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On the Beach

Part of The Contingency Plan, Steve Waters' epic portrait of an England of the near future, in the grip of unprecedented and catastrophic floods.

Published in volume The Contingency Plan

    Resilience

    Part of The Contingency Plan, Steve Waters' epic portrait of an England of the near future, in the grip of unprecedented and catastrophic floods.

    Published in volume The Contingency Plan

      misterman (2001 edition)

      A strange and haunting monologue from the acclaimed Irish playwright.

        What Love Is

        A short play about caring for your parents.

        Published in volume Sex & God

          Desire Under the Elms

          A story of greed, yearning and murder with incest and infanticide, and edged with echoes of Ancient Greek tragedy within a New England farming family.

            Fair

            A powerful drama about the potent appeal of far right policies to young people in the UK.

            Published in volume Fair & Felt Effects: two plays

              Felt Effects

              A play that unearths the seismic relationship between two half-sisters and their mother when they are forced together in the A&E ward of the local hospital. Joint-winner of the 2004 Verity Bargate Award.

              Published in volume Fair & Felt Effects: two plays

                In a Little World of Our Own

                A powerful drama about how the conflict in Northern Ireland affects whole families, and of how the violence of the streets is brought into the heart of the home.

                  All God's Chillun Got Wings

                  An expressionist play about a violently dysfunctional mixed-race marriage, inspired by an old Negro spiritual.

                    Enter A Gentleman

                    A 15-minute play based on Restoration playwright Aphra Behn's tempestuous love affair with John Hoyle.

                    Published in volume Fishskin Trousers

                      The Bear

                      A one-act comic play about a reclusive young widow whose life takes a surprisingly romantic turn.

                      Published in volume Chekhov: Shorts

                        The Proposal

                        A brilliantly funny one-act play about a hypochondriac attempting to propose to an argumentative young woman.

                        Published in volume Chekhov: Shorts