Titles by Global Majority authors
Shangri-La
A debut play laying bare the contradictions and private pain of cultural tourism.
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.
Skunk
By Zawe Ashton3f 5m plus 5 or more f/m (can be performed by a cast of 10)A surreal, dreamlike and hilarious play exploring the pressures and transformations that happen to teenagers as they grow up. In the Multiplay Drama series.
Small Island (stage version)
By Andrea Levy Adapted by Helen Edmundson12-14f 13-27mAndrea Levy's epic novel tracing the tangled history of Jamaica and Britain, adapted for the stage by Helen Edmundson.
Some Of Us Exist In The Future
2f 2m plus 3f/mAn utterly original, wryly funny play about one woman's search for a place to belong in a world that's not all it seems. Joint winner of the 2021 Papatango New Writing Prize.
Published in volume Papatango PlaysStatues
By Azan Ahmed2m doubling (or up to 1f 5m)A witty, honest, and deeply moving play exploring the impact of loss, and what you can gain from it. Premiered at the Bush Theatre, London, in 2024.
stoning mary
6f 6m, plus 1 boy (doubling possible)Mysterious yet compelling, bewildering yet intoxicating, a play that mixes poetic rhythms with vernacular phrases, rap-song repetitions with complex psychology.
A Sudden Violent Burst of Rain
By Sami IbrahimFlexible casting (3 or more performers)A poetic fable for the stage, about an impenetrable immigration system that mirrors our own.
Things Hidden Since the Foundation of the World
By Javaad Alipoor With Chris Thorpe1f 2mA cutting-edge drama – part free-wheeling lecture, part podcast and part play – investigating the disappearance of Iranian pop sensation and refugee Fereydoun Farrokhzad in 1992.
Three Birds
By Janice Okoh3f 2mA startling and darkly comic drama about childhood, family and fantasy. Winner of the Bruntwood Prize for Playwriting, and later adapted into BBC television drama Just Act Normal.
Through the Mud
2f (playing multiple characters)The story of two generations of women activists in the struggle for Black liberation in America. From the Fringe First-winning creator of the hit show Black is the Color of My Voice.
Tituba
1fTituba by Winsome Pinnock is a one-woman show about Tituba Indian, the enslaved woman who played a central role in the seventeenth-century Salem Witch Trials.
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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