Wretch
An ex-teacher and an ex-junkie meet on a night bus during long, dark nights of homelessness.
The Writer
A young writer challenges the status quo but discovers that creative gain comes at a personal cost.
Written on the Heart
By David Edgar2f 15m, doublingAn enthralling historical drama about the creation of the King James Bible, commissioned by the Royal Shakespeare Company to mark its four-hundredth anniversary.
Wuthering Heights (stage version)
By Emily Brontë Adapted by Lucy Gough4-6f 3-4mAn eminently actable, and readable, version of the well-loved story about a passionate but doomed love affair, one of the most famous and enduring love stories in the English language.
Wuthering Heights (stage version)
By Emily Brontë Adapted by Andrew Sheridan3-5f 4-5m, plus optional ensembleA ferocious, wild and utterly exhilarating adaptation of Emily Brontë's indelible masterpiece.
Yellowfin
By Marek Horn1f 3mPolitics and the planet collide in a fiercely original play about the limits of science, the power of myths, and the things we can't control.
Yen
By Anna Jordan2f (playing ages 16 & 36) 2m (playing ages 13 & 16)Anna Jordan's Bruntwood Prize-winning play, Yen explores a childhood lived without boundaries and the consequences of being forced to grow up on your own.
Yerma
By Federico García Lorca Translated by Jo Clifford19f 8m plus extrasLorca's tale of an impassioned, childless woman who is driven by madness to commit a heinous crime. In the Nick Hern Books Drama Classics series.
The York Mystery Plays
Adapted by Mike Poulton19f 66m (doubling possible)The greatest story ever told, in a version by Mike Poulton, premiered at York Minster in May 2016.
You Stupid Darkness!
By Sam Steiner2f 2mAn urgent play about the struggle for optimism and community amid the chaos of a world falling apart.
You, Me and Wii
By Sue Townsend4f 2mA short play by the author of the Adrian Mole books, set in a council house in a small Leicestershire town at election time.
Your Turn to Clean the Stair
By Rona Munro3f 2mA comically sinister study of the tensions in an Edinburgh tenement.
Published in volume Your Turn to Clean the Stair & Fugue
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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