LGBTQ+ writing and stories

The following plays on our list contain LGBTQ+ characters and/or themes.

Showing 97-108 of 129 items.

Resident Alien: Quentin Crisp explains it all

1m

The acclaimed one-man show based on the life and writings of Quentin Crisp.

Ribbons

1f 1m

A short play about a parent and child who have been concealing their true identities.

Published in volume Irish Shorts

    Rock

    8f 6m

    A play about family, heritage and legacy, part of Chris Bush's triptych of plays about a Sheffield manufacturing family, Rock / Paper / Scissors.

    Rock / Paper / Scissors

    Three Plays

    8f 6m

    Three intricately interwoven plays about family, heritage and legacy, centring around a Sheffield manufacturing family.

    Run

    1m

    Stephen Laughton's one-man play about a gay Jewish seventeen-year-old explores what it means to love, to lose, and how to grow from a boy into a man.

    Sandpaper on Sunburn

    4f 1m

    The personal becomes political in a funny and fascinating play exploring identity and family. Premiered at the Dublin Theatre Festival in September 2024.

    SAUCE

    2f playing multiple roles

    A play about death and rebirth, from an award-winning Irish playwright.

    Published in volume SAUCE and All honey: Two Plays

      Scissors

      8f 6m

      A play about family, heritage and legacy, part of Chris Bush's triptych of plays about a Sheffield manufacturing family, Rock / Paper / Scissors.

      Scorch

      1f or m

      A touching and provocative story of first love though the eyes of a gender-curious teen, inspired by recent UK cases of 'gender fraud'.

      Shibboleth

      4f 7m

      An exhilarating and unsentimental exploration of working-class life in Belfast.

      Shining City

      1f 3m

      A brilliant, haunting play from the multi-award-winning author of The Weir.

      slope

      1f 2m

      An intimate and hedonistic examination of a nineteenth-century love triangle between the poets Paul Verlaine and Arthur Rimbaud, and Verlaine's young wife, Mathilde.

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