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.
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.
misterman (2001 edition)
A strange and haunting monologue from the acclaimed Irish playwright.
What Love Is
A short play about caring for your parents.
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.
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.
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.
The Bear
A one-act comic play about a reclusive young widow whose life takes a surprisingly romantic turn.
The Proposal
A brilliantly funny one-act play about a hypochondriac attempting to propose to an argumentative young woman.