Most Performed

Our most popular plays for amateur performance, based on the number of licences issued in 2024.

The 40 titles listed below were our most popular titles licensed for performance by amateur groups worldwide.

Read more about the Top Ten most performed plays of 2024, over on our Blog>>

Showing 1-20 of 40 items.

Wendy & Peter Pan

By Ella Hickson Original author J.M. Barrie
4f 17m doubling (up to 6f 22m); version for smaller cast also available

A refreshingly modern version of J.M. Barrie's much-loved story that puts the character of Wendy firmly centre stage.

The Welkin

13-16f 2-4m

Lucy Kirkwood's play about a woman sentenced to hang for murder in 18th-century rural Suffolk.

The Weir

1f 4m

The spellbinding, beautifully observed hit from the master of suspenseful realism.

Treasure Island (Le Navet Bete stage version)

4m doubling (or a mixed cast playing 26 characters)

A rip-roaring, swashbuckling, family-friendly retelling of a classic story.

The Thrill of Love

4-5f 1m

A gripping drama about Ruth Ellis, the last woman to be hanged in Britain.

Things I Know To Be True

3f 3m (wide age range)

A complex and intense portrait of the mechanics of a family – and a marriage – through the eyes of four siblings struggling to define themselves beyond their parents' love and expectations.

The Sweet Science of Bruising

6f 4m doubling (up to 7f 8m)

An epic tale of passion, politics and pugilism in the world of 19th-century women’s boxing.

The Railway Children (stage version)

5f 6m, doubling (6f 9m possible)

An imaginative stage adaptation of E. Nesbit's much-loved children's classic.

Pressure

1f 12m

An intense real-life thriller centred around the most important weather forecast in the history of warfare.

Philip Pullman's Grimm Tales (stage version)

Adapted by Philip Wilson Original author Philip Pullman
first set: 4f 4m, doubling; second set 8f 8m doubling (entire script offers roles for 42f and 100m)

A deliciously dark version of the Grimm Tales, from master storyteller Philip Pullman.

Notes from a Small Island (stage version)

3f 4m doubling (playing more than 80 characters; large cast is possible)

 

A stage adaptation of Bill Bryson's smash-hit memoir, one of the nation's most beloved books, and a brilliant dissection of the enduring quirks of our small island.

Nora : A Doll's House

By Stef Smith Original author Henrik Ibsen
3-6f 3m

A bold new version of Ibsen's brutal portrayal of womanhood.

Nell Gwynn

5-7f 7m

Jessica Swale's play Nell Gwynn charts the rise of an unlikely heroine, from her roots in Coal Yard Alley to her success as Britain’s most celebrated actress, and her hard-won place in the heart of the king.

Mary Shelley's Frankenstein (stage version)

3-6f 4-9m plus 1f/m

A brilliant adaptation of Mary Shelley's Gothic masterpiece that places the writer herself amongst the action as she wrestles with her creation and with the stark realities facing revolutionary young women, then and now.

Lilies on the Land

4f doubling (large cast possible)

A revealing, funny and wonderfully moving portrait of four women who sign up to join the Women's Land Army during World War II.

Lemons Lemons Lemons Lemons Lemons

1f 1m

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.

The Last of the Pelican Daughters

5-7f 3m

A comedy about four sisters trying to come to terms with their mother's death.

Ladies' Day

4f 1m (doubling, or up to 6m)

Work, love and life are just one long, hard slog for the fish-filleting foursome Pearl, Jan, Shelley and Linda. But their fortunes are set to change when Linda finds tickets to Ladies' Day at Royal Ascot the year it relocated to York.

Ladies Unleashed

6-8f plus optional extras

A moving comedy for the stage, about friendship, growing older and living for today, reuniting the characters from the smash-hit plays Ladies' Day and Ladies Down Under.

Ladies Down Under

4f 2m (doubling, or up to 9m)

The funny, heart-warming sequel to the enormously successful Ladies' Day, following the lasses from Hull on their adventures down under.

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