Plays

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Futureproof

A magical and deeply compassionate play about identity and the capacities of the human spirit.

The Gabriels

Election Year in the Life of One Family

A trilogy of plays following an American family through the momentous and divisive 2016 presidential election year.

Game

A provocative play that invites us to spy on a family as they embark on a dangerous new way to live.

The Game Of Love And Chance

The best known play by one of the most performed French playwrights - a sparkling 18th-century comedy of manners. In the Nick Hern Books Drama Classics series.

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Gary: A Sequel to Titus Andronicus

Performance artist Taylor Mac picks up where William Shakespeare's blood-soaked tragedy Titus Andronicus left off in a play that explores generic boundaries and charts the violence done by those in charge, and the lives of those left to clean up.

The Gatekeeper

A darkly comic play about the disintegration of a family get-together.

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The Gathered Leaves

A moving, poignant and funny family drama that sees the weight of family history, of reputation, and of expectation, all descend on one family over Easter weekend in 1997.

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The Gay Heritage Project

An important piece of contemporary queer theatre, from three of Canada's most gifted performers.

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Gem of the Ocean

Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, 1904. Aunt Esther, the 285-year-old fiery matriarch of 1839 Wylie Avenue, sets Citizen Barlow, a young man from Alabama, on a soaring, lyrical journey of spiritual awakening.

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generations

A 30-minute drama about three generations of a black South African family who contest their relative culinary skills. But food isn't the only topic and the family numbers are declining...

Published in volume trade & generations: two plays

    Genesis Inc.

    An explosively funny comedy that takes a closer look at the lengths to which people will go to defy biology – and at the moral compass of an industry that trades on fear and hope.

    Germ Free Adolescent

    A fierce, funny and irreverent OCD love story that asks: what exactly is 'normal' anyway?

    German Skerries

    An uplifting portrait of human hope and vulnerability, weaving resonant drama out of a friendship, a marriage, a holiday, and a death.

    Getting Away With Murder

    A compellingly original comedy thriller, and Sondheim's first ever non-musical play.

    Ghetto

    The true story of the flourishing of a theatre in a wartime Jewish Ghetto.

    Ghost Stories (stage version)

    The terrifying stageplay and worldwide cult phenomenon about a Professor of Parapsychology whose rationality is tested to breaking point – and beyond.

    Ghost Stories from an Old Country

    A riveting and poignant exploration of the ties that bind us, threaded through with captivating fables. Joint winner of the 2021 Papatango New Writing Prize.

    Published in volume Papatango Plays

      Ghosts

      An English version of Ibsen's great play, published in the Nick Hern Books Drama Classics series.

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      Ghosts

      Richard Eyre's version of Ibsen's Ghosts is a fresh and vivid depiction of a woman who yearns for emotional and sexual freedom, but who is too timid to achieve it.

      The Giant

      A powerful, witty and moving play exploring the dark interplay between sexuality and creativity.

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      Giant

      A stage play exploring the life and legacy of that fiendishly charismatic icon, Roald Dahl. Premiered at the Royal Court Theatre, London, in 2024 and transferring to the West End in 2025. Winner of Best New Play at both the Olivier and Critics' Circle Theatre Awards.

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      Giant (West End edition)

      An explosive play about the fiendishly charismatic icon of children's literature, Roald Dahl. Premiered at the Royal Court Theatre, London, in 2024 and staged in the West End in 2025. Winner of the Olivier and Critics' Circle Awards for Best New Play.

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      The Gift

      An outrageous play about imperialism, cross-racial adoption, cultural appropriation... and tea.

      Gigi & Dar

      A comic tragedy about what we bury in order to survive. Premiered at the Arcola Theatre, London, in 2024.