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An Intervention

An Intervention

By Mike Bartlett

A touching, funny play about what happens when you hate your best friend.

Investment Potential

Investment Potential

By Phillip McMahon

A short play about a youthful couple who can't seem to pull themselves up the rungs of the property ladder.

Published in volume Irish Shorts
    it felt empty when the heart went at first but it is alright now

    it felt empty when the heart went at first but it is alright now

    By Lucy Kirkwood

    A play about modern-day sex trafficking, joint winner of the 2010 John Whiting Award.

    Jonah and Otto

    Jonah and Otto

    By Robert Holman

    A humane, funny and ultimately haunting play that explores masculinity, identity and what it means to be English.

    Kabul Goes Pop: Music Television Afghanistan

    Kabul Goes Pop: Music Television Afghanistan

    By Waleed Akhtar

    A play inspired by the true story of Afghanistan's first youth music programme, exploring a world following the US invasion that is complex, contradictory and shocking – all to a soundtrack of early noughties' pop.

    La Ronde

    La Ronde

    By Arthur Schnitzler Translated by Stephen Unwin and Peter Zombory-Moldovan

    Schnitzler's famous 'daisy-chain' play of sexual coupling, set in Vienna in the 1890s. In the Drama Classics series.

    Lela & Co.

    Lela & Co.

    By Cordelia Lynn

    The story of a young girl trapped in an increasingly tiny world. Based on a true story.

    Lemons Lemons Lemons Lemons Lemons

    Lemons Lemons Lemons Lemons Lemons

    By Sam Steiner

    A play about what we say and how we say it; about the things we can only hear in the silence; about dead cats, activism, eye contact and lemons, lemons, lemons, lemons, lemons.

    Lemons Lemons Lemons Lemons Lemons

    Lemons Lemons Lemons Lemons Lemons (West End edition)

    By Sam Steiner

    A new, revised edition of Sam Steiner's startling play about what we say, how we say it, and what happens when we can't say anything any more. Published alongside the West End production starring Jenna Coleman and Aidan Turner.

    Little Bits of Ruined Beauty

    Little Bits of Ruined Beauty

    By Tom Wentworth

    A darkly comic play examining the subtle shift from cared-for to carer and how dignity and independence are maintained in isolated rural areas. 

    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.

    Lost

    Lost

    By Robert Holman

    The second play in Robert Holman's acclaimed trilogy of short plays, Making Noise Quietly.

    Published in volume Making Noise Quietly: three short plays
      Love in a Glass Jar

      Love in a Glass Jar

      By Nancy Harris

      A short play from an acclaimed Irish playwright, about a sterile liasion in a hotel room that threatens to spill over into real life.

      Published in volume Irish Shorts
        Love Upon the Throne

        Love Upon the Throne

        By Patrick Barlow

        A gleefully comic retelling of the Charles and Diana story, designed to be performed by two (male) actors.

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        Lynndie's Gotta Gun

        Lynndie's Gotta Gun

        By Enda Walsh

        A short play published for the first time, written during the author's time working with European theatremakers.

        Manon / Sandra

        Manon / Sandra

        By Michel Tremblay Translated by John Van Burek

        A controversial but humane play about an obsessively religious girl and a sex-obsessed transvestite, by the renowned Quebecois writer.

        Published in volume The Guid Sisters and other plays
          Mary's Babies

          Mary's Babies

          By Maud Dromgoole

          A provocative, funny and fascinating play, inspired by the true story of Mary Barton and her husband Bertold Wiesner, pioneers of fertility treatment.

          Meeting Miss Ireland

          Meeting Miss Ireland

          By Rosemary Jenkinson

          A short play commissioned and performed as part of The Fairer Sex, a series of play readings at the Abbey Theatre, Dublin, in June 2009.

          Published in volume Irish Shorts
            Merit

            Merit

            By Alexandra Wood

            A thrilling two-hander that looks at the complexities of a mother-daughter relationship, the growing argument between rich and poor, and a young woman stuck in between.

            The Merthyr Stigmatist

            The Merthyr Stigmatist

            By Lisa Parry

            A fierce and exhilarating play about faith and truth, a hymn to community, and a testament to the power of young people.

            Middle

            Middle

            By David Eldridge

            A raw, touching and funny portrait of a 21st-century marriage, first staged at the National Theatre, London, in 2022.

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            The Mikvah Project

            The Mikvah Project

            By Josh Azouz

            A playful and poignant play about two men who meet every Friday in a north-west London Mikvah, a traditional Jewish pool used for ritual cleansing.

            The Misandrist

            The Misandrist

            By Lisa Carroll

            A penetrating comedy about the search for sexual knowledge, true love, and top-notch Tupperware.

            Misogynist

            Misogynist

            By Michael Harding

            A powerful anatomy of misogyny, by 'one of the most significant new Irish writers of his generation' (Sunday Times).

            Published in volume The Crack in the Emerald