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The Real Deal

The Real Deal

By Tom Wentworth

A short monologue play exploring the issue of benefits fraud, commissioned by the BBC as part of CripTales, a television series marking the twenty-fifth anniversary of the UK's Disability Discrimination Act.

Published in volume CripTales: Six Monologues
    Contemporary Monologues for Men: Volume 2

    Contemporary Monologues for Men: Volume 2

    Edited by Trilby James

    Forty fantastic speeches featuring male roles, all written and premiered since the year 2014, by some of today’s most exciting dramatic voices from the UK and USA.

    Contemporary Monologues for Women: Volume 2

    Contemporary Monologues for Women: Volume 2

    Edited by Trilby James

    Forty fantastic speeches featuring female roles, all written and premiered since the year 2014, by some of the most exciting dramatic voices writing today.

    The Writer's Toolkit

    The Writer's Toolkit

    Exercises, Techniques and Ideas for Playwrights and Screenwriters

    By Paul Kalburgi

    Almost two hundred practical exercises, techniques and ideas for every part of your process, designed to equip you with everything required to kickstart your creativity, develop your craft, and make your writing the very best that it can be.

    Noughts & Crosses

    Noughts & Crosses (Pilot Theatre stage version)

    By Sabrina Mahfouz Original author Malorie Blackman

    An award-winning stage adaptation of Malorie Blackman's acclaimed novel, a captivating drama of love, revolution and what it means to grow up in a divided world.

    Three Kings

    Three Kings

    By Stephen Beresford

    A heartbreaking and hilarious play for a solo actor about fathers and sons, the gifts and burdens of inheritance, and the unfathomable puzzle of human relationships. 

    Drama Menu at a Distance

    Drama Menu at a Distance

    80 Socially Distanced or Online Theatre Games

    By Glyn Trefor-Jones

    Created specifically to help anyone teaching drama during the COVID-19 pandemic, this collection features 80 games and exercises, all of which are safe and secure to play in this new era of socially distanced teaching and online learning.

    Audition Songs for Men

    Audition Songs for Men

    Edited by Paul Harvard

    A wide range of fantastic audition songs for men, each accompanied by detailed textual, vocal and musical analysis, and a practical performance guide to ensure you perform it to maximum effect in your own unique way.

    Audition Songs for Women

    Audition Songs for Women

    Edited by Paul Harvard

    A wide range of fantastic audition songs for women, each accompanied by detailed textual, vocal and musical analysis, and a practical performance guide to ensure you perform it to maximum effect in your own unique way.

    The Last of the Pelican Daughters

    The Last of the Pelican Daughters

    By The Wardrobe Ensemble

    A comedy about four sisters trying to come to terms with their mother's death.

    Bright. Young. Things.

    Bright. Young. Things.

    By Georgia Christou

    A funny, fast-paced play about identity, truth and the challenge of finding out who you really are. Part of Platform, an initiative from Tonic Theatre in partnership with Nick Hern Books, aimed at achieving greater gender equality in theatre.

    Heavy Weather

    Heavy Weather

    By Lizzie Nunnery

    A powerful, timely play featuring songs, about one girl taking control of her destiny in a world teetering on the brink. Part of Platform, an initiative aimed at achieving greater gender equality in theatre.

    Isolated But Open

    Isolated But Open

    Voices from Across The Shutdown

    By various

    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.

    Maggie May

    Maggie May

    By Frances Poet

    An extraordinary drama about an ordinary family who must balance the challenges of daily life whilst living with dementia.

    Jez Butterworth Plays: Two

    Jez Butterworth Plays: Two

    By Jez Butterworth

    Three extraordinary plays by one of the most audacious and talented playwrights of our times: Jerusalem, The River and The Ferryman. Plus his short film The Clear Road Ahead, and a conversation with playwright Simon Stephens.

    Daughter

    Daughter

    By Adam Lazarus

    A darkly satirical monologue about fatherhood, love and toxic masculinity.

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    The Clear Road Ahead

    The Clear Road Ahead

    By Jez Butterworth

    An epic short about rebirth, from the author of Jerusalem and The Ferryman.

    Published in volume Jez Butterworth Plays: Two
      Run Sister Run

      Run Sister Run

      By Chloë Moss

      A witty and heartfelt play about two sisters, exploring family, class and dependence.

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