Great Plays for Festivals

A daringly theatrical investigation of the climate crisis through the perspectives of class, patriarchy and colonialism.

A strikingly original play combining traditional storytelling with physical theatre, created by The Imaginary Body. Winner of a Fringe First Award at the 2002 Edinburgh Festival Fringe.

Drawing 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.

A hilarious, macabre love story about a pregnant couple of activists attempting to offset the carbon footprint of their unborn baby's life.

A short play about a young woman who, after shoplifting for the first time, is chased by the store detective.

A 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.

A short play about Margaret Beckett finding herself Acting Leader of the Opposition after the sudden death of John Smith.

A gripping one-person play that wrestles with the glorious and melancholy uncertainties of human life, from the author of The Ex-Boyfriend Yard Sale.

A 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.

A play about sex, secrets and suspicion, winner of the 2017 Fishamble New Writing Award.

A powerfully atmospheric one-woman play, All On Her Own tells the story of Rosemary who, alone at midnight in London, has a secret burden to share that is both heartbreaking and sinister.

Two tense and unnerving short plays from talented Brazilian playwright, Marcos Barbosa.