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

A play about freedom, guilt and the possibility of redemption, premiered by the Royal Shakespeare Company.

A thrilling play based on the nineteenth-century Red Barn Murder in Suffolk, rediscovering the lost story of the murder victim, Maria Marten.

A play about the challenges of being on the school football team – and secretly gay.

A gig-theatre play featuring original music inspired by early noughties and present-day R&B and Garage.

Ben Jonson's bawdy Jacobean comedy, in the Nick Hern Books Drama Classics series.

A poignant drama about attitudes to teenage pregnancy in 1960s Britain.

Lucy Kirkwood's delightful version of the classic fairytale, first seen in a production devised and directed by Katie Mitchell at the National Theatre for Christmas 2010.

A magical re-telling of the story of Beauty and the Beast, first performed by the Royal Shakespeare Company.

George Farquhar's immortal comedy about two young gentlemen with a misguided plan to get enrich themselves at the expense of a series of young heiresses.

An acerbic and funny play about middle-class hypocrisy and universal apathy.

John Gay's bawdy and burlesque pastiche of classical Italian opera, often regarded as the world's first ever musical.