Low in the Dark
A witty and absurdist play that dismantles the myths of motherhood and exposes the sexism of language and religious imagery.
The Low Road
A fable of free market economics and cut-throat capitalism.
Lucky Seven
1f 2mA comedy about growing up, class, love, disappointment and hope, inspired by the Seven Up television series.
Luise Miller
By Friedrich Schiller Adapted by Mike Poulton3f 7mA masterpiece of power and politics that explores the battle between honour and corruption, between truth and betrayal.
Lulu
By Frank Wedekind Adapted by Nicholas Wright7f 11mThe first version of Wedekind's celebrated erotic masterpiece to be based on the author's original text, restoring the clarity, the daring and the sexual explicitness of a modern masterpiece written a hundred years before its time.
Lynndie's Gotta Gun
By Enda Walsh1f 1m (plus one non-speaking boy)A short play published for the first time, written during the author's time working with European theatremakers.
Lysistrata
By Aristophanes Translated by Patric Dickinson4f 3m plus chorusThe ancient Greek comedy in which the women of Greece go on a sex strike to force their husbands to end the Peloponnesian Wars. In the Nick Hern Books Drama Classics series.
Macbeth
By William Shakespeare Edited by Nick de Somogyi10f 25mAn edition of Shakespeare's play in the Shakespeare Folios series, offering the absolute authenticity of the First Folio in a totally accessible form.
Machinal
5-10f 7-14m (larger cast possible)A powerful expressionist drama from the 1920s about the dependent status of women in an increasingly mechanised society, based on the true story of Ruth Snyder.
The Machine Gunners (stage version)
By Robert Westall Adapted by Ali Taylor1-2f, 5-11mA thrilling adaptation of the beloved, award-winning children's novel.
Mad About the Boy
3mA timely, urgent, razor-sharp drama about a teenage boy fighting to save his reputation, torn between the influence of his family, his friends and his school.
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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