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War and Peace Gaza Piece

A short play about war and family life.

Published in volume Caryl Churchill Plays: Five

    The Wedding

    A one-act play by Chekhov in a translation by Chekhov expert Stephen Mulrine.

    Published in volume Chekhov: Shorts

      What If If Only

      Your partner's died, could things have been different? A short play by Caryl Churchill, published with another short piece, Air.

      What is the Custom of Your Grief?

      A short play by Timberlake Wertenbaker about an English schoolgirl who is befriended online by an Afghan girl after her brother is killed while on active duty in Afghanistan.

      What Love Is

      A short play about caring for your parents.

      Published in volume Sex & God

        When Cows Go Boom

        A short play by Stacey Gregg, an oblique parable of love set against the backdrop of a horrific landscape.

        Published in volume Irish Shorts

          When the Daffodils

          A searching portrait of human kindness in a world that sets limits on how we care for the vulnerable. First performed as part of the Orange Tree Theatre's Inside/Outside season of short plays.

          Published in volume Inside/Outside

            Where I'm From

            A monologue play about a woman on the day of her release from prison.

              Whiff Whaff

              A savagely funny short play about attitudes to disability and mental health.

              Published in volume Jack Thorne Plays: Two

                White Lead

                A short play exploring the expectations and responsibilities of being an artist and a woman.

                Why Can't We Live Together?

                Set against the low hum of the War on Terror, Why Can't We Live Together? is a kaleidoscopic vision of our times through the lives of one man and one woman.

                Wild Notes

                A play exploring the impact of colonialism through a meeting between Frederick Douglass, the escaped slave and abolitionist who visited Ireland in the 1840s, and a young Irishwoman hoping to emigrate to the country he's running from.

                Wilderness (short play)

                A short play about a patient and her psychiatrist as they head into the wilderness to find out how sane any of us really are.

                  Withdrawal

                  A play from Syria, part of the Royal Court Theatre's Arab World initiative in conjunction with the British Council.

                  Woman Caught Unaware

                  A searing examination of the culture of body-shaming, exploring how images of women are represented in art and social media.

                  Women Centre Stage: Eight Short Plays By and About Women

                  A collection of short plays curated by Sue Parrish, Artistic Director of Sphinx Theatre.

                  Writer's Cramp

                  The debut play from the author of The Slab Boys and Tutti Frutti, taking satirical swipes at Anglo-Scottish cultural pretensions.

                  Published in volume Scot-Free

                    You, Me and Wii

                    A short play by the author of the Adrian Mole books, set in a council house in a small Leicestershire town at election time.