Plays with Music

A contemporary retelling of Hans Christian Andersen's extraordinary fairytale of dance, desire and destruction.

A revitalised stage adaptation of Charles Dickens's Christmas tale, by renowned author Piers Torday, focussing on Ebenezer Scrooge's sister Fan, the most monstrous miser ever known.

A beautiful, profound and funny play about Johann Sebastian Bach, the irascible and turbulent composer, and his family business.

An explosion of form-busting storytelling, combining real-life stories, imagined worlds, and new songs inspired by an R&B heritage.

The world's first ever musical, The Beggar's Opera, is performed on board a creaking convict ship bound for Australia.

A far-reaching, comic portrait of the effects of hypocrisy and corporate greed on the values of late-twentieth-century England.

A large-scale historical romp in the terrain between Jane Austen and Charles Dickens.

A comic two-hander about the irresistible allure of showbusiness, from the author of Be My Baby.

A pitch-black comedy complete with wickedly entertaining songs, from the Edinburgh Fringe First-winning writer of Food.

A multidisciplinary theatre piece about the most infamous poisoners in history, written by Caryl Churchill in collaboration with composer Orlando Gough and choreographer Ian Spink. 

Walsh's very first, previously unpublished play, is a Cork cabaret about a ventriloquist who loses control.

A riotous musical play transporting Shakespeare's most beloved characters to the chaos of a busy modern-day hospital. In the Nick Hern Books Multiplay Drama series.