Shed: Exploded View
A devastating play about violence, love and loss. Winner of the Bruntwood Prize for Playwriting.
Shibboleth
By Stacey Gregg4f 7mAn exhilarating and unsentimental exploration of working-class life in Belfast.
Shifters
1f 1mA fierce, funny and intoxicating play about the enduring power – and fragility – of memory and love. Published alongside the 2024 West End transfer.
Shimmer
By Linda McLean3f 3mSurrounded by rain, rivers, lochs and floods, three generations of memory and experience ebb and flow through this lyrical play.
Shining City
1f 3mA brilliant, haunting play from the multi-award-winning author of The Weir.
Shining Souls
By Chris Hannan4f 6mA riotously funny comedy with a gallery of unforgettable characters, published here in a revised version alongside its revival at the Tron Theatre, Glasgow, in 2003.
The Shoemakers' Holiday
4f 17mA rumbustious Elizabethan comedy featuring identity fraud, love triangles and a marriage proposal disguised as a shoe fitting. In the Nick Hern Books Drama Classics series.
Shook
1f 3mA tender and honest play examining the young men society shuts away. Winner of the 2019 Papatango New Writing Prize.
Shoot the Crow
4mAn endearing yet hard-hitting comic portrait of how the need to work gets in the way of living.
Shout
Flexible casting (20+ named characters)A funny, moving drama about anxiety, celebrating difference, and finding your voice as a teenager. Part of the 2024 National Theatre Connections Festival.
Shush
5fA funny and insightful play about the power of female friendship.
The Silence and the Noise
By Tom Powell1f 1mA play that beautifully captures the story of two young people on the edge. Joint winner of the 2021 Papatango New Writing Prize.
Published in volume Papatango Plays
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Amateur Productions
On Now & Coming SoonBill Bryson, Adapted by Tim WhitnallFin KennedyAmanda WhittingtonAlexandra Wood, Adapted from Kate SummerscaleAmanda WhittingtonHenrik Ibson, Adapted by Richard EyreTom WellsJeremy Sams, Original authors John Esmonde and Bob Larbey