Plays for Young People (12-18 years)

An extraordinary, award-winning account of the Beslan School Siege, exploring the entirely individual way children cope with traumatic situations.

A brilliantly honest and witty coming-of-age drama, with music by Stephen Warbeck.

A radical re-imagining by playwright Evan Placey of Robert Louis Stevenson’s classic tale, written for the National Youth Theatre.

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

A play about a teenage girl's solo journey to the North Pole with her father's ashes.

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.

A darkly comic, smashed-up retelling of Richard III, Shakespeare's classic tale about the lust for power.

A play about being a teenager, written specifically for young people, part of the 2018 National Theatre Connections Festival.

One of the greatest horror stories of all time, in a stage adaptation that sticks closely to Mary Shelley's original novel.

A theatrical love letter to the schools of the 1990s, asking big questions about a country in special measures, exploring what we are taught and why, and where responsibility lies. Full of inventive theatricality and irreverent humour.

A powerful, inventive play exploring the issue of homelessness amongst young people.

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.