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Glee & Me

Glee & Me

By Stuart Slade

A touching drama about a teenage girl diagnosed with a brain tumour, an unexpectedly optimistic portrayal of love and the extraordinary resilience of the human spirit.

The Lodger

The Lodger

By Robert Holman

An enlightening, cathartic and acerbic new play about identity, maturity and reconciliation.

Burgerz

Burgerz

By Travis Alabanza

A timely, unsettling and powerful play from one of the UK's most prominent trans voices.

 

Published in volume Contemporary Plays by Black British Writers
    40 Days

    40 Days

    By Firdos Ali

    A play exploring the impact of state violence on Black and brown children.

    Published in volume Contemporary Plays by Black British Writers
      Rockets and Blue Lights

      Rockets and Blue Lights

      By Winsome Pinnock

      The Alfred Fagon Award-winning play that retells British history through the prism of the slave trade.

      Once Upon A Time in Nazi Occupied Tunisia

      Once Upon A Time in Nazi Occupied Tunisia

      By Josh Azouz

      A brutally comic play about home and identity, marriage and survival, blood and feathers.

      2:22 – A Ghost Story

      2:22 – A Ghost Story

      By Danny Robins

      A spine-chilling, funny and scary play from the award-winning writer and broadcaster behind the hit BBC podcast The Battersea Poltergeist.

      Big Big Sky

      Big Big Sky

      By Tom Wells

      A beautifully tender new play that explores nature's influence on love, friendship and family – the belief that anyone who's lost can be found, even in the remotest of places.

      Black Love

      Black Love

      By Chinonyerem Odimba

      An explosion of form-busting storytelling, combining real-life stories, imagined worlds, and new songs inspired by an R&B heritage.

      Hungry

      Hungry

      By Chris Bush

      A play about food, love, class and grief in a world where there's little left to savour.

      Lava

      Lava

      By Benedict Lombe

      One woman's journey into her own past becomes inextricably linked with the tides of global history in this wickedly funny, strikingly lyrical and explosive debut play. Winner of the 2022 Susan Smith Blackburn Prize.

      ...cake

      ...cake

      By babirye bukilwa

      A psychological drama that asks if the cycle of generational trauma can ever be broken. Can queer, Black femmes find love and belonging when the soil beneath them – and the climate around them – is hostile?

      Bach & Sons

      Bach & Sons

      By Nina Raine

      A beautiful, profound and funny play about Johann Sebastian Bach, the irascible and turbulent composer, and his family business.

      Bloody Elle

      Bloody Elle

      By Lauryn Redding

      A heart-warming and belly-achingly funny story about falling in love for the very first time.

      Raya

      Raya

      By Deborah Bruce

      A witty and tender play about two old flames who meet again, after thirty years, at a student reunion.

      My Son's a Queer (But What Can You Do?)

      My Son's a Queer (But What Can You Do?)

      By Rob Madge

      A joyous, chaotic, autobiographical play telling the story of actor, writer and social-media sensation Rob Madge as they set out to recreate a Disney parade they performed as a twelve-year-old for their Grandma.

      Harm

      Harm

      By Phoebe Eclair-Powell

      A thrilling and razor-sharp twisted comedy on the corrosive effects of social media and isolation.

      Guidesky and I

      Guidesky and I

      By Deborah Bruce

      A funny and poignant drama about loneliness and the opportunity for connection, first performed as part of the Orange Tree Theatre's Inside/Outside season.

      Published in volume Inside/Outside
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