What is the Custom of Your Grief?
A short play by Timberlake Wertenbaker about an English schoolgirl who is befriended online by an Afghan girl after her brother is killed while on active duty in Afghanistan.
What Love Is
A short play about caring for your parents.
When Cows Go Boom
A short play by Stacey Gregg, an oblique parable of love set against the backdrop of a horrific landscape.
When the Daffodils
A searching portrait of human kindness in a world that sets limits on how we care for the vulnerable. First performed as part of the Orange Tree Theatre's Inside/Outside season of short plays.
Where I'm From
A monologue play about a woman on the day of her release from prison.
Whiff Whaff
A savagely funny short play about attitudes to disability and mental health.
White Lead
A short play exploring the expectations and responsibilities of being an artist and a woman.
Why Can't We Live Together?
Set against the low hum of the War on Terror, Why Can't We Live Together? is a kaleidoscopic vision of our times through the lives of one man and one woman.
Wild Notes
A play exploring the impact of colonialism through a meeting between Frederick Douglass, the escaped slave and abolitionist who visited Ireland in the 1840s, and a young Irishwoman hoping to emigrate to the country he's running from.
Wilderness (short play)
A short play about a patient and her psychiatrist as they head into the wilderness to find out how sane any of us really are.
Withdrawal
A play from Syria, part of the Royal Court Theatre's Arab World initiative in conjunction with the British Council.
Woman Caught Unaware
A searing examination of the culture of body-shaming, exploring how images of women are represented in art and social media.
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