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Shook

Shook

By Samuel Bailey

A tender and honest play examining the young men society shuts away. Winner of the 2019 Papatango New Writing Prize.

The Shoemakers' Holiday

The Shoemakers' Holiday

By Thomas Dekker

A rumbustious Elizabethan comedy featuring identity fraud, love triangles and a marriage proposal disguised as a shoe fitting. In the Nick Hern Books Drama Classics series.

The Shipment

The Shipment

By Young Jean Lee

The Shipment is a provocative look at African-American identity in today's not-quite post-racial society.

Published in volume The Shipment and Lear: two plays
    Shining Souls

    Shining Souls

    By Chris Hannan

    A riotously funny comedy with a gallery of unforgettable characters, published here in a revised version alongside its revival at the Tron Theatre, Glasgow, in 2003.

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    Shining City

    Shining City

    By Conor McPherson

    A brilliant, haunting play from the multi-award-winning author of The Weir.

    Shimmer

    Shimmer

    By Linda McLean

    Surrounded by rain, rivers, lochs and floods, three generations of memory and experience ebb and flow through this lyrical play.

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    Shifters

    Shifters

    By Benedict Lombe

    A fierce, funny and intoxicating play about the enduring power – and fragility – of memory and love. Premiered at the Bush Theatre, London, in 2024.

    Shibboleth

    Shibboleth

    By Stacey Gregg

    An exhilarating and unsentimental exploration of working-class life in Belfast.

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    Shed: Exploded View

    Shed: Exploded View

    By Phoebe Eclair-Powell

    A devastating play about violence, love and loss. Winner of the Bruntwood Prize for Playwriting.

    The Shed

    The Shed

    By Matilda Ibini

    A short monologue play exploring the power that a carer can exert over a wheelchair user's life, 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
      The Shape of the Table

      The Shape of the Table

      By David Edgar

      An urgent political play about the collapse of an Eastern Bloc government at the end of 1989. Part of David Edgar's post-Cold War trilogy of plays.

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      Shangri-La

      Shangri-La

      By Amy Ng

      A debut play laying bare the contradictions and private pain of cultural tourism.

      Shakespeare's Will

      Shakespeare's Will

      By Vern Thiessen

      Vern Thiessen, winner of the Governor General's Award for his play Einstein's Gift, gives a voice to one of the most silent characters in history: Anne Hathaway, the wife of William Shakespeare.

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      The Shadow Factory

      The Shadow Factory

      By Howard Brenton

      Autumn 1940. The Battle of Britain rages. From the ashes of a devastated Southampton, a story of chaos, courage and community spirit emerges.

      The Sexual Neuroses of Our Parents

      The Sexual Neuroses of Our Parents

      By Lukas Bärfuss Translated by Neil Blackadder

      The provocative story of a modern family consumed by fear and hope, by the Swiss-born Lukas Bärfuss, a rising star of contemporary German theatre.

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      Sex with Robots and Other Devices

      Sex with Robots and Other Devices

      By Nessah Muthy

      A fearless examination of the future of sex, and a fascinating vision of where humanity could be heading next.

      Sex with a Stranger

      Sex with a Stranger

      By Stefan Golaszewski

      Bleak, funny and excruciatingly accurate, Sex with a Stranger examines what it is to be in your twenties, lonely, hollow and uncertain.

      Sex & God

      Sex & God

      By Linda McLean

      Four women from different moments in the twentieth century talk across time in Linda McLean's extraordinary play about faith, lust and family.

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