One Fine Day
A play about the gulf that separates Britain and Black Africa.
The Emperor Jones
An expressionistic chronicle of a black dictator's flight from his oppressed subjects.
trade
A short play dealing with the controversial topic of female sex tourism.
generations
A 30-minute drama about three generations of a black South African family who contest their relative culinary skills. But food isn't the only topic and the family numbers are declining...
All God's Chillun Got Wings
An expressionist play about a violently dysfunctional mixed-race marriage, inspired by an old Negro spiritual.
Fabulation
In Fabulation, playwright Lynn Nottage reimagines Esther (the character from her companion play, Intimate Apparel) as Undine, the public relations diva of today, who spirals downward from her swanky Manhattan office to her roots back in Brooklyn.
The Shipment
The Shipment is a provocative look at African-American identity in today's not-quite post-racial society.
The Hospital at the Time of the Revolution
A forensic insight into the adjustment of morality for the sake of conscience.
House
A play about family, culture clash, memory and truth, commissioned by acclaimed theatre company Clean Break.
Burgerz
A timely, unsettling and powerful play from one of the UK's most prominent trans voices.
40 Days
A play exploring the impact of state violence on Black and brown children.
Some Of Us Exist In The Future
An utterly original, wryly funny play about one woman's search for a place to belong in a world that's not all it seems. Joint winner of the 2021 Papatango New Writing Prize.
Ghost Stories from an Old Country
A riveting and poignant exploration of the ties that bind us, threaded through with captivating fables. Joint winner of the 2021 Papatango New Writing Prize.
Two Billion Beats (short play version)
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.
Prodigal
A short play about community, identity and the enduring strength of family ties. First performed as part of the Orange Tree Theatre's Inside/Outside season.
Isolated But Open
Voices from Across The Shutdown
Twelve new monologues written in response to the coronavirus outbreak in 2020 as part of Papatango's scheme to inspire creativity and share brilliant new stories.
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Come Out Eli
A verbatim play telling the story of the 2002 Hackney siege, as told by the diverse and vibrant community that experienced it.
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