Great Plays for Festivals

An ensemble play for teenage performers created by award-winning playwright Fin Kennedy.

An intoxicating and mystical play about love, belonging and the tides within us, premiered by Pentabus and ThickSkin on a tour of the UK.

A theatrical love letter to the schools of the 1990s, asking big questions about a country in special measures, exploring what we are taught and why, and where responsibility lies. Full of inventive theatricality and irreverent humour.

Eight compelling monologues offering a state-of-the-nation group portrait for the stage.

A one-man play about disaster capitalism, empire, Thatcherite politics, stolen youth, stolen wealth and a working-class boy who just wants his dad to smile at him. First performed by the celebrated political comedian Mark Thomas in Paines Plough's Roundabout during the 2023 Edinburgh Festival Fringe.

A play about memory, happiness, Rasputin, and dancing. And also the Queen. Premiered by MALAPROP Theatre at the Dublin Fringe Festival in 2017.

A five-star hit at the Edinburgh Fringe, Fanboy is a love-hate letter to pop culture and nostalgia, about a thirty-something, self-confessed nerd obsessed with Star Wars and Nintendo.

A new edition of the dark and biting one-man show starring Samuel Barnett at the Bush Theatre, London, in 2023.

A devised play exploring the experience of sleeplessness and its impact on people's lives.

A startling play about satirist ABC Merriman-Labor, the greatest Black Briton ever to have been forgotten.

A vivid and fast-paced ride through a working-class London estate, fusing Shakespeare-inspired lyricism with Cockney accents.

A darkly comic, spell-binding dystopian drama, winner of the 2011 Papatango New Writing Prize.