Plays for Young People (12-18 years)
This section lists plays that are especially suited to young people aged 12 and above, for reading, study or performance. Please note that some of the plays included here contain adult language and/or tackle challenging issues. We're always happy to advise on the suitability of any of our plays: send us an email at info@nickhernbooks.co.uk, or call us on 020 8749 4953.
See also Plays for children (under 12 years)
Secrets (stage version)
An adaptation for the stage of Jacqueline Wilson's popular novel.
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The Suitcase Kid (stage version)
An adaptation for the stage of Jacqueline Wilson's popular novel.
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£11.99£9.59Add to basketEbook£11.99£9.59Arabian Nights (RSC stage version)
A simple and delightfully inventive re-telling of the stories from the Arabian Nights.
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By Jacqueline Wilson Adapted by Vicky IrelandAn adaptation for the stage of this modern children's classic by the best-selling author and 2005 Children's Laureate.
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Swallows and Amazons (stage version)
A wonderfully theatrical adaptation of the much-loved children's classic, with songs by Neil Hannon.
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By Robert Louis Stevenson Adapted by Stuart PatersonA fresh and genuinely thrilling adaptation of the classic tale, and one that keeps close to Stevenson's original story.
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£11.99£9.59Add to basketA4 Spiral-bound£14.99£11.99Mogadishu
A gripping and urgent play about a well-meaning teacher who intervenes on behalf of a troublesome student, with terrifying consequences.
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By Lucy Kirkwood and Katie MitchellLucy Kirkwood's delightful version of the classic fairytale, first seen in a production devised and directed by Katie Mitchell at the National Theatre for Christmas 2010.
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£11.99£9.59Add to basketEbook£11.99£9.59Moth
By turns dark and shimmering, Moth is a fast, funny and heartbreaking story about two young people with nowhere to go.
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£11.99£9.59Add to basketEbook£11.99£9.59Burying Your Brother in the Pavement
By Jack ThorneA play about grief and looking at someone that little bit more closely. Written specifically for young people, Burying Your Brother in the Pavement was part of the 2008 National Theatre Connections Festival and was premiered by youth theatres across the UK.
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£11.99£9.59Add to basketA4 Spiral-bound£14.99£11.99Add to basketEbook£11.99£9.59Lionboy (stage version)
By Zizou Corder Adapted by Marcelo Dos SantosAn adaptation of Zizou Corder's Lionboy novels for award-winning theatre company Complicite.
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By Joel HorwoodA play about a group of young women seeking to form a new type of society and a better way of living. Part of Platform, a series of big-cast plays with predominantly or all-female casts, written specifically for performance by school, college and youth-theatre groups.
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£11.99£9.59Add to basketEbook£11.99£9.59Consensual
By Evan PlaceyAn explosive and thought-provoking play from the author of Girls Like That, exploring what happens when buried secrets catch up with you.
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A comedy drama about being young, working in a shit job, living in debt, and all the funny and sad things you do to cope.
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By James FritzA funny, moving and candid look at young people's relationships to older people, confronting the frightening prospect of ageing in a country undergoing crises of housing and care.
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By Rufus NorrisThe classic tale of Sleeping Beauty's curse – as seen through the eyes of the fairy who curses her.
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By Joan Lindsay Adapted by Tom WrightA chilling adaptation of Joan Lindsay's classic novel about the disappearance of three Australian schoolgirls in the summer of 1900.
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By Rona MunroA thrillingly fast-paced play about youthful disaffection, protest and violence, drawing on the history of the Scuttlers, the youth gangs of nineteenth-century Manchester.
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