Plays for Young People

A play for young people (age five and up) to watch, read and perform, about one confused alien, two brave kids and a busted spaceship.

A play about a teenage girl's solo journey to the North Pole with her father's ashes.

A touching and funny play about a girl on the cusp of adolescence.

Oscar Wilde's undying comedy – in an edition to fit any handbag.

A bold and theatrically inventive adaptation of the literary classic that puts the interior life of the novel on stage.

A radical re-imagining by playwright Evan Placey of Robert Louis Stevenson’s classic tale, written for the National Youth Theatre.

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. 

Rudyard Kipling's classic jungle tales, in an acclaimed stage adaptation by Stuart Paterson.

A brilliantly honest and witty coming-of-age drama, with music by Stephen Warbeck.

A darkly comic story about social inequality and upheaval, told in reverse. In the Multiplay Drama series.

The story of a young boy's fantastic adventure after being washed up on a Pacific island.

A tried-and-tested stage adaptation of Barry Hines' novel A Kestrel for a Knave, about a troubled young boy who finds and trains a kestrel.

A modern classic about one woman's struggle to come to terms with her past - brutally separated from her German Jewish parents at the age of 9 and brought to England with the promise of a new life...

A stark, fast-paced and fraught play about political upheaval and the media's relationship with civil violence and terrorism in modern Britain. In the Multiplay Drama series.

A play inspired by the true story of the Cottingley Fairies. 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 adaptation of Zizou Corder's Lionboy novels for award-winning theatre company Complicite.

A play exploring the turbulent teenage years of a Nottingham girl looking for love in all the wrong places.

An adaptation for the stage of this modern children's classic by the best-selling author and 2005 Children's Laureate.