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The Fear of 13

The Fear of 13 (stage version)

By Lindsey Ferrentino

The extraordinary play based on the true story of Nick Yarris, who served twenty-two years on Death Row. Premiered at the Donmar Warehouse in 2024, starring Adrien Brody.

Feed the Beast

Feed the Beast

By Steve Thompson

A fiercely funny look at the rocky relations between our press and politicians in a world of spin doctors and phone hacking.

Feeling Afraid As If Something Terrible Is Going To Happen

Feeling Afraid As If Something Terrible Is Going To Happen

By Marcelo Dos Santos

A dark and biting one-man, a huge hit at Edinburgh in 2022 and the Bush Theatre, London, in 2023, starring Samuel Barnett.

Felt Effects

Felt Effects

By Joy Wilkinson

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
    The Female of the Species

    The Female of the Species

    By Joanna Murray-Smith

    A deliciously wicked comedy that proves that the female of the species is not only deadlier, but funnier than the male.

    Fences

    Fences

    By August Wilson

    A landmark play about a baseball star fighting for the right to be first black man to drive a garbage truck in 1950s Pittsburgh.

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    The Ferryman

    The Ferryman

    By Jez Butterworth

    Preparations for the annual harvest on a farm in County Armagh in the 1980s are interrupted by a visitor. Winner of the Evening Standard Theatre Award and Tony Award for Best Play, and the Critics' Circle, Olivier and WhatsOnStage Awards for Best New Play.

    The Fever Chart: Three Visions of the Middle East

    The Fever Chart: Three Visions of the Middle East

    By Naomi Wallace

    Three multifaceted works exploring the urgency and complexity of the Middle East’s political landscape, through the voices and bodies of the people who inhabit it.

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    The Fever Syndrome

    The Fever Syndrome

    By Alexis Zegerman

    A vivid and thrilling play about a pioneering and successful IVF innovator and his brilliantly dysfunctional family.

    Fibres

    Fibres

    By Frances Poet

    A big-hearted, hilarious drama about what it means to entwine our lives with another, told by four resilient, witty Glaswegian characters.

    Fifty Words

    Fifty Words

    By Michael Weller

    A searingly honest, beautifully observed portrait of marriage.

    Published in volume Loving Longing Leaving
      Finsbury Park

      Finsbury Park

      By Stephen Jeffreys

      A short autobiographical monologue, first performed as part of the Come to Where I'm From festival at the Park Theatre, London, in 2016.

      The Fire This Time

      The Fire This Time

      African-American Plays for the 21st Century

      Edited by Harry J. Elam, Jr. and Robert Alexander

      A collection of African-American plays for the 21st century.

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      Firebird

      Firebird

      By Phil Davies

      A searing thriller about the naivety of youth and how easily it can be exploited.

      First Episode

      First Episode

      By Terence Rattigan and Philip Heimann

      Terence Rattigan's first play, published for the first time in this edition to mark the centenary of his birth. With an authoritative introduction by Rattigan scholar Dan Rebellato. 

      First Person Shooter

      First Person Shooter

      By Paul Jenkins

      A funny and foreboding play about what happens when gaming and military technology collide.

      First Run

      First Run

      New Plays by New Writers

      Edited by Kate Harwood

      Five significant debut plays – first staged in the UK in the late eighties – from writers who have gone on to establish their reputations in major theatres.

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      First Time

      First Time

      By Nathaniel J Hall

      A hilarious and heartbreaking true story that smashes through the stigma and shame of HIV, to present an uplifting and inspirational guide to staying positive in a negative world.

      The Fishermen

      The Fishermen (stage version)

      By Chigozie Obioma Adapted by Gbolahan Obisesan

      A powerful allegory of brotherhood, vengeance and fate set in a small Nigerian town. Adapted from the Man Booker Prize-shortlisted novel.

      Fishskin Trousers

      Fishskin Trousers

      By Elizabeth Kuti

      A haunting play about loss and grief, set in the mists of Suffolk. Also contains the short plays Enter A Gentleman and Time Spent on Trains.

      Five Characters in Search of a Good Night's Sleep

      Five Characters in Search of a Good Night's Sleep

      By Mike Alfreds, Sonja Linden and Various

      A devised play exploring the experience of sleeplessness and its impact on people's lives.

      Five Lesbian Brothers: Four Plays

      Five Lesbian Brothers: Four Plays

      By Five Lesbian Brothers

      New York-based Theatre troupe Five Lesbian Brothers explore themes of homophobia and sexism with devastating humour and the occasional song. They have been committed to creating provocative lesbian theatre with positively no whining since their inception in 1989.

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      Five Plays

      Five Plays

      By Samuel D. Hunter

      Five plays by a major American playwright, all set in the author’s home state of Idaho, demonstrating his extraordinary knack for exposing, without condescension or easy moralizing, the pathos in marginalized lives.

      Five Years with the White Man

      Five Years with the White Man

      By Eloka Obi and Saul Boyer

      A startling play about satirist ABC Merriman-Labor, the greatest Black Briton ever to have been forgotten.