Plays for Young People (12-18 years)

An adaptation for the Royal Shakespeare Company of Sir Thomas Malory's classic telling of the Legend of King Arthur and his Knights of the Round Table.

A faithful yet inventive adaptation of Jane Austen's novel, with a set of Production Notes designed to make it easily stageable.

A magical re-telling of the story of Beauty and the Beast, with music by Mick Sands drawn from traditional French folk melodies.

A bold, witty and fresh adaptation of Jane Austen's novel which, while thoroughly modern, retains the spirit and much of the language of the original.

The tragic story of how Rudyard Kipling sent his son to his death in the First World War.

A magical re-telling of the story of Beauty and the Beast, first performed in this version by the Royal Shakespeare Company.

A faithful yet inventive adaptation of Jane Austen's novel, terrifically actable and readable.

A thrilling, fast-paced adaptation of the classic novel, considered by Dickens 'the best story I have ever written'.

A play exporing the apparent gulf between the young and old, commissioned as part of the 2014 National Theatre Connections Festival.

A deeply moving and thought-provoking stage play based on the best-selling novel by John Boyne.

A play about growing up, and forging your own identity. 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.

An outrageously fun musical set in an all-girls school in the 60s, from the team behind Bad Girls: The Musical.

A play written for young people to perform, about two schoolgirls and their daring response to the Cuban Missile Crisis.

A fiercely funny play by the Tony Award-winning author of The Humans.

A play about the intersecting lives of four women, and their power to change the course of English history. Part of Platform, an initiative aimed at addressing gender imbalance in theatre.

A contemporary retelling of Hans Christian Andersen's extraordinary fairytale of dance, desire and destruction.

The greatest story ever told, in a version by Mike Poulton, premiered at York Minster in May 2016.

An epic romcom telling the story of an unlikely romance between the Queen of England and a boy from the wrong side of the tracks. Premiered by the National Youth Theatre.