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Plays for Young People

This section contains all titles included in the categories Plays for Children (under 12 years) and Plays for Young People (12-18 years).

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The Urban Girl's Guide to Camping and other plays

The Urban Girl's Guide to Camping and other plays

By Fin Kennedy

Tender, uncompromising, haunting and lyrical, these four plays together comprise a contemporary chronicle of the lives of East London's young women.

The Urban Girl's Guide to Camping

The Urban Girl's Guide to Camping

By Fin Kennedy

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

The Unravelling

The Unravelling

By Fin Kennedy

A Fringe First Award-winning fable about the power of mythology to change your life.

Two Billion Beats (short play version)

Two Billion Beats (short play version)

By Sonali Bhattacharyya

A short play about the unfairness of growing up in a world where you don't make the rules. First performed as part of Inside/Outside, a season of short plays staged at the Orange Tree Theatre, Richmond.

Published in volume Inside/Outside
    Two Billion Beats

    Two Billion Beats

    By Sonali Bhattacharyya

    An insightful, heartfelt coming-of-age story and a blazing account of inner-city, British-Asian teenage life.

    Tuesday

    Tuesday

    With a Welsh-language translation, Un Bore Mawrth

    By Alison Carr Translated by Daf James

    A funny and playful drama written specifically for young people, about what happens when the world literally turns upside-down. Bilingual edition: includes the original English play with a Welsh-language translation, Un Bore Mawrth, by playwright Daf James.

    The Trials

    The Trials

    By Dawn King

    A searing play set in a near-future world, where those responsible for the climate emergency are being judged by a younger generation.

    Treasure Island

    Treasure Island (stage version)

    By Robert Louis Stevenson Adapted by Stuart Paterson

    A fresh and genuinely thrilling adaptation of the classic tale, and one that keeps close to Stevenson's original story.

    Treasure Island

    Treasure Island (Le Navet Bete stage version)

    By Le Navet Bete and John Nicholson Original author Robert Louis Stevenson

    A rip-roaring, swashbuckling, family-friendly retelling of a classic story.

    Too Much World at Once

    Too Much World at Once

    By Billie Collins

    An urgent coming-of-age story for our times, a lyrical, theatrical journey that spans continents and lives.

    THREE

    THREE

    By Sophie Ellerby

    A funny, dark and thrilling play about family connections and the fallout from violence. In the Multiplay Drama series.

    This Changes Everything

    This Changes Everything

    By Joel Horwood

    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.

    Teenage Dick

    Teenage Dick

    By Mike Lew

    A darkly comic, smashed-up retelling of Richard III, Shakespeare's classic tale about the lust for power.

    A Tale of Two Cities

    A Tale of Two Cities (stage version)

    Adapted by Mike Poulton Original author Charles Dickens

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

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    The Sweet Science of Bruising

    The Sweet Science of Bruising

    By Joy Wilkinson

    An epic tale of passion, politics and pugilism in the world of 19th-century women’s boxing.

    Swallows and Amazons

    Swallows and Amazons (stage version)

    By Arthur Ransome Adapted by Helen Edmundson and Neil Hannon

    A wonderfully theatrical adaptation of the much-loved children's classic, with songs by Neil Hannon.

    The Suitcase Kid

    The Suitcase Kid (stage version)

    By Jacqueline Wilson Adapted by Vicky Ireland

    An adaptation for the stage of Jacqueline Wilson's popular novel.

    Stuff

    Stuff

    By Tom Wells

    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.

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