Plays for Young People

A delightful and inventive stage version of Gerald Durrell's well-loved memoir of a childhood growing up in Corfu.

A play about the power of finding your own voice, revolving around a twelve-year-old boy with a stammer. Winner of the Best Play Award at the Writers' Guild of Great Britain Awards.

A funny, fast-paced play about identity, truth and the challenge of finding out who you really are. Part of Platform, an initiative from Tonic Theatre in partnership with Nick Hern Books, aimed at achieving greater gender equality in theatre.

A powerful, timely play featuring songs, about one girl taking control of her destiny in a world teetering on the brink. Part of Platform, an initiative aimed at achieving greater gender equality in theatre.

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 imaginative stage adaptation of E. Nesbit's much-loved children's classic.

An exhilarating coming-of-age drama for a solo performer.

A compelling literary detective story about the turbulent lives of the Brontë sisters - dramatised by Polly Teale and Shared Experience, the team behind After Mrs Rochester and Jane Eyre.

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

A wonderful comedy about growing up in multiracial Salford.

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

A classic fairy tale with a twist, from the UK's leading author of plays for young audiences.

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 strikingly original play combining traditional storytelling with physical theatre, created by The Imaginary Body. Winner of a Fringe First Award at the 2002 Edinburgh Festival Fringe.

A powerful and straightforward dramatisation of Orwell's enduring parable on the perils of totalitarianism.

A delightful stage version of Jane Austen's earliest novel, her mock-Gothic Romance.

A landmark dramatisation for the Royal Shakespeare Company of one of the foundation stones of English literature.