Plays for Young People

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

A play about conflicted desire and dangerous loyalties in a world trembling in the grip of a devastating epidemic.

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

A heartwarming play about a boy who creates an imaginary world to deal with the instability and hardship of his daily life.

One of Dickens's best-loved and most autobiographical stories, brilliantly and faithfully dramatised by Alastair Cording.

A madcap adventure story for young people (and older detectives) to watch, read and perform.

A fantastical, theatrical adventure through the underground world of street art and the hidden patterns in our universe. Premiered on UK tour by Theatre Centre and Sheffield Theatres in 2024.

The Domino Effect is an ensemble play for teenage performers created by award-winning playwright Fin Kennedy.

A second collection of plays by Fin Kennedy, author of How To Disappear Completely And Never Be Found and The Urban Girl's Guide to Camping and other plays.

A superb adaptation of Robert Louis Stevenson's famous story of the unassuming Dr Jekyll and his dark alter-ego Mr Hyde.

Acclaimed poet and playwright Liz Lochhead's Dracula stays refreshingly close to Bram Stoker's classic novel.

A riotous musical play transporting Shakespeare's most beloved characters to the chaos of a busy modern-day hospital. In the Nick Hern Books Multiplay Drama series.

An ensemble play for teenage performers created by award-winning playwright Fin Kennedy.

A one-man musical comedy about a fifteen-year-old boy who finds himself in deep water when he joins a synchronised swimming team, even though he can't swim.

A wonderful comedy about growing up in multiracial Salford.

A theatrical love letter to the schools of the 1990s, asking big questions about a country in special measures, exploring what we are taught and why, and where responsibility lies. Full of inventive theatricality and irreverent humour.

A riotous, witty reclaiming of the life of Emilia Bassano, poet, mistress, mother, and exceptional woman – widely considered the 'Dark Lady' of Shakespeare's sonnets.

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.

A 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.

A smouldering adaptation of Thomas Hardy's enduring novel about a spirited and feisty young woman who finds herself playing mistress in a man's world.

An ensemble play for teenage performers created by award-winning playwright Fin Kennedy.

One of the greatest horror stories of all time, in a stage adaptation that sticks closely to Mary Shelley's original novel.

A fierce, funny and irreverent OCD love story that asks: what exactly is 'normal' anyway?

An urgent and explosive play that explores of the pressures on young people today in the wake of advancing technology.