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Backstairs Billy

Backstairs Billy

By Marcelo Dos Santos

An irreverent comedy about the fifty-year relationship between the Queen Mother and her most loyal, most outrageous servant. Premiered in the West End in 2023.

Backstroke

Backstroke

By Anna Mackmin

A kaleidoscopic and compassionate play about a mother and daughter. Premiered at the Donmar Warehouse, London, in 2025, starring Celia Imrie and Tamsin Greig.

Bacon

Bacon

By Sophie Swithinbank

An unflinching and unexpectedly humorous play about masculinity, sexuality and power, through the dizzying lens of youth.

Bad Girls

Bad Girls (stage version)

By Jacqueline Wilson Adapted by Vicky Ireland

An energetic, fast-moving adaptation for the stage of this modern children's classic, by the best-selling author and 2005 Children's Laureate.

Bad Roads

Bad Roads

By Natal'ya Vorozhbit Translated by Sasha Dugdale

A heartbreaking, powerful and bitterly comic account of what it is to be a woman in wartime.

Bad Weather

Bad Weather

By Robert Holman

A play about freedom, guilt and the possibility of redemption, premiered by the Royal Shakespeare Company.

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The Ballad of Crazy Paola

The Ballad of Crazy Paola

By Arne Sierens Adapted by Stephen Greenhorn

A poignant two-hander about memory, truth and love.

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The Ballad of Maria Marten

The Ballad of Maria Marten

By Beth Flintoff

A thrilling play based on the nineteenth-century Red Barn Murder in Suffolk, rediscovering the lost story of the murder victim, Maria Marten.

Ballad of Yachiyo

Ballad of Yachiyo

By Philip Kan Gotanda

A dramatic tale of a young Japanese girl's sexual awakening, and ultimate social downfall, in Hawaii's harsh sugar-cane plantation system of the early twentieth century.

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Ballyturk

Ballyturk

By Enda Walsh

A gut-wrenchingly funny, achingly sad play featuring jaw-dropping moments of physical comedy.

Banana Boys

Banana Boys

By Evan Placey

A play about the challenges of being on the school football team – and secretly gay.

Bang Bang Bang

Bang Bang Bang

By Stella Feehily

A revealing play that goes behind the public face of charities, journalists and NGOs.

Bangers

Bangers

By Danusia Samal

A gig-theatre play featuring original music inspired by early noughties and present-day R&B and Garage.

Bartholomew Fair

Bartholomew Fair

By Ben Jonson

Ben Jonson's bawdy Jacobean comedy, in the Nick Hern Books Drama Classics series.

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Battlefield

Battlefield

By Peter Brook and Marie-Hélène Estienne

The internationally renowned team of Peter Brook, Marie-Hélène Estienne and Jean-Claude Carrière revisit the great Indian epic The Mahabharata, thirty years after Brook’s legendary production took world theatre by storm.

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Bazaar

Bazaar

By David Planell Translated by John Clifford

A play by young Spanish dramatist David Planell, about the hilarious attempt to get an accident video shown on TV, releasing undercurrents of racism in society.

Be My Baby

Be My Baby

By Amanda Whittington

A poignant drama about attitudes to teenage pregnancy in 1960s Britain.

Beached

Beached

By Melissa Bubnic

A darkly funny comedy about modern freak shows, love and cream buns. Loads of cream buns.

The Beacon

The Beacon

By Nancy Harris

A drama about a Dublin artist haunted by a mysterious accident in her past.

Beauty and the Beast

Beauty and the Beast (National Theatre stage version)

By Lucy Kirkwood and Katie Mitchell

Lucy Kirkwood's delightful version of the classic fairytale, first seen in a production devised and directed by Katie Mitchell at the National Theatre for Christmas 2010.

Beauty and the Beast

Beauty and the Beast (Lyceum Theatre stage version)

By Stuart Paterson

A brilliant version of the classic tale, from a playwright acclaimed as 'the master of children's theatre' (Scotsman).

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Beauty and the Beast

Beauty and the Beast

By Laurence Boswell

A magical re-telling of the story of Beauty and the Beast, first performed by the Royal Shakespeare Company.

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The Beaux Stratagem

The Beaux Stratagem

By George Farquhar

George Farquhar's immortal comedy about two young gentlemen with a misguided plan to get enrich themselves at the expense of a series of young heiresses.

A Bed of Roses

A Bed of Roses

By Mike Bradwell

An acerbic and funny play about middle-class hypocrisy and universal apathy.

Published in volume Inventing the Truth: Devising and Directing for the Theatre