Plays to perform

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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HOTHOUSE

HOTHOUSE

By Carys D. Coburn With MALAPROP Theatre

A play that tackles climate breakdown with big ideas, a lot of laughs, and some truly grotesque cabaret numbers.

How Love Is Spelt

How Love Is Spelt

By Chloë Moss

A fresh, funny and playful tale of growing up and finding yourself in the city.

How We Begin

How We Begin

By Elisabeth Lewerenz

A tender exploration of love, queerness and identity, staged at VAULT Festival, London, 2023.

Hue & Cry

Hue & Cry

By Deirdre Kinahan

A short play in which two Dublin cousins, Damian and Kevin, are reunited for a family funeral in a highly charged encounter full of disillusion, denial and dark laughter.

Hungry

Hungry

By Chris Bush

A play about food, love, class and grief in a world where there's little left to savour.

I Fucked You in My Spaceship

I Fucked You in My Spaceship

By Louis Emmitt-Stern

A razor-sharp sci-fi comedy-drama about sex and relationships, winner of the Origins Award for Outstanding New Work at VAULT Festival, London.

I Wanna Be Yours

I Wanna Be Yours

By Zia Ahmed

A tender, funny, lyrical debut play about finding love and holding onto it with everything you've got, premiered by Paines Plough and Tamasha.

Idyll

Idyll

By Matt Hartley

A captivating short play about rural Britain, premiered by Pentabus Theatre in 2021.

Immaculate

Immaculate

By Oliver Lansley

A laugh-out-loud comic variation on the virgin birth.

Inside/Outside

Inside/Outside

Six Short Plays

By various

Six short plays exploring estrangement and loneliness, moving towards redemption and hope.

Is My Microphone On?

Is My Microphone On?

By Jordan Tannahill

An urgent and lyrical play from a leading Canadian playwright, about young people questioning the choices that have been made, and the ones that they will yet be forced to make.

Isolated But Open

Isolated But Open

Voices from Across The Shutdown

By various

Twelve new monologues written in response to the coronavirus outbreak in 2020 as part of Papatango's scheme to inspire creativity and share brilliant new stories.

Amateur Productions
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Amanda Whittington

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13–18 May 2024
Wharf Theatre, Devizes
Margaret Perry