Great Plays for Festivals

A selection of our plays available for performance, specially chosen for their suitability for performance at festivals. Most of these plays have a shorter running time, generally 30-60 mins, or can be performed in a shorter version by prior arrangement. For more specific requirements, please contact our Performing Rights Department. Please note that inclusion here does not indicate that rights are available - it is important that you enquire about rights availability before making any commitment.

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Modest

By Ellen Brammar

8f 5m (gender flexible; can be performed by a cast of 6, and all f)

A thrilling collision of music hall, cabaret and drag king swagger, in a play that tells the true story of Elizabeth Thompson, a pioneering megastar of the Victorian art scene.

Mojo Mickybo

By Owen McCafferty

2m (playing multiple roles)

An unsentimental portrayal of innocence betrayed by communal hatred in Belfast during the 1970s.

The Motherhood Project

Monologues and Reflections on Motherhood

By Various

Flexible casting (up to 12f 3m)

A collection of dramatic monologues and real-life reflections by some of the UK's leading writers, artists and thinkers, and explores all the guilt, joy and absurdity, the regrets, pressures and taboos surrounding motherhood.

Mr Kolpert

By David Gieselmann Translated by David Tushingham

2f 3m

A delightfully morbid black comedy with a nod to Hitchcock's Rope.

Mrs Delgado

By Mike Bartlett

1f/m

A funny and poignant play for one actor that tells a story of desire, control, raised blinds and lowered boundaries. This edition also includes the monologue Phoenix.

The Multiverse is Gay!

By Lewis Hetherington

Flexible casting, 7-20 performers, any gender

A wild rollercoaster ride through school, the Multiverse, and finding yourself, over and over and over again… A play in the Nick Hern Books Multiplay Drama series, featuring large-cast plays specifically written to be performed by and appeal to young people.

My Mother's Funeral: The Show

By Kelly Jones

2f 1m (playing 20 characters)

A play exploring the inequalities we face around death, and the cost of turning your loved ones into art. Premiered by Paines Plough in 2024.

The Nest

By Franz Xaver Kroetz Translated by Conor McPherson

1f 1m

A fable about the moral and environmental cost of our materialistic nesting instincts.

The Night Alive

By Conor McPherson

1f 4m

An inimitably warm and stylish play that deftly mines the humanity to be found in the most unlikely of situations.

No Particular Order

By Joel Tan

Flexible casting (at least 4 actors, mix of genders, playing more than 40 characters)

A startling and apocalyptic play that charts the fate of a society under a despot, through the lives of bureaucrats, soldiers, ornithologists and tour guides.