Plays for Young People

A bittersweet comedy about life, love and friendship once school is long gone.

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

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

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.

Mischievously adapted from Roald Dahl's story, acclaimed playwright Enda Walsh turns The Twits upside down and brings this revolting revolution to the stage.

A bold reimagining of Hans Christian Andersen's tale of love, loss and desire, transported to a contemporary setting.

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.

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

Three hard-hitting, distinctive monologues for young female actors, from one of the country's most exciting young playwrights.

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.

A play exporing the apparent gulf between the young and old, commissioned as part of the 2014 National Theatre Connections Festival.

A gripping journey through British history that shows how our country was shaped and how connected we are with our past. Part of the 2014 National Theatre Connections Festival.

A thrilling, fast-paced adaptation of the classic novel, considered by Dickens 'the best story I have ever written'.

A love story about transition, testosterone, and James Dean - commissioned as part of the 2014 National Theatre Connections Festival and premiered by youth theatres across the UK.

A chilling, blackly comic tale of manipulation, cyberbullying and adolescent insecurity.

A moving, comical and eye-opening story of four young women fighting for education and self-determination against the larger backdrop of women’s suffrage.

A powerful, inventive play exploring the issue of homelessness amongst young people.