Plays for Young People

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.

A 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.

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

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

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.

A powerfully dramatic play about Charles Darwin's voyage on board HMS Beagle - an adventure that changed not only his own life, but also the history of the entire world.

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.

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

A revitalised stage adaptation of Charles Dickens's Christmas tale, by renowned author Piers Torday, focussing on Ebenezer Scrooge's sister Fan, the most monstrous miser ever known.

A ferocious, wild and utterly exhilarating adaptation of Emily Brontë's indelible masterpiece.

Rudyard Kipling’s beloved tale of family, belonging and identity has been reimagined in this acclaimed adaptation by Jessica Swale, with original songs by Joe Stilgoe. 

A National Theatre Connections play about teenagers, nightlife, and the small choices that have momentous consequences.

A play about friendship and loss – and the way people try to do the right thing for their mates when there isn't really a right thing to do. Written specifically for young people as part of the 2019 National Theatre Connections Festival.