Prima Facie
A brilliant, powerful play for a solo actor, about a young, successful barrister forced to confront the patriarchal power of the law. Winner of Best New Play at the Olivier Awards and WhatsOnStage Awards in 2023.
Primadonna
1f (can also be performed by a cast of up to 9)A one-woman play that lays bare the world of the celebrity PA as a young first-timer navigates impossible tasks, difficult conversations and fearsome passive aggression.
Princess Essex
By Anne OdekeLarge mixed cast, 60+ characters (can be performed by a cast of 14, doubling)A riotous, satirical comedy based on the amazing true story of the first woman of colour to enter a beauty pageant in the UK. First performed at Shakespeare's Globe, London, in 2024.
Pussycat in Memory of Darkness
By Neda Nezhdana Translated by John Farndon1fA powerful play about the shattering impact of war, and the astonishing resilience of those living through it, written by one of Ukraine's leading playwrights.
Published in volume Voices from Ukraine: Two PlaysQueen Anne
6f 11m, doubling (7f+ 15m+)Helen Edmundson's gripping play tells the little-known story of a monarch caught between friendship and duty.
Queen Margaret
By William Shakespeare Adapted by Jeanie O'Hare5f 6m, doubling with cross-gender casting (2f 15m, plus chorus roles)Using Shakespeare’s orginal lines, alongside new text, Jeanie O’Hare retells The Wars of the Roses through the eyes of the extraordinary Margaret of Anjou.
Rabbit
By Nina Raine3f 3mA fiercely funny play about what it's like to be a young woman living, working, drinking, loving and having sex in the 21st century.
Raging: Outrage
The Civil War
3fA play exploring women's roles in the Irish revolutionary wars, part of Deirdre Kinahan's trilogy of landmark plays commemorating seven years of warfare in Ireland.
Rappaccini's Daughter
By Octavio Paz Translated by Sebastian Doggart2f 3m, plus 1m/fThe only play by leading Mexican poet Octavio Paz, winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature.
Rathmines Road
3f 2mFraught, funny, and ferocious, a play that challenges the cultural response to accusations of sexual assault.
Raya
2f 1m plus 1 ten-year-old girlA witty and tender play about two old flames who meet again, after thirty years, at a student reunion.
Rebellious Women
7-8f 5-6m plus extrasAn impassioned, unsentimental and sharp-witted play about the Suffragette cause, with rich opportunities for schools, youth theatres and drama societies who want to tell the story of a group of extraordinary women who changed the world.
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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