Bloody Wimmin
A short play about the protests at Greenham Common, a political landmark in the fight for nuclear disarmament.
Blue Stockings
A moving, comical and eye-opening story of four young women fighting for education and self-determination against the larger backdrop of women’s suffrage.
Boo
By Jack Thorne1fA powerful and beautifully observed short play for one actor, exploring the impact of the newly established National Health Service on working people's lives in the 1940s and 50s.
Published in volume Jack Thorne Plays: TwoBoudica
7f 7m, doublingA brand-new ancient-history play in verse that tells the story of one of Britain's most iconic women: a queen, a warrior and a rebel.
The Bounds
1f 2m plus 1 boyA darkly comedic tale of national divides, folk horror and the end of the world as we know it. Premiered at Live Theatre, Newcastle upon Tyne, and the Royal Court Theatre, London.
Bring Up the Bodies (stage version)
By Hilary Mantel Adapted by Mike Poulton4-6f 16-26m (plus non-speaking extras)The second part of Mike Poulton's two-part adaptation of Hilary Mantel's acclaimed novels Wolf Hall and Bring Up the Bodies. A thrilling and utterly convincing portrait of a brilliant man embroiled in the lethal, high-stakes politics of the Court of Henry VIII.
Published in volume Wolf Hall & Bring Up the Bodies (stage version)Brontë
By Polly Teale4f 2m doublingA compelling literary detective story about the turbulent lives of the Brontë sisters - dramatised by Polly Teale and Shared Experience, the team behind After Mrs Rochester and Jane Eyre.
Burnt by the Sun
6f 10m plus 2 girls plus extrasA rich evocation of a world poised on the brink of Stalin's Great Terror, based on the 1994 Oscar-winning film written by Nikita Mikhalkov and Rustam Ibragimbekov.
The Canterbury Tales (stage version)
By Geoffrey Chaucer Adapted by Mike Poulton5f 14m doubling (large cast possible)A landmark dramatisation for the Royal Shakespeare Company of one of the foundation stones of English literature.
Captain Corelli's Mandolin (stage version)
By Louis de Bernières Adapted by Rona Munro5f 9m plus 1f/m doubling (possible cast of 30+)Rona Munro's adaptation of Louis de Bernières' much-loved epic novel, set on an idyllic Greek island in 1941.
Cardenio
Shakespeare's 'lost play' re-imagined
5f 12mSet in the heat and dust of Andalusia in seventeenth-century Spain, Cardenio is the story of a friendship betrayed, with all the elements of a thriller: disguise, dishonour and deceit.
Carthage Must Be Destroyed
By Alan Wilkins5m (or 4m doubling)A compelling story of political intrigue, double dealing and the ruthless realities of taking a nation to war, set against the backdrop of the Third Punic War.
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Amateur Productions
On Now & Coming SoonBill Bryson, Adapted by Tim WhitnallFin KennedyAmanda WhittingtonAlexandra Wood, Adapted from Kate SummerscaleAmanda WhittingtonHenrik Ibson, Adapted by Richard EyreTom WellsJeremy Sams, Original authors John Esmonde and Bob Larbey