Fantasy & Supernatural
King Troll (The Fawn)
A dystopian stage play exploring migrant experiences in all their complexity – and the troll that lives within all of us. Premiered by Kali Theatre at New Diorama Theatre, London, in 2024.
King Ubu
By Alfred Jarry2f 15m plus extrasAlfred Jarry's surreal and hilarious satire of power, greed, and bourgeois pretension, the first of his three plays about the comically grotesque character of Pa Ubu.
Published in volume UbuLazybed
3f 4m (doubling)A play about a man who cannot, or will not, get out of bed one morning for 'metaphysical reasons'.
Leave Taking
4f 1mTwo generations. Three incredible women. An epic story of what we leave behind in order to find home.
The Light Burns Blue
9f 1m, plus mixed cast of up to 30 charactersA play inspired by the true story of the Cottingley Fairies. 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.
Lionboy (stage version)
By Zizou Corder Adapted by Marcelo Dos Santos2-6f 6-13mAn adaptation of Zizou Corder's Lionboy novels for award-winning theatre company Complicite.
Macbeth
By William Shakespeare Edited by Nick de Somogyi10f 25mAn edition of Shakespeare's play in the Shakespeare Folios series, offering the absolute authenticity of the First Folio in a totally accessible form.
The Maiden Stone
By Rona Munro4f 3mA wild and fantastical tale about a group of women struggling to get by in the harsh world of north-east Scotland in the early nineteenth century.
Mary Shelley's Frankenstein (stage version)
By Mary Shelley and Rona Munro3-6f 4-9m plus 1f/mA 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.
Mermaid
By Polly Teale6-15f 2-9mA bold reimagining of Hans Christian Andersen's tale of love, loss and desire, transported to a contemporary setting.
The Merry Devil of Edmonton
By Anonymous6f 12m, doublingA popular comedy from the early-17th century, combining romance, magic, deer poaching and abduction from a nunnery. Part of the Nick Hern Books Globe Quartos series.
Metamorphoses
Flexible castingAn entertaining and provocative new play inspired by Ovid's powerful collection of myths.
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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