what it means to be free, by the internationally acclaimed theatre director and his long-time collaborator.

The Prisoner's Dilemma

The Prisoner's Dilemma

By David Edgar

An urgently topical account of a bloody conflict on Europe's Eastern borders. The third in David Edgar's post-Cold War trilogy.

Prodigal

Prodigal

By Kalungi Ssebandeke

A short play about community, identity and the enduring strength of family ties. First performed as part of the Orange Tree Theatre's Inside/Outside season.

Published in volume Inside/Outside
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    By debbie tucker green

    Three couples. What might be. What once was. What could have been.

    Pronoun

    Pronoun

    By Evan Placey

    A love story about transition, testosterone, and James Dean - commissioned as part of the 2014 National Theatre Connections Festival and premiered by youth theatres across the UK.

    Protection

    Protection

    By Fin Kennedy

    A tough but vulnerable play about our crumbling social fabric - and the people who have to pick up the pieces.

    The Pull of Negative Gravity

    The Pull of Negative Gravity

    By Jonathan Lichtenstein

    Shocking and beautiful, a powerful play about the impact of a soldier's injury in a foreign conflict on his family back home.

    Purgatorio

    Purgatorio

    By Ariel Dorfman

    A powerful and poetic play, with echoes of Jean-Paul Sartre's Huis Clos and Euripides' Medea. From the author of Death and the Maiden.

    Purple Heart

    Purple Heart

    By Bruce Norris

    A deeply moving meditation on love, loss and grief, from the author of Clybourne Park.