Great Plays for Festivals

A joyous, gender-flipped retelling of Edmond Rostand's classic play, first performed by Melbourne Theatre Company, and a hit at the 2024 Edinburgh Festival Fringe before transferring to Park Theatre, London.

A darkly surreal and richly comic short play about a deeply unusual mother and son relationship.

A fantastical, theatrical adventure through the underground world of street art and the hidden patterns in our universe. Premiered on UK tour by Theatre Centre and Sheffield Theatres in 2024.

The Domino Effect is an ensemble play for teenage performers created by award-winning playwright Fin Kennedy.

An ensemble play for teenage performers created by award-winning playwright Fin Kennedy.

An intoxicating and mystical play about love, belonging and the tides within us, premiered by Pentabus and ThickSkin on a tour of the UK.

A theatrical love letter to the schools of the 1990s, asking big questions about a country in special measures, exploring what we are taught and why, and where responsibility lies. Full of inventive theatricality and irreverent humour.

Eight compelling monologues offering a state-of-the-nation group portrait for the stage.

A one-man play about disaster capitalism, empire, Thatcherite politics, stolen youth, stolen wealth and a working-class boy who just wants his dad to smile at him. First performed by the celebrated political comedian Mark Thomas in Paines Plough's Roundabout during the 2023 Edinburgh Festival Fringe.

A play about memory, happiness, Rasputin, and dancing. And also the Queen. Premiered by MALAPROP Theatre at the Dublin Fringe Festival in 2017.

A warm and witty one-person play exploring grief, the strings attached to success, and what it means to 'fail'. Premiered at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe in 2024.

A five-star hit at the Edinburgh Fringe, Fanboy is a love-hate letter to pop culture and nostalgia, about a thirty-something, self-confessed nerd obsessed with Star Wars and Nintendo.

A dark and biting one-man, a huge hit at Edinburgh in 2022 and the Bush Theatre, London, in 2023, starring Samuel Barnett.

A devised play exploring the experience of sleeplessness and its impact on people's lives.

A startling play about satirist ABC Merriman-Labor, the greatest Black Briton ever to have been forgotten.

A vivid and fast-paced ride through a working-class London estate, fusing Shakespeare-inspired lyricism with Cockney accents.

A darkly comic, spell-binding dystopian drama, winner of the 2011 Papatango New Writing Prize.

A punchy and provocative new play by the Bruntwood Prize-winning author of Yen.

An outrageous play about imperialism, cross-racial adoption, cultural appropriation... and tea.

A disturbing but compassionate vision of our potential digital future, and what it might mean for 'life' as we know it.

An urgent and explosive play that explores of the pressures on young people today in the wake of advancing technology.

A monologue play about a petty criminal who is punished by his conscience when he becomes involved in a bungled kidnap.

The hit play about deception, witchcraft and football, winner of a Fringe First at the 2023 Edinburgh Fringe, then at the Royal Court Theatre, London.

A short play about the working relationship between Mrs Thatcher and the Queen.