Little Wars
Set in the French Alps in 1940, this thrilling play – based on truth – is an enthralling, entertaining and ultimately moving portrait of seven exceptional women.
Little Women (stage version)
By Louisa May Alcott Adapted by Anne-Marie Casey6f 2-3mA joyful and spirited adaptation of one of the best-loved novels of all time.
Lizzie Siddal
By Jeremy Green2-3f 4-8mA gripping historical drama charting one woman's dazzling trajectory from model to lover to artist, to a tragic figure in her own right.
The Lodger
3f 1mAn enlightening, cathartic and acerbic new play about identity, maturity and reconciliation.
The Lost Art of Keeping a Secret
1fThe alternating stories of two women (played by the same actress), both of whom 'lose' their sons - one murdered, the other a runaway.
Published in volume Singular Female VoicesLove, Love, Love
2f 3m doubling (max. 5f 6m)Are baby boomers to blame for the fact that their children's generation is debt-ridden and adrift? Love, Love, Love takes on the baby boomer generation as it retires, and finds it full of trouble.
Lulu
By Frank Wedekind Adapted by Nicholas Wright7f 11mThe first version of Wedekind's celebrated erotic masterpiece to be based on the author's original text, restoring the clarity, the daring and the sexual explicitness of a modern masterpiece written a hundred years before its time.
Lysistrata
By Aristophanes Translated by Patric Dickinson4f 3m plus chorusThe ancient Greek comedy in which the women of Greece go on a sex strike to force their husbands to end the Peloponnesian Wars. In the Nick Hern Books Drama Classics series.
Machinal
5-10f 7-14m (larger cast possible)A powerful expressionist drama from the 1920s about the dependent status of women in an increasingly mechanised society, based on the true story of Ruth Snyder.
Madame Bovary: Breakfast with Emma
By Gustave Flaubert Adapted by Fay Weldon2f 3m doublingFlaubert's masterpiece about an infidelity with tragic consequences, dramatised for Shared Experience by the acclaimed novelist.
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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