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The Lioness

The Lioness

By Rebecca Lenkiewicz

A short play about Elizabeth I: the myth and the reality.

Little Dolls

Little Dolls

By Nancy Harris

A short play about a woman seeking help from a therapist to overcome a traumatic episode in her past.

Little Gem

Little Gem

By Elaine Murphy

A poignant and hilarious play about love, sex, birth, death and salsa classes, following three generations of women over one extraordinary year.

Little Wars

Little Wars

By Steven Carl McCasland

Set in the French Alps in 1940, this thrilling play – based on truth – is an enthralling, entertaining and ultimately moving portrait of seven exceptional women.

Little Women

Little Women (stage version)

By Louisa May Alcott Adapted by Anne-Marie Casey

A joyful and spirited adaptation of one of the best-loved novels of all time.

Lizzie Siddal

Lizzie Siddal

By Jeremy Green

A gripping historical drama charting one woman's dazzling trajectory from model to lover to artist, to a tragic figure in her own right.

The Lodger

The Lodger

By Robert Holman

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

The Lost Art of Keeping a Secret

The Lost Art of Keeping a Secret

By Catherine Johnson

The alternating stories of two women (played by the same actress), both of whom 'lose' their sons - one murdered, the other a runaway.

Published in volume Singular Female Voices
    Love and Information

    Love and Information

    By Caryl Churchill

    From one of the UK's most influential playwrights - a fast moving kaleidoscope in which more than a hundred characters try to make sense of what they know.

    Love, Love, Love

    Love, Love, Love

    By Mike Bartlett

    Are baby boomers to blame for the fact that their children's generation is debt-ridden and adrift? Love, Love, Love takes on the baby boomer generation as it retires, and finds it full of trouble.

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    Low Level Panic

    Low Level Panic

    By Clare McIntyre

    A funny, unapologetic play about the effects of society's objectification of women.

    Loyal Women

    Loyal Women

    By Gary Mitchell

    A gripping and explosive drama from the multi-award winning playwright.

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    Lulu

    Lulu

    By Frank Wedekind Adapted by Nicholas Wright

    The first version of Wedekind's celebrated erotic masterpiece to be based on the author's original text, restoring the clarity, the daring and the sexual explicitness of a modern masterpiece written a hundred years before its time.

    Lysistrata

    Lysistrata

    By Aristophanes Translated by Patric Dickinson

    The ancient Greek comedy in which the women of Greece go on a sex strike to force their husbands to end the Peloponnesian Wars. In the Nick Hern Books Drama Classics series.

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    Machinal

    Machinal

    By Sophie Treadwell

    A powerful expressionist drama from the 1920s about the dependent status of women in an increasingly mechanised society, based on the true story of Ruth Snyder.

    Machinal

    Machinal (2018 edition)

    By Sophie Treadwell

    A powerful expressionist drama from the 1920s about the dependent status of women in an increasingly mechanised society, based on the true story of Ruth Snyder.

    Madame Bovary: Breakfast with Emma

    Madame Bovary: Breakfast with Emma

    By Gustave Flaubert Adapted by Fay Weldon

    Flaubert's masterpiece about an infidelity with tragic consequences, dramatised for Shared Experience by the acclaimed novelist.

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    The Maiden Stone

    The Maiden Stone

    By Rona Munro

    A wild and fantastical tale about a group of women struggling to get by in the harsh world of north-east Scotland in the early nineteenth century.

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    Making Noise Quietly (short play)

    Making Noise Quietly (short play)

    By Robert Holman

    The third in Robert Holman's acclaimed trilogy of short plays, also called Making Noise Quietly.

    Published in volume Making Noise Quietly: three short plays
      Making Noise Quietly: three short plays

      Making Noise Quietly: three short plays

      By Robert Holman

      An acclaimed trilogy of plays exploring the impact of war on ordinary lives.

      The Maladies

      The Maladies

      By Carmen Nasr

      A powerful, provocative play exploring psychogenic illness amongst groups of women throughout history, premiered by the Almeida Young Company.

      Mary and the Hyenas

      Mary and the Hyenas

      By Maureen Lennon

      An electrifying stage play telling the story of feminist icon Mary Wollstonecraft. Premiered by Hull Truck Theatre and Pilot Theatre in 2025.

      Mary Barton

      Mary Barton (stage version)

      By Elizabeth Gaskell Adapted by Rona Munro

      Elizabeth Gaskell's panoramic novel of Victorian England, adapted for the stage by the author of Iron and The James Plays.

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      Mary Queen of Scots Got Her Head Chopped Off

      Mary Queen of Scots Got Her Head Chopped Off

      By Liz Lochhead

      A modern classic about the bitter rivalry between Mary, Queen of Scots, and her cousin and fellow ruler, Elizabeth I of England - retold by Scotland's most popular playwright.