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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
    A Shoemaker, A Gentleman

    A Shoemaker, A Gentleman

    By William Rowley

    In this entertainingly far-fetched play, Rowley combines mythical tales of the origin of St Alban's with folklore about the craft of shoemaking to produce a comic history which draws together the foundations of British nationhood.

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    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.

    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.

    Shoot the Crow

    Shoot the Crow

    By Owen McCafferty

    An endearing yet hard-hitting comic portrait of how the need to work gets in the way of living.

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    Shout

    Shout

    By Alexis Zegerman

    A funny, moving drama about anxiety, celebrating difference, and finding your voice as a teenager. Part of the 2024 National Theatre Connections Festival.

    Shush

    Shush

    By Elaine Murphy

    A funny and insightful play about the power of female friendship.

    The Silence and the Noise

    The Silence and the Noise

    By Tom Powell

    A play that beautifully captures the story of two young people on the edge. Joint winner of the 2021 Papatango New Writing Prize.

    Published in volume Papatango Plays
      Singer

      Singer

      By Peter Flannery

      An epic fable of post-war Britain, told with lurid and exhilarating energy.

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      A Single Act

      A Single Act

      By Jane Bodie

      A subtle and menacing play about life after a terrorist outrage.

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      Sink

      Sink

      By John O'Donovan

      A play of two voices for one actor, about memory, catastrophe and sacrifice.

      Six Acts of Love

      Six Acts of Love

      By Ioanna Anderson

      A bittersweet play about the rich complexities of life, love and death.

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      Six Characters in Search of an Author

      Six Characters in Search of an Author

      By Luigi Pirandello Translated by Stephen Mulrine

      Pirandello's most famous play, about the nature of theatre and the problems of theatricality. In the Nick Hern Books Drama Classics series.

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      Six Characters in Search of an Author

      Six Characters in Search of an Author (Headlong version)

      By Luigi Pirandello Adapted by Rupert Goold and Ben Power

      Pirandello's classic play, updated for the twenty-first century by Headlong.

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      The Six-Days World

      The Six-Days World

      By Elizabeth Kuti

      An emotionally involving family play that evokes the poignancy and the poison of the festive season - from the award-winning writer of The Sugar Wife.

      Sixty Five Miles

      Sixty Five Miles

      By Matt Hartley

      A devastating drama about family and the ties that bind us together. Winner of the Under-26 Award at the 2005 Bruntwood Prize for Playwriting.

      The Skriker

      The Skriker

      By Caryl Churchill

      An extraordinary collision of ancient fairytale and fractured urban England.

      Skunk

      Skunk

      By Zawe Ashton

      A surreal, dreamlike and hilarious play exploring the pressures and transformations that happen to teenagers as they grow up. In the Multiplay Drama series.

      Skyscraper Lullaby

      Skyscraper Lullaby

      By James Fritz

      A powerful drama about two parents trying to come to terms with the disappearance of their toddler, written and first performed as an audio drama for Audible Original.

      Slave Ubu

      Slave Ubu

      By Alfred Jarry

      The third and final part of The Ubu Plays, Alfred Jarry's surreal and hilarious satire of power, greed, and bourgeois pretension. Slave Ubu concludes the adventures of Pa Ubu.

      Published in volume Ubu
        The Slaves of Solitude

        The Slaves of Solitude (stage version)

        By Patrick Hamilton Adapted by Nicholas Wright

        A fascinating blend of dark hilarity and melancholy, woven from Patrick Hamilton’s much-loved story about an improbable heroine in wartime Britain.

        Sleep Deprivation Chamber

        Sleep Deprivation Chamber

        By Adam P. Kennedy and Adrienne Kennedy

        A gripping examination of the conflicting realities of the black experience of twentieth-century America.

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        Sleeping Beauty

        Sleeping Beauty (stage version)

        By Rufus Norris

        The classic tale of Sleeping Beauty's curse – as seen through the eyes of the fairy who curses her.

        The Sleeping Beauty

        The Sleeping Beauty (stage version)

        By Stuart Paterson

        A variation on the classic tale of Sleeping Beauty, by the 'master of children's theatre' (Scotsman).

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