LGBTQ+ writing and stories
The following plays on our list contain LGBTQ+ characters and/or themes.
Fat Ham
Winner of the 2022 Pulitzer Prize for Drama, James Ijames' play reinvents Shakespeare's Hamlet in startling and hilarious ways amidst the backdrop of a family barbecue in the American South.
- Paperback£22.99
Feeling Afraid As If Something Terrible Is Going To Happen
A dark and biting one-man, a huge hit at Edinburgh in 2022 and the Bush Theatre, London, in 2023, starring Samuel Barnett.
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£10.99£8.79Add to basketEbook£10.99£8.79First Time
A hilarious and heartbreaking true story that smashes through the stigma and shame of HIV, to present an uplifting and inspirational guide to staying positive in a negative world.
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£13.99£11.19Add to basketEbook£13.99£11.19Five Lesbian Brothers: Four Plays
New York-based Theatre troupe Five Lesbian Brothers explore themes of homophobia and sexism with devastating humour and the occasional song. They have been committed to creating provocative lesbian theatre with positively no whining since their inception in 1989.
- Paperback£15.99There is limited availability of this title. Please enquire before placing your order.
Five Years with the White Man
By Eloka Obi and Saul BoyerA startling play about satirist ABC Merriman-Labor, the greatest Black Briton ever to have been forgotten.
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£4.99£3.99
The Flea
By James FritzA riotous play about the Cleveland Street Scandal of 1889. Premiered at The Yard, London, in October 2023.
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£10.99£8.79There is limited availability of this title. Please enquire before placing your order.Ebook£10.99£8.79Foam
A gripping play that examines the nature of identity and the consequences of right-wing extremist ideology against the backdrop of London's skinhead and gay scenes of the 1970s and 1980s.
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£10.99£8.79Add to basketEbook£10.99£8.79Folk
By Tom WellsSurprising and poignant, Folk is a hilarious and not-so-holy story of hope, coming together and finding your feet when your world is turned upside down.
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By Jake BrungerA comic play about sex and commitment in the 21st century.
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£12.99£10.39Add to basketEbook£12.99£10.39The Funeral Director
By Iman QureshiAn incisive and heartfelt play about sexuality, gender and religion in twenty-first-century Britain. Winner of the 2018 Papatango New Writing Prize.
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£12.99£10.39Add to basketEbook£12.99£10.39Futureproof
By Lynda RadleyA magical and deeply compassionate play about identity and the capacities of the human spirit.
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£10.99£8.79
The Gay Heritage Project
An important piece of contemporary queer theatre, from three of Canada's most gifted performers.
- Paperback£28.99There is limited availability of this title. Please enquire before placing your order.
The Giant
By Antony SherA powerful, witty and moving play exploring the dark interplay between sexuality and creativity.
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God of Vengeance
Adapted from Sholom Asch's classic morality tale - a work of spellbinding power from the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Dinner With Friends.
- Paperback£17.99
Grotty & Brute: Two Plays
Two unflinching plays from exciting new writer and performer, Izzy Tennyson.
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£13.99£11.19Add to basketEbook£13.99£11.19Happy Meal
By Tabby LambA joyful trans rom-com for the stage, following two initial strangers on their journeys from teen to adult; from MySpace to TikTok; from cis to trans...
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£10.99£8.79Add to basketEbook£10.99£8.79A Hard Rain
By Jon Bradfield and Martin HooperA play about what happens when you push things underground, set in New York 1969 in the sweltering few days before the eruption of the Stonewall riots.
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£9.99£7.99Add to basketEbook£9.99£7.99HEART
By Jade AnoukaA raw and honest exploration of love, loss, and self-discovery. The debut play by acclaimed actor Jade Anouka.
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£10.99£8.79Add to basketEbook£10.99£8.79Holding the Man (stage version)
By Tommy Murphy Original author Timothy ConigraveThe remarkable true-life love story, adapted from Timothy Conigrave's memoir of growing up gay in 1970s Melbourne.
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A raw and provocative portrait of a love story, exploding attitudes, emotions and prejudices that sit at the heart of relationships across the world.
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£10.99£8.79Add to basketEbook£10.99£8.79HOTHOUSE
By Carys D. Coburn With MALAPROP TheatreA play that tackles climate breakdown with big ideas, a lot of laughs, and some truly grotesque cabaret numbers.
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£6.99£5.59
How We Begin
A tender exploration of love, queerness and identity, staged at VAULT Festival, London, 2023.
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£4.99£3.99
Hungry
By Chris BushA play about food, love, class and grief in a world where there's little left to savour.
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