Plays for Young People

The classic tale of Sleeping Beauty's curse – as seen through the eyes of the fairy who curses her.

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

The award-winning play that follows one man's desperate attempts to buck the system, and asks what really makes us who we are in the 21st century.

A gripping and urgent play about a well-meaning teacher who intervenes on behalf of a troublesome student, with terrifying consequences.

By turns dark and shimmering, Moth is a fast, funny and heartbreaking story about two young people with nowhere to go.

A play about grief and looking at someone that little bit more closely. Written specifically for young people, Burying Your Brother in the Pavement was part of the 2008 National Theatre Connections Festival and was premiered by youth theatres across the UK.

An adaptation of Zizou Corder's Lionboy novels for award-winning theatre company Complicite.

A thrillingly fast-paced play about youthful disaffection, protest and violence, drawing on the history of the Scuttlers, the youth gangs of nineteenth-century Manchester.

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 explosive and thought-provoking play from the author of Girls Like That, exploring what happens when buried secrets catch up with you.

A beautiful, heart-warming, laugh-out-loud coming-of-age story for our times.

A comedy drama about being young, working in a shit job, living in debt, and all the funny and sad things you do to cope.

A chilling adaptation of Joan Lindsay's classic novel about the disappearance of three Australian schoolgirls in the summer of 1900.

A touching and funny story of family, friends and fitting in, How To Be A Kid is ideal for seven- to eleven-year-olds to watch, read and perform.

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

A brilliant adaptation of Mary Shelley's Gothic masterpiece that places the writer herself amongst the action as she wrestles with her creation and with the stark realities facing revolutionary young women, then and now.

A sometimes comic, sometimes heartbreaking journey into the world of autism, mixing narrative, song, dance and direct address to explore this contentious and often misunderstood subject matter.