...blackbird hour
A visceral and moving exploration of caring, belonging, and a queer Black woman's attempts to love herself. Premiered at the Bush Theatre, London, in 2025.
(Not) the End of the World
By Chris Bush3-4fA daringly theatrical investigation of the climate crisis through the perspectives of class, patriarchy and colonialism.
15 Heroines
15 Monologues Adapted from Ovid
By Variousup to 15fDrawing inspiration from Ovid, fifteen leading female and non-binary British playwrights dramatise the lives of fifteen classical heroines in a series of new monologues for the twenty-first century.
3 Winters
10f 7mA portrait of an eclectic family, held together by the courage to survive. Winner of the 2015 Susan Smith Blackburn Prize.
Abandonment
5f 2m, doublingA play about love, death, identity and evolution, from the bestselling and highly acclaimed novelist.
Abigail
By Fiona Doyle1f 1mA man in his forties and a woman in her twenties meet on a trip to Berlin. Across a fractured timeline where past and present collide, the story of their relationship, their love and their struggle unravels.
Acceptance
By Amy Ng3f 1mCrackling with razor-sharp dialogue, Amy Ng's play asks whether we can ever escape our past, and investigates the destructive side of our search for acceptance.
Acting Leader
2fA short play about Margaret Beckett finding herself Acting Leader of the Opposition after the sudden death of John Smith.
After Mrs Rochester
By Polly Teale6f 2m doubling (large cast possible)A dramatisation of the extraordinary life of Jean Rhys, in which themes of femininity, literature and hysteria and madness collide with vivid force.
After the Dance
5f 8m, plus extrasRattigan's brilliant attack on the hedonistic lifestyle of the ‘bright young things’ of the 1920s and 30s.
Albertine in Five Times
6fA simultaneous portrait of a woman at five different ages. Five actresses portray Albertine at different times of her life whilst conversing freely with each other and with their sister Madeleine.
Published in volume The Guid Sisters and other 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