Maydays (Revised version)
David Edgar's landmark play about the twenty-somethings who came of age in 1968 and were drawn into revolutionary politics. Revised version staged by the Royal Shakespeare Company in 2018.
Mayfly
An ethereal family drama exploring rebirth in the aftermath of tragedy.
The Mayor of Queenborough, or Hengist, King of Kent
2f 15m plus extras, doubling possibleMiddleton's only surviving historical play, published in the Nick Hern Books Globe Quartos series.
Me, As A Penguin
By Tom Wells1f 3mA charmingly offbeat, surreal comedy of knitting, penguins and Battenberg.
The Meaning of Zong
By Giles Terera4-5f 5-18mGiles Terera's powerful debut play about Olaudah Equiano and the historical movement to abolish slavery – a timely response to the social upheaval the world has witnessed in recent years.
Measure for Measure
By William Shakespeare Edited by Nick de Somogyi5f 19mAn edition of Shakespeare's play in the Shakespeare Folios series - offering the absolute authenticity of the First Folio in a totally accessible form.
Meat
1f 2mA play about class, consent and transgressions buried in the past, set over the course of one winesoaked evening in a Dublin restaurant.
Medea (Northern Broadsides version)
By Euripides Adapted by Tom Paulin2f 3-5m plus chorusEuripides' tragedy, reworked by poet Tom Paulin into lithe and sinewy modern English.
Medea
2f 5m, plus chorus, extras and childrenThe powerful myth of Medea, who murders her children as revenge for her husband's infidelity. In the Nick Hern Books Drama Classics series.
Medea (Headlong version)
By Euripides Adapted by Mike Bartlett3f 4mA bold new version of the classic tragedy by one of Britain's hottest playwrights.
Medea (National Theatre of Scotland version)
By Euripides Adapted by Liz Lochhead3f 3m plus chorus and 3 childrenEuripides' classic story of the woman who murders her own children in revenge for her husband's infidelity, here given a distinctive Scots flavour by the poet and playwright Liz Lochhead.
Medicine
By Enda Walsh2f 1m plus drummer (plus additional voices, can be pre-recorded)A dark and frequently absurdist play about how we have treated those we call 'mentally ill'.
Published in volume Medicine & The Same: two 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