Great Plays for Festivals

A darkly comic state-of-the-nation play exploring adolescent mental health and the rage within. Winner of the Best Play for Young Audiences Award at the Writers' Guild of Great Britain Awards 2023.

A play about modern-day sex trafficking, joint winner of the 2010 John Whiting Award.

Five of the most exciting voices in theatre explore the pressures on our public services as one young woman buckles under pressures of her own.

A darkly comic story about social inequality and upheaval, told in reverse. In the Multiplay Drama series.

Dazzling and sequin-studded, Kiss Me Quickstep is a play about the world of ballroom dance, taking us behind the fixed smiles and fake tan to look at the real lives of those for whom ballroom dancing is everything

A mile-a-minute, one-person poem play about a young female drug dealer, exploring forgiveness, the exhaustion of trying, and mistaking self-destruction for self-preservation. Premiered at the 2023 Edinburgh Fringe Festival.

A timely play about grief and the power of expression, rocking with raw emotion and sharp humour.

A play about what we say and how we say it; about the things we can only hear in the silence; about dead cats, activism, eye contact and lemons, lemons, lemons, lemons, lemons.

A new, revised edition of Sam Steiner's startling play about what we say, how we say it, and what happens when we can't say anything any more. Published alongside the West End production starring Jenna Coleman and Aidan Turner.

A riotous stage comedy about sisterhood, freedom of speech, and dissent in the face of institutionalised Islamophobia.

A play inspired by the true story of the Cottingley Fairies. Part of Platform, a series of big-cast plays with predominantly or all-female casts, written specifically for performance by school, college and youth-theatre groups.

A short play about Elizabeth I: the myth and the reality.