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Yellow Face

Yellow Face

By David Henry Hwang

A mock documentary that puts Hwang himself centre-stage as he uses the controversy over colour-blind casting for Miss Saigon and the racially motivated federal investigation of his own father to explore Asian identity and the ever-changing definition of what it is to be an American.

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World Music

World Music

By Steve Waters

A subtle and topical play about European attitudes to Africa.

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The Witness

The Witness

By Vivienne Franzmann

A dark and piercing thriller of modern morals from the Bruntwood Prize-winning author of Mogadishu.

Wild Notes

Wild Notes

By Deirdre Kinahan

A play exploring the impact of colonialism through a meeting between Frederick Douglass, the escaped slave and abolitionist who visited Ireland in the 1840s, and a young Irishwoman hoping to emigrate to the country he's running from.

When This Is Over

When This Is Over

A Blueprint for Creating Your Own Production, and the Original Playscript

By Ned Glasier, Sadeysa Greenaway-Bailey and Company Three

A theatrical celebration of hope, possibility and imagination, designed to be created and performed by teenage casts, drawing directly on their own life experiences and the stories they want to tell. Winner, Outstanding Drama Initiative at the Music and Drama Education Awards.

When the Crows Visit

When the Crows Visit

By Anupama Chandrasekhar

A dark and thrilling play inspired by true events in modern-day India, exploring the themes of Ibsen's Ghosts and the cyclical nature of oppression.

What Shadows

What Shadows

By Chris Hannan

A searing look at identity and immigration within a bitterly divided country.

The Village

The Village

By Abi Falase and Tatenda Shamiso

A punchy and provocative story about democracy, power, and how we can try to build a better world. In the Nick Hern Books Multiplay Drama series featuring large-cast plays specifically written to be performed by and appeal to young people.

Venus

Venus

By Suzan-Lori Parks

A bold exploration of colonisation and objectification, based on the true story of the 'Hottentot Venus'.

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The Urban Girl's Guide to Camping

The Urban Girl's Guide to Camping

By Fin Kennedy

A bittersweet comedy about life, love and friendship once school is long gone.

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untitled f*ck m*ss s**gon play

By Kimber Lee

A powerful, hilarious play exploding lifetimes of repeating Asian stereotypes, winner of the International Award for the Bruntwood Prize for Playwriting in 2019. Published alongside its staging at the Manchester International Festival 2023.

The Unravelling

The Unravelling

By Fin Kennedy

A Fringe First Award-winning fable about the power of mythology to change your life.

Unknown Rivers

Unknown Rivers

By Chinonyerem Odimba

A poignant and life-affirming play about the extraordinary powers of female friendship.

Two Trains Running

Two Trains Running

By August Wilson

A play set in a small restaurant in the Pittsburgh Hill District in 1969. Part of August Wilson's Century Cycle, his epic dramatisation of the African American experience in the twentieth century.

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two Palestinians go dogging

two Palestinians go dogging

By Sami Ibrahim

A comedy that explores how the everyday becomes political and the political becomes everyday in a conflict zone.

Two Billion Beats (short play version)

Two Billion Beats (short play version)

By Sonali Bhattacharyya

A short play about the unfairness of growing up in a world where you don't make the rules. First performed as part of Inside/Outside, a season of short plays staged at the Orange Tree Theatre, Richmond.

Published in volume Inside/Outside
    Two Billion Beats

    Two Billion Beats

    By Sonali Bhattacharyya

    An insightful, heartfelt coming-of-age story and a blazing account of inner-city, British-Asian teenage life.

    truth and reconciliation

    truth and reconciliation

    By debbie tucker green

    A play about the aftermath of violence, in conflicts around the world from Rwanda to Northern Ireland, and from Zimbabwe to Bosnia.

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